
Listen to your lead during the creation process Lastly, close the “Attack” function or at least, give your lead barely any attack.

Also, consider opening up the “Decay” and/or “Sustain” parameters. Building fat leads: Amplitude envelopeĪfter that, go to the amplitude envelope and open the “Release” a little bit based on your own taste. This will lower the pitch of one oscillator by one octave. Then, set the octave of the least detuned oscillator to “-1”. Preferably, create a slight detune difference between the two oscillators.

Next, give both oscillators a medium amount of detune. More voices allow for a fatter lead to arise. Then, disable the “Retrig” (retrigger) option for both oscillators and set their voices to a higher number, e.g. To build your fat lead, go to the oscillators section and select a saw wave for both oscillator 1 and oscillator 2. That’s why, if all the knobs, buttons and sliders on Sylenth1 overwhelm you, start by reading the Sound Design for Beginners guide now by clicking this link. This will give you a new unmodified sound that you’re going to use to make a fat lead.īefore you can make any high quality sound, you first need to understand the essential basics of synthesis and sound design. On Sylenth1, click on “Menu”, select “Preset” and click “Insert”. Making a fat lead with Sylenth1įirst, open Sylenth1 by going to the FL Studio menu and click “Add”.

Nevertheless, you can use any synthesizer or D.A.W. In this lesson, you will find out how to make fat leads with ONLY one plugin, using Sylenth1 in FL Studio.
