Hope And Tears Drone in Wavetable

Hi, Great to see you here!

The patch has been inspired by you guys. It clear that you love drones 🙂 Well me too. And I also love wavetable synth which I believe is the most versatile Ableton’s stock synth.

So let’s have a look what I did here.

Drones are in general quite easy in theory but of course making it sound nice is maybe a bit more difficult 😉
In general there are just a few principles to start making a good drone sound:

• Long attack and release so the sound starts delicate and ends delicate
• Evolving parameters like Wavetable position or filter frequency (the more the better)
• Something unstable and unpredictable like assigning random parameter to something… random 😀
• Lots of sweet reverb

Other than that it is just finding a nice wavetable to make it sound nice, finding a good frequency cut-off and adding effects.

What I always want to do with drones and sounds that are long and should be interesting is to add Reverb + Saturator + Reverb. It has a particular effect to it. It will add some reverb obviously and then distort it a bit and the last reverb makes some of the harmonic frequencies pop in a very interesting way. It sounds like a feedback from a guitar which faces the amp. I am still thinking on how does that happen so if you know the physical principle why it is that way, email me 😀

Ok so anyway everything is clearly explained in the video and Here’s the screenshot of the effect I have made during the video.

If you, for some reason haven’t seen the video, it’s here: https://youtu.be/gV6yVWkXo7Q

Here’s the link to the patch i have made during the tutorial:

Hope-and-Tears-Drone.adg_.zip

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Thanks ❤️

A Guide on how to install the patch is here!