![]() ![]() ![]() The effects used in Serum are an additional filter to roll of the very high-end (above 8kHz), a 40% wet phaser to create even more movement, 1/16th note delay, reverb and an EQ to cut the low-end. The filter resonance is set to 32% which helps accentuate the filter movement and the filter’s mix is lowered to 82% which brings in the unfiltered signal and with it some high-end frequencies. The step sequenced filter effect can be created by setting Serum’s filter mode to Low 12 and modulating it using one of the LFOs with a drawn sequence as shown in the screenshot below. My recreated patch uses a single sawtooth oscillator with a small amount of unison/detune and fast (6.7Hz) LFO modulation applied to the oscillator’s fine-tune parameter for vibrato. ![]() I wanted to recreate as many of the sound design elements as possible in one patch so I turned to Serum as it is flexible and powerful. It’s likely that this sound was heavily processed with effects and some step-sequenced filter movement can be heard. Li ttle Dark Age opens with an ominous chord sequence played on a complex synth patch. I’ve also previously covered earlier MGMT synths from Oracular Spectacular in a guest article for, called Recreating MGMT’s “Oracular Spectacular” Synths with Software Instruments. In this article I’ve recreated the synth sounds of Little Dark Age and She Works Out Too Much in Xfer Serum as well as some old analog-style favourites from the Arturia V Collection. The band use a large array of synths and favour a mixture of complex sounds with bright, quirky sounds, In a recent Twitter listening party they mention having rented a Jupiter-8 and a Korg DW-8000 for She Works Out Too Much, using several obscure Russian Soviet synth and drum machines throughout the album and using randomized Synplant presets on James. ![]() The album was also co-produced by Dave Fridmann, known for his work on earlier MGMT albums such as Oracular Spectacular as well as production for The Flaming Lips and Tame Impala. Little Dark Age is the most collaborative MGMT album to date, featuring the efforts of producer Patrick Wimberly (Solange, Beyonce, Blood Orange), Ariel Pink and touring member James Richardson. Their most recent album, Little Dark Age, was released in 2018 and as the title suggests, has a darker sound than their previous work. MGMT are an indie-rock duo consisting of Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser. ![]()
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