
Basic Sound Parameters
14
TIME (PCM only)
Mad Orchestra
Press
EXIT
, then step down and up a patch to remove any edits you have made. Press
the
OSC1
pad and change Osc Type to PCM instead of Analog. Use the cursor up/down
buttons (if necessary) to highlight the waveform number, then change this to number
043
, “
120
”. If you play a note you should now be able to hear a piano
arpeggio sample.
Touch the
Time
tab so you can see the
Time
value. Touch the
ZERO
pad .
Play
the
keyboard, watch
Time
change as you take it slowly up to
+63
(using the
OSC1 / TIME
knob) and then all the way down to
-63
. This is
VARIPHRASE
and not conventional
sampling, in case you hadn’t already noticed!
Now set
Time
to
-1
by turning the TIME knob back to the to the center, touching the
Time
control and pressing the
DEC/-
button. Play a bunch of random notes in the
center of the keyboard. Do you recognize this sound? It is the basis for the first patch in
your
V-Synth
, “
001:MadOrchestra”
. Of course you can modulate the
Time
parameter from its own dedicated envelope or from the LFO. Later on you will learn how
to modulate parameters using any realtime controls you like (
Time-Trip
,
D-Beam
,
C1
and
C2
,
Bender
, keyboard velocity, aftertouch) by defining sources and destinations in
the modulation matrix.
FORMANT (PCM only)
This page is grayed out because the currently used waveform is of type Ensemble - see
the section on “
Creating and Editing Samples (Sample Mode)
” in the
Owner’s
Manual
as well as the section “
Sampling and Encoding
” later on in this tutorial.
We need a waveform of type Solo (or Lite) to demonstrate how formants can be
manipulated in realtime. Press
EXIT
, then step down and up a patch.
Go to the
OSC1
/
OSC Type page
, select PCM and change the waveform to
067
,
“
088:
”. Activate Tempo Sync (a pad in the bottom right-hand corner of the
page) and reduce the tempo a little using the
TEMPO
knob in the
ARPEGGIO
section.
Play a chord with your left hand and add a higher note afterwards with your right hand.
The new note will be retriggered i.e. probably out of step with the other voices, so
change the Playback Mode to Legato. Try the chord and the additional note once again
- everything is now in step. Now experiment with the
OSC1 Formant
knob...
Hey You!
Take FORMANT back to the center, then turn the LFO
DP3
knob up to maximum for
some deep and rapid formant modulation. Go to the LFO page, activate
Key Sync
and change the
Rate
to one of the musical notes you will find after reaching
127
.
If you have selected a minim here (the empty circle with a tail), changing the LFO
waveform to
SAW
will give you “NunnaNaah HooYaah”, and
TRI
will give you
“NannaNoo HeyYou”. To turn this into “HeyYou NannaNoo”, go to the Osc Type page and
take
Start Offset
up to about
40000
. You should use
SHIFT + VALUE
to do this,
otherwise it would take forever! Save this patch under the name “Hey You!” to patch
number
301
.
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