Synthesis Tips

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Spoil sport Macc Wink
macc Wrote:
titanium Wrote:put an lfo on the oscillator volume

No

Hahaha

my bad, u gotta hook it up to the pitch
Correct! Which, in a way, is what dionysus is saying (although his was a bit of a guess, I suspect Grin ).

That is, you change the rate at which very similar pitches go in and out of phase by changing (with the lfo) the pitch of one or both of them.

This gives you some proper warbley wobble Smile Are we learning yet? Wink


Titanium's incorrect answer is still a good thing in the context of this thread though.

Question; what would doing titanium's suggestion - varying the volume of a detuned oscillator with an lfo - do to the sound? Smile

If you can answer that, then we have already - without even leaving the oscialltor section of our imaginary synth - discovered two useful ways change the sound.
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Don Cherry Wrote:Every human is blessed in her or his life with one love (passion), no matter how long it may last. This Absolute love will last in one's heart and soul forever.
FWIW, the best way I've found of getting my head around how to get what I want out of a synth is to start from a pure sine patch and experiment with the components one at a time. So for instance, see what a range of things you can do just layering and detuning the oscillators with everything else turned off, then maybe introduce a filter, FM, effects, whatever, one thing at a time. Starting from the complex presets and tweaking still leaves me thinking "but how does it do that?"
I took to that end method you mentioned Slothrop at the weekend. Reverse-engineering (so to speak) sounds on Surge and started to learn more than starting at the beginning.

Horses for courses though.
Macc Wrote:Question; what would doing titanium's suggestion - varying the volume of a detuned oscillator with an lfo - do to the sound? Smile

i dunnoo if im being to simple with this answer but like changing a long bass note into what sounds like a series of shorter notes
Macc Wrote:Question; what would doing titanium's suggestion - varying the volume of a detuned oscillator with an lfo - do to the sound? Smile

It would change the intensity of the resonant beating, amirite?
Correct! So now we have another useful way of modulating our sound Smile

We'll get on to more asap Smile
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Don Cherry Wrote:Every human is blessed in her or his life with one love (passion), no matter how long it may last. This Absolute love will last in one's heart and soul forever.
macc Wrote:correct! so now we have another useful way of modulating our sound Smile

we'll get on to more asap Smile

listen to you! you sound like a nurse or something Roll

"how are we doing then today?" Hahaha



this site (http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/demos...ition.html) is Xyxthumbs though... 2 modulating sinewaves can look so beautiful Lovesmilie
Macc Wrote:Correct! So now we have another useful way of modulating our sound Smile

We'll get on to more asap Smile

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