I’ve been obsessed with this one background melody in The Japanese House’s Dionne for ages and I’m trying to figure out what it actually is and how to recreate it, best case on an OP-XY.
It comes in around 1:30 and keeps popping up after the chorus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZdyMVTAMEA&t=90s
It’s this really distinctive, almost squawking, horn-like sound with a kind of organic, slightly pitch bend.
Hard to describe, but it almost sounds like some weird brass instrument or a synth trying to imitate one.
I’ve even tried isolating it with AI stem separation to get a usable sample, but there’s too much going on in the mix so that it doesn’t really work.
I’m pretty new to synthesis, so I’m not even sure whether it’s a synth, a heavily processed instrument or some kind of sample.
Does anyone have an idea what could be creating that sound, or how you’d approach recreating it? Any pointers would be massively appreciated!