Elektron Musical Instruments

Hello!

I  think if you know how synths works you should be able to do some 
noce sounds, i always keeps in mind how sizers work when i program.

One trick is to set upp all three osc imideatly to get more to work 
with, the choose some good fitting waves and fine tune the pwm and 
the lfo that are linked to pwm, and also test differnet sync/ringmod 
on each osc. Then maybe add some vibrato? the you gotta set upp the 
envelopes for the three osc, the "0" key is essential to jump between 
osc´s so you can finetune your settings, the best way is to just 
tweak untill you get a nostalgic shiver.   

THe filter also has envelopes/LFO´s that must be set to get some
life 
in the sound, remeber to try to disable/enable the filter for 3xosc 
so you dont turn the filter on and maybe miss a chance for good 
sound, i have got some good results using HPfilter on one osc in a 
basssound to add some crisp on the top, but also it can be nice to 
set a really slow LFO on the filter and assign to one osc and let it 
life a life of it own.


Short basic drumtips: 
Kick... Pulse with synced inverted rampLFO
Snare: Noise/Mix with some filtering
Hats : Noise with HPfltr 
And set the envelopes fast and with some release.....

Leads can be made with PulsWaves and TRI that are syncéd and/or 
ringmodded... .just fool around with diffent LFOsettings for PWM 
and 'VIB ´till it feels right.
 
I never you the philosophy of setting one osc up and the do the 
other, i want to know how the three affect each other so i get the  
sound nice from the start, 

One thing that i cant agree on is that the meny´s are hard to work 
in, i think that the meny´s  are close to being perfekt, i hardly 
never assign DCTRL´s i feel so free running around in the
meny´s and 
do my "live-tweaking" i might be insaine though.

I believe that the SidStaion is so very close to perfection, but i 
also have learned how to manage the meny´s and now that i can find 
the way´s/shortcut´s to all parameters i can say that the
SidStaion 
is so extreme fun to program.... but that´s not what everybody 
think´s so i might be one-of-kind thinking so.... 



On my site a have some drumpatches that you can study if you think 
they sound good: http://www.enapa.tk, 
If someone want to hear SidStation programmed by me check 
http://www.gnashed.tk Click Releses>GNCD015 or GNCD007


Hope i made any sense, and pardon my spelling/grammar.... i´m swedish.


regards/enapa




--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Nothing" <d1sturbd_one@y...> 
wrote:
> Hello. I have a sidstation, and I really love it, but I find it 
> rather difficult to program what I want. Maybe it's not as 
difficult 
> as I am making it out to be though. I have experience with synths 
and 
> I would say I am an "intermediate" synth programmer. I would REALLY 
> appreciate if anyone can give me, and the rest of the people who 
> might want to know, some programming tips. I noticed there is quite 
a 
> large Sidstation fanbase, but finding tips and guides/tutorials is 
> nearly impossible. Can someone please share some of their sid 
> programming knowledge? I would really like to know how to make 
those 
> famous bleeps and blops the SID is known for. I am also looking to 
> program more "usable" patches, such as leads that can be used 
> melodically in a track. I have a feeling a lot of this lies in the 
> wave table, but I am finding it difficult to grasp. The manual 
> doesn't get deep enough into this IMO. Thank you in advance to 
anyone 
> that can help point me in the right direction to sid programming.