Synclavier Regen User Manual
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Note, there’s only one line of Output Ranges. That’s
because some destinations, apply to the timbre rather
than the partials, because they pertain to timbre-level
functions. Try making this effect more or less
pronounced by decreasing or increasing the start
Range
from 54.0 (the range limits the travel of filter cut-off, but
the swing of the LFO is always 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 the middle: they go plus/minus, as
opposed to Mod Wheels, Pressure, Envelopes, and so on, that go in one direction
only. This curve has been set to a steepness of 8dB.
One neat trick used in FM Swell [SDT 3-8] is to match the curve steepness to
the filter and route the same source to Cut Off
and
Volume (with an inverse
relationship), so as the filter position is changed to remove some upper
