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A delicious synthesizer for

macOS & Max for Live

featuring:

1 × Super sharp Supersaw Oscillator

1 × Stackable Sub Oscillator

1 × Ordinary AHR Envelope

2 × Diffusing Bokeh Delay

1 × Poly/Asymmetric Roulette Sequencer

1 × Flexible LFO Modulator

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Summary of Contents for Superberry

Page 1: ...Superberry user s handbook digital delicious synthesizer ...

Page 2: ... melodies lead to an exploration of that sound the supersaw We wanted to be able to have that sound at the tip of our fingers just a knob twist away from that single tear running down your cheek in bullet time Our concept grew and after a few weeks we had something that used the supersaw as a springboard into a whole new whirlpool of sound using an unorthodox synthesis core into a pair of out of f...

Page 3: ...3 The Sub Oscillator 4 The Amp Envelope 5 Voice Settings 6 The Bokeh Delay s 6 Delay A 7 Delay B 8 The LFO 10 The Roulette Sequencer 11 Pitch Transposition Trig 12 Polymeters Asymmetry 14 Standalone 14 Settings 15 Recording 16 Colors 17 Max for Live Credits ...

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Page 6: ...Superberry Fors 2020 ...

Page 7: ...synthesizer for macOS Max for Live featuring 1 Super sharp Supersaw Oscillator 1 Stackable Sub Oscillator 1 Ordinary AHR Envelope 2 Diffusing Bokeh Delay 1 Poly Asymmetric Roulette Sequencer 1 Flexible LFO Modulator ...

Page 8: ...ning and at 80 it is maximum supersaw At 100 it shifts the oscillators into octaves 2 Detune Mix controls the balance between the output of a single oscillator and the rest of the cluster Brightness controls the amount of harmonics in the Supersaw At 0 the oscillators take the shape of a simple sine wave and at 100 it turns it to a supersharp saw wave The Link button next to it lets Brightness af ...

Page 9: ...arkle or low end Sub Mix controls the balance between the Supersaw and the Sub Oscillator Sub Oct sets the octave of the Sub Oscillator relative to the Supersaw The Buttons select between a pulse wave top and a triangle bottom for the Sub Osc Width sets the narrowness of the pulse wave or the amount of wavefolding of the triangle wave ...

Page 10: ... small fade in around 0 5 is recommended for softer onsets if desired Hold sets the duration of how long the enve lope will hold the maximum volume after the Attack stage until entering the Release Release sets the duration of the fade out of the envelope and is the last stage At 0 the sound will cut immediately when Hold is done and a value above 0 is recommended to avoid clicking Bright sets the...

Page 11: ...number of voices that are at disposal Pitch sets the transposition of the received note into the synthesizer This mainly affects the sequencer and follows any scale settings Slide controls the amount of portamento be tween received notes Volume controls the loudness of the synthe sizer voice Note that this does not affect the synthesizer volume into the delays ...

Page 12: ...o a note value by opening the triangle menu Volume controls the loudness of the delay Tone controls the tonal balance of the delay negative values removes high frequencies and vice versa Fbk controls the feedback amount of the de lay high values will repeat the echoes longer Blur controls the amount of diffusion making the repeats softer in sound At higher values it starts to sound reverb like ...

Page 13: ...e the same as A with the exception of two extra features Send controls the amount of signal received from Delay A The Volume of Delay A does not affect the Send level The Buttons control whether the delay is in ping pong top or centric mode bottom Ping pong will distribute the repeats in the left right stereo channels while centric keeps it in the middle useful for reverb like sounds ...

Page 14: ...e LFO will then display the new destination 3 Depth sets the modulation amount Speed sets the modulation frequency If the LFO is synced to the BPM or Note divisons of 5 are used as the base multiple The Pad Lock toggles BPM sync The Musical Note toggles pitch tracking The Arrows toggle between free running and synced to trigger meaning it will reset the phase of the LFO on every note trig 8 Fade a...

Page 15: ...re s a trick If you use the LFO with pitch track ing enabled and assign it to Pitch it will modulate the phase of the os cillators making the Superberry a 2 OP FM synth The Superberry is already an FM synth ...

Page 16: ...nd rhythm data to the synth engine for generating melodies It is entirely polymetric and asymmetric 10 Start Stop BPM Velocity pattern Pattern Length Note Triggers Pitch Data Clock Divider Pitch Offset Musical Scale Tonic Pattern Length Selected Pitch ...

Page 17: ...lt of Pitch 1st Transp 2nd Transp Reset deter mines the length of the Trig pattern The Velocity lane can be used like transpose to introduce different velocities for the trigs Transpose is a list of intervals in semitones that affects the incoming notes in succession The intervals are changed by typing into the Transpose text fields For example 0 5 7 is a pattern length of 3 wherein 0 will have no...

Page 18: ...on the numerical relationships of the dif ferent sequence lengths and how they create a continually rotating pattern You could see it as an algorithmic arpeggiator and can take a while to fully grasp We highly recommend setting a Scale G2 C3 F3 G2 C3 F3 G2 F2 C4 0 7 7 5 0 5 G2 C3 F3 G2 C3 F3 0 7 G2 C3 F3 G2 C3 F3 G2 F2 F3 Monometric Polymetric C2 C3 A 2 0 7 0 7 0 7 5 0 5 The sequences have the sam...

Page 19: ...Don t worry Set the Scale to something nice like Phrygian and type in some random numbers You don t need to know how this works really 13 ...

Page 20: ...f the audio engine A samplerate of at least 48kHz is recommended and vector sizes as low as possible without causing clicks If you re hearing irregularities or clicking in the audio try higher vector sizes You can also choose the MIDI Input device for note input you can set this to play the Super berry with a MIDI keyboard In the Synth Settings you can enable Oscilla tor Drift which will introduce...

Page 21: ...rry app press the round Record button it will then start blinking while indicating the elapsed time of the recording To stop the recording simply click Record again Record will stop blinking and a file will appear on your desktop labeled with the ISO 8601 date and time The output format is AIFF in 32 bit Stereo The samplerate is the same as in the output settings 15 ...

Page 22: ...nu Here you can set the color of each interface element in HSL values HSL stands for Hue Saturation Lightness Hue sets the color tint think of it like scroll ing through a rainbow Saturation sets the color intensity a value of 0 will make the color grayscale Lightness sets the shade of the color a value of 0 will be black You can also select from a list of predefined themes which include both ligh...

Page 23: ...ax for Live The Max for Live version of Superberry has the exact same controls and engine but with the sequencer as a separate module The Max for Live device requires Ableton Live Suite 10 1 or above 17 ...

Page 24: ...Felisha Ledesma Design development by Ess Mattisson Manual typeset in Blaze Type Inferi Colophon Relative Max 8 Max for Live by Cycling74 Ableton Jost typeface by Indestructible Type Fors Questions Contact us at hi fors fm 2020 ...

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