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I made a cool lead sound then went to see what was going on. I used 
only one oscillator, in leagato mode single, with the Pulse width 
turned down to 1. Nice tweezy sound. Responds well to pitch 
modulation.

With all those cool LFO waves, I feel a little funny just using the 
sine wave but I find it so useful. Triangle is cool for filters, but 
sounds odd to me for pitch mod. I like to set the mod wheel to pitch 
mod set around 9 with a sine LFO around 75 speed, no delay. If you 
use the sample and hold wave set high, with pitch mod, you get a cool 
sea sick sound, like a bad VHS recording of a late night movie. I 
tried layering two sounds with pitch mod set different for each. Yuck.

I made a pretty good marimba sound using the electric piano mode. I 
got a tinkly overly treble electric piano sound (sync pitch gives the 
sound a nice  metalic tone) then set the voices for dual and layered 
a weird bassy thunk that gave the sound some feeling. Doesn't sound 
at all like a marimba, but fits in where a marimba would. Used all 16 
modulation routings on both scenes!

Someone wanted to know about 303 sounds. If you set the amplifier 
envelope sustain real low like 1 and then play with the decay you get 
a nice 303 sound. It's a little weird for manual playing but somehow 
sounds great with the step sequencer.

My computer is barely working so no an1x files to upload-sorry.

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