Trick For Getting This Keyboard Sound?

[Wings of Obsidian]

Hey guys:

I am trying to get this sparkly, cavernous piano/keyboard sound that you hear in the ambient part if this song at the end. It kicks in at 3:55.

I know alot of electronica/house artists and ambient artists have used a piano/keyboard sound like this before. (I just currently can't think of any other songs at the moment other than this one by BMTH.)



Not sure what exactly I am looking at here. Reverb, delay, compression maybe?

Anyone know how to achieve that sound in-studio and what settings I need? How to mix it?

 

[sear]

It's probably just a stock patch that ships with any decent keyboard. Heard it too many times for it to not be generic.

 

[the unbearable]

it's 2 different tracks. a "dance" piano on top of a string synth patch.

 

[Wings of Obsidian]

it's 2 different tracks. a "dance" piano on top of a string synth patch.

Well, obviously there are synthesized strings in there man... -.-" (*face palm*) I just want the actual "piano" you hear echoing in there.

 

[Wings of Obsidian]

It's probably just a stock patch that ships with any decent keyboard. Heard it too many times for it to not be generic.

Not sure man. I don't think it is a stock patch on keyboards... I got a pretty high end Yamaha and high end Korg, and I'm not hearing anything like it on either after cycling through all the patches. It's got to be a patch on a VST plug-in or MIDI instrument.

It is common though, like you said. So it might be a patch that a lot of plug-ins have modeled in their banks. I'm cycling through all my plug-ins and clicking around in them, trying to find something like this that I could maybe tweak.

 

[Wings of Obsidian]

Grrrrr.... Still having trouble. I feel like a retard.

 

[Wings of Obsidian]

Reverb + delay on a piano I guess. Tweak until ya get it right.

 

[HoKrll]

Omnisphere definitely has something like that. There are a few pianos heavy on the delay and reverb.
One patch I really like sounds like, I guess water droplets, or something crystal clear like that. Has close to that ambient sound you are referring to.

 

[fwd0120]

Yeah, just a piano patch with a low pass filter. Then some long delay and reverb. You need to modulate the LPF. Ableton Live has a ton of sounds like that, but you can do it with any freeware.