Author Topic: What is the characteristic of a tropical house sound? (Read 5470 times)

ZeeFun · « **on:** February 07, 2016, 12:08:26 am »

What would be the characteristics of a tropical house sound (pluck) from a sound design perspective? I analysed a few popular presets and they all kinda have

Very fast attack and very fast decay
Contains not a lot of detuned voices, usually occupying not much of the frequency spectrum

Anyone can correct me or add more? I'm trying to make tropical house sounds

Hymoki · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2016, 07:04:08 pm »

Pitch modulation with a very fast decay too. You can layer it with a flutey kind of synth sound and it might be pretty cool!

Heymac · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2016, 11:38:33 pm »

From what I've seen its just a saw-ish pluck layered with some sort of woodwind instrument.

ion · « **Reply #3 on:** February 08, 2016, 09:32:06 am »

Unimaginative chord progressions. Finger snapping as percussion.

toughenough6 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2016, 04:24:21 pm »

Definitely a quick, sharp attack, and almost always layered with a flute/woodwind instrument. I haven't found a way to synthesize the entire lead in one plugin, you basically need to layer.

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ZeeFun

What is the characteristic of a tropical house sound?

Hymoki

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Heymac

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ion

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toughenough6

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