fm=frequency modulation With simple fm you get a vibrato. Set the sync/fm to just fm turn the fm amount just a little-maybe 2 or 3. For a normal sounding vibrato use LFO 1 as the source and use a sine wave. For something a little more spacey, set the LFO Delay to about 20 and play a sustained patch. Then set the LFO to s/h. This will give you a normal sound that then drifts out of tune in an odd and musical fashion.The more you turn up the fm depth, the weirder the sound gets. Eventually the sound gets totally trashed. FM depth is a great control for free eg. Also, the faster the LFO the wilder the sound. Now when you use osc sync one oscillator controls another for a vocal- like timbre. You can apply the vibrato to both the master and the slave, just the slave, or just the master. I usually set the fm to control the slave. This brings in some nice evolving overtones without trashing the central pitch. Turning the Frequency modulation source knob while playing will change the sound radically. There's two frequency modulation sources. One affects the frquency modulation. The affects the first modulation source. A nice use for this is to have an envelope for your LFO. Be careful when you use the modulation matrix so you can have knobs or ribbon controllers affect the fm. Sometimes the fm winds up getting stuck at a really setting. Then you need to just turn it back down to where you had it in the first place. Rainbow Jimmy http://www.spaceanimals.com http://www.mp3.com/spaceanimals
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re: fm
2002-05-10 by spaceanimals