You only need a Saw wave and a filter - Ep 04

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Hello internet, Naturally, after making a really good squelch, one can't resist making a squelch sweep... or maybe that's just me? In any case, today I'll show you how to sound design a squelch sweep but, as usual, with a little Ollie twist!

For this, I like using either Pigments or Sylenth1 because they both offer a gritty timbre perfect for this kind of raw sounds. The patch itself consists of modulating the pitch of a SAW wave using a Sin or Tri LFO set to a rate of your liking. I usually go with 4/1 or even 8/1, and for the modulation amount, I like to go with a minimum of 3 octaves in both directions (negative and positive). To get the sweepy sound, we will modulate the rate of the LFO with a simple function generator (if in Pigments) set to a ramp up or envelope (if in Sylenth1 or other synth), and the modulation should take the rate of the LFO from low to high (let's say 4/1 to 1/16).

The oscillator then feeds to a bandpass 24db/oct filter (or any filter to your liking) with a good amount of resonance, and the cutoff of this filter will be modulated with the same ramp up function generator (or envelope). The direction of the modulation is up to you, you can go from lower frequencies to higher ones or vice versa.

To spice up the patch, we will add a phaser either before the filter if you're using Pigments or after it if you're in Sylenth1 or another synthesizer. The frequency of the phaser will be modulated with the same function generator/envelope as the filter cutoff and LFO rate, and the direction of the modulation is purely up to you. I went from lower frequencies to higher ones just like I did with the filter, and I've used an 8-pole phaser with a good amount of resonance.

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