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Hi Guys
I merged the work i did last years in a single file and named it
heidelberg.an1. (Heidelberg has a very good hospital.)
To avoid chaos every theme has a number.
Eg:
1-9=Free for performance ...17,18,19=Organ
2x = D50 Pads
3x = Mellotrons
4x = Brass
5x = Vocals
6x = Pianos
7x= String + Orchestral
90-103 = Famous Sequenzes + Drums
I deleted the older files only keeping the drum and base workshop. Hmmm is
it too complicated ?
One trick is to use Pitch Envelope via Pulse Width as an additional
polyphonic amp EG. Choose Waveform Pulse and
PW=0 to hear the basic of the trick :-).

FM:
There was a question how to use FM traditional. Choose "Only FM". And you
will especially hear, that FM cant be played
tuned in most cases. There are no rules for some exceptions I used eg in the
tuned vibraphone Sound (12), Spectrum3 (127)
FM Depth = +39 and detuning +3, +19. sounds like a bell using only FM.
How did the Famous DX7 avoid detuning ?
Easy answer. This Synthies didnt use a real FM.
But there are a lot of tuned An1X "FM Sounds". An1x is using a great trick.
Additional using Sync Modulation to force the
FM detuned sound the right tuning of the master but keeping FM overtones.
Thats really great ! There are two ways to use this
tuned FM. Just compare the easyPiano (15) and Fende_r (16) sound in my
heidelberg File. Detuning VCO2 will produce a deep FM
very close to a DX7 or Fender Rhodes. Detuning VCO1 will produce an FM that
ca be mixed to the traditional Waveforms of VCO2.

Best regards
richy

Hi Richy !Nice to read you again !@+J.F.

> Message du 30/07/12 17:56
> De : "richardon"
> A : AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
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> Objet : [AN1x] heidelberg File (and FM)
>
> Hi Guys
> I merged the work i did last years in a single file and named it
> heidelberg.an1. (Heidelberg has a very good hospital.)
> To avoid chaos every theme has a number.
> Eg:
> 1-9=Free for performance ...17,18,19=Organ
> 2x = D50 Pads
> 3x = Mellotrons
> 4x = Brass
> 5x = Vocals
> 6x = Pianos
> 7x= String + Orchestral
> 90-103 = Famous Sequenzes + Drums
> I deleted the older files only keeping the drum and base workshop. Hmmm is
> it too complicated ?
> One trick is to use Pitch Envelope via Pulse Width as an additional
> polyphonic amp EG. Choose Waveform Pulse and
> PW=0 to hear the basic of the trick :-).
>
> FM:
> There was a question how to use FM traditional. Choose "Only FM". And you
> will especially hear, that FM cant be played
> tuned in most cases. There are no rules for some exceptions I used eg in the
> tuned vibraphone Sound (12), Spectrum3 (127)
> FM Depth = +39 and detuning +3, +19. sounds like a bell using only FM.
> How did the Famous DX7 avoid detuning ?
> Easy answer. This Synthies didnt use a real FM.
> But there are a lot of tuned An1X "FM Sounds". An1x is using a great trick.
> Additional using Sync Modulation to force the
> FM detuned sound the right tuning of the master but keeping FM overtones.
> Thats really great ! There are two ways to use this
> tuned FM. Just compare the easyPiano (15) and Fende_r (16) sound in my
> heidelberg File. Detuning VCO2 will produce a deep FM
> very close to a DX7 or Fender Rhodes. Detuning VCO1 will produce an FM that
> ca be mixed to the traditional Waveforms of VCO2.
>
> Best regards
> richy
>
>
>
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Hi Jeff,Jimmy...all
Thank you. I am glad with the yahoo group a possibility existing to share my sounds.Because
if i dont pay my homepage any more the page and therefore the sounds will be down. Additional I
cant use them on stage any more, because i cant do this job any more."We all die" Thats true and
Mr Feynman (physicist) said its boring to die. If you can program an AN1x in bed thats not true :-)
And i have still questions.
Its convinient to copy scenes. Pressing the scene switch all the time. Additional now typing the
programm number of the new sound I want to cpopy in the actual scene. Confirming "Load" with "yes".
My question is :
Some common Parameter Values do not change but other are changed sometimes. I cant find
any rule for Common Values and sequenzer. Any idea ?

best regards, ciao
richy


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Hi Richard,

thanks for sharing the sounds! I assume the ".an1" format is not a raw
SysEx, but it has to be used by a specific software? I'm looking
forward to try them out, especially D-50 patches and mellotrons...

It's nice to know that AN1x brings you comfort in difficult time; too
bad though you have to pass thru it.

Best wishes,

Bruno

hi Bruno
Yes,an1 is the format of the free an1x editor.As a programmer you should use this free but fine editor.Some details cant be programmed without an1x Edit. For exaple editing seq rythm styles. I am content with the d50 Fantasia Patch 11 and atmos(phere) 27. Other D50 could be improved. Its hard to emulate the vocal d50 chorus. I used delay as a format filter but have no d50 as template any more.For the mellorton i used EMU templates and i am content with the results :-)
I studied a lot of youtube videos e.g. showing that velocity should be used for the mellotron.
Actually i am not i hospital and could transform the heilberg an1 file in syx format at home.(Program C6)
Have fun with it
Best regards
richy

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Subject: Re: [AN1x] heidelberg File (and FM)



Hi Richard,

thanks for sharing the sounds! I assume the ".an1" format is not a raw
SysEx, but it has to be used by a specific software? I'm looking
forward to try them out, especially D-50 patches and mellotrons...

