Synclavier REGEN, User Manual

Page 1: ...Synclavier USER MANUAL Copyright 2022 Synclavier Digital Corporation Ltd...

Page 2: ...o make it compelling in a modern setting just as the original was compelling for the many happy owners of its era In short a real Regen eration of Synclavier Synclavier Digital would like to thank the...

Page 3: ...The AC adapter is in standby mode when connected The primary circuit is always active as long as the cord is connected to the outlet Do not cover the adapter while it is connected If the product malfu...

Page 4: ...with it in such a way that it risks harming your hearing or risks harming the hearing of others Always transport or ship this product in the packaging provided The packaging provides support If you u...

Page 5: ...s Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 this device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause un...

Page 6: ...1 USER SETTINGS 24 2 1 Home Settings 24 2 2 Help 29 LIBRARY 30 3 1 Preset Timbres 30 3 2 Tags 34 3 3 Samples 37 3 4 Reverbs 40 3 5 Sessions 41 3 6 Saving 48 SESSION 53 4 1 Tracks 53 4 2 Studio 59 PLAY...

Page 7: ...Pill 84 6 2 Additive Synthesis 88 6 3 Envelopes 95 6 4 Subtractive Synthesis 100 6 5 Soundfiles 103 6 6 Partial level Effects 118 6 7 Partial Crossfader 123 6 8 Modulators 131 6 9 Frames 142 TROUBLESH...

Page 8: ...with the machine Please at least read the Cheat Sheet section at the end of this chapter that covers things that will not be self evident from exploring the unit without documentation People learn in...

Page 9: ...ant to know every in and out of the product Of course the lines are often blurred and you may be wearing one hat one day and another hat another day Just know that as you read further you will be goin...

Page 10: ...7 58 6LQJOH QGHG 2XWSXWV 2XWSXWV DODQFHG 2 21 267 FFHVVRULHV 5 5 XVH RQO DGDSWHU VXSSOLHG 3 5 Synclavier Regen rear panel MIDI MIDI IN and MIDI THRU ports are provided on 1 8 TRS connectors The conne...

Page 11: ...t power up the unit PWR USB C connection for incoming power only Use power adapter supplied which is rated for 5 1V and max 3A The included power supply has been selected for low ripple noise for mini...

Page 12: ...FAT32 format is recommended but some other formats are recognized This is to hold user samples and to save your own timbres Each SD card can contain many libraries of timbres and samples each one will...

Page 13: ...bracket Most brackets will accommodate the 100 by 100 mm hole pattern and carry the 1 8kg Regen weight with attached cabling but do check before purchasing a bracket User Interface Synclavier Regen t...

Page 14: ...button can be red or blue These two colours indicate the two main layers of Regen If the Switcher button is lit Red this means the machine is in PARTIALS view and the 12 selector buttons on the right...

Page 15: ...rameter or a timbre level parameter by the colour of the selected button The colours are also useful when loading and saving presets you ll be reminded what bits are loaded or saved by the colour of t...

Page 16: ...ur country s power outlets This power adapter has been selected for voltage and current ratings as well as low ripple noise Here s another set up possibility that uses a sequencing keyboard that allow...

Page 17: ...s will state in their manual that they only work at full brightness when connected to a dedicated power adapter DAW Mode Select this mode from the Home page s Settings to operate Synclavier Regen as a...

Page 18: ...de the USB Accessories ports do not work so MIDI interfaces have to be connected to your host computer DAW mode is also also the one to use to connect Regen to an iPad You can run a DAW application to...

Page 19: ...function is Enter used for instance to select a Timbre to load when browsing the library When blue this button s function is Back used to cancel an operation or traverse up from a sub page to a page...

Page 20: ...change for example the Vibrato Depth will change from 0 to 25 semitones with two full upward swipes The Swiper is intelligent and changes its resolution depending on the parameter being changed Nudge...

