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Synclavier Regen User Manual 76
Call up String Ensemble [RW 3-2] and play a chord,
then move the mod wheel. Since the ModW is routed to
Stereo Spread , you’ll hear the stereo image widen as
you increase the mod wheel position.
Stereo Spread works additively with partial Pan and the function takes account
of how many partials you have. The lowest active partial is pushed out to the left
by the dialled-in magnitude, the highest partial is pushed by the dialled-in
magnitude to the right. The partials between are then evenly spaced betwixt the
two ends (in terms of pushed magnitude, the absolute placement will also
depend on partial
Pan settings). A negative Stereo Spread will reverse this, i.e.,
lowest partial goes right, highest goes left. It can be tricky to hear what’s going
on when your partials sound similar, so wear headphones and make use of the
soloing of partials to get familiar with how this feature works.
Timbre Detune is a curious control that the Synclavier inventors had the
foresight to include on the original to make it less digital . It’s interesting to note
that the first crop of digital synthesizers focused on recreating sounds of
orchestral instruments, so we have many Synclavier timbres of pseudo violins,
flutes, cellos, tuba, and so on. Since then, a growing trend in digital synthesis is
to model analog synthesizers.
One of the ways analog differs is that the tolerance of the components
constituent in the sound-producing circuits affects the pitch and timbre of the
sound. If I strike middle C on a certain preset of my digital synth, by and large,
I’m going to get the same exact sound every time. With an analog synth, this isn’t
necessarily true: as electronic components, such as transistors, warm up, their
behaviour changes, adding subtle nuances to the sound. Indeed some famous
analog synthesizers and drum machines are well known for having variations
from unit to unit. And what’s more, on some architectures, different keys can be
off-pitch by different amounts.
Musicians have been known to sample their analog gear note-by-note into
their digital workstation keyboards to capture the uniqueness of those