It's nice to know that AN1x brings you comfort in difficult time; too
bad though you have to pass thru it.

Best wishes,

Bruno



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Hi richy,

I am a AN1X newbie. I have bought this synth two months ago and day by day I love it more. It is my first synth, and I am so suprised, that the community is so much alive..:)
Your presets were the first (excluding the orignal) I have tested. I was amazed how cool can this beast play. Thank you very much!
I would like to ask you, how you created those great sequneces? Did you use the AN1X? or you have you used only the software?

I am so glad to have my AN1X and to know...that so many people love this synth.

Greetings from Slovakia.
Vladi

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "richardon" <richardon@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys
> I merged the work i did last years in a single file and named it
> heidelberg.an1. (Heidelberg has a very good hospital.)
> To avoid chaos every theme has a number.
> Eg:
> 1-9=Free for performance ...17,18,19=Organ
> 2x = D50 Pads
> 3x = Mellotrons
> 4x = Brass
> 5x = Vocals
> 6x = Pianos
> 7x= String + Orchestral
> 90-103 = Famous Sequenzes + Drums
> I deleted the older files only keeping the drum and base workshop. Hmmm is
> it too complicated ?
> One trick is to use Pitch Envelope via Pulse Width as an additional
> polyphonic amp EG. Choose Waveform Pulse and
> PW=0 to hear the basic of the trick :-).
>
> FM:
> There was a question how to use FM traditional. Choose "Only FM". And you
> will especially hear, that FM cant be played
> tuned in most cases. There are no rules for some exceptions I used eg in the
> tuned vibraphone Sound (12), Spectrum3 (127)
> FM Depth = +39 and detuning +3, +19. sounds like a bell using only FM.
> How did the Famous DX7 avoid detuning ?
> Easy answer. This Synthies didnt use a real FM.
> But there are a lot of tuned An1X "FM Sounds". An1x is using a great trick.
> Additional using Sync Modulation to force the
> FM detuned sound the right tuning of the master but keeping FM overtones.
> Thats really great ! There are two ways to use this
> tuned FM. Just compare the easyPiano (15) and Fende_r (16) sound in my
> heidelberg File. Detuning VCO2 will produce a deep FM
> very close to a DX7 or Fender Rhodes. Detuning VCO1 will produce an FM that
> ca be mixed to the traditional Waveforms of VCO2.
>
> Best regards
> richy
>

hi Vladi

> It is my first synth ...

An1x is not easy to program, but if you dont use the matrix in the beginning its also good for beginners :-)

> I would like to ask you, how you created those great sequneces?

First step was my effort to remove some limitations.
Can I program a complete drum set in one scene ? Thats not too complicated.
Next step. Is it possible even to program a complete drum set plus a simple bass ? In one scene !
Thats very difficult if the drum set contains a snare sound being more than simthple noise.
But in most electro drums there isnt a natural snare.Then its an easier case.

Of course we can only use one OSC for the bass. With such limitations we go back to the roots.
Thats not bad but it would be bad if drums and bass cant be controled seperately.There exist many solutions
to implement this via the controler or velocity slider in the sequenzer menue.
I used a very special method The Pitch Envelope Generator as a second Amp Envelope Generator.
Providing bass and bass drum also different amp decay times.
Its explained in the drum and base workshop..
Creating bass drum and Hi Hat (plus simple snare) can also be done with different methods.For example how to use
the Hi Pass Filter for the hi hat. Of course we dont want a hi pass filtered base drum :-).
Or using the pre filtered digital delay as a hi hat sequenzer or unfiltered as a drum break. It depends on the material
(the sequenze) what method is useful. In this sequenze i also used the second Scene for some sequenze parts.
http://home.arcor.de/richardon/2012/ifeallove.mp3
Yeah thats not bad isnt it ? :-) All is played by the internal AN1X Sequebzer. Exept the melodie line.

> Did you use the AN1X? or you have you used only the software?

Its nearly impossible to program such a seq scene without the (free) software editor.And even with the editor its a lot of work.
But you can do it more easy. Just using one of my sequenzes as a template.Change the pitch and the two controler to find out
what they are doing in the program.Just try it out.Such edits are easy to do and you can create a new seq drum line.
Perhaps you start with the drum machine examples.

Greetings from Germany to Slovakia.
Richy


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HI vladi
Uups my e mail was not sended to you correctly. I will try it again tomorrow
Greetings
richy

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Hi Richardson,

I am very thankful for your reply and for answering my novice questions.
I can see, that The Synth is capable of things, which I have never thought of.
Your sequence on I feel love is fantastic and for me personally
inspiring for to dig really deep into the machine and find out all of
the unexplored territories.
Indeed, I will start to play with sequences available and modify them.

What I am really curious about is strange feeling of mine, that the
users have pushed the boundaries of the AN1x sounds further then the
creators from Yamaha thought in the beginning. It looks like there are
unlimited possibilites...

OK, I will play, I will modify...make some sounds :)
Thank you Richardson for your initiation.

Vladi