Page 21: ...tice the indicator flash but timbres containing many long samples may take a moment to load When a new timbre is called up to a track playing audio on that track is gracefully muted and audio from the...

Page 22: ...ould be the place to check the CPU meter If you Arrow Right you ll get to the multiscope page divided into thirds The top third has a live time domain display of the master out with normalised amplitu...

Page 23: ...ome fixed cycle systems where a hard limit of voices can be determined this architecture means the total available voices actually depends on the burden of system configuration at the time We have con...

Page 24: ...reverbs See manual section on Library The MASTER values volume phones level and reverb settings are stored upon sleeping the system covered in the following chapter and remembered the next time the sy...

Page 25: ...he system is in SOLO mode Using SOLO mode you can isolate the selected tracks to hear their audio the other tracks will be muted Or if you re working in PARTIAL view you can select Solo to hear only t...

Page 26: ...rs but you don t need to worry about these yet they will be covered much later in the manual When editing Modulators the Selector buttons will blink white when available for selection and when represe...

Page 27: ...ere organized in 8 banks of 8 This was referred to as a library We still use this term and capacity to denote a library In regard to the panel title being singular all panels are singular as a convent...

Page 28: ...imbre controls affecting the character of a timbre s sound You could consider them as acting on all partials and in some cases that is an accurate way to think about it When you save a timbre you re s...

Page 29: ...smiss this To quickly listen to different presets If some tracks already contain timbres reset the state of the machine see below then use the Load Sound Up and Dn buttons to call up different timbres...

Page 30: ...bre on the tracks as well as MIDI assignment and track volume and panning settings but also reset the MASTER Reverb to default You may also have studio settings to reset these go to Home Setup Studio...

Page 31: ...ep mode all user settings and the current system state are preserved ready for when the system next wakes If the system is not going to be in use for more than a few hours you should power down the sy...

Page 32: ...ere recorded at 50kHz The SD101 is a high resolution 24 bit stereo DAC circuit with extremely low noise and negligible jitter designed for studio use Research into human hearing shows humans with the...

Page 33: ...on the device Navigate this menu with the Nudge Up and Down buttons and the Enter button Use Left and Right Arrow buttons to switch between sample rate output choices Some USB audio interfaces are bus...

Page 34: ...s up sample the incoming audio and if that s going to happen anyway if Regen supplies those additional samples they will be truer to the sound intended than if the DAC interpolates them Another reason...

Page 35: ...emperamental protocol and during our testing we found only a handful of bluetooth dongles to work reliably The team debated whether to put this feature in the system or not and since we d spent a lot...

Page 36: ...le to read the help text in the main display or hear the text spoken The advantage of the latter method being that you can still see the page the help is referring to as you absorb the info This manua...

Page 37: ...f Preset is lit then the Library will show you factory presets User pertains to user presets from the currently inserted SD card When User is lit the Library will show you user presets assuming you ha...

Page 38: ...ontains many readily useable sounds Loading Timbres When you load a timbre you are replacing the timbre on that track but not affecting any other track than that selected or the last one selected in t...

Page 39: ...ighlighted line isn t the current one as in the case of the library views but the candidate If you tap Enter that highlighted timbre will be loaded to the selected track If the current timbre on the s...

Page 40: ...re s an option to Change Sort This button cycles between sort modes of canonical alphabetical and by tag NB In alphabetical or tags mode all the preset libraries are collated and presented In canonica...

Page 41: ...bres that are also vintage If you Arrow Right with those tags highlighted you ll find that Regen offers Mild FM D 2 1 and Oscar Bass RW 5 4 as options for you 3 2 Tags Category Tags As mentioned previ...

Page 42: ...nd in the Synclavier Regen Tutorial library textures and beatloops are special categories of timbres worth describing textures are atmospheric and often ambient soundscapes typically comprising many s...

Page 43: ...small In lists properties tags appear in orange text ordered alphabetically Special Properties Tags split means that the timbre is split into different sounds across the keyboard This would ve been d...

