Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Hi Pastor D, a TS-10 just came up on Harmony Central, 
Mike Soiney has one for $650...cheers, Keith

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Hello,

I am looking for a TS-10. If anyone can help me locate one I'd appreciate
it. Whether it's fully loaded with SCSI and memory or not, I'd be
interested.

Blessings,

Pastor Decarius Spells
edsproductions@...


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>    Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:14:12 -0800
>    From: Nathan I Smutz <n.smutz@...>
> Subject: Pitch bend trick
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> Hi again Suzanne,
> I get the idea that the techknology for sample playback and pitch
> shifting is diferent.  I get the idea that in sample playback, you are
> essentialy varying  the speed of a recording.  Resolution is lost when
> you slow down a digital recording.  In speeding up I imagine there is
> some kind of sample rate truncation going on.  With pitch shifting, like
> you said, waves are being added and subtracted, no doubt stretched and
> compressed too.  When I bent the sounds down, it sounded like a lowpass
> filter with a drastic rolloff was added.  I don't think that the high
> notes actualy disapeared.though they got more an more like sine waves as
> you went up. Hgh notes got softer but that might be typical when a sound
> looses harmonic content.
> I wonder which technology the VFX uses on it's pitch bender.  They might
> have multi sampled a sawtooth wave to make it less bright in the upper
> reaches of the keyboard, thus avoiding noise form upper harmonics
> interacting with the sampling rate.  That could explain the distortion I
> got when I bent notes upward.  The sound was a lot brighter.  Like I
> said, the distortion might not have sounded bad to me.  So the changes
> could be due to different waves or to some wave shaping idiosyncrasies of
> a pitch shifter.
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> I'm including the patch.  I hope the patch makes it.  I'ts a uuencoded
> ..zip. You will need to rename so that it has a .uue extension.  If you
> are using windows 95, you can load it with notepad and use the "save as"
> option.
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> Here are some detailes about the patch:
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> This tiWith no patch buttons you get a sound where the pitch is bent
> down.  With the left patch button you get a sound from bending the patch
> up two octaves.  Right button: both.  Both buttons: a detuned layer.  It
> looks like the patch already uses the variantion that I mentioned in the
> email.
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> Remember to puch the Mod wheel all the way forward.  Pull it all the way
> back to hear the original sound.  You can compare the two by pulling back
> on the wheel and playing an octave down.
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> I hope this is useful.
> Nathan
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>   File        : /Sounds/Sawsynth.syx
>   Uploaded by : n.smutz@...
>   Description : This patch uses the trick of bending the pitch then
transposing back to normal pitch.  Push the mod wheel all the way forward.
These are the settings you get withe the patch select buttons:  (setting the
patch to "HOLD" on the "Pach Select" page is very useful) OO is bent down *O
is bent up, O* is both mixed.  ** is a detuned layer.

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