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12 Ed!son –Instrument Editor
In the WAMI BOX, four time and level parameters are available for each
envelope for the construction of complex modulation progressions.
Pitch, filter or volume: Ed!son provides individual envelope generators for each section.
Each of the three synthesizer sections, for example the filters, has its own
modulators. An example to clarify this: LFO1 can modulate the pitch and thus
create a sirenlike effect, while LFO2 controls the filter to provide a typical filter
sweep. At the same time, EG3 ensures that the tone develops gradually after the
key has been struck.
As you can see, modulators add a lot of action to the sound and add to the appeal
of synthetically generated sounds. Other sources of modulation are available to
the WAMI BOX in addition to LFOs and envelope generators. For example, the
touch dynamics (velocity) or the keyboard table position of a played note can be
applied as modulators in Ed!son.
Splits and multi-samples
With Ed!son, you can also create instrument sounds based on multiple wave files.
This is especially useful if instruments are to be recreated as authentically as
possible with a sampler. If you were to construct a piano or chorus sound using a
single sample, the instrument would not sound very realistic. The reason: Samples
tend to sound increasingly unnatural the further they are played from their original
pitch.
Multi-sampling is the name of a process in which several samples of an
instrument are recorded at different pitches and distributed over several zones of
the keyboard. An example: A complex synthesizer sound is sampled at a variety
of pitches (an octave apart, for example). The individual samples are then once
again assigned to their original pitches in Ed!son. Smaller tonal ranges for the
individual samples result in a more realistic sound for the multi-sample.