Today’s Synth Secrets focuses on another classic dub siren sample, heard right at the start of the legendary Jah Shaka’s The Commandments of Dub Series 1. If you’ve listened to a single jungle mix (or a few UK garage mixes), you’ve almost certainly heard this one.The sound itself is incredibly simple, as most dub sirens are. The devil is in the details, though, and today, we’re going to focus on getting the timing and sonic vibe just right so that we really capture a convincing likeness to that well-loved sample. Deviating just a touch makes the whole thing sound just wrong.
Once we get the sonic character just right in a synth, we’re able to deviate from the original formula and build sounds that suit our tracks but that maintain exactly the right vibe, and a synth patch is just so much more versatile than a short one-shot sample for that kind of thing. Our tools today consist of u-he’s workhorse synthesizer Zebra2 and a couple of Ableton Live 12’s built-in effects – namely Hybrid Reverb and an impulse response from a spring reverb unit (it’s not dub without spring reverb).
What we love about Zebra2 is how precisely configurable it is. Everything from the exact contour of the waveform to the slope on the stages of the envelopes can be twisted to your precise needs, so it can take on any character you like.
You can follow along too by downloading Zebra here for a free trial:
Zebra Legacy: The workhorse synthU-hehttps://u-he.com › products › zebra-legacy
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