ARTURIA – CS-80 V – USER MANUAL
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A FEW ELEMENTS OF SOUND DESIGN
Here is a series of examples designed to guide you through the creation of
various sounds as well as a vintage analog styled note sequence. They
progress in order of difficulty going from the easiest to the most difficult and
are organized into 3 parts:
The first part will help you to grasp subtractive sound synthesis. You will
start with the most basic patch (patch a VCO oscillator through a filter
and a VCA amp output), to finish by touching on the programming of
a more rich sound (several VCO sources, VCF filters, VCA envelopes,
etc.);
The second will help you to use the Multi mode and the arpeggiator;
The third will give you tips on creative use of key follows, and creating a
stereo sound without the use of additional chorus and delay effects.
5.1
Subtractive sound synthesis
5.1.1
A basic sound
To begin we will see how to program a basic sound. As we saw in Quick Start
chapter 3, the CS-80V uses two identical and independent lines of synthesis.
We will only use the first (the one above) for this example. It will be simply
composed of:
an oscillator
a low-pass filter
an output VCA
the envelope corresponding to the output VCA.
Choose the preset saw in the Templates bank. This sound uses a sawtooth
waveform, the high-pass filter is closed (but not deactivated), while the low-
pass is completely open. The amplifier envelope has a minimum attack time
(A) as well as a short release time (R). This minimalist configuration will let you
easily perform some simple experiments with this basic sound.
Start by progressively lowering the cut-off frequency of the low-pass filter. The
sound gets softer and softer.
