Syntrronik Free: How to get RUSH Tom Sawyer Sound?

[UrKungFuNoGood]

Possible? I'm close but not close enough using the "Bully" pedal versions but I'm not a synth guy so I don't understand what all the knobs and switches do and the tutorial I found on Youtube doesn't match the controls on the Syntronik versions of the Taurus. Been tweaking for days and just feel like I'm not making any progress.

[Peter_IK]

If you mean the signature sweeping sound at the beginning, that's not produced using Taurus pedals (even if triggered by Taurus pedals live by the band). In Syntronik there's a preset Modern Day Warrior which is not in the free version and it uses the OXa Syntronik instrument which is based on the Oberheim OB-X and OB-Xa (which is how Rush produced that signature sound on the album and live).

[UrKungFuNoGood]

Thank you!
I loaded up the OBXa model in Syntronik Free and was able to get really really close :cheer:

[UrKungFuNoGood]

ok...
Sold lol

[mdb_ikmm]

Hello:

The Modern Day Warrior preset is indeed very close to the sweeping intro. Thank you IKM and Syntronik for this. Would someone within IKMultimedia / Syntronik, or within the community here, be able to suggest settings or presets within OXa to capture as closely as possible the sounds of the other keyboard parts? In particular:

- the single-note progressions starting at, say, 0:35 through the fade at 0:50 (and repeating later in the song, starting at ~ 2:58)

- the famous repeating keyboard solo pattern starting at about 1:32 until the beginning of the guitar solo, and again starting at 4:02 through about 4:22, including that awesome "quavering" effect as the last note fades out?

If there were a couple of sets of presets one could switch between to capture these two tones, ideally both within OXa, that would be fantastic.

Thanks very much,
-Michael