Hey! What`s up?
Have you ever tried remaking the one and only Madeon? Because I have and it`s always such a pain, like sure, I can remake most of edm sounds but him?! And it really annoys me because he uses the same synths and stuff so it`s definitely possible! So, I ask you to share your attempts, here are some of mine:
- Some Zephyr sounds https://soundcloud.com/matt-viper/zephyr
- Home Arp https://soundcloud.com/matt-viper/home
- The City lead https://soundcloud.com/matt-viper/the-city-lead-remake-attempt There should be a pitch down at the end but I failed at it so whatever
- Imperium Bass, kinda? It was hard for me. https://soundcloud.com/matt-viper/imperium-bass-remake-attempt
I can`t to hear what you did
Cheers

Other than the fact that all of the vowels in this are mostly wrong, here was my attempt on the Pay No Mind vox with a friend's copy of FM8 https://instaud.io/72T 90% of what you hear came from using the Talk Wah effect.

Formant filters and bitcrushing are your friends.


Try taking a saw wave, putting an EQ on it where you cut out the low end, bump up 300 and 1400 Hz and a small dip in between them, then play around with dry/wet value and the position of the peaks.

It actually sounds like a really fast arpeggio, not portamento or pitch automation. Listen carefully for the attack. I think it's a regular square wave with some reverb. The audio on that video is kinda distorted because cell phone microphones + giant speakers outputting massive dBSPL = crunchy city, so it's really hard for me to make out the tones.