Page 44: ...nd attributes set to make long continuous loops of the sample as seamless as possible But more on playing samples in the next section FYI stereo isn t really a special property tag it simply describin...

Page 45: ...are also 3 levels of zoom accessible using the Arrow Left and Right buttons Pressing Enter will replace the current track s timbre with a fresh timbre containing only the sample highlighted Before you...

Page 46: ...will be indexed You ll see the BUSY indicator light on for a moment or three and a message stating Loading SD Card Do Not Remove It s very important to heed this warning if a card is ejected during t...

Page 47: ...Reverbs can also be applied to individual tracks covered later in the manual A reverb algorithm draws from many parameters and these will be covered later in the manual see the Timbre Effects section...

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Page 49: ...starting point or templates for your own work Unlike timbres and samples there s only one library of session presets so it doesn t matter which preset library you have selected you ll always get the...

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Page 51: ...l Selector buttons while in Tracks mode and hit Cut you ll clear the system of all current tracks as well as volume and pan settings Master Reverb settings will remain intact Regards the factory conte...

Page 52: ...beatloop in a production of your own that s fine since all Regen content is royalty free Follow along with this walkthrough to get the idea Load one of these beatloops If you re on the highest zoom l...

Page 53: ...MIDI channels free to send other instruments to Regen to play along on other tracks Sequences Sequences aren t part of a session but they appear under the Sessions in the Library This is a bonus feat...

Page 54: ...the Home button twice also stops the sequence To load your own sequences use the mid format and copy your files to the Sessions folder of your SD Card Most of the common mid format functions are reco...

Page 55: ...he only way to recover would be to shut off power losing any unsaved data There s a possibility also of damaging the contents of the SD card So if you ve suddenly realised you inserted the wrong card...

Page 56: ...w Library You can also add a description if you wish tap Edit Info or press tab on your USB keyboard When done tap Save and you ll be returned to the list of user libraries Now tap Timbre and you ll b...

Page 57: ...ing a new timbre in a new library you would get a directory structure Libraries User Library 1 New Timbre 1 for instance You can have one reverb library per SD card and one session library and on your...

Page 58: ...d to do that you d have to also save the tweaked timbre Likewise all your CC mappings are saved in the session but if you want to save those mappings for use as a studio you would have to explicitly s...

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Page 60: ...eferred to as layers since you can layer many sounds The image above shows the selector panel The Switcher button at the top right is lit blue which means it s in TRACKS view Each track can have 1 tim...

Page 61: ...o show the value of the last track selected Track Volume Let s take Volume If you swipe Selector buttons for tracks 4 to 6 and then tap Levels you ll see something like T6 0dB in the VK display It s s...

Page 62: ...a magnitude of 63 corresponding to fully panned Track Crossfader So with Pan and Volume we can call up a bunch of timbres to some tracks and arrange a mix where the instruments are laid out at appropr...

Page 63: ...ow Note or High Note and swipe or nudge to a specific key or tap the option button again to arm it When armed Synclavier Regen is going to listen for the next MIDI note on event to set the selected ra...

Page 64: ...eys between so that two percussion timbres can sound at once for instance a bass drum and hi hat cymbal So in summary there are lots of uses for this feature and easy to configure Saving Track Info So...

Page 65: ...ore careful when introducing instruments to a mix With lots of synthesized sounds playing together certain regions of frequencies can get very busy such as the 200 300Hz range One thing to note is tha...

Page 66: ...ixing desk But it could be Volume and Pan settings can be linked to MIDI CC input So if you have a MIDI keyboard with lots of CC knobs and or faders you can put them to use controlling the mix And the...

Page 67: ...nd stops Continuous rotary encoders are typically set to relative Rel and when adjusted the MIDI value they send corresponds to the change up or down of that value rather than its absolute value To fu...

