Anonymous User asked: music (instrument) question, from someone who is interested in music production but knows very little about anything:
context:
when aura was streaming Parasite Eve, you remarked about the cool piano sound. it was pretty early in the game, so i think the only candidates for which piece of music it was are: the title theme, Missing Perspective (the opera??), Out of Phase (police station), or Urban Noise (map screen). (named if you want to look the music up)
the question:
what kind of effects/filters would you add to a piano instrument to reproduce that sound?
i'm gonna assume it was Missing Perspective, because I do really love that piano sound!
for reference:
and i took this as an exercise, maybe not to recreate the actual sound, but to deconstruct what makes it cool & make my own version
the 3 clips above:
clip 1: piano
- i layed out the initial piano riff using my default ableton piano, since i use it for sketching a lot
- i tried to recreate the tone of the parasite eve piano; more harsh, focusing on the plunky high-end
- ultimately i swapped over to an upright piano patch from the wario land 4 soundfont since it came closer to what i was going for~
clip 2: synth
when you listen closely to the piano sound, though, you can tell it's doubled with a bit of a choir synth sound... something close to a "doo!" sound, and i've heard that before, but couldn't find something close off hand. so i loaded up Vital and did a quick like 5-minute synth patch by ear, trying to find that kind of intonation.
i ended up doubling two wavetables, one an octave up & lowered volume, to get something close.
and for effects, i eyeballed some chorus, delay, subtle distortion & a little eq to take off the low end
clip 3: putting it all together
and then, in the final clip, everything put together! it's not the exact sound, but it's something that comes close & evokes what i think makes the original sound sick in context of the track
