How To Make Digital Softsynths Sound ‘Analogue’

Here are 5 tips to give your digital softsynth plugins a warmer, more 'analogue' sound.

[Satyrator_-gyvq]

Instead of modulating the finetune via LFO to slightly detune the oscillators I find it can also sound interesting to modulate the finetuning via keytracking so the detuning increases with bigger intervals when playing chords or overlapping notes.

[WITCHZMUSIC]

shaper box 3 has become my favorite and most used plugin 🔥

[e.]

Every single short you’ve posted has been immensely useful. Thank you 🙏

[steamerk]

That track at the end is juicy. Great tio!

[tylerlannan]

This is another gem, and I can personally appreciate the approach. Whenever I try to emulate a sound I think from the perspective of the thing I'm trying to emulate and what it's actually capable of our how it makes the sounds. Operating within the constraints of the thing itself always gets me close.

[PNEUMANA]

Great tips, that’s what Com truise has been doing for years to get those juicy analog sounds from soft gear. But honestly nothing works better than just getting a real analog synth! Analog synths are a miracle of human engineering and in some way are almost alive. Nothing like starting your signal chain with some analog oscillators.

[_TheViewer_]

Forgive me Father, for I have synthed. 😂✌️

[infinitystratos]

I love your tutorials, really creative and helpful 😊

[ADVITAM.]

You are Amazing The Cableguys Team✨👏♥️🎶🎵

[jhowell]

I was so ready to shout vinyl crackle/noise... But ya covered it 😂

[Harzurner]

There was a whole scene in the 90's / early 2000's of mostly Drum & Bass music that often sampled complex digital synth sounds, wavetables a lot of the time. But it didn't sound harsh and digital at all, it sounded lush and analog because of the analog to digital and digital to analog convertors on the hardware samplers they were using and also the circuits in the mixers.

[userther]

Thanks 🙏
I found out that adding flanger to a high frequency and modulating the lfo to simulate the wobble also worked and to get it sounding natural keeping the flanger mix percentage somewhat low works

[OlivioSarikas]

My trick is simply a wave shaper. Goes

[Satyrator_-gyvq]

Reducing the number of voices to 4 or 6 to enable voice stealing can also help, especially when using chords and longer releasetimes.

[vsachy]

I reccomend putting a slight vibrato on synths

[AgentsofRush]

And use TR5 EQ-PG to help with the weight

[christianjensen]

How MIDI Switch works? I work in Logic Pro and I don’t know how to use it

[maximusfrank]

I would compress it too analog synths are thick

[moshik]

Or just use DIVA :)

Jokes aside, Love your stuff, Thank you.

[chromium]

One thing is analog is way more "hot" of a sound than vst synths, just way more saturation and peaks, makes it harder to work with