From dumeril7@yahoo.com Sat Dec 11 14:22:11 2010
Subject:Re: Need help to cop the Cars "Let's Go" sound on a Nord Lead 2

In case you ever need to replicate that sound from scratch, the key is oscillator sync, which will truncate the waveform of one oscillator in order to synchronize its duty cycle with another waveform. That's what gives you that squelchy sort of sound you hear on Cars and No Doubt records. Most analog and analog modeling (and some rompler) synths will have oscillator sync. Anyway, you turn on oscillator sync and modulate the pitch of the slave oscillator using an envelope -- moderate fast attack, medium decay. Modulating the slave oscillator pitch won't actually affect the pitch as much as the tone because the synchronization keeps truncating the waveform keeping it on-pitch (mostly), but it does give a neat sounding quasi filter sweep sort of sound. After all these years, I still love that sound.

D7