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The AN1X has so many way to destroy a sound it can be daunting. A 
simple thing like turning down the sync frequency can make all the 
difference between an unusable patch and a real cool sound. When I 
have a patch that should work but sounds awful I check the following:

First check the osc tuning. If one osc is tuned to 0 and one to 11 
your patch will sound awful.Sometimes you get it set right but it 
jumps down when you take your hand of the knob

Check to see if the ring mod is on.

Check sync pitch and fm-I usually set my patches so the fm only 
affects the slave wave but I'm not positive that's what you're 
supposed to do.

Check to see what you did with the free eg the night before-what were 
you thinking? Change it right now.

There's so many modulation routings and cool toys it's easy to go 
overboard-way overboard.

Rainbow Jimmy
http://www.spaceanimals.com

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "spaceanimals" <rainbowjimmy@s...> wrote:
> The AN1X has so many way to destroy a sound it can be daunting. A 
> simple thing like turning down the sync frequency can make all the 
> difference between an unusable patch and a real cool sound. When I 
> have a patch that should work but sounds awful I check the following:
> 
> First check the osc tuning. If one osc is tuned to 0 and one to 11 
> your patch will sound awful.Sometimes you get it set right but it 
> jumps down when you take your hand of the knob
> 

Try intentionally setting the tuning of one OSC to an interval.

> Check to see if the ring mod is on.
> 

...and then lower the VCO level for one or both VCO's to *really* hear what the 
RingMod is doing...

> Check sync pitch and fm-I usually set my patches so the fm only 
> affects the slave wave but I'm not positive that's what you're 
> supposed to do.
> 

Try playing with the PitchSrc parmameter under Sync/FM - set it to FEG or PEG and 
play with the respective ADSR and AD envelopes - notice how the Depth settings for 
FEG and PEG affect your Sync.

> Check to see what you did with the free eg the night before-what were 
> you thinking? Change it right now.
> 

hahaha

> There's so many modulation routings and cool toys it's easy to go 
> overboard-way overboard.
> 

It would be nice to have some more options for LFO2 :-/ This is one of the primary 
resons why I'm lookign at the Virus C - that, and more envelope control.

Jon