[sdiy] Building a Better Bass Patch

[Jason Proctor]

you could bring another unsynced oscillator in via an envelope, maybe 
even dropping the level of one of the synced ones at the same rate.

sounds interesting. i'll put it on my list of "things to try with the 
modular when i get a minute". expected execution date - february.



>So I'm reading in the latest Electronic Musician about synthesizing
>bass sounds, and I see a comment about how some of the best bass
>sounds come from a single oscillator patch. Now this makes sense, as
>multiple, out of phase VCOs could tend to 'muddy up' the all-important
>attack transient. Same thing with percussion sounds.
>
>So all of this got me thinking that maybe a way to build a great bass
>sound would be to use multiple oscillators, but sync them all so that
>the rising edge of the first (audible) cycle was perfectly in phase
>with the attack portion of the envelope. I suppose this could be done
>on a synth with sync on every oscillator, and you used the keyboard
>trigger as the sync signal, AND THEN you immediately turned the sync
>off after the first cycle so that the VCOs could drift a teeny bit and
>fatten up the main body of the sound. Two oscillators could result in
>a pronounced dip in volume if they went 180 degrees out, but three
>would avoid that problem. I think some of this has been covered before
>on SDIY, but I still haven't seen an imlementation of it (or some
>recorded examples). Anybody got a modular, or even a soft synth
>capable of such a setup?
>
>
>Tim (following my bass instincts) Servo
>--
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