Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Basically the easiest thing to do to make a pad sound is to change the "Amp
Envelope"

(Check out this article, it should help you understand what that means)
http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/1994_articles/mar94/analoguesynthesis.html

You can do this easily from the Quick Edit section (Second row of knobs) labeled
Amp.
A Pad is basically a sound that starts softly and grows louder (Attack knob),
usually stays on while you keep holding the note, then gradually fades away
either while you are holding it down or after you release the note. The
different phases of this relate to ADSR or Atack Decay Sustain Release.  Playing
with the attack and the release will change the sound the most drastically.

Another thing to play with is the filters after you have made the volume doing
what you want.  The idea with filters and pads is to get the pad out of the way
of the rest of your music; in other words to fill in the gaps in you sonic
spectrum, so you would want to filter out the part of the sound that gets in the
way.

Don't forget to save the sound when you're done though, and make sure you save
the part in addition to the song or pattern... ;)

Andre

-----Original Message-----
From: Erika [mailto:erika_ev1@...]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 1:32 PM
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xl7] Re: Hmm so a good sound source compliment to the XL7?


Awww, now im scared. i dont know the first thing about it. So what do
you do? just add waveforms and filters until your happy with the
outcome?


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> How about just making the sounds you're after?  The XL-7 has more
than
> enough base waveforms that will suit what you're trying to do, you
just
> need to dive in and start programming...
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> rEalm
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> Erika <erika_ev1@y...>
> 03/17/2003 12:59 PM
> Please respond to xl7
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>         To:     xl7@yahoogroups.com
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>         Subject:        [xl7] Hmm so a good sound source compliment
to the XL7?
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> So i've bought the XL7, and am not happy with the sound set. I am
> with the sequencer and effects. This box is loaded and peforms well
> as nerve center of a studio. But I'm shooting to more of a ambient
> dark soundscape trancey feel. I love pads, lots of them. I am
> considering getting a Triton LE, I have played those in a store and
> like them. But then again, i'm just paying for another sequencer
and
> so forth. I'm wondering if perhaps there is something in the middle
> i'm missing? A module or synth sans a sequencer that will give what
I
> seek?
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> What about the Orbit ROMs? any good for that?
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> Hmm.. Thanks in advance
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