Blog Entries Tagged: synth

Lesson 2: morphable oscillator waveforms

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I took the same multi and program from before and made some changes. I turned off legato (to make it a polyphonic synth), smoothed the envelopes, brightened the filter and it sounds more like a pad now.
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There was a post a while back on how it would be possible to have the 4k emulate a synth. I had done something similar on my XL years ago, but it was very basic without the modulation possibilities of a real sampler. On the 2k you can assign up to 3 samples to an auto chromatic program, have velocity modulation, and use the basic AD amp and filter envelopes, but that’s about it and no live knob tweaking. I've always wanted to try this, but didn't have a real sampler back then. I picked up a Z4 a little bit ago, and this was the first thing I did. I actually have little use for it since I always sequence synths via MIDI... but wanted to learn how so that I would be able to do to samples what I know how to do with synths. The nice thing is that you can sequence notes from a kit like this when you just want to use one box, and then change the routing to MIDI later.
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It's been a while since I aquired some gear and recently picked up a Clavia Nord Micro Modular and a Dave Smith Instruments Evolver with my tax refund. These synths create some very unique and crazy sounds and will be a great addon to the studio/live pa. Check them with the new setup at Ape Trax Studios.