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• Switch on Solo Point, in order to more easily listen to the settings for the single
points.
• Click Point 1. You will only hear Oscillator 1’s sawtooth.
• Move the cursor in the Square to the hard left, which results in a low Cutoff Frequency
for Oscillator 2.
• Click Point 2. You will only hear Oscillator 2’s rectangular wave.
• Move the cursor in the Square all the way down, which results in the right-most
Panorama position.
• Click Point 3. You will only hear Oscillator 3’s triangular wave.
• Move the cursor in the Square all the way up, which results in the left-most
Panorama position.
• Switch on Solo Point. The sound begins with a strongly filtered sawtooth wave and
turns into an-unfiltered square wave. It initially sounds from the right, and then
moves to the left while morphing into a triangular wave. After releasing the key, the
saw sound will be heard.
This example sound isn’t very dramatic or interesting, but we wanted it to be as clear as
possible for the purposes of the tutorial.
Tutorial Settings: Vector Loop
Topic: Vector Synthesis Loops
This example is much more spectacular. The basic sound, without the Vector Envelope,
consists of three elements:
• Oscillator 1 delivers a metallic FM spectrum, modulated by Oscillator 2’s wavetable.
• Oscillator 2 outputs cross-faded DigiWaves (a wavetable), modulated by LFO 2.
• Oscillator 3 plays a PWM sound at the well-balanced, and keyboard-scaled, speed of
LFO 1.
Unison and Analog make the sound fat and wide.
These heterogenic sound colors shall be used as sound sources for the vector loop.
A slow forward loop is pre-set. It moves from Oscillator 3 (PWM sound, Point 1) to
Oscillator 1 (FM sound, Point 2), then to Oscillator 3 again (PWM, Point 3), then to
Oscillator 2 (Wavetable, Point 4) and finally, it returns to Oscillator 3 (PWM, Point 5).
Points 1 and 5 are identical, avoiding any transition from Point 5 to Point 1 in the
forward loop. This “transition” could be smoothed out with Loop Smooth, but this would
make the rhythmic design more difficult to program.
The distances between the points of the Vector Envelope have been set to be
rhythmically exact. Given that Loop Rate has been engaged, the time values are not
displayed in ms, but as percentages. There are four time values (each at 25%), which is
a good basis for the transformation into note values.