Re: [AN1x] more fm and sync pitch
2002-09-30 by Ed Edwards
> I'm obseessed. Somebody stop me. Go -- GO you manic basser! Love these ideas Mr. Rainbow comes up with. For Jerry about the bass creations: I think that the AN1x suffers a bit from "digital peaking" on a few parameters. Remember, EVERYTHING inside this synth is numeric/mathematic/arithmetic/digital/whatever-you-want-to-call-it until it gets to the final D/A converters. A couple of parameters I've found that can overload way before they are "maxed out" by their settings are Feedback and VCA Volume. We have to take into consideration that the developers were trying their best to make the synth as versatile as possible, so the reason that the Feedback control can go all the way to 64 (IIRC) is that with some settings of the previous stages, the 64 wouldn't cause any problems and have a pleasant effect. But, due to the additive nature of some of the numeric thingies we can do, sometimes the Feedback stage is already receiving a very high input signal (remember, these are all numbers, not voltages so what I'm saying is that it's getting a numeric level close to the maximum value it is programmed to handle). So how do we deal with this? With our ears, since there's no way to monitor the internals of the signal development. Just try backing down on the amplitude of some parameters and giving it a good listen. Then dump the final result through a compressor if necessary to get the volume up to a useful level. Ed Edwards Leader: Ezekiel's Wheel \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdRetro-Progressive Rock\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd http://www.untiedmusic.com/ezekiel http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/227/ezekiels_wheel.html \ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd