Basic Sound Parameters
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ENV RING
This is basically an envelope follower whereby the volume of oscillator 1 is controlled by
the audio “envelope” of oscillator 2 i.e. its volume at any given time. Patch number
179:Shakin’Str
uses an internal sampled percussion loop (
055
) and shows
off the effect very well (play the lower half of the keyboard). However, here is a good
opportunity to hook up an external audio source to your
V-Synth
...
Start from
INIT PATCH
again, activate oscillator 2 and set the Type to
EXT IN
. Select
ENV RING
in the
MOD
section
, go to
OSC1
and change the waveform to
SAW
.
Feed a drum loop or drum computer into the
V-Synth
’s inputs and play a chord. To
accentuate the rhythmic effect, use only very short percussive sounds with no reverb etc.
You can always soften the rhythmic effect by adjusting
ENV RING’s
own
Attack
and
Release
parameters .
2
1
ENV RING
is very good in combination with dynamic filtering e.g. Auto Wah (available as
Multi Effect), but we are going to “jump the gun” here and use a similar (but polyphonic!)
COSM
effect. Select
COSM1
and change the Type to
DYN-TVF
. Touch the
Cutoff
tab
and take Cutoff frequency (
Freq
) down to around
50
,
Freq KF
to
+100
and
Dyn
(input Dynamics) up until it sounds interesting
. Note that you might also have to adjust
the volume of the sound source or the Cutoff frequency again. Try going to the Resonance
page and take the Reso and/or DynEnv parameter up for a much more squelchy sound.
4
3
2
1
OSC SYNC
This algorithm resets the phase of oscillator
1 every time oscillator 2 repeats its cycle,
and can have a similar effect to sweeping a
filter with high resonance and overdrive if
oscillator 1 pitch is modulated. Start again
from scratch i.e. the
INIT patch
in
program number
512
, activate oscillator 2
and set both oscillators to
SQR
. Go to the
MOD
section and select
OSC SYNC
.
Experiment with the
OSC1 PITCH
knob,
then set it to the center again. Go back to
OSC1
and touch the
Pitch
pad .
Flip
Sustain
down to
zero
using the slider and
change
Decay
to
40
. Change the
Velocity Curve
to
1
and
Env Depth
to
+50
. Tune everything down an
octave in
the
Common
/
Tune
page
(Course = -12) and play single notes on
your keyboard as dynamically as possible –
you might recognize this type of sound
from countless Techno tracks!
6
5
4
3
2
1
OSC1
OSC2
Envelope
Output
1
2
2
1
3
4
1
6
2
3
4
5
OSC1
(=Output)
OSC2