Page 68: ...parameters of the TIMBRE panel can be MIDI linked to CC controllers More on these parameters in the next chapter of the manual suffice to say a lot of these parameters have the ability to vastly affe...

Page 69: ...sented with a MIDI Controller Summary listing all the currently linked encoders You can scroll through this list and if you press Enter it will take you to the MIDI link page of the highlighted line I...

Page 70: ...mbres Synclavier II VPK model From its inception The Synclavier has always been a many buttons one knob interface Great efforts were made to get the feel and accuracy of the knob as good as possible a...

Page 71: ...ons on this Rather than debate the many pros and cons we will present the operation of this unit for sound design and the advantages and limitations to the Synclavier approach will become evident We h...

Page 72: ...n its two partials This is just adding more A little goes a long way and you ll soon realise that tweaking the timbre level controls on this panel can dramatically affect the character of a timbre Whe...

Page 73: ...100 and 101 on this timbre It s also a key element to Synclavier sound design Whereas the FM button should be considered a character changer the idea of the FM button is to provide a parameter to fin...

Page 74: ...wo in much the same way a guitarist would use a capo or imagine you re playing with an orchestra and the performance hall warms up throughout the night Many of the instruments will be slightly sharp b...

Page 75: ...5 You ll notice the sound has thickened up a bit Keep increasing it and you find when you get to about 20 it starts to sound like 2 distinct sounds instead of one and by about 35 this distinction is...

Page 76: ...uss in detail There are a lot of features on this button so when you first press Effects you re presented with a menu page Bit Crush Effects Filter Timbre Reverb Tapping an option button will take you...

Page 77: ...will see a scope graphic with a sine wave when you press a keyboard key Below is a graphic of one period of a sine wave The internal DAC of Regen is set to 50kHz just like Synclavier II This means ev...

Page 78: ...osses it won t be an exact sine wave at 6 bits Set the Bit Depth to 6 bit and press a key on your MIDI keyboard You ll see some fuzziness on the scope which is a fine grained castellation of the sine...

Page 79: ...tical to sine waves at 2 bit resolution Regards the frequency domain you can consider the Alias Filter as removing the quantization distortion by running the bit crushed waveform through a low pass fi...

Page 80: ...these controls on many types of sounds you ll likely find there s a sweet spot where you welcome some distortion but not too much The three controls on this page have no effect on subtractive wavefor...

Page 81: ...Wet Dry As with many effects its the mix of unprocessed vs processed audio that s passed through Hall Size Sets the emulated size of the space in which the reverberations take place changing this cont...

Page 82: ...re browsing and playing timbres preset Studio A 1 1 has been provided as a kind of default for this purpose If you want to save reverb into a timbre but feel its reverb plus the master reverb would be...

Page 83: ...vier inventors had the foresight to include on the original to make it less digital It s interesting to note that the first crop of digital synthesizers focused on recreating sounds of orchestral inst...

Page 84: ...pitch for every keyboard octave If you wanted a keyboard octave to have 2 octaves of pitch range you d set this to 2 half the pitch range set it to 0 5 This might seem like a strange thing to do but i...

Page 85: ...here are a few times where it will be useful The Partials Levelling setting when On automatically reduces the timbre volume based on the number of active partials sometimes referred to as normalizing...

Page 86: ...chord is arpeggiated once at the selected rate When the Repeat and Arpeggiate functions are both On a chord is arpeggiated and repeated as long as the keys are held The Rate sometimes called tempo at...

Page 87: ...ying an instrument such as a trombone or slide guitar or this might just be the effect you re after on a wholly synthesized timbre The Portamento Rate sets the speed with which the sound glides from o...

Page 88: ...d with a 2ms ramp down followed 3ms later with the start of the new note The Poly Retrig mode is very natural for sounds with a long final decay such as bells or gongs E g Regen Vibes RW 3 5 Mono Retr...

Page 89: ...s of filters are certainly possible and lots of Reverbs too but what we ve found is a combination of many filters and reverbs is what can crush the CPU On the Note Filter page you have the following o...

