How do I make this simple sound effect

Performance & Techniques Music Production
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How do I make this simple sound effect

The sound I’m looking for is also found in UK Hard House, NRG, Hardcore what ever you want to call it.

Funny thing is I don’t want to produce these genres I just want this one sound.

I’ve thought about this sound off and on for a couple years now. It’s literally a simple low octave stab but I have yet to recreate it on Reason.

I’ve been told it maybe a distorted 303 sample or something but I haven’t had any luck.

You can hear the specific sound I’m looking for in this track at 0:18 or 1:25 with the shuttering Hoover and through out the whole song.

Let me know if you guys come up with any Ideas. THANKS!

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Sounds like the stab sound from Joey Beltrams ‘energy flash’…i might have a sample of it somewhere but i wouldnt know how to make it sorry…

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That sound is used in Energy Flash as well as a lot of Acid house, techno, trance…it’s all over.

The original very well may have been a 303, but that’s not the important part.

I got kinda close with 1 oscilator in Maschine (I used the Basic Saw sample…everything else was done with parameters on its sampler, but any subtractive synth could do it).

Single voice, low-pass filter with the cutoff set pretty low (I use around 120Hz playing around D2) with a modulation envelope on the Cutoff and Drive parameters (set to near 100%), attack was lowish but not zero (that was the key), medium decay, 0 sustain, 0 release. To do more than single-note stabs, it’d need to be able to glide between notes, but I’m not sure Maschine can’t do that.

Other than that, I heard a reverb/delay of some kind, but I stopped screwing with it at that point because Maschine’s reverbs really fucking blow and I haven’t spent money on a good one yet.

Easiest way would be to get a 303 or an emulator and modulate the filter and drive/distortion…it might even just be the accent.

I’d buy AudioRealism’s ABL2 if I were in the market because I like the sound of technobox2 for the iPhone, but I’d proabably bitch about it because it’s not available as an RTAS in case I decide to move away from Maschine.

If you’re solidly on Reason, I’m sure someone has made a 303-emulating combinator patch based on subtractor.

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I’m glad you guys know the source. I sometimes forget how sample heavy electronic music can be.

@vcantilife
if you wouldn’t mind I would love to take a peak at that sample.

@mostapha
I do have machine, I got through live in order to use vst’s and i’s. I can give your sound a try and maybe tweak it some.

Thanks again!

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There are tutorials about turning Analog into a 303 sound. Find one of those.

Seriously, it’s a 1-oscillator monophonic synth with a low pass filter, some cutoff automation, and some kind of distortion.