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[Scott Gravenhorst]

Dave Magnuson <resfreq at hoohahrecords.com> wrote:
>At 04:09 PM 5/19/04 +0000, Brad Apodaca wrote:
>>
>> i've read that the Fatman is 
>>not so good at percussive/blip/bleep type sound. 
>
>I haven't personally heard this, but it's posssible.  In any event, a 
>synth that doesn't make good "percussive/blip/bleep type sounds" is partly
>due to slow envelopes.  If you can't get a really fast attack or decay you
>can't make percussive sounds.  If the Fatman indeeds suffers from this,
>I'm sure you could tweak some resistor and cap values in the envelope
>generators and make the rates faster.

The mods you mention are easy to do and may help, but...

Another issue is that it's not patchable.  This limits what it can do quite
a bit.  It also has no noise, no waveshaper, no ring modulator and it's MIDI
implementation doesn't lend itself to pitches other than a 12 note western
tempered scale (yes, it does allow pitchbend, but only plus or minus one
semitone).  Most of the stuff I've heard in the bleep/bloop/percussive world
doesn't really care about scale too much.

My opinion is that the FatMan (out of the box) is a melodic bass synth or
melodic lead.  Moreso a bass synth.  

>Also, as far as bleeps and blips, you're probably going to want tri or 
>sine waves in the oscillators.  Saws and squares will be more buzzy than
>bleepy :).  Don't overlook a self-oscillationg VCF as a sine-wave source.
>
>Have fun with your decision making.  Both synths look like a lot of fun.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>Resonant Frequency:
>resfreq at hoohahrecords.com
>http://www.hoohahrecords.com/resfreq/index.html
>

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