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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
268 Chapter 20 ES2
Templates for the ES2
Welcome to a brief programming tour of the ES2!
While working on the factory preset programming for the ES2, a number of testers,
sound programmers and other people involved in the project indicated that it would
be nice to start their programming work from templates, rather than entirely from
scratch.
Needless to say, creating templates which cover all sound genres is something of a
mission impossible. As you spend time familiarizing yourself with the ES2’s architecture,
you’ll start to understand why …
Nevertheless, this programming tour for the ES2 was included as a part of the toolbox
to help you learn and understand the ES2’s architecture, through experimentation.
You’ll find that this approach is fun. You’ll also discover, as you’re working through a
number of simple operations, that results will come quickly when starting to create
your personal sound library.
As you become more familiar with the ES2, and what its myriad of functions and
parameters do, you can create your own templates—for use as starting points when
designing new sounds.
Clean Stratocaster (Slap Strat)
The target of this preset was the sound of a Stratocaster, with the switch between
bridge and middle pickup in the middle position (in phase). It attempts to emulate the
noisy twang, typical of this sound’s characteristics.
This might be a useful template for emulations of fretted instruments, harpsichords,
clavinets, and so on.
Have a look at its architecture:
Osc 1 and 3 provide the basic wave combination within the Digiwave field. Changing
the Digiwaves of both (in combination) delivers a huge number of basic variations—
some also work pretty well for electric piano-type keyboard sounds.
Osc 2 adds harmonics with its synced waveform, so you should only vary its pitch or
sync waveform. There are a couple of values which can be changed here, which will
give you a much stronger, more balanced signal.
An old trick, which delivers a punchy attack, was used—that the use of a naked wave
wouldn’t deliver—even with the best and fastest filters available: You use an envelope
(in this case, Env. 1) for a quick “push” of a wavetable’s window (or all wavetables
together, where it makes sense).