--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Janne G:son Berg"
<d3berg@d...> wrote:
> > Try using the "THROUGH" effect. That way you can route the
output of
> > one track into another, and use the track effects of the second
one
> > to add distortion to the first one, after the first filter!
>
> Yikes! I looked briefly at the reverb effect, which didn't make
much
> sense to me when it came to how one was supposed to set it up to
get
> some sounds out of it. :)
>
> Some help on that would be appreciated.
Yes, the effects is an area that probably need some explanation
before it can be understood. It's actually quite powerful.
There are three ways the effects can be used. First there is
the "neighbour mode". In this mode the effect will take it's input
sound from the previous channel. So if you're on channel two it will
steal the sound of the first channel (insert effect).
Mode 2 is so you can have it work as an insert on any of the three
mix buses: AB, CD or EF. The mixbuses are also the same that will be
outputed on the three pair of outputs (here you can start see that
everything inside the Mono is stereo :). So if you want an effect to
affect the three first tracks, place it on the fourth track, put all
the three first tracks to output to the AB mix bus, and let the
effect insert on the AB bus. Or, if you want the sixth track be an
effect that effects the first and third, then put the first and
third track to output to the CD or EF bus, and let the effect insert
on the same bus. You can then set the output to the AB if you want
it to make sound on the normal AB stereo outputs.
The third mode is to take it's input directly from the inputs.
It is important to remember that each machine that you want to make
any sound need to be trigged first. And you need to set the decay
and release to their highest values for it to continue make sound
all the time after that. Of course you could set them to other
values if you know what you are doing and want to do gating effects
etc.
So actually there is a whole lot you can do already with just
the "through" effect. Group tracks together and have another track
effect that you can use for filter/distortion/delay etc!
> Now I just wish for more parameters to control on the different
> synthesizers. What about an extra oscillator for the SID? Could be
> used normally, and for ring modulation and/or sync.
The problem is how you would control that oscillator. And also we
have actually squeezed the SID into the DSP power available, as we
wanted to make it the same way as it's done in the actual SID, with
a very high speed counter that is divided down to the actual pitch
and waveform you want to use. That way we get the most authentic SID
sound, but it takes a huge amount of DSP power to calculate it.
> Even better, let the sound from another channel be used for ring
> modulation and/or sync.
Yes, that's coming. We actually already have the controls for it if
you look closely at the SYNC and RMOD parameters, but the source is
still taken from the PCH2 value, not the previous channel. It is
working properly in the DPRO-WAVE sync.
Daniel