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There is a synth lead that I have been hearing in SNES and Playstation and CPS2 era Arcade games that I am really having trouble pinpointing. It's nothing more than a simple oscillator lead. But there is a subtle complexity to it, and the fact that it constantly crops up, that makes me think this was possibly just a common patch on some synth.
The cleanest example I heard recently was from a Playstation game called Langrisser 5. The synth is the first thing you hear and plays throughout. Circa 1998.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEBuis0KLd8
Here it is again in the SNES game Ninja Warriors. 1994
It's used as a poly synth to accompany much of the guitar leads here. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. Circa 1992.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1GKyvOJX70
Does this ring a bell at all for anyone? I am fully prepared to accept that this is just a generic saw lead of some kind, but then perhaps some of you can help me in figuring out how to get my leads to sound like this. I can make a saw lead that sounds good, but it never seems to have that almost trumpet like attack to it that these have. And the smoothness too. Is that the result of chorus, or detuning? Whenever I add that stuff my patch gets a little too complicated sounding, which leads me to feel like it is a patch. These leads cut through and can be played mono or poly and still sound clean. It baffles me.
Fortunately, I can rip the samples from the CPS2 and SNES games, and I can use them in my own projects, but the samples are not ideal. They are really jagged sounding due to file size limitations. So I am trying to find the source, if there is one.
Is there a particular synth that would be best at creating this sound if it must be done by scratch?
I've included those small sample rips here. They appear to be something of a super saw. but what exactly is making them so punchy and smooth!?:
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