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Emax II operation manual
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If you do have enough sample memory to complete the operation, the display will say:
Modifies Sample&
Takes XX min.OK?
... XX being the time it takes Emax II to perform the necessary calculations.
4. Press YES to continue, NO to return to the module identifier.
APPROACHING TRANSFORM MULTIPLICATION
Transform Multiplication can be thought of as a sounding board on a mechanical
musical instrument. It is a kind of electronic resonator which can be used to impart
characteristics of one sound onto another. Transform Multiplication is a form of
synthesis that until now has only been available at large electronic music research
facilities using supercomputers. Because of its obscurity, the territory of sounds pro-
duced with Transform Multiplication remains largely unexplored. As you wait for
Transform Multiplication to complete its computations, you will gain an appreciation
for the early Electronic Music pioneers who had to wait days to hear the results of their
efforts. TM does take time to do its thing and can be considered an advanced application
for those willing to take the time to come up with something completely different. Begin
your experiments with short percussion sounds or the InstAttacks on the Spectrum
Synthesis disk as these will give good initial results.
TRANSFORM MULTIPLICATION EXPERIMENTS and HINTS
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Use speech as one of the voices, a pitched sound for the other. Via TM it is possible
to “speak from within” violins, bassoons, cymbals, etc., similar to the effect of a vocoder.
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Try using the same sound for both voices.
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Use sounds created with Spectrum Synthesis as TM sound sources. Experiment with
the effects different spectrums have on the result.
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Splicing silence to the beginning or ends of very short sounds can change the spectral
characteristics of the result. If you truncate a sound, taper the ends to avoid spectral
smearing. Splicing silence to the end of the current voice will also lengthen the final
result.
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Sample a popping balloon, firecracker or handclap in a tiled bathroom (or other
reverberant room). This will be the current voice. Choose any other interesting voice and
perform Transform Multiplication. The current voice should sound as if it were in the
room (or maybe not). This is a basic impulse response experiment. In this case, you have
taken the impulse response of the room.
DIGITAL PROCESSING
Transform Multiplication