DESTINATION-BASED MODULATION
18 | MODULAR-STYLE MODULATION
Modulation Basics
Modular-style
Modulation
Destination-based Modulation
Unlike many hard wired synthesizers which use a modula-
tion matrix to select a modulation source, and assign where
to send it, Solaris uses a destination-based scheme just
like a big modular synthesizer. In Solaris, you start with a
destination--oscillator pitch, for example--and select which
modulation source you want to use to modulate that pa-
rameter. Solaris provides four modulation sources for each
major component (each oscillator, filter, etc.), except for the
LFOs, which have three. These modulation sources can be
accessed by pressing the
Mod
button--or pressing the Inc/
Dec buttons if Split and Wrap are set appropriately in the
System menu--to the left side of the module you want to
modulate.
Let’s use Solaris’s Oscillators section as an example. Imagine that each
of Solaris’s oscillators is an oscillator module in a large modular system.
Figure 19 depicts Solaris oscillator 1, which currently holds a Multimode
Oscillator, as an imaginary oscillator module in a modular synth. The typi-
cal oscillator controls, waveform, shape, coarse and fine tuning, map 1:1
to our imaginary modular oscillator.
Figure 19.
Waveform
Wave Shape
Coarse
Fine
Exponential FM
Side Chain
Linear FM
-120
0
+120
-60
0
+60
-100
0
+100
0%
0
100%
Ctrl In
-100%
0
+100%
-100%
0
+100%
Ctrl In
Strength
Side Chain
-100%
0
+100%
Ctrl In
Strength
M
ultimode OSC
Pulse
Sine
Saw
Ctrl In
Ctrl In
Side Chain
-100%
0
+100%
Ctrl In
Strength
Solaris Oscillator imagined as a modular synthesizer oscillator
module.
Next, let’s modulate the wave shape of the oscillator using
some modulation source, such as LFO1. If we were to do
this on our modular system, we would connect a patch
cable from the output of our LFO module to the oscillator’s
wave shape control input. To see what is modulating any
particular parameter on any particular module of a modu-
lar system, you simply follow the patch cable back to its
source. On Solaris, all you need to do is look at the
Mod
mode pages for that module.
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