Operation Manual

2.2 Tutorial 2 Playing a Synth with a Keyboard 36

voices. You can also try to move some elements out of the polyphonic section. For example,

instead of using a ﬁlter at the end of a polyphonic section, you can connect the output of the

Polymixer to the input of a ﬁlter.

Step 7: Playing with presets

Description

With a given synthesizer you can achieve very different sounds by choosing different settings. But

once you have obtained a sound you like, you will ﬁnd it very convenient to save those current

settings and reuse them when you play your synthesizer again later. To save presets for the whole

instrument, select the Save Preset or Save Preset As commands from the File menu. This will

display a dialog where you can write the name for your preset. After that, the preset will be listed

under its instrument in the Browser. You can recall it at any time simply by double-clicking on it

or by dragging it into the Player. Note that you can also save presets for individual modules by

clicking on the down arrow located in the lower left corner of each module. The presets you save

for a given module can be loaded by all other modules of the same type.

Playing

We now conclude this tutorial by playing some presets that we have made for you. To try them,

load the following presets from the tutorial folder in the Browser.

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Our ﬁrst preset gives a classic analog sound. The ADSR modulates the ﬁlter on which the reso-

nance is quite high. You can hear the sweep of the harmonics as the ADSR modulates the cutoff

frequency in accordance with its parameters (a long attack and a long release). The amount of

modulation is set with the mod2 knob on the VCO; here it is set at its maximum. Note that the

ADSR also modulates the VCA. The vibrato in the sound is created by the modulation of the LFO

on the mod2 knob of the VCO. This mod2 knob is set to a very low value so that the vibrato is

not excessive. Try changing the setting of the mod2 knob either manually or with the modulation

wheel on the keyboard. Change the waveform on the VCO to noise and you will hear some sounds

that resemble the wind.

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Here, we have a marimba-like sound. This is achieved mainly with the ADSR. Note that there

is no sustain in this patch, so the sound starts fading just after the notes have been pressed. You

can make the decay time longer by turning the decay knob to the right. The VCO is set to a sine

waveform, which is good for pitched percussion sounds. Set the VCO to the noise waveform and