Xpantastic!

lol, or like I said, just use some delay and problem fixed!

:)

-omar

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On Jul 16, 2012, at 11:54 PM, PeWe <ha-pewe@...> wrote:

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> Am 17.07.2012 05:28, schrieb Omar:
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>> if you are doing lots of quick chord changes, then yea you'll hear it cut off
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> The Xpander must be programmed carefully to make voice steal as much inaudible as it can be.
> The interaction of keyboard assign modes, envelope trigger modes and the behaviour of (the programmable) sustain pedal scaling is very important.
> In most cases, there´s no general rule and it´s all about reverse engineering of a patch and experimenting until it satisfies.
> But as a slightly general rule for fast chord changes,- don´t use long releases and pay attention what the sustain pedal does to which envelopes and if you are in "rotate mode" w/ the voices.
> In opposite to most other poly synths, the sustain pedal as a modulator doesn´t cause infinite sustain when stepping on the pedal depending on which parameters are been modulated by MIDI CC64.
> So, it can be used as a combined decay/release pedal instead of a simple sustain pedal which gives much more musical results.
> According to the Xpanders factory patches volumes, I had to re-program every little bit to my taste,- these were only starters for me, then turned to different patches for different purposes.
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> It´s definitely a machine for programmers and keyboardplayers who don´t fear programming.
> The Xpander is the synth I learned most about analogue synth programming,- even I own and owned earlier synth models like Minimoog D, Prophet-5 and the OB-8.
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> IMO, if you own a Minimoog D and a Xpander, it covers most you can get from a analogue synth.
> There ´s the lame behaviour of Xpander envelopes for percussive sounds though.
> I always compensate by layering w/ FM synths like DX7mkII, TX-816 or TG77.
> If I need more modular weirdness, today I use the Sonic Core Modular III in SCOPE.
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