Page 90: ...nse curve of the filter Another line is plotted from a key an octave lower and a further line from an octave higher those lines leading to the Cut Off points of curves plotted on the same x axis to sh...

Page 91: ...ve sound on one of the partials Each of these partial can be modified in a variety of ways including changing the volume envelope adding vibrato or real time effects And as we ve learned the whole tim...

Page 92: ...k will increase or decrease until either they hit their extent or the selected track hits its extent The ENVELOPE Levels Volume page is a good page to experiment with because observation of the VU met...

Page 93: ...effect more on that soon So in the case of these 3 partials we can see that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and we have 12 partials to play with Let s dissect one more timbre Load Combi...

Page 94: ...imbre library if you tap the Choose Partials option you ll see the selector buttons that represent active partials in the candidate timbre blinking On the off blink cycle currently active partials wil...

Page 95: ...a complex steady state waveform Each sine wave can be modified individually You can create complex periodic or non periodic waveforms or waveforms with inharmonic relationships between frequency comp...

Page 96: ...years ago Joseph Fourier a brilliant French mathematician observed that all complex periodic waves are in fact combinations of sine waves with different frequencies amplitudes and phases The sine wav...

Page 97: ...ond harmonic is a sine wave whose frequency is twice the fundamental frequency the third harmonic is three times the fundamental frequency and so on Harmonics Okay let s put this in the context of sou...

Page 98: ...ghted Tap the Define button or Arrow Right twice to get there You ll notice that the display shows the coefficients of all 24 harmonics Harmonic 1 should be set to 100 and the others to 0 Only the fun...

Page 99: ...also view the frequency content on the multiscope page You can create evermore complex waveforms by adding further harmonics and tweaking the coefficients and phases but the fun has just begun because...

Page 100: ...vel for the waveform just like we did by setting the partial volume Tap Mod on the ENVELOPE panel then tap Levels and you ll see the options Partial FM FM Ratio Fine Notice that we have FM in the firs...

Page 101: ...The sheer breadth of character that can be had by judicious use of FM is staggering or maybe not if you consider that a whole generation of synthesizers were built on this technology since its develo...

Page 102: ...lope is applied to the carrier s amplitude So as can be seen in the diagram below attack stage governs how quickly or slowly a sound builds Percussion sounds will have a near zero attack whereas strin...

Page 103: ...a helpful graphical representation of the envelope much like the diagram above change Volume Envelope Parameters Vol Env Delay Time from key depression to beginning of sound If you want the sound to s...

Page 104: ...to peak volume Swipe to select an interval between 0 15 000 milliseconds Vol Env Decay Time from peak volume to beginning of sustain level Swipe to enter a time interval between 0 30 000 milliseconds...

Page 105: ...e carrier waveform per partial There s no point repeating ourselves but if we listed the table for volume envelope again for the modulator wave the Decay Shape would be absent because it is one parame...

Page 106: ...e These option buttons take you to further subpages Env Attack has the following options Start Level Attack Time Peak Level The Start Level sets the starting level for the envelope Unlike the volume a...

Page 107: ...e time this takes is set by the Release Time parameter 6 4 Subtractive Synthesis Subtractive synthesis takes the opposite approach to additive synthesis Rather than start with a sine wave and add harm...

Page 108: ...ere the output of the filter is 3db lower than the input Using a low pass filter and volume envelope you can turn noise into a range of sounds Shaped Noise SDT 2 1 is an example where the end product...

Page 109: ...ialiasing filter as Regen does something clever with the samples to prevent any nasty artifacts from this synthesis technique You can see this difference too if you play a note with a single saw gener...

Page 110: ...waveforms some additive and some subtractive Raindrops RW 7 7 employs one partial with a 3 voice super saw This is coupled to a low pass filter that s driven by an LFO to create a simulation of the so...

