The Prodigy Synth Tutorial

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Aosta
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20 Jul 2023

There has been quite a bit of Prodigyish discussion and song creating and coincidentally Alex Ball just released a video about the same thing..maybe he lurks these forums? :?

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21 Jul 2023

Really cool how he breaks them all down, you can learn a lot from that or even get ideas / get inspired. Not sure how I would go if I could create those sounds, I might spend a lot of time doing just that!

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21 Jul 2023

Korg Prophecy.. had one back in the day. Found it a pig to program.



Still my fave Prodigy release ℗ 1991 XL Recordings Ltd



..and this one

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21 Jul 2023

When I made me Prodigy influenced mini album recently I got to experiment with trying to imitate both typical sounds and writing style.

Here's a brief example of a couple of sounds I made.
I almost feel like going back and make a proper tune out of this. :puf_smile:


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21 Jul 2023

TritoneAddiction wrote:
21 Jul 2023
When I made me Prodigy influenced mini album recently I got to experiment with trying to imitate both typical sounds and writing style.

Here's a brief example of a couple of sounds I made.
I almost feel like going back and make a proper tune out of this. :puf_smile:

nice1!
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21 Jul 2023

Just played around a bit with the first patch explanation in the video and see where I could take that with Thor. Came up with the attached patch. Although my music is quite detached from the Prodigy style, I do like a lot of their music, and I might actually use this in some future track :puf_wink:

Maybe someone can use this as a starting point, or as is :puf_smile:
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21 Jul 2023

crimsonwarlock wrote:
21 Jul 2023
Just played around a bit with the first patch explanation in the video and see where I could take that with Thor. Came up with the attached patch. Although my music is quite detached from the Prodigy style, I do like a lot of their music, and I might actually use this in some future track :puf_wink:

Maybe someone can use this as a starting point, or as is :puf_smile:
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21 Jul 2023

maybe he lurks these forums? :?
What evil lurks in the hearts of ReasonTalk?

I love Android and Your Love. Perhaps my two favourite Prodigy songs.
TritoneAddiction wrote:
21 Jul 2023
When I made me Prodigy influenced mini album recently I got to experiment with trying to imitate both typical sounds and writing style.

Here's a brief example of a couple of sounds I made.
I almost feel like going back and make a proper tune out of this. :puf_smile:

This is great. What synths did you use in the examples?

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21 Jul 2023

Excellent video.
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22 Jul 2023

TritoneAddiction wrote:
21 Jul 2023
When I made me Prodigy influenced mini album recently I got to experiment with trying to imitate both typical sounds and writing style.

Here's a brief example of a couple of sounds I made.
I almost feel like going back and make a proper tune out of this. :puf_smile:

You just need to sample a cheesy 70's advert and you are destined for the big time. Oh, unless someone else did it first...

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22 Jul 2023

Neo wrote:
21 Jul 2023
Korg Prophecy.. had one back in the day. Found it a pig to program.



Still my fave Prodigy release ℗ 1991 XL Recordings Ltd



..and this one

If you're talking great Prodigy songs then Your Love has to be up there.

2 other favourites of mine are:-



and



The piano (in fact the strings and probably all the patches) were from the Roland U220 rackmount synth.

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22 Jul 2023

Alex's videos are always good,

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23 Jul 2023

Creativemind wrote:
22 Jul 2023
Neo wrote:
21 Jul 2023
Korg Prophecy.. had one back in the day. Found it a pig to program.

2 other favourites of mine are:-



and



The piano (in fact the strings and probably all the patches) were from the Roland U220 rackmount synth.
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