the Benassi sound
 

Hi there....
I know it sounds like I am a commercial whore! :lol:

I am talking about the lead from "Satisfaction".
But I was wondering how the obtain that commercial signature sound of Benassi, Anaklein and the others who uses it!

I guess there are 2 things in the sound:

1. The synth sound itself

2. The compression (because those are pumpin?)

Guess its a pretty simple saw with some good effects or so, dunno?

Some advices or a preset would be appreciated :)

Manuel has done a good copy of the sound in his incubation2 soundset for the virus.

The pumping base itself has an effect called ducking on it which you use with a sidechain compressor.

Basically when ever the kick drum sounds it sends a signal to the sidechain compressor thats on the bassline to frequency duck the kick. Depending on the compressor options is how long the bass is ducked for. This technique is also used for gating effects like vocal stutters.

As far as im aware true sidechaining is only available to pro-tools and logic at this time but you can also do it with specifically made plugins for cubase/nuendo like the tc native bundle and db audioware.

ten

its just a basic c127 sound with loads of portamento
maybe also mixed with lower octave sine or triangle to give it more lower edge.