B-Front & Titan lead help

[overdrive]

Does anyone know how to get that sort of dark lead sound
I can do a saw lead in sylenth but they seem to sound too thin even when I layer them.

[andyhuynh]

Detuned Saws with pitch lfo and portamento

[D-Verze]

I think even without the pitch lfo
Dark leads generally have a bit more detune, mainly on the high octaves

[overdrive]

I've tried these but it sounds too dirty when i layer

[rockzorr]

Hey, i'm kinda new here. But i made some lead with melody of the new b-front & zany. I'm not really into synthesis but, what i did is basically make some saw leads, and play a lot with glide , reverb and delay. EQ a bit on the high notes.

http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/88701748/file.html

tell me what you think

[Harha]

Well, there are many things which affect the overall sound of a lead. For a "darker" sound I'd suggest using pure saw osc's and finetuning the osc's apart from eachother, detuning the voices differently, modulating osc's pitch with LFO's, modulating those LFO's mix amount for the pitch modulation with an envelope, modulating those LFO's rate with other slower LFO's, modulating the unison pan spread and detune with an LFO, setting like 1 osc to +1 octave from the others, using square osc's instead and applying fast PWM to them = sharp saw'ish sound, endless possibilites which ofc differ from synth to synth...



There's some quick dark lead test I did with Sylenth1 in like 5 minutes, no additional layers and I'm forced to use my headphones atm so I am not sure if the outcome is even half-decent but whatever...

[BaneDeBanaan]

@Harha Thats is actually very good, would you mind posting the preset? I don't intend to use your sound but rather learn from the sylenth patch so i can craft my own. The thing is I can set up the oscs pretty much the way I like it but I always fail at using the LFO & Envelopes properly