Hi, in this video we will create an epic huge
lead like Seven Lions and Illenium in the
Alchemy Synth of Logic Pro X.
Let's go!
Ok, so here we have a little drop that I did
in Logic Pro X.
Let's first listen and then we will break
it down and see how we can create a huge lead.
[Electronic music playing.]
Yeah so that's the little drop part.
Let's begin by creating a new instrument track.
A new Alchemy instrument track.
So let's go to - new software instrument track.
Ok, so here we have the Alchemy Synth.
Let's go to File and initialize preset so
we have a blank new preset with just a basic
saw.
To create huge leads we either use a square
or we use the sawtooth waveform.
Because they are the most powerful waveforms.
So let's go into oscillator A and yeah we
can make use of the saw for this sound.
Now we only have one voice, so let's bump
the voices stack up to maybe eight voices.
Drag down the unison slightly.
Because you don't want all these voices to
be drifting too much in pitch.
Let's also go to the global settings and make
the voices mode into legato.
That means you can only play one voice (monophonic).
And 
we can activate the glide.
But don't make it too much.
Just a tad.
Let's go into oscillator A again and activate
the filter.
Let's see if we can find any cool filter in
here.
Let's use the LP 12db Gritty.
Drag up a little bit of drive.
Let's make the filter follow the keys on the
keyboard, with the key-bed.
So you right-click and add modulator.
Select note property and key-follow.
And then you need to drag the depth, this
is the modulation depth.
To make huge sounds you also need to think
about the attack and release of your sound.
Because a huge sound doesn't have this sharp
transient.
That's more for pluck sounds.
So let's change the AHDSR slightly here.
Drag a little bit of attack, not too much.
Maybe 0.05 (attack).
And increase the release to maybe 1 sec.
Now we have a little sound to begin with.
And that's our first oscillator source.
Then we can also go and activate the B source.
And turn that one into a square wave.
When we want to adjust this B oscillator you
can turn off this A oscillator so you it's
easier adjust this B one.
Ok, so let's make something out of this static
sound.
Maybe we can make some great pitch modulation,
and turn that into 12 steps.
12 semitones.
So that we get an octave.
And now we can adjust our MSEGs like this.
It sounds like some kind of game sound now,
but we will fix that.
Ok, something like that.
Yeah so you can see that these volume bars,
these amplitude meters are going into the
red.
So what you do is that you drag down each
volume for every oscillator.
Ok, so let's add some effects to this patch.
We can add a little bit of delay.
Drag down the feedback and add a low-pass
filter.
Or a band-pass filter for the delays.
So the delay feedback while have a more resonating
peak.
You don't want these delays to cover your
lead sound, you just want them to be in the
background so...
And a little bit of reverb.
And we can also add some distortion.
Be sure to place the distortion before your
delays and reverbs because you don't want
your reverbs to be distorted (most of the
time).
Ok, so let's try that sound out with the melody
we have here.
Let's just hold in ALT and drag (copy part).
To copy this lead part.
New lead.
Solo it and hear how it sounds.
You can hear that it's quite static and to
fix that we add some side-chaining.
And for this track I've created this side-chaining
track with, it's just a Ultra Beat playing
this kind of shell.
And then you add a compressor, like the Solid
Bus compressor from Native Instruments.
Make sure to input the side-chain audio.
And then adjust the side-chain (compressor)
to taste.
And now you can hear the lead sound ducking
with the side-chain and that helps to make
it sound more epic too.
[Epic music playing]
Yeah, and the key to a big sound is that you
layer your synth lead with a lot of different
variations of your lead.
So in this case I have this huge lead preset
which is a saw and a square wave.
Which is heavily distorted.
And then we have this more vocal like FM,
frequency modulated lead.
Which fills different places in the frequency
spectrum.
Layer your leads.
Yeah and if you want to learn more about how
to make your EDM drop sound bigger I have
another video where I explain the process.
So, you can click the card up here and it
will take you to that other video.
So that's a quick little tutorial on how to
make huge leads in the Alchemy synth of Logic
Pro X.
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Bye!
[Gelhein - Fly, electronic music playing.]
