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How to Make a Hard Techno Screech in Sylenth1

Here's how you can make a hard techno screech in Sylenth1, starting from a saw wave with a lot of detune.

My notes from this Short

01

A detuned saw with retrigger off

I take a saw wave, disable the retrigger, add 8 voices and add a lot of detune. I like a lot of detune.

02

A fast random LFO on the pitch

In LFO 1, enable Pitch AB and open it around 5%. Open the gain, open the rate all the way, and in the wave select random.

You can control the chaos with the gain knob and the detune.

03

Envelope 1 for a pitch attack

In Envelope 1, select Pitch AB as well, take it down a bit, open the decay slightly and take down the sustain. Now you have a pitch attack one octave up. Then add some reverb.

What I use in this video

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