Go West Sound - I need your help guys

[daztickle]

I need to get the lead sound from the Go West track "we close our eyes".

I met the band last year and he said the sound was made using a PPG wave so if anyone has the ppg soft synth and knows this track i would be eternally grateful if they could come up with something, it sounds quite saw brass'y but my attempts so far just dont cut it.

[Summa]

Yep... it sounds like there are quite some PPG Sounds in that track. Anyway, this particular sound rather seems to me like a stack of more than one synthesizer/sampler sounds, what makes the components a bit hard to detect. While the middle frequency part rather sound like a brass sample, the PPG seems to be responsible for the more aggressive amount of high frequencies and to add a little live to the mostly shortly after the attack looped 80s samples. Also important part for the character seems to be a third sound, maybe a DX7 played in portamento mode, since I hear a slight pitching in one of the components. I as well think to detect that "du" Voice part, that you can hear slightly louder, when played as chord alone, to accompany the lead melody.

Hope that helps a bit!

...Summa


Embrace the Aliasing...

[daztickle]

your ears are obviously more educated than mine, i have managed to program sample the sound.
I sampled the combi brass sound off my old korg x3, and downloaded the ppg softsynth, and sampled a sound off that, then did what i think they did in the studio played the combined sound one one note in 3 octaves simultaneously and sampled that, and hey presto huge lead saw synth, thanks for all your help summa