Xpantastic!

yes use ramp for quick pulse
On Monday, March 31, 2014 12:32 PM, Omar <holografique@...> wrote:
 
  
well, when you define "snappy" as being the problem, that won't have anything to do with the characteristics of the oscillators. that has everything to do with the response time of the decay on the ADSR when routed to the filter cutoff. so yes, try using one of the RAMP generators to modulate the filter cutoff instead of one of the ENV. 

otherwise, yes, you don't get quite the same low end "bottom" on an Xpander as you do on a Minimoog. but that's the beauty of these machines, they each excel in their own areas and what provides a wider range of "color" for writing. personally I find the Xpander great for bass sounds, particularly for more aggressive "grittier" bass sounds when using the 1-pole or 2-pole LP filter settings. from there it all eventually comes down to your programming and how it is mixed in your track. 







On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:47 PM, <leo-666@...> wrote:

 
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>Ramp routed straight to the filter ? Very interesting.
>Gotta try it soon.
>And to my ears the problem also is the fact that xpander has weaker soundung oscillators than a discrete old moog of course, and maybe weaker than some other CEM based synths. I noticed it when listening to a raw waves of the xpander. They are not that ground shaking, But yeah, pad and evolving possibilities beats all other synths.