Touch
Env Depth
(Envelope Depth)
and take the value up to
+40
by holding
SHIFT
and pressing the
INC/+
button four times. Take the
Sustain
value down to zero by
flipping the physical S slider (in the
TVA
section) all the way down. Touch
Attack
and
keep your finger on the screen. Change the value to around
20
by dragging your finger
upwards (you can make fine adjustments with the
DEC/-
or
INC/+
buttons). Press the
cursor-right button to select the
Decay
parameter
and change its value to
60
by holding
down
SHIFT
and moving the
VALUE
dial clockwise.
You have just been introduced to many different methods of selecting controls and
adjusting values – and not always the best ones! Choosing the best method according
to the circumstances is far quicker and more precise than using e.g. touch-and-drag for
each and every parameter.
Touch
Freq KF
(Frequency Keyboard Follow)
and change the value to 100% (I’ll leave
the method up to you this time). This balances out the filter cutoff frequency across the
keyboard – lower notes become mellower and higher notes become brighter, just like in many
acoustic instruments. If you like, try different values and play the keyboard to get a feel for
what this parameter does, then set it back to 100% again.
The sound is still polyphonic, which is not very typical of analog lead sounds, so touch
the
Common
pad .
Touch
the
General
tab if this page isn’t already active.
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Simplicity
To introduce you to some of the more basic parameters we’ll start by creating a very
simple classic analog lead sound. Touch the
OSC1
pad
on the screen to open the
PATCH Edit / OSC Type page for oscillator 1.
If the screen on your
V-Synth
looks different from the right image, this is probably
because one of the other tabs has been selected in this section – touch the
OSC Type
tab
. You should be able to hear a simple sawtooth when you play the keyboard. The
oscillator type is
ANALOG
and the currently selected waveform is
SAW
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Before we start filtering out some of the higher partials using one of the
COSM
sections, now
is a good time to check out the upper row of controls in the
OSC1
section to see how they
affect the raw wave:
PITCH
,
PW
and
FAT
(
TIME
and
FORMANT
only apply to PCM
oscillators). Hold down a note with your left hand and turn each of these knobs in succession.
After you have finished, make sure that
PITCH
and
PW
are in the center and that
FAT
is at
minimum. The tabs labeled
Pitch
,
Pulse Width
and Fat
on the left of the screen
give you access to many parameters affecting these three elements, but we will leave them
alone for the moment and head straight for the filter: Touch the
COSM1
pad .
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Touch the
TVF
pad to select a conventional filter algorithm for the COSM1 section.
Touch the
24db/oct
pad
to change the filter to a 4-pole Lowpass type. Touch the
Cutoff
tab
to access the Cutoff page.
Take the filter cutoff frequency down to
64
by turning the upper knob in the
COSM1
section to the center. The sound is now very mellow. To turn this into a typical analog
lead sound we have to apply some filter envelope...
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