Trying to get this sound

I’ve wanted those modules but I can’t assemble them. Is there anyone here that would do that for me for a fee. Are there any hardware synths that have that feature? I thought maybe it’s a comb filter or something like it possibly too but I have no idea. It’s a rather unique sound, clearly digital but with an analog oomph too.

I got close to this using the above on this track roughly 34sec in.


maydonpoliris.bandcamp.com/track/unexpected-guests

No plug intended just showing what the noise is. There is probably more reverb in there though.

Prob going to confuse things but I usually add the delay feedback after drumkit too.

I have just taken apart a patch so will give it a go tonight to see if I can recreate it.

Wow, thank you. This is awesome. If anyone is good at building those two Kurt modules for me please get in touch. I’m sure we can come to a good arrangement. I’m thinking I’ll buy the modules requiring building and send them to you with the fee you want and you do your thing and send them back to me. We could also trade or whatever depending what you are after. I just don’t have the equipment, knowledge, or space.

I can't offer to build them for you, because I simply do not have the time. But I can tell you that there is a good chance that some of the modules, including quad boost, will be available as finished modules later this year (no definitive promises tho!).

I think some guitar pedals can get you pretty close to this sound, some classic distortion/fuzz pedals. The quad boost itself was loosely based on the LPB-1 guitar pedal, which is a very simple, but good sounding boost pedal. Other pedals which are classic on synths are Proco Rat or Boss distortion pedal. If you combine a distortion/fuzz/boost with some moving LP/BP filtering afterwards you should get close. The richer in harmonics the starting waveform is (square, ramp, wavetable, mixes of those), the more intens it can become. 

Oh and it also reminds me of the sound of two different square wave oscillators going into the LOGIC XOR. Send the output through a low pass and you can have a reaaaally fat, crunchy bass. Def worth trying out as its pretty incredible how rich the XOR sounds with square wave inputs.

That's a sampled 808 kick with the decay turned up really high and played at different pitches. 

Check here:

samplefocus.com/samples/kick-808-boom

First sample "808 kick - hollow".

you could do it with an oscillator doing a sine with an AD envelope with no attack and a longish decay into Kurt's quad boost (channel 3 if you set it up the way he suggests 8), and then drive that oscillator. The hard part would be increasing or shortening the decay based on pitch, which I'm not sure we can do in AE right now since we don't have a voltage-controlled envelope. 

You could even use a sine into a filter with the cutoff low and the resonance high so it oscillates (MS20 might be good for this since it's pretty distorty on its own), and then run that into the envelope. 

I think we do have voltage controlled envelopes right!  

And now to need to buy one?!

You’re the man. I knew they didn’t use modular for the sound but this place is the only forum I’m on and I took a chance. I intend to make the sound in AE and also in regular land the way they likely did it but using my stuff and things.
I will contact you to discuss the build. It seems I need his stuff anyway so may as well let it roll.