Hi,
I have owned an expanded Prophet 2002+ for a
year and installed a floppy emulator in it, but only yesterday actually tried to
learn how to sample and map sounds.
I have a few questions.
If you care to read my long post and answer them,
I'd be grateful :)
I followed the "how to sample" steps in chapter 5
of the manual (which fail to mention map selection so that took me a while to
figure out why "build map" wouldn't do what the manual said).
After having made a multi-sample map of 6 samples
across 6 octaves, I started messing with the filter settings.
Q: If I press execute when the current map is shown
and I get the dot in the display, all my changes affect every sound in the map,
is that correct?
Or, does it add additional values to the sound
itself? I noticed the range is different for maps than for sounds, which leads
me to believe the map modifies the sounds' parameters, rather then sets them all
at the same time.
Assume I'm only working on one map (1), which
contains sound 1 in a certain range, and say I have cutoff 100 on sound
1.
Q: If I then set cutoff -20 on the map, does
the sound 1 cutoff become 80 in that map, but the sound remains with
cutoff set to 100?
I guess I could verify that, but I want to know the
general idea about the map-wide vs sound settings.
Anyway, I managed to change the filter envelope and
change how it affects the sounds in a map, except for attack.
Whatever I set it to, I could not get the map-wide
attack to affect the sounds.
If I press execute to only edit the current sound
(map dot disappears), I see the attack is 0 and I can then increase it and I
hear the change.
But with attack on all sounds set to 0, I seem to
be unable to modify it using the map-wide method.
Q: Is this "normal" (bug?) or am I doing something
wrong?
Also, I understand 4 voices are hardwired to the
left output and 4 to the right.
Q: Say I want to do the classic "2 detuned voices"
and make sure I always get one in the left channel and one in the right; What is
the simplest way to do it?
I would guess you make 2 maps (eg 1=L, 2=R) with
the same setup, choose Layer mode and then somehow detune map 2 slightly. I
couldn't find any such function and I'm not sure exactly how stacked mode would
guarantee that I always get one voice in each channel. (The "organ" preset 1
seems to sometimes give me two voices in the same channel, which is
silly).
Thanks,
Peter