Help Needed to Recreate 'If I Had You' in LMMS

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Hello everyone!

I am working on an LMMS project with the goal of recreating the timbres of "If I Had You" by Adam Lambert, and I need suggestions to make the sounds as close as possible to the original.

In my project, I organized the tracks in the song editor with the following names:

Vital Presets: I created two presets in Vital, but neither managed to achieve a sound that is close enough to the original.

Laser Beam: This track used to gradually increase in volume until the chorus, but now it produces no sound, and the sound itself isn’t as similar to the original. This element occurs between 00:40 and 00:44 of the song.

pad_chorus: A track used in the chorus that, despite adjustments, still doesn’t match the desired timbre.

Synth: A synth created with the Triple Oscillator that also hasn’t reached the sound I’m aiming for.

arpeggiator-manual: A track with an arpeggiator preset that, so far, does not have the ideal timbre.

Guit-Ambient and Arpeggiator-Manual: Two tracks that work together to produce a sound between 0:59 and 1:13, which resembles a heavy metal guitar mixed with a synth.

Additionally, I used Element to bridge Vestige with Kontakt 8 – within Kontakt, I loaded Shreddage 3.5 Stratus Free – and also to bridge with Vital.

I am making the project and presets available via an attached zipped folder.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Furthermore, I would like to know if there is anything else missing that could help achieve a sound even closer to the original. If so, please let me know how to proceed.

I would appreciate any tips and suggestions on how to adjust each of these elements—whether in synthesis, mixing, or effects processing—to achieve a final result that is as close as possible to the original sound of the song.

Thank you in advance for your help!

joaocosta wrote:
Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:47 pm

Hello everyone!

Hi, Welcome to the Forum joaocosta !
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I am working on an LMMS project with the goal of recreating the timbres of "If I Had You" by Adam Lambert, and I need suggestions to make the sounds as close as possible to the original.

That will be this track -Right?

Recreating a track is very hard. How much knowledge do you have in sound-synthesis?
You will never be able to get the exact sound, that is not possible. You may be able to get close'ish to some of the synths, but it wont be a remake.
and would a remake even be fun?
You would learn about sound-synthesis and that is a good thing! -But the endresult would be a 'copy' thats not really a copy at all. Why not make your remix your OWN. Find inspiration in the track, but make it different with your own idea and creativity?
We cant help you recreate the track, but we may be able to give some advises for synthesis and settings in filters and such, but first link to the exact track you are interested in, because there are many versions and add exact timestamps, for where the wanted sound starts just like you did for

This element occurs between 00:40 and 00:44 of the song.

Cant hear a laser sound but there is a high-pitched disharmonic 'chord' witch i think is what you call laser. That sounds like two notes of sine-wave with distortion