I want to reproduce that high-pitched moog sound you hear all over the snoop/west coast albums(with my source). I’m pretty sure he used a mini (as seen onstage)… i think I’m close, but mine still sounds too hard. not as round and clean as his. Anyone got any good tips for this patch? Waveshapes/osc’s?
For the life of me, I have never been able to understand how to get those “MySpace” players to work. Can’t help you if I can’s hear it.
hmmm, i dont have any audio examples of what i’m trying to do. that link is just my profile signature (the audio there is not of the sound i’m currently going for) 
but upon further searching I guess there is a patch in the Voyager called “compton lead”, that’s probably what i’m going for. Any Voyager owners wanna throw me some rough numbers?
Thanks in advance.
“Compton Lead” is definitely what you’re looking for. It don’t have a Source but I can describe how is is done on the Voyager. It only uses Osc1, (Osc2 and Osc3 are OFF), waveform is just below Sawtooth wave, octave is 8’, Cutoff is about 2KHz (2 o’clock on the Voyager), Resonance is at about 3 (about 10 o’clock on the Voyager), Attack and Decay for both filter and volume are at zero. Most importantly Glide is turned up more than half way.
Glide is the most important trait to that sound, playing a low note then some high sustained notes.
Hope this helps. You are going to do a lot of guess work, trust your ears more than my numbers.
word.
osc1 sawtooth, add LP filter to taste for Compton/arabia effect.
do the same but flip out on the pitch wheel for the “Vallejo” Khayree type effect (which i think is way way doper).
Hello,
A quick bit of historiography on those sounds. Much of the source material for samples and style that go into that particular genre of rap are rooted in
Parliament/Funkadelic recordings in particular, and 70’s funk/soul/r&b in a
broader sense.
If you check out releases such as Parliament’s, Mothership Connection, you will find that the “Compton/arabia/Vallejo” effects are influenced by lines Bernie Worrell played on the Model D, and also on the Arp Pro-Soloist (check out track Supergroovalistic & Night of the Thumpasaurus peoples).
The influence can also be traced back even further, to about 1971-72.
Walter “Junie” Morrison, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist for the funk/r&b
band Ohio Players first started playing those lines on the Arp Soloist for
their 1972 album, Pleasure. The track “Funky Worm”, multi-platinum hit
from this release, featured the snakey, single-oscillator lead line that would become a staple of so many later tunes.
Oddly enough, the track also appears in the soundtrack to the video game,
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
After leaving the Ohio Players circa 74, Morrison cut several single albums,
and around 1978 joined and began touring with Parliament/Funkadelic as a second keyboardist with Bernie Worrell. He would later become a musical director.
If you’re programming these type of sounds on a Source, you need to set the trigger for single, using one oscillator. Portamento is about medium. Because many the sounds were influenced by lines played on the Soloist, you remember that Arps had slower envelopes, so you have to back off the attack and decay settings on the Source. When using the
Source’s pulse wave, you’d set it to about 90.
The Soloist preset used a saw wave (really a staircase), however, many variations of these lead sounds can be done using pulse waves, triangle, or a filter-generated sine wave.
Regards,
LWG