>jessej, you should post your work, I am interested. Your approach to
>making new sounds along with short cuts and tips.
Ok:
Here's one single patch I made a few days ago:
http://rapidshare.com/files/153182212/J ... harmer.mp3
All this tweaking available in Patch Pro edit:
It's a single patch that is made of:
1265 700 Saw
1261 Real MG Saw (up one octave)
1274 JP-8 Saw (down one octave)
I was going for an vintage vibe and I assumed these were waveforms from the true classic Roland System 700, Moog Concertmate MG-1 (?) and from an Roland JP-8.
It would have been interesting to have seen the waveforms in an oscilloscope, but I don't have one on my mac. (Anyone know of a freeware AU? / update I have one now*). But what I was after was kind of a lazy 70s supersaw with an eastern hypnotic snakecharmer vibe.
As you see they are all saws, but they all sound a bit different. The System 700 being the fattest, so I used it as the foundation of the sound, thus it is 6db louder than the 2 others.
It's a straight structure Type 1 patch, nothing really fancy going on.
What's happening is that I am modulating the filters and pans and amplitudes with the LFOs. The LFOs are regular SIN waveforms and all LFOs are tempo synched.
I chose the SIN waveform, because I was going after a snakelike motion for the sound. There is also a tiny bit of pitch depth modulation going on to create a chorus effect, but the System 700 Saw is not pitch modulated to keep the foundation pitch straight. There's also tone delay (misc tab) for the Real MG and JP-8 tones to create a delay effect. I put a slow rise on the JP-8 Env so it kinda sounds like a backwards delay

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With these two little gimmics I don't need chorus or delay from the PFX, because the PFX is running an Multistage Phaser. The Modulation of the Phaser is also tempo fixed so the whole motion of the patch is in synch.
I think you all should create your own user single patch right now based on these simple ideas! It is really fun!
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