Synclavier REGEN, Руководство пользователя

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Synclavier Regen User Manual 64
Having many low-profile buttons meant you could select multiple at a time
(multiple parameters or multiple partials) and change them in concert.
That ethos has carried through to this product. Regen doesn’t have a knob,
but a touch-sensitive value Swiper , and rest assured we’ve invested great
energies to get the Swiper as responsive and easy to use as the knob.
Of course, every design choice closes doors on other options, and some
synthesists prefer having a knob-per-function approach or variations on this.
Rather than debate the many pros and cons, we will present the operation of this
unit for sound design, and the advantages and limitations to the Synclavier
approach will become evident. We hope once users get their feet wet on
Synclavier Regen many of our design choices will seem vindicated for this
product.
So with that out of the way, let’s look at the timbre panel:
NB: We’ve already covered the Levels which pertains to tracks rather than
timbres — denoted by a white colour.
FM
As per the convention of this manual, FM, or frequency modulation, will be
covered in some depth later on. For now, know that adding FM to a timbre is a
modulation (controlled distortion) of the sound that adds upper harmonics and
inharmonics.