Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Hi Paul,

can you advise me some good book with practical examples to learn the
subtractive synthesis.I´m a beginer. (maybe some online tutorial)

Thanks
--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, Paul Nagle <paul@s...> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:17:02 -0000, "dragoh75 <dragoh75@v...>"
> <dragoh75@v...> wrote:
> 
> >Can you explain how you use envelope 3 in conjunction with the 
filter 
> >envelope ?
> 
> Sure, you just give it the same destination as the filter envelope
> (cutoff) and set up a slightly different shape. I would tend to 
create
> a more sloping filter envelope with a decay that is a little slower
> than normal and decaying to a non-zero sustain level. Balancing 
filter
> envelope amount, cutoff and keyfollow gets a nice feel. Then, to
> introduce extra "zap", create a much shorter envelope in envelope 3
> decaying quickly to zero and point this at cutoff too. The extra zap
> will make quite a difference, I find. Another good trick is to use 
one
> of the free modulation slots to have a small amount of resonance
> modulation controlled by an envelope too - this works best with the 
4
> pole filter as the 2 pole doesn't seem very responsive to resonance.
> 
> It would probably be easier still if envelope decay was a modulation
> destination.
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> Paul
> ---
> Paul Nagle - SoftRoom Music - www.softroom.co.uk