User Manual

92 Creating a Hard-Sync Lead Dave Smith Instruments
Using the LFO to Sweep the Filter
You can further enhance the string pad by using the LFO to sweep the
lter.
To sweep the lter:
1. In the lfo section, select lfo 2 and make sure its shape is set to the
triangle wave.
2. With the LFO parameters shown in the main display, press Soft Button
3 to select the lfo dest menu tab, then use Soft Knob 1 to select cutoff.
You can quickly assign the mod destination for LFO 2 by holding down the
LFO 2 selector button and turning the Filter Cutoff knob. This will auto-assign lter
cutoff as the modulation destination for LFO 2.
3. With the LFO parameters shown in the main display, press Soft Button
1 to select the lfo shape menu.
4. Set the LFO shape to triangle, frequency to 30, and amount to 50.
5. Play some chords. The LFO sweeps the lter.
6. For fun, experiment with changing LFO 2’s shape, frequency, and
amount parameters.
Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
Here’s another classic sound: a hard-sync lead. A famous example of this
is “Let’s Go” by the Cars (performed on a Prophet-5). In this example
you’ll learn how to hard-sync the oscillators, pitch-modulate one of them
with an auxiliary envelope, then add effects.
To create a hard-sync lead:
1. Press the global button.
2. Use Soft Knob 1 to navigate to basic program and press Soft Button 1
(write now). As a shortcut, hold down the front-panel transpose down
button and press the hold butt on.
3. In the mixer, turn up Oscillator 2 to 127. (Osc 1 is already at 127.)
4. In the oscillators section, set both oscillators to sawtooth.