2. As you can see, the
Ringmod
parameter is already set to its maximum value. This
is the reason why the basic sound character is so hard. Turn it down and play some
notes. The sound gets much softer.
3. To understand what the ring modulation does, you should listen at its pure signal.
Turn the level of
Wave 1
down to
0 and raise
Ringmod
to
127 again. Play some
notes and listen to the result.
As you have seen in the mixer page, the level of
Wave 2
is down at
0, which means that
the whole sound is made upon one wave. We are now going to use the second wave, too.
1. Initially, turn the levels of
Wave 1
and
Ringmod
down to
0 to get a better
impression what’s going on.
2. Raise the value for the
Wave 2
parameter and play some notes. You will notice a
total different „fall down“ sound.
3. Mix in
Wave 1
again. Now both sound components are audible. Try to find a good
balance for the levels.
The two waves are driven by two independent oscillators, that means they can have
different pitch setting. Try out the following:
1. Use the page dial to select the
Osc 2 1
page. The display now shows:
2. Change the
Octave
setting and play some notes. Check out
-2 as a value.
The last thing we want to do in our little tour is to work with the envelopes. They determine
the time characteristic of the sound program.
1. Select the Filter Envelope page. You must use the third selection key
햹
to do this.
The display shows:
2. Play some notes on the keyboard and decrease the
Decay
parameter. You will
notice that the sound gets darker more quickly now.
3. Increase the
Attack
parameter. The effect you get is that the sound now starts dark
and gets more brilliant. Finally it falls down to its dark state again.
To change the whole sound to a short and percussive hit, we have to use the Volume
Envelope.
1. Select the Volume Envelope page. It is the next page after the Filter Envelope, so
just turn the page dial one step clockwise. The display shows:
2. Decrease the setting of the
Decay
parameter. The whole sound gets shorter and
shorter. At very low settings you will just hear a kind of click.
AE Attack|
Decay
| Sustain | Release
000
|
089
|
000
|
019
FE Attack|
Decay
| Sustain | Release
000
|
084
|
000
|
070
Octave 2|Semitone | Detune
|Keytrack
+0
|
+00
|
+06
|
+035%
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