Broadcast Sting

How it's made

Source

a brass section hit on an analog-style synth: each chord note is two band-limited saw oscillators (left and right) detuned by a few cents, giving the slow chorus beat of a section; the lip buzz is the saw's harmonic series, excited with a 10-15 ms "blat" attack and a 25 ms pitch scoop from 25 cents flat.

Body

a 12 dB low-pass (Q 1.1, no sharp resonance) opens from 500 Hz to 2-7 kHz in 40 ms and closes again; brass gets bright when blown hard, so the spectrum moves with the envelope. A high-pass at 70 Hz and mild tanh saturation glue the chord. The final hit adds a falling sine thump (110 to 45 Hz) and a noise accent whose band-pass sweeps from 7 kHz down to 500 Hz, the whoosh that closes the hit.

Envelope

a 0.35 s riser (pink noise through a rising band-pass) swells into the first hit. Then a tight rhythm of short 8th-note stabs (about 55 % of a beat, 60 ms release) and one long final hit that rings for the Ring time and fades with a smooth tail so the end is silent.

Variation

root pitch, chord (power, major, minor, suspended), tempo, stab pattern, brightness, riser level, punch and ring; `rng` shifts the detune and the riser sweep by a few percent.

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