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I have a gig on Labor Day Weekend so I dialed up a few new patches.
Every time I start playing with the AN1X I'm startled with the sounds
I get-everything from spaced out Pink Floyd weirdness to Velvet
Underground grunge.

Last night I programed some single oscillator sync leads. Those
pierce through the mix quite nicely, especially with the aural
exciter.If you set the fm to be modulated by LFO 1 and put a long
delay on the LFO you can get a nice clean sound that decays into a
roar of noise.Try the leads through a tube amp. The tubes really add
a lot to the sound.I like to use the ribbon controller for the
filter.I like to set the pitch bend up a little higher than half a
step-makes the bend more musical. You don't just whip the wheel all
the way up and let go, you have to listen a little.

Get a cheesy organ sound (lots of sustain, use pulse width mod for a
little vibrato). Run this through the amp simulation. Instant Velvet
Underground. If you crank up the feeback (turn down your amp don't do
this with headphones) you get a nice one finger organ that just
disintegrates when you play chords.Program the ribbon controller for
fm and reverb and you can branch way off into Sonic Youth noise
festival territory. I have no idea how you'd use this musically but
it's fun to play with.

For sweeps you can split the keyboard. Tune the left side up a few
octaves so it plays the same notes as the right side.With the control
matrix, the free EQ, and all the LFOs you can have the sound going
everywhere. I used to set the voices to dual for real fat pads, but
they were too fat. By splitting the keyboard you can choose how fat
you want the sound. Also by setting the ribbon controller to control
the echo and reverb you can quickly send the sound into hyper space.
It gets out of control fast.

If I could remember to save these patches on the computer I'd have a
nice library of sounds by now. I'll get bored with a patch and
rewrite it without backing up the original sound. Oh well. The old
synths didn't have any presets.

Rainbow JImmy