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Brassy riff

1

We’ll start by setting Osc 1 to a sawtooth wave; this has the brassy tone we’re after. We can make the tone richer by increasing the Oscillator Unison voices to 2, and setting the Detuning Amount to 12. Now we’ve got a nice base tone, let’s sculpt it with the filter – set filter Type to Clean LP.

2

Adjust Filter Cutoff to around 450Hz. We’ll use the Filter Env to modulate the cutoff so it opens slightly after the initial attack of each note. Push the Env 1 Modulation Amount to 100%, then set the Env’s Attack to around 30% and Decay at 50%. Turn the Sustain and Release down to 0.

3

Let’s use the Amp Env to shape the sound. ThornCM has a sharp attack, so push Attack amount up to 17% to soften it. A Decay of 30%, and Sustain of around 45% give us dynamics more like the original. Increase Release to 40% to avoid the sound ending suddenly.

4

The original has panning, so modulate the Master Pan. Set to L30. Open the Mod Matrix, and assign LFO1 to the Master Pan with 100% depth. A slow LFO speed of 4/1 makes the panning effect move slowly. Set the LFO Trigger to Mono, so the panning doesn’t reset each note.