The Advanced Edit Page
In this page you have total control over the selected drum sound synthesis parameters.
In StiX, each drum sound is made with a complete and complex modeled analog synthesizer, which can also make use of samples in a
primitive, but efficient way, and of FM synthesis. The Advanced Edit Page is a bit crowded, but the reward is an incredible flexibility
to create your sounds.
Therefore you’ll find on the Advanced Pad Edit a lot of controls that some of you might be familiar with if you’re used to work with
hardware analog synthesizers and samplers, or their virtual counterparts.
The 3 Envelopes : VCA, VCF, and Pitch EV (1)
StiX provides two different envelope types : A traditional ADSR one, and our exclusive R-CLAP envelope model, where R stands for
both ‘Rhythm’ and ‘Repeats’.
The traditional ADSR envelope emulates the analog behavior of the RSF Kobol vintage analog synthesizers, that was famous for its
fast and snappy envelopes. The R-CLAP envelope is inspired by the Clap sound of a legendary vintage analog Drum Machine, that
we took to the next level, to make it much more versatile, and the source of many rhythmic effects.
Whatever the Envelope type you choose :
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VCA Envelope : controls the volume of the sound over time.
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VCF Envelope : controls the Filter’s Cut-Off Point over time
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Pitch Envelope will control the Pitch of the Oscillators over time (1 & 1B)
Additionally :
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The VCA Envelope always control the overall volume of the drum sound
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The action of the Filter Envelope depends of the EV/VCF amount knob, located in the Filter area
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The action of the Pitch Envelope on each of the three oscillators depends on the amount of modulation set buy the three PEV
knobs, located at the right of the Envelope Area.
Tip : Please note that each envelope can be used as a modulation source to control any destination parameters in the various
modulation engines (Mod Matrix, Macro Matrix etc)
The Traditional ADSR envelope
: It has 4 knobs.
A : Set the attack of the envelope (The time to reach maximal volume)
D : Set the decay of the envelope (Time to go to the sustain level)
S : Set the Sustain Level
R : Set the release of the envelope (Time to go from the sustain Level to zero)
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