cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9494144

I’m looking for some help in recreating the main synth patch for “A Warm Place” by Nine Inch Nails (can be heard in the linked video) using a software synth.

I think one of the main components to the patch is some kind of organ voice but beyond that I’m a bit lost as to what I should try. I’m pretty new to creating synth patches, but I learn best by experimenting and trying to reproduce things I know I like. I’m not looking to recreate this sound perfectly, but if anyone here could offer some guidance on how to achieve a roughly similar sound, or even just a good place to start, I’d really appreciate it.

I’m mainly using ZynAddSubFX but don’t mind trying out other software.

  • Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’m fairly certain that what we hear on the record is cut from a much longer recording and it maintains some granular delay and tons of reverb from the parts we do not hear. So I’d say it’s a 100% wet signal that we are hearing the long tails of. Then the foreground melody is also heavily processed very likely through a modulation model we sorts. The Line 6 MM4 can emulate a Leslie speaker (the one where the cone spins around) and something like that could get you there once you have the tambre of the ‘organ’ patch in hand. Remember that Trent Reznor is extremely experimental so if that melody was made with samples of the reverb tails of the whole textural background in key and then put through a resonant filter that would not be out of character for him at all.