Sound pack No. 09 · Synthwave / retrowave
SYNTHWAVE
Neon nights, FM keys and gated drums.
The 80s on the FM-1: a punchy kit with the gated snare and diving toms, galloping and octave basses, the glassy FM electric piano and bells of every ballad, polysynth and FM brass, wide saw, sync and sax leads, and lush pads. Built for outrun night drives, dreamy midtempo ballads and dark italo grooves.
- Tempo
- 85–118 BPM
- Inside
- Kit, 24 sounds · 2 songs
- On the FM-1
- SYNTHWAVE · any bank
- night drive
- outrun
- 80s pop
- italo disco
- dreamy ballads
- darksynth
Hear it0:00 / 0:28
2 songs · made only with SYNTHWAVE
Songs inside.
Hear what the sound pack can do, then put a song on your FM-1 and take it apart. Each one goes into an empty project slot; nothing is replaced without asking.
01TAIL LIGHTS106 BPM · 4 bars · 0:39
Night-drive synthwave at 106 in F minor: a galloping bass on each root, PWM strings, a plain kit with the gated snare, an arp in the second and fourth phrase and a long lead at the end.
02LAST CALL84 BPM · 8 bars · 0:25
A noir ballad at 84 in Bb minor: crystal FM piano chords two bars each, a held bass, the gated snare in a big plate, and a short, low sax phrase that comes back higher.
Slots 1 to 8 · SYNTHWAVE
The kit.
Eight pads made for SYNTHWAVE. Press one to hear it. On the FM-1 the kit is under KITS, on the drum track.
The kit's beat
Slots 9 to 32 · 24 sounds
The sounds.
Basses, chords, leads, pads and effects made to sit together in one song. Press one to hear it.
Bass6
09ITALO BASSVA
a tight saw with a short filter bounce: octave-jumping 8ths and 16ths
10SATIN BASSFM
a bright FM hit that settles into a woody, held hum: the sustaining bass of 80s ballads
11SNAP BASSFM
two short bodies, a pop and a 3:1 slap clang that snap shut: the octave bass of italo
12GRID BASSVA
a driven saw and a loud sub under a resonant low-pass that slams shut: the dark synth bass
13PWM BASSVA
a square whose width a slow LFO moves, a loud sub, a snappy filter: the classic mono square bass
14ELECTROVA
pulse plus sub with a gliding, bouncing filter: the robot funk bass
Chords & keys4
15CRYSTAL EPFM
a soft bark, a glass tine and a ringing crystal octave: the shimmering FM piano of 80s ballads
16FM BRASSFM
three detuned FM pairs whose index blooms after the note: the synth brass for big chords
17POLY BRASSVA
two layers of saws and a filter that blooms then settles: the 80s VA synth brass
18NEON STABVA
a hollow square chord through a resonant filter that snaps shut: the italo off-beat stab
Leads7
19SUPER LEADVA
seven saws with a soft glide and a little vibrato: the big wide lead, one voice
20PORTA LEADVA
a square lead that glides between notes, a little sub, a soft bite: the portamento lead
21GLASS LEADFM
a glassy FM tone that keeps ringing as it sustains: the bell lead of 80s ballads
22RAZOR SYNCFM
harmonics that tear in after each note and a slow rake through them: the sync lead from FM
23NOIR SAXFM
a blown FM reed that blooms, a breath and a late vibrato: the late-night sax lead
24VAPOR BELLFM
a woody bar, a glassy twelfth and a strike: the bell-marimba for 80s arpeggios
25ARP PLUCKVA
a pulse with a resonant filter blip: 16th-note arpeggios that sit in the mix
Pads4
26WIDE PADVA
seven detuned saws, a slow attack, an open filter: the lush pad (play three notes)
27GLASS PADFM
glassy 1:3.5 FM partials over a warm pair, slow and detuned: the pad only FM makes
28PWM STRINGVA
a square whose width an LFO sweeps: the ensemble strings of an 80s poly
29DREAM VOXFM
a soft body, an 'ee' vowel that shimmers and an octave choir, slow: the dreamy choir pad
FX3
30HYPERSPACEVA
noise and a low saw through a resonant band pass that sweeps up for three seconds, then back down
31DIVE TOMFM
two skins that dive into tune with a noise burst: the 80s synth tom for fills you play
32STAR ZAPFM
a metallic body, its octave and a twin that dive two octaves: the space-blaster zap