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Dial in some distortion. Open the Effects tab in ThornCM, and enable the Distortion, with the Acid Drive preset loaded. This’ll help give the texture we need. Then, set Osc 1 to a sawtooth wave, with the Sub Amount at around 50%, for the harmonic richness and depth we need.

Use the Filter to shape our sound’s tone. Select the Fat LP24 filter, then push the

Drive up to 100% for aggression. Pull the Cutoff down to 200Hz, then increase the Res to 70%. Now, we’ll use Env 1 to modulate the filter, so it opens out. Push the Mod Amount to 40% as a start.

Set Env 1’s Attack and Sustain to 0%, then push up Decay to 70% to open the filter up. We’ll reduce the Release to 10% to give a tighter sound, before increasing the filter’s Keytrack to 60%, so that the filter changes as the riff plays up and down. ThornCM’s plate Reverb adds space.