The pseudo arppegio stuff: You have notice that you can delay the start of the sample and sync it to the BPM. That's no common on any synth. Well, fantom has it, but it's a pain to access it... PATCH 1: Layer 1: start 0 Layer 2: start 1/16 Layer 3 start 1/6 Layer 4 start 1/8 Now, you must use another patch location, PATCH 2: Layer 1 start 1/3 Layer 2 start 1/4 Layer 3 start.... *forgot the value! Layer 4 start 1/2 Make the layers monophonic groups, and put all these on the same group, so they will exclude between them. Now, on the patch link section, you must subordinate the PATCH 2 into the PATCH 1 or viceversa. .... There, you have an 1/16 arpeggio that plays 8 waveforms, one after another. You can go further and convert each waveform into a single note, playing with the transpose of each one of them individually. And you can program 16 different ways to tweak the transpose of each note of that pseudo arpeggio. go to the patch cord section, and erase all the patch cords. No, for example, program knobs lie MID A layer1---- +12 transponse layer 2 ---- -3 transponse layer 3 ---- +17 transponse lauer 4 ----- -12 transponse Voila! when you move the midi A knob, the arpeggio notes, change. Do that with the 16 knobs....... je je je, that;s complexity, isn't it???? You can go even further, program different transponses for the PATCH 2 that plays notes 5,6,7 and 8 of my pseudoarpeggio. And yo can go even further. How much notes can you program on a user arppegio??? 32 and you can specifiy the length of each note, the repetition, legato or separated mode.... etc. Create an arpeggio, of the length of 1/2 each note. Sounds toooooo long or slow arppegio, but not, because each time it plays a note of a 1/2 length, it will also play the 8 notes of the internal pseudo arppegio inside the patch. So there you have an arppegio of 256 notes, and 16 controllers to program the notes played inside it. Yes, command station is insane. Is a shame that only a few persons appreciate how creative this instrument can be. LOVE its programmation design, in the same way, I hate some things it has. Saving your patches is a shit. Most interesting part. ________________________________ From: Atom Smasher <atom@...> To: xl7@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, April 16, 2010 2:55:13 PM Subject: Re: [xl7] XL7 is insane On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Mauricio Balma wrote: > We'll I mostly agree with you in the description of deepness. > > But if you read on forums, you won't find too much people talking about > how complex is to create a patch with 12 layers, reset to zero all the > patchcord sources and destinations, and then, starting to invent your > tweaks, your own chords, one by one, to program crossfading between > layers, programming MidiA Knob to decrease the volume of the layer1 > while is increasing the volume of the layer2, while is increasing the > rate of the LFO of the layer3 while decreasing the filter of layer 4, > and then, go to program MidiB and recreate multiples morphings for all > the instruments inide a patch. ============ that's what i'm talkin' about!!! try doing that on, well, just about anything else! > Or to create pseudo arppegios with the start delay of the wave, or going > weird when linking the multiples LFOS versions to the wave start. ============ = huh?? > Or to compose an arpeggio that jumps from zones to zones of instruments, > and manipulate the pitch of each instrument and each note of the > arpeggio, with 16 knobs programmend to change the transposition of the > pitch. ============ wow. that hadn't occurred to me... > No sir, most of the command station owners, does not know what they have > in their hands. > > I heard a lot of guys making versus threads XL7 vs MPC, MoPhat vs > Microkorg for hip hop. Etc. Nobody asks about the patchcord section, > or how to program variations of mute/unmute tracks of the super beats > section controlled by the knobs on a user patch. ============ one of the things that was most immediately apparent to me, when i first played with the XL7, is that even if this thing didn't have any sample ROM, just using it with analog type synth waves (square, saw, pulse, etc) it would be a very capable synth. > I own a decent setup of synths with a good name lile Ensoniq Fizmo, > Vsynth, Yamaha EX5 or Waldorf Q, and people laughs at me, when I say > command station is my favorite synth. ============ == i won't laugh. among my synths are a K5000 and an FS1r, which most people consider way too deep to even use musically (and people are often horrified when i tell them i don't use a software editor)... i see them as fairly simple synths with somewhat unintuitive synth engines. the XL7 (et al) is perfectly usable as "just a ROMpler" or "just a simple synth" but below the surface it just keeps getting deeper and deeper... that's what i'm loving about it, even though it's driving me mad. btw mauricio, feel free to write more tutorials... i've got your old ones saved into a file and it seems like every time i go through it i learn something new! -- ...atom ____________ _________ ___ http://atom. smasher.org/ 762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D 52E4 D9F5 7808 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- - "If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses" -- Lenny Bruce
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Re: [xl7] XL7 is insane
2010-04-16 by Mauricio Balma