Just curious if anyone had any idea how to achieve the "computer arp" sound at 0:52 and also throughout.

I've tried messing around with square waves, but I was unable to pinpoint how to make it sound the way it does.

https://youtu.be/gHArOlGqK1E?t=52s

Creating the "lofi" sound is actually not as hard as people make it out to be. If you've ever heard a song off of Views by Drake, all of the songs are produced by Noah "40" Shebibe and have this sound to them. He's kind of infamous for this lo-fi underwater-ish sound, and his processing techniques are not that advanced.

In an interview, he states about how his drums are not highpassed, they are downsampled. So instead of a filter turning down frequencies, the high end frequencies on the drums don't even exist.

I've messed around with this technique in Ableton using a high pass filter and redux, and it actually creates a very cool effect. The biggest part of creating good lo-fi drums though in my opinion is good sample selection.

Hope this could give some insight!

When layering supersaws or any synths in fact its pretty important that you make sure that you have a reason for every layer. If you have 4 or 5 layers of supersaws that are all taking up the same frequency range, it's going to possibly mud up the mix and have less dynamics. Voicing is super important in this.

On terms of white noise, something I like doing is either band or highpassing the actual white noise in its own channel. (this gives you a lot of control over what frequencies you're hitting as well as how loud the frequencies are going to be)

If you really want white noise that cuts through your mix, try having less (NOT NONE) volume coming from the super saws in around 15khz+ range. If you get the mixing right, it will be just subtle enough that you'll be able to hear it while it still blends in with the other layerings as well.

Best of luck!

Just curious about anybody's techniques for using reverb on different sounds. I tend to struggle with finding reverbs that fit with the sound they're reverberating, so I was curious if anybody had any cool techniques. (creating verbs that fit things like snares vs verbs that fit synths)

I've been working on this the past couple days, and I kind of am stuck on what I should do next. Feel free to leave feedback or any ideas.

(P.S Sorry for the quality, clypt seems to like to compress the shit out of their uploads. I promise the WAV sounds better lol)

song below yo

https://clyp.it/lu5es2dt

I know this is probably something super simple, but I was wondering if anybody could tell me how to make this scream-style lead.
It appears at 1:21 in the song. I tried doing some stuff with waveshaping, but nothing seemed to sound nice in higher octaves.

Here is the remix: https://youtu.be/vSNS6Y12g60?t=1m21s

Thanks!

Just curious if anybody had any idea on how to create something that sounds like the bass heard in Haywyre's Everchanging (Specifically when the main lead switches)
Here's the video from monstercat, I've cued it to the sound but for referance it's at 1:11.

https://youtu.be/c1hPCKKJDLQ?t=1m10s

Thanks!

I want to say that he's using some find of chords with a phaser, but it sounds so unique. Definitely a french house style kind of lead.