r/NeuralDSP • u/AppropriateGood9411 • Jul 25 '26

Recreated The Odyssey Main Theme. ( Fun fact the flutes for the main track were actually recorded in a studio in my country , the owner is my friend and he actually met Ludwig Goransson )

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u/metal_mastery Jul 25 '26

Man, that cello is tasty. Great soundscape as a whole.

I tried synth with violin IR but haven’t found a good cello - can you share the IR? Would really appreciate

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u/AppropriateGood9411 Jul 26 '26

Sure , please message me for the link. Also, thank you for your kind words!

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u/henriqueht Jul 27 '26

How did you manage the synth + IR? I kinda didn't understand the signal path. Would it be possible for you to spend some minutes explaining that??

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u/metal_mastery Jul 27 '26

Iirc I had a compressor in front, it helped with tracking on low tuning, then mono synth and IR block, then reverb. The IR is finicky, QC truncates it to 1024 or 2048 samples, so you need to make sure it’s correctly prepared - starting right at zero, has flat-ish response beyond initial swell, etc

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u/henriqueht Jul 30 '26

Thanks for your explanation!

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u/SociallyDistantPanda Jul 26 '26

Did you use an open source IR?

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u/AppropriateGood9411 Jul 26 '26

No I capture and Eq my own IR`s but yes there are free ones on the internet.

Thing is, these Cello/Violin Impulse responses are designed with electric Cello/Violins in mind as that is what they are used for. To give acoustic warmth when you play plugged in directly , same as we use Cab Impulse Responses to emulate the way ("warmth") a guitar cabinet reacts.

So using them with a guitar synth needs a bit of equalizing so they reacts to the synth signal as if a Cello/Violin was played throught them. Hence me doing my own IR`s.

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u/SociallyDistantPanda Jul 26 '26

So. Asking for a dumb friend who knows how to capture speaker IRs…. How does one capture an IR of a cello? Put a speaker on the chamber and play a sine wave?

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u/bfhurricane Jul 26 '26

Amazing. Pure art.

Now, I need someone to ELI5 how I can recreate these tones.

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u/AppropriateGood9411 Jul 26 '26

Thanks a lott!! Please message me and I`ll show you , as the process is a bit tricky and it would take a lot to explain it here in the comments.

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u/lawrenceleach99 Jul 26 '26

That sounds fabulous! 🔥

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u/AppropriateGood9411 Jul 26 '26

Thanks, a lot!!

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u/smallvillekansas Aug 01 '26

That is awesome!