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• Increase Drive or Distortion.
• Set Env 2 to be velocity sensitive. This allows for velocity sensitive filter modulations.
• Insert a stereo delay effect in the audio instrument channel strip of the ES2. In order
to delay several Audio Instruments, you might prefer to insert the effect into a Bus,
which is accessed via each channel’s Send.
Logic incorporates reverb and delay effects which are essential for many synthesizer
sounds. These aren’t integrated into the ES2, ensuring that no processing power is
unnecessarily wasted.
Tutorial Setting: Analog Bass clean
Topic: Clean Bass Settings with One Oscillator Only
Not every sound needs to comprise of several oscillators. There are numerous simple
and effective sounds which make use of a single oscillator. This is especially true of
synthesizer bass sounds, which can be created very quickly and easily through use of
this basic setting.
The basic sound is a rectangular wave, transposed down by one octave. The sound is
filtered by Filter 2. What’s special about this sound is its combination of Legato and Glide
(portamento). As long as you play staccato, no glide effect will occur. If you play legato,
the pitch will smoothly glide from one note to another. All keys must be released
before striking a new key, in order to retrigger the envelopes.
• Check out different filter and envelope settings.
• Replace the rectangular wave with a sawtooth.
• Vary the Glide settings.
Editing works best while a bass line is running. Create a monophonic MIDI Region, with
most notes played staccato and some legato. This can provide some interesting results
with very long Glide values.
Tutorial Setting: Analog Bass distorted
Topic: Distorted Analog Basses
Filter 1 is engaged, with high settings for Drive and Distortion. This filter is better suited
to the creation of distorted analog sounds than Filter 2.
• Check out Filter 2 by setting Filter Blend to its right-most position. You’ll hear that
Filter 1 works better with distorted sounds.
• In order to control the filter modulation, move the green sliders of the first
modulation channel in the router. This controls the modulation intensity.