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How to Make an Acid Techno Lead in Sylenth1

Give me less than one minute and I'll show you how you can create acid leads in Sylenth1 that always slap.

My notes from this Short

01

Band pass with clip distortion

I start from my loop and an initialized preset. Put mono legato on auto, then scroll the filter type two times and you have a band pass.

Put the distortion on clip and open that up. Go to the low mids and open the resonance.

02

A long and a short envelope on the cutoff

Envelope 1 goes on cutoff AB with the amount at 20%, a long decay and the sustain down. This is the long decay of the cutoff.

Then add cutoff AB on envelope 2 and make it shorter. This is the click of the acid sound. Take down the cutoff knob.

03

Velocity on the cutoff, then automate it

A higher velocity should accentuate with a higher cutoff, so go to Misc 1, set it to velocity and send it to the cutoff.

Now automate the cutoff knob and put the loop under a kick.

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