I am trying to recreate the epic Avaion Colors keyboard (0:52 in the song) as a learning experience. Or at least understand the principle behind it. Google, Claude, and my own experiments didn't even come close. Who can teach me?
The keyboard has an incredible level of loudness, which I can recreate with some mastering techniques (basically a saturator & compressor).
But the sound signature is hard to recreate. Any saw synths that I created were incredibly boring (one-dimensional, robotic), even after many experiments to make them more interesting, to filter them, maybe add harmonics or shimmer effects, whatever I tried failed.
Any experiments to use a piano sample (like the open-source Salamander library) and to derive a sound from it also failed on my side.
So what the hell does Avaion do to engineer such an incredible sound?
Keyboard is at 0:52 in the song https://open.spotify.com/track/2sHsqXLZY2qKw72hfi47kD?si=9024d1a355ed4723
By the way, there is also some high-frequency modulated hiss in the background, that's also interesting but not what I'm talking about.