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the boards of canada sound
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| phyrrus |
I'm trying to score the soundtrack for a film I'm making and this boards of canada song has the exact sound I'm looking for, but I've spent the whole day and I just can't figure out how the hell to make it. basically all I've come up with is that it's pitched down slightly from D and it's not a sine wave. anyone?
Boards of Canada - Music is Math |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Just from playing around with Vanguard, it sounds like a saw with the cutoff set pretty low.
Great song. |
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| IDarkISwordI |
Hey. That sample is of an electric piano going. Sounds a lot like a Roland electric actually but regardless, its FM based and you wont be getting it very easily out of a subtractive synth. Try FM7, Blue, or some other FM softsynth for this sound.
Cheers,
Zac |
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| phyrrus |
| I see. if I use reason am I out of luck? |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Not necessarily. Will definitely take some work, though. |
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| phyrrus |
| sigh! maybe I'm better off just sampling it |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by phyrrus
sigh! maybe I'm better off just sampling it |
Ugh, tell me you didn't just say that.
BOC makes a lot of their sounds using heavily modded guitars, I think. But DarkSword is right, that one does sound a lot like an electric piano, just also with a lot of mods.
There's a popular Reaktor instrument that can produce some of those sounds although I can't remember the name at the moment. It has heavy delay and reverb though and allows them both to be modulated within the actual synth, which gives kind of a unique sound because usually the delay is tacked on afterwards. It also rapes CPU. Anyway, you can mimick that with a good delay/feedback module like PSP or Waves Enigma - although there are hardware delay modules that the VST competitors still can't hold a candle to, they're used by artists like Shulman.
Bottom line is that you're going to have a very tough time getting sounds like BOC, because being amazing ambient sound designers is what I'd consider to be their main claim to fame. You can come close though, as I said, if you use heavy reverb/delay and modulate several things like filter cutoff/res and tuning; the latter one I notice quite a bit with BOC.
It's complicated if not impossible to get that sound in a synth alone. You have to use effects to get it, and it wouldn't surprise me if BOC just started with a pretty plain electric piano and then added a ton of effects. |
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