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Synth Knobs to Know for Techno Screeches

These are the knobs you have to know if you want to make better techno screeches.

My notes from this Short

01

Noise FM and random detune

First I FM oscillator A from the noise oscillator. Second, I add a lot of detune and combine it with randomization.

02

Fast LFO and chaos on the tuning

Third, LFO 1 on a high rate, added to the fine tune. Fourth, in the mod sources, Chaos 1 on the coarse pitch with the level taken down. Make sure the chaos is on a very high rate.

Then you can also add an envelope to the coarse pitch, or take it down.

03

A slow band pass into Zero Square

Finally, I add a filter on a band pass with a high resonance and drive, and make it move through the mid frequencies with a slow moving LFO. Then I just add a lot of distortion on Zero Square.

Serum filter for a techno screech: Band 24, a band pass, with the cutoff, resonance and drive knobs
The filter on Band 24, a band pass.
What I use in this video

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