Page 111: ...n their base key Synclavier uses a variation of cubic spline interpolation for sample playback which we have found to be both efficient to calculate and musical sounding Synclavier Digital has also co...

Page 112: ...y one time so why add more than one Because soundfiles can be arranged to trigger in keyboard ranges This allows for multi sampled sometimes called poly sampled instruments where each key played trigg...

Page 113: ...later section to map these samples to MIDI velocity ranges And within those 12 partials we could have up to 48 different samples assigned to 48 different keyboard ranges It s rarely necessary to sampl...

Page 114: ...ard key and this will set a range of one key e g D3 2 Press and hold one key and then press one more key then release this will set a range e g C3 B3 Using this procedure it s quick to enter a bunch o...

Page 115: ...sts are sound boards of sound effects each triggered by a different keyboard key and of course drum kits Call up Monster Percussion Pack SS3 6 5 and click Edit Select the 8 active partials individuall...

Page 116: ...st being 10 but more importantly they re grouped by instrument category So if when using this timbre on a particular composition you decide all the cymbals should be louder you can adjust the volume o...

Page 117: ...t a different soundfile in the partial s patchlist and view its information This Define page can be considered a menu since it leads to other subpages There are a few drum kits included in Regen that...

Page 118: ...e subject to various environmental elements such as humidity and temperature which can affect their pitch So many samples of real instruments may be a cent or two sharp or flat The Tuning Offset is wh...

Page 119: ...will affect the quality of results of any FM applied an FM ratio that behaves in a certain satisfying way on some samples might break down on other untuned samples Volume Matching File Volume is a fur...

Page 120: ...y gritty should read on Flux Capacitor In the good old days of Synclavier II the voice cards used variable sample rate DACs The DACs worked very differently to the DACs of today which we won t discuss...

Page 121: ...out the rough edges and re create the original sine wave As it happens the Synclavier II voice cards didn t include any filtering To a certain extent the nominal capacitance inductance and resistance...

Page 122: ...mples into the Regen then not only should you be able to add the Synclavier effects but even without effects they should still sound enhanced Otherwise you re just playing back samples and any compute...

Page 123: ...uld sample in a higher bit rate but stretching up it doesn t matter what bit rate you chose as long as the sample is high fidelity enough when played back in its Base Key For most purposes 48kHz is su...

Page 124: ...f samples Often there ll be a short pause at the start of a sample before the first transient occurs and at the end of many samples there ll be a period when the sampled instrument is inaudible but su...

Page 125: ...ction on Timbres since it can also be applied to timbres The Chorus on the OSCILLATOR panel affects the selected partials A ratio of 1 means no chorus and turning it up or down will create a chorussed...

Page 126: ...e Vib LFO A Wave Vib LFO A Rate Vib Depth Vib LFO A Invert Vib Quantize Vib Bias LFO A Vibrato Parameter Vib LFO A Wave The shape of the pitch changes See table below Vib LFO A Rate The vibrato wave c...

Page 127: ...Vib Rate a high Vib Depth and toggle Quantize On and Off Vib LFO A Bias Create a vibrato in which the pitch fluctuates entirely above the key pressed Press Bias and play a note As a result the lowest...

Page 128: ...parameters is given in the table below Tremolo Parameter Trm LFO B Wave The shape of the amplitude changes Use Swiper or Nudge buttons to select one of three tremolo wave shapes sine triangle or squar...

Page 129: ...in When the parameter is Off the stereo position moves to the left first from its original panned stereo position When the button is On the stereo position moves to the right first from its original...

Page 130: ...able differences The Track Crossfader filters based on MIDI channel and optionally keyboard range and can apply fade in and fade out based on the keyboard range to effectively crossfade This is useful...

Page 131: ...two different shades of red representing the two partials partial 1 is an additive generator modelling a violin and its range is set for maximum volume from note C4 and up partial 2 is a harpsichord...

