Synclavier Regen User Manual
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ENVELOPE Panel
Synclavier Regen contains sophisticated envelope generators for use in your
sound design. There’s a volume envelope accessed from the
Carrier
button and
an FM envelope accessed from the
Mod
button (sometimes referred to as a
harmonic envelope). From this panel, you can also access the
Partial Crossfader
function, which is invaluable in creating complex, responsive sounds.
LFO Panel
Vibrato
and
Tremolo
are oft-used LFO functions, so they have their own buttons.
Many of Synclavier’s signature sounds use one, or other, or both, extensively.
Vibrato
and
Tremolo
are mapped to pitch and volume/pan respectively, but can
also be exported as LFOs to other parameters by use of the Expression Modulator
pages accessed by pressing the
MIDI-link
button, covered in-depth later in this
manual. Most LFOs act on a partial level, with a few exceptions.
TIMBRE Panel
The blue buttons in the TIMBRE panel are timbre 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 saving a timbre’s set of partials plus the timbre parameters.
The white button on this panel is for
Track
Levels
. A timbre cannot be heard
without placing it on a track, and from this button you can modify the track’s
Volume
and
Pan
settings, “placing” it in the mix. If you swap out the current
timbre for another, the track settings won’t change. Likewise, if you save a
timbre, the track settings won’t be saved with it.
Track settings are saved with a session. So, when you save a session, you save
all active tracks, their timbres (containing timbre settings and partials) and
session settings, such as MASTER
Reverb
.
NOTE FX Panel
The blue parameters on this panel are also saved in a timbre, but unlike the
TIMBRE Panel, they’re more concerned with the performance of a track than the
character of the timbre. Here you switch on
Arpeggiate
and
Repeat
functions, for
instance. Synclavier considers this an element of sound design and so this is part
