Topic: High sustained string sounds

I'm really feeling this high sustained string sound you hear in a lot of house and moodymann and stuff like that.  Its just kind of a tense sustained note.  Any tips on making this?  I can't tell if its just a single note or a smeary interval/chord sound like a sus chord or something like that.

2 (edited by Squadra Smackos 2008-08-15 22:23:59)

Re: High sustained string sounds

Isn't it a looped string sample? I think you can hear the hop slighthly when it loops

Edit: Its also like a dissonant chord most of the time or how the fuck you call that, like you hold 2 or 3 notes that don't really fit but still do in some way...notes right next to eachother, some black ones mixed with whites.

Re: High sustained string sounds

don;t they just loop and stack samples on the mpc?

Re: High sustained string sounds

is this what you mean?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcaYyae9ySE

5 (edited by Squadra Smackos 2008-08-16 10:13:04)

Re: High sustained string sounds

I think he means more like this one that doesn't change for a long time...maybe its more a 'pad'...like in that J.A.N record.

Uh http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PVBpONp … re=related but that's just one note but you get the idea...and this is just a synthesizer I think...

What is a sconie???

Re: High sustained string sounds

ok, yeh sounds looped

sconie: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sconie

Re: High sustained string sounds

maybe it's just a juno106 set to a string patch, with broken voice chips, and they forgot to unplug it when recording?
:-)

Re: High sustained string sounds

Sconie?

http://www.citydictionary.com/MN/Minnea … onie/3069/

Re: High sustained string sounds

no-fi wrote:

maybe it's just a juno106 set to a string patch

I used that high string sound on a remix I did around 8 years ago (click here, and click on the track 'Feel')
The string sound was done on a Roland XP50 with a Vintage Synth expansion card installed. It was either a Juno 106 or a Jupiter-8 string patch + the XP50's chorus driven high in a way that's close to breaking into a wobble, if I'm not mistaken...