I use NI Massive for designing my own sounds and I've noticed whenever I make a sound I always have annoying high frequencies appear. Sometimes it sounds like high passed white noise and I don't even have the noise oscillator on. Sometimes there is a very high buzzing noise.

I've tried eqing my sounds to cut out the annoying high frequencies but when I cut the highs it takes too much away from the sound. Eqing it just doesn't seem to work, I've tried it countless times.

I listen to sounds in other music and I've even opened some up into ableton to get a look at the spectrum of the music. Pretty much all the songs I've looked at have a straight cut at 16 kHz. The sounds in the tracks that I'm listening to (Mostly the lead sounds) they all have activity below the 16 kHz mark but it doesn't sound like the crappy white noise buzzy sound I get when making my own sounds. How can I achieve this?

How can I gain more control over higher frequencies in my synth patch? I know there has to be something there but this annoying buzzing is all I'm getting. It's like every sound I'm making is a super saw.

Every sound I make pretty much sounds the same due to there being the same white noise buzzy sound in my high frequency range.

I am using the ultra high quality setting in massive so I'm sure it's nothing to do with the quality of the sound. You can still make horrible sounds on ultra high so I think it's the way I'am making it.

I don't really know how I can show you bad examples but a good example of what I'm trying to achieve is like the lead sound in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NwZdxiLvGo this song at 0:55. That lead sound has an interesting high end. It's not just annoying buzzing.

The buzzing I'm talking about is similar to just making a super saw and not having any filters on it. The high end is really harsh. I'm constantly getting a really harsh high end that is not pleasant to listen to.

I am using the ultra high quality setting in massive so I'm sure it's nothing to do with the quality of the sound. You can still make horrible sounds on ultra high so I think it's the way I'am making it.

I don't really know how I can show you bad examples but a good example of what I'm trying to achieve is like the lead sound in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NwZdxiLvGo this song at 0:55. That lead sound has an interesting high end. It's not just annoying buzzing.

The buzzing I'm talking about is similar to just making a super saw and not having any filters on it. The high end is really harsh. I'm constantly getting a really harsh high end that is not pleasant to listen to.

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Sorry that I can't help. Do you have an audio version of the video?

For anyone who can't open the link to what I'm trying to achieve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaVfRGx6lMg. Please not I'm not trying to recreate this exact sound but this is an example of a synth lead with an interesting high end that's not just white noise.

Here is my attempt at trying to make a synth lead, there is still a hard high end that sounds like a white noise buzz.



Here is the massive patch in my google drive: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1PcXPKwwMd-MVNvZFlfYW9YcDA&usp=sharing

make a high cut, don't boost frequencies you're unsure about, and add a dash of saturation to it.


should help warm things up. Keep in mind of what you're trying to do with the sound you have in mind.