Watery Sound Design With Softpop 2! // Experimental Feedback Synth

The ‪@bastlinstruments‬ Softpop 2 is a little mighty synthesizer that's full of character and features unique feedback routing alongside intuitive controls. I show an overview of the instrument before then applying it towards making SFX for a 2D video game I'm making, showing my sound design process and some more advanced tips and tricks.
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[@cursortoxyz]

Thanks for showing this, it was insightful to see how you arrived from the raw tones of the Softpop 2 to the final sounds in Kolok.

[@SoundsMick]

Thanks for watching!

[@AllyMobbs]

nice work!

[@SoundsMick]

Thanks Ally :)

[@quantum_ocean]

glad you go some value of yours! I thought the B Drum Kastle was a lot of fun so I got the SP2 but found it to be quite limiting. It just always sounds the same. Doesn't have a lot of range. Haven't used it for months This vid reminded me to sell it.

[@SoundsMick]

When you start getting into the feedback routing and also using the digital oscillator waveshapes then the range of sounds you get out of it I would say is quite broad, especially considering its size, I love how its filter sounds and the resonance modulation, I more often use it as a box to process external sounds.

[@noizareth]

Another proof that SP2 is a great sound designer's companion, thanks for sharing your x-periences!

[@SoundsMick]

Thanks, yeah it's a great little box of sound design tricks!

[@sequencist]

so cool! I love your sound design work!

[@SoundsMick]

Thanks!

[@randydarklight]

I only bought the SP2 because of the Filter. Yes, of course the SP2 can do crazy things, but I only use it to do Depeche Mode-like Filter modulations in the baselines. My only VCFs at the moment: Korg MS 20, Roland SH 101 and SP2. Classics. 😎😍

[@SoundsMick]

The filter is pretty special I agree

[@MarZandvliet]

Damn, I really wonder about the design of that filter, such a refined sound. Your studio looks so cozy now!

[@SoundsMick]

Yeah it's a really glorious sound, I think it's all down to that soft - pop - pixel slider which (I think) does FM on the resonance. Hope you're well mate!

[@KristofferLislegaard]

That sounds great! I wonder how much inspiration they took from the Rob Hordijk Blippoo Box.

[@SoundsMick]

Oh yeah! Another watery synth hah, def some overlap in there I think