Next I head to the Piano Roll and make the sequence. I’m going to use slide notes to create pitch slides. Next, under the Miscellaneous Channel Settings, I enable the Portamento mode (enabling Portamento slides the pitch from note to note) and set the Portamento time (slide length between notes) to 0:09. I also raise the filter resonance level a bit (to 11 o’clock) and I’m using SVF LPx2 as the filter type. Later on I will automate the Release for adding a little extra interest to the lead sequence. Next, I enable the volume envelope under the Instrument Properties tab, set the Attack time to zero, Sustain level to maximum and Release time to minimum (for now). I don’t know them before trying & testing various different combinations): I’m just saying this if you’re wondering how I know the exact settings. It took quite a lot of experimentation and trial & error to make them sound as is.

Source of this sound is – once again – 3xOsc so I just load an instance of it and start by choosing a square wave as the shape for each oscillator and setting the coarse tune to -24 semitones for each ( Note that all the sounds and settings you are seeing me creating in this tutorial is made beforehand and basically I just replicate them here – that’s what I always do with my tutorials. In this tutorial I will show you how I made a wonky and glitchy lead sequence using 3xOsc and Gross Beat.

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