Musicians! Name that instrument?

[InCreator]

Right, there's and instrument/sample I can't name.
It was widely used in all forms of dance/house music in early 90's.

I recorded a short clip of 2 songs where the instrument is used and would really like to use it.
My best guess is that it's something pizzicato related with some hard effects used on it.

www.increator.pri.ee/muz/what.mp3

Yes, the bubbling thingy!

If someone could give this a better name...
- or name a synthesizer that had this sound (usual source of common used sounds during this era)
- a site that has this sample for download

or any ways to replicate the sound in fruityloops, like
- what effects to use on pizzicato/3xosc/whatever to make it bubble like this
- or a good VST that can make this sound

I would be really grateful. Thanks!

The songs in this clip are Nightcrawlers - Push the feeling on and The Course - Ain't nobody

[Nikolas]

The sound you're looking for is probably some kind of organ. Hammond, percusive, or some kind of organ. don't have time right now to search but do a search on the above words and something will come up.

The way to treat it, is probably with some EQ, or even better a band pass (to cut the higher frequences).

Hope it helps

[Adamski]

Not sure what you mean exactly with the 'bubbling'... do you mean the arpeggiated line in the second half that isn't the drums (TR-909) or the generic organ bass sound? It's just an unfiltered sine wave or a triangle wave with a very short decay and no sustain, you could recreate it with any softsynth. It's not exactly the most characteristic or complex sound ever

[InCreator]

Sine wave!
** slaps on the forehead **
I've used sines for subwoofer bass mainly, never tried in higher octaves...
A bit of delay and reverb and...

Yes, very close now.

Sustain & decay characteristics were very helpful, I don't know anything about setting those.

[Gregjazz]

Check out the "percussive organ" on General MIDI patch 17.

And like Adamski says, a sine wave could work. Just set the ADSR on it so that the decay is really short, and turn down the sustain. That way it'll make that little percussive pop noise at the beginning of the notes.