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Inside Synthesis

2008-08-26 by Atom Smasher

i dunno if anyone here has seen this - 
http://insidesynthesis.blogspot.com/

it's rare that anyone gives me fresh ideas about programming synths, but 
this guy is hitting it. i haven't yet gone through all of them, but i just 
watched the first two, and i'm thinking how i can apply those lessons to 
EX-800 after i install the kit... how many LFOs is it gonna have?!?!?

not to mention what some of those ideas can translate into on a k5000...


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How many LFO's in the HAWK-800 and what about velocity sensitivity?

2008-08-26 by Michael Hawkins

Hi Atom, Dave and all,

The HAWK-800 software (not yet released) has four LFO's. Two LFO's are the same rate as the existing single LFO in the Poly. The next two are SLFO's.

All LFO's have waveforms triangle, saw, sine, PWM and random. All are invertible.

LFO3 (the first of the SLFO's) can modulate the rate of LFO1.

LFO4 (the first of the SLFO's) can modulate the rate of LFO2.

When modulating VCF or DCO, LFO1 or 2 can be selected to modulate the depth of DCO and then on top of that LFO3 or 4 can be selected to attenuate the depth of LFO1 or 2.

When modulating resonance or FM-800, LFO1 or 2 can be selected to modulate the depth and EG3 can also modulate. And when EG4 becomes available, it will be able to be selected too.

At the moment, LFO2 is the only LFO that can be clocked by MIDI. But I am thinking about ways to make all three clock from MIDI if possible.

As far as velocity sensitivity goes. I would love to do something with this soon but the big challenge is understanding how the EG's are constructed in the software. I've come a long, long way in understanding them but I won't be able to do anything with the velocity until I understand the EG's better.

I'll let you know how things progress.

Mike.

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--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Atom Smasher wrote:
From: Atom Smasher
Subject: [korgpolyex] Inside Synthesis
To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 7:24 AM

i dunno if anyone here has seen this -
http://insidesynthe sis.blogspot. com/

it's rare that anyone gives me fresh ideas about programming synths, but
this guy is hitting it. i haven't yet gone through all of them, but i just
watched the first two, and i'm thinking how i can apply those lessons to
EX-800 after i install the kit... how many LFOs is it gonna have?!?!?

not to mention what some of those ideas can translate into on a k5000...

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...atom

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"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the
goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other
living beings, we are still savages."
-- Thomas A. Edison


Re: [korgpolyex] How many LFO's in the HAWK-800 and what about velocity sensitivity?

2008-08-26 by David Mochen

Thanks a lot for your detailed response, Mike!
Keep it up!
Dave
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Subject: [korgpolyex] How many LFO's in the HAWK-800 and what about velocity sensitivity?

Hi Atom, Dave and all,

The HAWK-800 software (not yet released) has four LFO's. Two LFO's are the same rate as the existing single LFO in the Poly. The next two are SLFO's.

All LFO's have waveforms triangle, saw, sine, PWM and random. All are invertible.

LFO3 (the first of the SLFO's) can modulate the rate of LFO1.

LFO4 (the first of the SLFO's) can modulate the rate of LFO2.

When modulating VCF or DCO, LFO1 or 2 can be selected to modulate the depth of DCO and then on top of that LFO3 or 4 can be selected to attenuate the depth of LFO1 or 2.

When modulating resonance or FM-800, LFO1 or 2 can be selected to modulate the depth and EG3 can also modulate. And when EG4 becomes available, it will be able to be selected too.

At the moment, LFO2 is the only LFO that can be clocked by MIDI. But I am thinking about ways to make all three clock from MIDI if possible.

As far as velocity sensitivity goes. I would love to do something with this soon but the big challenge is understanding how the EG's are constructed in the software. I've come a long, long way in understanding them but I won't be able to do anything with the velocity until I understand the EG's better.

I'll let you know how things progress.

Mike.


--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Atom Smasher org> wrote:

From: Atom Smasher org>
Subject: [korgpolyex] Inside Synthesis
To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 7:24 AM

i dunno if anyone here has seen this -
http://insidesynthe sis.blogspot. com/

it's rare that anyone gives me fresh ideas about programming synths, but
this guy is hitting it. i haven't yet gone through all of them, but i just
watched the first two, and i'm thinking how i can apply those lessons to
EX-800 after i install the kit... how many LFOs is it gonna have?!?!?

not to mention what some of those ideas can translate into on a k5000...

--
...atom

____________ _________ ___
http://atom. smasher.org/
762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D 52E4 D9F5 7808
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- -

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the
goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other
living beings, we are still savages."
-- Thomas A. Edison


Re: [korgpolyex]cascading 2 ex 800's

2008-09-04 by korgpolyex800

Yes absolutely!

You can set two EX-800's to cascade together so that one plays odd and
one plays even notes. If you turn on soft thru and cascade the MIDI
out port from one EX-800 into the other EX-800 MIDI in port then you
can sync up patches as well so that they both play the same patches
and make the same patch changes when a MIDI patch change is received
while playing odds and evens on each unit, doubling polyphony.

The results are outstanding!

So how many should I put you down for? :-)

Mike.

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> Will it be possible to cascade, say, 2 ex 800's with the upgrade kit?
> Al 
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