One of the finest ways to basically give yourself a
tutorial on synthesis approaches is to go about trying to replicate on of
your favorite sound patch from one synth to another as best as possible
(assuming you have two synths). At first you go in and explore what synth1 is
doing and program those things on synth2 from a blank starting position. As you
move through all the parameters of synth1 and apply them similarly to synth2
(and tweaking as you go along in order to get the sound to be the same, as it
won't be since all synths do things differently) you will start understanding
WAY more than you ever did by merely tweaking different things on an existing
patch. It is a bit tedious, but it surely teaches you. A much easier way of
doing all of this is to have something like sounddiver and have a window open
for each synth and do the programming and emulating/copying from
there.
Ravi
----- Original Message -----From: S V GSent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:05 PMSubject: [xl7] Non OS update request
The requests for OS updates got me thinking about how this machine could be even more useful.
If I had some inkling of what was going on inside the head of the guys who programmed the sounds,
I would better be able to approach programming myself. For instance, take a few of the nicer
patches, from simple to way complex, and go through a "tutorial" about how the patch was obtained.
Like:
"... I started with this instrument sound on layer 1 and modified it with an envelope going
to the filter resonance which gave it a certain bite. Then I added another instrument on layer 2
at a reduced amplitude setting, modulating the amp with two different LFO's with triangle and
random outputs to get that "warbly" sound. Then I ran a patchcord from the output of the
discombobulator into the wazoo of the Fritzenschaller to give it that funky retro lo-fi quality
that sounds like Jimmy Page riding a Tonka truck"...
You get the picture. Even just a few patch descriptions would go a long way towards helping
someone like me understand the bigger picture. While I understand in theory most of what's going
on within the architecture of the machine, a few practical examples would go a long way towards
allowing me to see the bigger picture.
While I'm at it, I would also request some sound editing software specifically for the
Proteus series of Rompler, which of course would include the XX-7. This is perhaps the greatest
support that Emu could give to the thousands of sound module users out there. A nice graphical
interface would do much of what I'm asking for in the first part of this letter.
Thanks Emu, and keep up the great work.
SVG
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