[sdiy] Building a Better Bass Patch

[Martin Naef]

Hi Tim

Tim Parkhurst wrote:
> 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?

Try a Virus. It allows to initialize oscillator phase to a pre-defined 
value whenever you trigger a note, resulting in exactly the effect 
you're describing.

Bye
Martin

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