8
Table Of Contents
- Logic Express 8 Instruments and Effects
- Contents
- Introduction to the Logic Express Plugins
- Amp Modeling
- Delay
- Distortion
- Dynamics
- EQ
- Filter
- Imaging
- Metering
- Modulation
- Pitch
- Reverb
- Specialized
- Utility
- EVOC 20 PolySynth
- EFM1
- ES E
- ES M
- ES P
- ES1
- ES2
- The ES2 Parameters
- Tutorials
- Sound Workshop
- Sound Design From Scratch, Filter Settings, Digiwaves
- Three Detuned Sawtooth Oscillators and Unison Mode
- Extremely Detuned Monophonic Analog Sounds, Effects
- Clean Bass Settings With One Oscillator Only
- Distorted Analog Basses
- FM Intensity and Frequency
- Controlling FM Intensity by an Envelope and FM Scaling
- FM With Drive and Filter-FM
- FM With Digiwaves
- FM With Wavetables
- Distorted FM in Monophonic Unison
- FM With Unusual Spectra
- Slow and Fast Pulse Width Modulations With Oscillator 2
- Pulse Width Modulation With Two Oscillators, PWM Strings
- Ring Modulation
- Oscillator Synchronization
- First Steps in Vector Synthesis
- Vector Synthesis—XY Pad
- Vector Synthesis Loops
- Bass Drum With Self-Oscillating Filter and Vector Envelope
- Percussive Synthesizers and Basses With Two Filter Decay Phases
- Templates for the ES2
- Sound Workshop
- EXS24 mkII
- Learning About Sampler Instruments
- Loading Sampler Instruments
- Working With Sampler Instrument Settings
- Managing Sampler Instruments
- Searching for Sampler Instruments
- Importing Sampler Instruments
- Parameters Window
- The Instrument Editor
- Setting Sampler Preferences
- Configuring Virtual Memory
- Using the VSL Performance Tool
- External Instrument
- Klopfgeist
- Ultrabeat
- GarageBand Instruments
- Synthesizer Basics
- Glossary
- Index
198 Chapter 20 ES2
The ES2 Parameters
If given just a few words to explain the principles behind a subtractive synthesizer, it
would go something like this: The oscillator generates the oscillation (or waveform),
the filter takes away the unwanted overtones (of the waveform), and the dynamic
stage sets the volume of the permanent oscillation (the filtered waveform) to zero—as
long as no keyboard note is pressed.
In an analog synthesizer, these three sections are commonly called the VCO, VCF, and
VCA, with VC being the abbreviation for Voltage Controlled, and the other letters
standing for Oscillator, Filter, and Amplifier, respectively.
The basic parameters of a synthesizer are controlled (modulated) by voltages: pitch in
the oscillator, timbre in the filter, loudness in the amplifier.
These voltages are generated by modulation sources. In the ES2, the Router determines
which parameter is controlled by which modulation source.
Finally, the synthesizer’s sound is refined by effects such as distortion or chorus.
This simple signal path is followed throughout, to introduce you to the ES2’s sound
generation modules.