I can make ok supersaws, but I want to know if there is any other way to make supersaws. I'm working on a song right now that requires a supersaw. Can someone help me? Thanks.
I can make ok supersaws, but I want to know if there is any other way to make supersaws. I'm working on a song right now that requires a supersaw. Can someone help me? Thanks.
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well, there's so many different ways of making a "supersaw" sound, i think i'll just stick to the basics of what a typical supersaw would use. my most basic setups tend to use 3 main synths, one using a saw wave, one using a square wave, and one using a triangle wave. i usually add some stereo detune, chorus, and some reverb to all of these. of course, in addition to these synths, you're going to want to have a bass, and a mid as well. a nice way to round out the sound is to add a bit of white noise, and use the stereo enhancer to make the white noise at 100% stereo so that it sits towards the edge of the mix and doesn't interfere too much with the "meat" of the sound. if you need some clarification on anything that i mentioned here, please ask!
I'm confused on how to make a mid, can you help me with that? Also, does the saw synth have to consist of all saws, or can I mix it up? Thanks for helping. :)
alright, so a mid is basically a synth that's generally playing notes about an octave above the bass. my mids typically have a rough sound, in order to balance out the smoother sounds of the chords playing over it. also, mids should never play more than one note. they're basically like a bass, just slightly higher. and for your next question, you can try out whatever! i'm just giving a basic template, and feel free to explore different sound textures as you please. don't feel limited by what you see/hear others doing, you can learn from them, apply that information and technique to your tracks, and ultimately make your own, new sounds.
Thanks for helping!
two saw oscillators, one detuned .7 cents or whatever sounds good to you.
+chorus (0 depth, 0 spread)
+stereo detune (-25 detune, 25delay)
+flanger (25speed, 100%feedback, 5ms delay, 0depth)
+reverb (0 feedback, 25 Damp, 75level)
add an extra oscillator that's a lower octave.
That's how I do it. Some effects sound better when running through minimixer or Centroid AUX.
The way I usually make supersaws is with a Heisenberg or Space. For Heisenberg, I set one oscillator on a square wave and the second and third on sawtooth. I keep the fourth on sine or Hermann von Helmholtz. I set the semitone to –infinity. The second step is offset. I offset the first saw by about 0.5, and the other around -0.5 to detune them. I offset the fourth oscillator by about 7. You also should pan each saw away from center by about 40%. The fourth oscillator is to make the detuning "irregular" and more random. I modulate the three oscillators by the fourth one by about 10-25%. The last step is detune, which is at the top. I set spread for 100 to increase stereo width, and set the Unisono to 3, and detune to about 4 cents. You can also go to the pitch envelope and set the ADSR to different values from about -2 to 2 and have decay loop on. Since a lot of things are going on, the sound is somewhat chaotic and turbulent, which is great for supersaws, and doesn't require any external effects.
This set isn't very useful for low tones, though.