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--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Jerry Aiyathurai" 
<tuskerfort@h...> wrote:
> I was wondering if any of you would care to share your 
programming 
> tips for use of the morph feature and the free EG.
> 
> Morph - I have a number of patches with it of course. I still don't 
> have a strong theory on how to use it. I've used it for filter cut-
> off and sync pitch and it works well here. I have had marginal 
> success with FM. Do you use it systematically, or do you use a 
random 
> process? Are there specific parameters that morph well 
together?
> 

I find it interesting to make a copy of Scene 1 in Scene 2 with not 
too subtle changes for Scene 2 in VCA or VCF env parameters, 
filter settings and mod depth settings. I don't use the Morph 
control as a make shift patch select I prefer to use it for real time 
changes while playing: perhaps a swell using the Mod Wheel 
during sustain chords. Try layering percussive type sounds with 
non-percussive type sounds.

> Free EG - I thought this was key feature when I bought the 
synth. I 
> find myself using it less and less. I've modulated fine pitch of 
the 
> oscillator (very slightly) to emulate analog drift. And I've created 
> a spike of sync pitch to create a sharp attack, like a guitar. But I 
> haven't done anything beyond these two things.
> 

Try using the FreeEG on the VCO Edge settings for continuously 
variable waveforms or the Sync Pitch settings to emulate 
sweeping a wavetable. The most obvious choices would be the 
Filter Cutoff or the Variation Effect parameter.

> Any tips?

 I would use velocity to simulate "a spike of sync pitch to create a 
sharp attack, like a guitar" rather than the FreeEG but if it works 
for you...

> 
> Jerry