Sequential PRO 3, User Manual

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16 Oscillators Sequential
To listen to the oscillators:
1. Press the
global
button.
2. Use Soft Knob 1 to navigate to the
basic program
command, then press
Soft Button 1 (
write now
).
3. In the basic program, only Oscillator 1 is audible. (The levels of Oscil-
lators 2 and 3 are set to zero by default.)
4. Hold down a note on the keyboard and in the
oscillators
section,
turn the
shape
knob left and right to hear the waveshape change from
triangle to sawtooth to pulse. (Sawtooth is selected by default in the
basic program.)
5. With a specific waveshape selected, turn the
shape mod
knob and listen
to how the timbre of the waveshape changes. Note that when using
shape mod
with the pulse wave, it’s possible to make the pulse width so
narrow that the sound “disappears.”
6. Be aware that on Oscillator 3, when
super saw
is selected as the wave-
shape (refer to the display to see the name of the waveshape),
shape
mod
controls the detuning of the Super Saw wave.
7. Turn up the level of Oscillator 2 in the Mixer and experiment with
setting each oscillator to a different waveshape. Experiment with the
pitch
knob on the oscillators and notice how slightly detuning the oscil-
lators in relation to each other creates movement and thickness in their
combined sound. Try tuning one oscillator to a interval such as a third,
a fifth, or a sixth.
8. Experiment with the
octave
knob on the oscillators and notice how
setting each oscillator to different octave influences their combined
sound. This is especially true when using all three oscillators together.
9. Choose one of the three filter types and rotate the filter’s
cutoff
and
resonance
knobs to see how this affects the sound of the oscillators.
10. With Oscillator 1 and 2 on, press the
sync
button on Oscillator 1, and
set it’s
octave
to 5. Then rotate the
pitch
knob on Oscillator 1 while
you hold a note. This is the classic hard sync sound that you’ve prob-
ably heard before. Instead of rotating the
pitch
knob by hand, you can
use the modulation matrix to route an envelope to Oscillator 1 to sweep
the oscillator’s pitch and create this effect each time you play a note.
You’ll learn more about the mod matrix in “Modulation” on page 46.