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Re: [AN1x] unison

Re: [AN1x] unison

2005-08-07 by Mark Daborn

I have been re-united with my AN200 recently having had it's power supply adapter returned to me.
Didn't quite realise how important it was to my sound!
It's such a powerful general purpose (virtual) analogue sound source and since i turned it on earlier today have produced 
a piece of synth space rock i haven't been able to do for ages!

One trick i've found (i'm not sure if other's don't already use it) is to use  a very slow (value 1 or 2 ) LFO to modulate pitch by a 
tiny amount (again, a value of 1 or 2) of one oscillator and by the negative value on the other.
This adds a slight variation to pitch that's subtle and sounds rather good!
As for the LFO waveform, i've really only tried the sine wave to simulate a slow warble of pitch.

There's always the edge control to round things off nicely.
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  Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 7:06 PM
  Subject: [AN1x] unison


  I got a new 2x12 speaker so I'm designing some new sounds. Always liked 
  the idea of Unison mode to fatten up a lead, but the Unison mode always 
  sounded shrill and digital.Then I noticed the tuning control up by the 
  mod matrix.Unison doesn't sound so shrill and digital when it's in tune.

  Rainbow Jimmy





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RE: [AN1x] unison

2005-08-07 by Ed Edwards

> One trick i've found (i'm not sure if other's don't already use it)
> is to use  a very slow (value 1 or 2 ) LFO to modulate pitch by a
> tiny amount (again, a value of 1 or 2) of one oscillator and by the
> negative value on the other.

Yep, been using this trick for years on romplers and digital stuff.  One very
nice effect that can help get the unison thing going is to use the Free Envelope
Generator for a bit "other random" out of tuneness.  Since there is no true
random in the digital world (and IIRC on the AN1x it's no exception) it's good
to map out of tuneness through something human like velocity, since nobody plays
every note identically.

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> Behalf Of Mark Daborn
> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 2:26 PM
> To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [AN1x] unison
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> I have been re-united with my AN200 recently having had it's power
> supply adapter returned to me.
> Didn't quite realise how important it was to my sound!
> It's such a powerful general purpose (virtual) analogue sound source
> and since i turned it on earlier today have produced
> a piece of synth space rock i haven't been able to do for ages!
>

> This adds a slight variation to pitch that's subtle and sounds rather good!
> As for the LFO waveform, i've really only tried the sine wave to
> simulate a slow warble of pitch.
>
> There's always the edge control to round things off nicely.
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: spaceanimals
>   To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 7:06 PM
>   Subject: [AN1x] unison
>
>
>   I got a new 2x12 speaker so I'm designing some new sounds. Always liked
>   the idea of Unison mode to fatten up a lead, but the Unison mode always
>   sounded shrill and digital.Then I noticed the tuning control up by the
>   mod matrix.Unison doesn't sound so shrill and digital when it's in tune.
>
>   Rainbow Jimmy
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Re: [AN1x] unison

2005-08-11 by Dan

> One trick i've found (i'm not sure if other's don't already use it)
is to use  a very slow (value 1 or 2 ) LFO to modulate pitch by a 
tiny amount (again, a value of 1 or 2) of one oscillator and by the
negative value on the other. This adds a slight variation to pitch
that's subtle and sounds rather good!

If you use the editor then the Free EG works great for that purpose. 
You can draw in your own meandering fine pitch instability.

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