[sdiy] Building a Better Bass Patch

[Harry Bissell Jr]

You should be able to do that by applying
an envelope trigger signal to the sync
inputs of the oscillators. It would
force all VCO to the same waveform point
initially...and then they could drift just like
you imagined.

H^) harry



--- Tim Parkhurst <tim.parkhurst at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> -- 
> "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -
> Albert Einstein
>