Re: Fine Tuning / Steve saves the day!
2004-12-01 by Michael C Lesko
Ah ha! That's exactly it! Thanks so much Steve. Ah, life is so great when your synth sounds aren't crappy anymore. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Wahl" <steve@...> To: <Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:57 AM Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: Fine Tuning > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:41:24AM -0000, Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com wrote: > > > > Just to clarify, what I mean my detune is that I will go into the pitch > > parimeter and tune down or up the sound and half of > > the sound will adjust while the other half stays at the current pitch. I
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> > knew this in programming Oberheims as detune. The > > problem for me exists with changes slighter than semitunes so adjusting > > within my sequences doesn't help either. What > > a pickle, can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance. > > It sounds to me like you're only hitting the pitch parameter for one > of the voices in the patch. > > In the VFX family (includes SD-1), each patch can use up to six > voices. This is somewhat like the two or three oscilators on an > analog synth. Each voice has separate pitch, filter, envelope, > etc. settings. > > Push the Select Voice button, you'll see the six wave names that are > used for this patch, representing the six voices that may be used. > The ones that are in parentheses don't sound, aren't used for this > patch. (Actually, if you use the patch select buttons on the very > left of the keyboard, you'll find that there are four different sets > which of the six are used and which aren't; I didn't say that well, so > just try the buttons and you'll get the idea). > > The voice that is underlined is the one you will edit when you press > the pitch button. So, to make the adjustment you want, press select > voice, press the soft button by the first voice used, press the pitch > button, make the adjustment, press the select voice button, select the > next voice that's used, press the pitch button, make the change, and > so on. > > There's a couple of shortcuts here, but this is all foggy in my > memory, so may be a bit inaccurate. There's a way to select all > (sounding?) voices for editing; something like double clicking the > select voice button. When you do this, the first voice's parameter is > displayed, but changes you make occur in all the voices. The inc/dec > buttons make *relative* changes to the selected voices -- subtract one > from the current value for each voice. The slider makes absolute > changes, all voices will get the new value that you see. Or something > like that. And, pressing select voice a single time (not double > click) when the select voice page is already shown will return you to > whatever edit parameter page you were on before, even if you were in > the second or third page under the edit button. > > Again, my memory is not clear on this, and I'm not in front of the VFX > at the moment to verify, so just know it works something like that. > Those facilities ARE all there, but I might not have the button > presses quite right. > > It occurs to me you might have known all this except for the fact that > there's one pitch page per voice, not a single one for the whole > patch. Sorry to dive so deep if that's the case... > > --> Steve > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > >