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[ 60 ] VERTICE as a compression/expansion unit
Side chain
As previously said this function is obtained in VERTICE with a common side-chain method. What it is?
As most of you know compression is a reducing levels of a transient signal matter. And this is obtained
forcing a VCA with some commands. If the information come from the same processed signal you will have,
with a threshold crossing level, a reduction of gain and then, as we know, compression. But the point is: you
can use also another signal to drive the EG. And so? Try with your entire musical base, without BD, flowing
stereo into VERTICE and the BD driving the GATE input from one side and a mono channel of your mixer by
the second one. THIS is re-amp, baby! Try various kind of pumping modifications, levelling and summing.
Your BD and your base have never been so easy to put together with a level-giving base and the very in-
face BD protected by level reduction simply bypassing Vertice. Or simply move your triple saw/square with
rhythmical modulation and remain synchronized with the other machines of your set-up.
And with all these continuous controls and modules relations, you will be able to experiment and make
surprising discoveries for a long time to come.
About expansion
As a compression unit VERTICE can offer its very personal view of the matter. The same occurs
with expansion, obtainable setting the EG in the regular way of use (not Inverted). Less useful than
compression, expansion in this synthesis machine can be used as a creative modifier. Try it with a BD and
other percussive material mixed, like a drum machine pattern. You will understand quickly that the most
relevant part of the signal, often the BD, will be push to an higher level further, engraving the perceived
loudness of the other lower instruments, like snare drum or hi hat, giving a distortive/pumping nuance to
all. Obviously like many of the other functions of VERTICE you can push it to very crazy results just turning up
those potentiometers....