Make a Huge Hip Hop Brass Synth in Massive

In this tutorial, Echo Sound Works will show you how to create a Hip Hop brass synth in Massive. It’s a great sound for those Dirty South bangers!

This Hip Hop brass synth in Massive is a good example of how you can use a synth to achieve sounds that resemble their real world counterparts.

I used all three Oscillators in Massive because brass sounds are fairly complex harmonically. I used a Square Saw II wave in OSC 1 and blended that with a DIGI I and Sin Square I wavetables. The DIGI I is adding some rich top end.

The envelope shapes are very important to the overall sound. I used a custom envelope to modulate the Cut Off of Filter One to create a more open and bright sound.  I used a longer attack time and bumped up the release to mimic what actually happens in a physical brass instrument.

Finally, the EQ can really help shape the Hip Hop brass synth in Massive. I probably used the EQ more for this sound than any other I’ve done. I cut and boosted a good amount of frequencies.

Check out the video to hear the Hip Hop brass synth in Massive!

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