Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control

The longest song on Lonerism has the longest title, and it’s full of some pretty wacky synth sounds. The Juno that opens up this song is similar to the one in Mind Mischief that I wrote about in Part 2 of this series. The synth chords have a touch of vibrato created by the LFO, which gives it a seasick, out-of-tune feeling. We’ll try running a Juno patch through a guitar amp emulation to make it sound a little dirtier.

The basic patch consists of a square-wave with a little pulse-width modulation and an envelope with no sustain and decay set high enough for the chord to trail out in time for the next chord. For the vibrato; the original Juno-106’s LFO has only one wave shape, which is triangle, so set the LFO to triangle and raise the LFO-Oscillator setting to the point where the vibrato is noticeable but it’s not overpowering. The sound is quite filtered so raise the HPF to about halfway and lower the LPF until the high notes just begin to get cut off.