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This fully elaborated example can also be applied to other modulation routings. As a matter
of fact, you only need to change the selection of the routing elements and the signal- and
modulation amounts as well as the midi controllers. As you see: the routing section has no more
mysteries.
Self modulation:
A module can also modulate itself. A simple example would be the following: Select VCO 1
B
as source of routing element 1. The destination should be VCO 1 FM. The oscillator now
modulates itself. The result is nothing spectacular. In combination with other modulation
possibilities though, interesting sounds can be produced.
Once you’re familiar with the routing elements, you can combine cross modulation with
other kinds of modulation. With the help of additional routing elements, you can ringmodulate
the resulting sounds, add pulse width modulation or insert external signals into the
modulations. The possibilities are endless!
We really recommend to get familiar with all the possibilities so you can build your own
signal flows one by one. You can’t do anything wrong. A worst case scenario would be that the
sound is unusable. Then you could simply reset the entire patch by loading Initial Patch No.255.
We haven’t mentioned a couple of other functions and modulation possibilitites because
they’re kind of ”exotic“ or they are only additions to other features. Here they are:
Doubling signal paths:
At first sight it might appear useless to give several routing elements the exact same signal
path. We want to remind you though that all signal paths in the routing elements are hardware
circuitry and that all signals/voltages physically exist. This means that when using the same
signal paths for several routing elements, the signals or voltages will add up. The resulting
sound might be distorted and can become warmer and more powerful. A modulation can also
become more intense. E.g. you could double the signal path of the envelopes. Parallel to the
fixed signals paths to VCF cutoff and VCA amount, these modulations can be doubled with the
use of routing elements. It’s interesting to know that the sound might also become more
powerfull by doing this.
Due to the fact that the External In level is relatively low compared to the oscillators, we
recommend to layer routings that include the external signals, in other routing elements. The
processed signal will be louder and the results will be more extreme.
Keep in mind though that an increase of the level always means an increase of the noisefloor
as well. This is the nature of analogue circuitry. This tip is only useful for those among us who
got used to the ”clean sound“ of digital hi-end systems a bit ”too“ much…;-)
Previous Voice
When going through the sources of the routing elements, you’ve probably encountered
VCO 1
PV S
and
VCO 2 PV R
(Previous Voice saw/rectangular) already. With this setting,
”neighbouring“ SUNSYN voices can modulate eachother. In the Source 1 column, the saw
wave signal of VCO1 of the neighbouring voice is inserted in the routing element of the
”active“ voice.
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