I’m making my way through this really cool, and very special tutorial. I wanted to provide a more in depth commentary after I finish the whole thing, BUT I was curious if Tim ever provided his actual presets for all the devices he was calling out in the videos? For example, I totally tried recreating his Echoboy “reverb” and massively failed. lol… It would have been awesome if as part of the resources, his actual presets for all the devices he was using (synths and effects) were provided to us. I know I’m late to the party, but just wanted to see if that was possibly provided and I missed the link. Thank you.
No worries with this, that’s part of the learning process TBH 
The goal is not to get the exact same sounding result but more about learning about the techniques used to get there.
There’s a Project File available in the tutorial resources ( but it requires to use the same DAW as the tutor ).
Also, like it’s been mentioned in previous posts through this topic, not all presets are included, but again copying presets isn’t always the best approach IMHO, getting a chance to see how a sound was created and trying to replicate something similar with your own plugins is much more effective ( even though it requires more time & efforts ).
Finally got through this tutorial. Overall, pretty interesting and informative. I was taking notes and documenting the bits that were interesting to me, but generally, I consider this tutorial chock full of strategies, and not particularly a A-Z hey, let’s make a synthwave track kinda video. Of course, this wasn’t without its idiosyncrasies. The way he would “automatically” EQ and the one that stood out for me was opening a 1176, not even checking the compression and just moving the output!. haha. Nice one. I think everyone else in the comments possibly have already called out the other “shortcomings” of this tutorial. The mystery of the Keys Buss remains unsolved however… 
Thank you!
He chews on his ums and I hate that he calls mid range mid tone but man I love their music!
pressing copy all the tiiiimmeeee
I was looking forward to getting to drum buss!
Love this
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Welcome to the forums and thanks for your comment !
After adding so many plugins to the base project, the latency significantly increases, making it harder to play without latency on the keys. I don’t disagree, as I often do the same, but in most tutorials I’ve seen, even with a CPU like mine, the i9-13900K, DDR5 RAM, and M.2 SSDs, it’s safer to add plugins like Waves during the mixing process, as only some of them work in 0 Latency mode. If you want to create music by simply clicking with the mouse and programming sequencer loops, then latency may not matter as much in that context. 
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I just recreated the sound for the dreamy synth in vital, got it pretty close, then suddenly noticed that the sound is basically in Tim’s preset pack for diva, it’s called dolphin dreams, as is his preset for the comeback kid main synth, it’s very nice. Nice work to tim.
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You mean with ANA 2 ?? 
Very good course! Impressed by the template and the sounds!
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I enjoyed this course.
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Welcome aboard on the forums !
Really great course. I wish sonic academy would do some more synthwave tutorials and mixing classes. There are a ton of other great up and coming artists that would love to be apart of this.
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Great to see pro point of view and the approach to make music.
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A very complete course in which Tim from “The Midnight” explains in detail the process of creating the “Comeback Kid”. Very good for those who work with Logic Pro.
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I love The Midnight forever
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