Page 132: ...ee the same 3 fade parameters present on the Track Crossfader Fade page which work in the same way Fade Shape Fade In Fade Out Let s look at a more complicated example that actually crossfades Call up...

Page 133: ...a value of 12 semitones in the case of keyboard range means the fade takes an octave to fully transpire If you Arrow Right to the Levels page you ll notice that many of the 12 partials 1 sample on eac...

Page 134: ...there but you could employ larger ranges or gentler crossfades whatever sounds right for the instrument you re building Some users may prefer that the samples only pitch up or less commonly only pitch...

Page 135: ...few notes at different velocities and you ll again see the vertical indicator bar but it will be further right depending on how hard you hit a key The x axis units are 0 127 since that is the MIDI inp...

Page 136: ...to the next For greater realism velocity is also mapped to volume with a Modulator covered in the next section NB The partials of Tongue Drum all reference the same soundfile but at different startin...

Page 137: ...Crossfader page you ll see that if you move your mod wheel the vertical indicator bar appears and you don t have to play a note to observe that All MIDI messages are coded for channel including the m...

Page 138: ...ing through the modulator interface and believe we ve developed a system that s easy to work with The Basics To get to the modulator page tap any button whose parameter you may wish to modulate for ex...

Page 139: ...it From Edit To Define Range those buttons will lead to 3 further subpages where you can modify the source destination and range of the highlighted modulator respectively Continuing with the example a...

Page 140: ...lues you would tap the required Selector button s to toggle those partial s selected state tap which Range extreme you want to modify then Swipe or Nudge the value In this case partial 1 would have a...

Page 141: ...from the images that the multiplier applied to volume is the same value regardless of the velocity source value And the hard samples housed in partials 3 6 9 and 12 start quiet and get louder with gr...

Page 142: ...ways to do this as already eluded to but each will be a compromise Having said that dulcimers are expensive delicate heavy take up space and require frequent time consuming tuning so when you conside...

Page 143: ...like a trumpet Rather than Solo Partial 3 to hear it turn down the Partial Volume of 1 and 2 and play and sustain a key in the range C5 B5 You ll notice a discontinuity in the sound The sample is set...

Page 144: ...ical use cases for this In this timbre the effect adds to the quirkiness of the overall sound but it means there s a sweet spot because as you play higher on the keyboard the low pass filter closes an...

Page 145: ...this timbre we ve restricted the LFO source to act from 54 0 to 127 0 on the destination This is actually a large region for filter Cut Off and by design some of that region is outside the useable fil...

Page 146: ...ways full Note also that the transfer function is a curve rather than a line When the Shape is set to non linear the LFOs and Pitch Bender sources follow an S Curve since they re resting value is in t...

Page 147: ...be changed for an expression pedal CC and with some tweaking of the Shape you will have a way to add lots of expression while keeping both hands free to play the keyboard Just to be clear a modulator...

Page 148: ...ader as a modulator source and then Tremolo Depth could be the destination the higher the note struck the higher the tremolo And of course this effect could be tailored on a per partial basis by adjus...

Page 149: ...do what you desire but the work shouldn t stop there It will also take time to become skilled at playing the timbre especially if you have an expressive controller with aftertouch or an MPE keyboard A...

Page 150: ...ntinue to fault find the issue with the suggestions below When you have found the issue you can switch the test off Check cabling Are all the cables in the correct sockets Are you using an external au...

Page 151: ...en you unplug a certain device In which case you could try a USB isolator or service this device Uneven Sound Is one channel left or right higher in volume than the other First check the pan setting o...

Page 152: ...e but it s worth checking If not it may not be compatible with Regen Are you drawing too much current Regen can handle 1 amp total on its 4 USB A ports More than this and all 4 USB ports are shutdown...

Page 153: ...self oscillating Do you larger reverb tails Or long release times on a partial Are you playing long samples with one shot mode You may have a stuck MIDI note This means a MIDI interface has supplied...