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294 Chapter 22 ES2
Tutorial Settings: Vector Perc Synth and Vector Punch Bass
Topic: Percussive Synthesizers and Basses with Two Filter Decay Phases (Vector
Envelope)
As with the “Vector Kick”, this setting uses the Vector Envelope to control the Filter
Cutoff Frequency (with two independently adjustable decay phases). This would not be
possible with a conventional ADSR envelope generator. Try creating further percussive
synthesizers and basses by varying these parameters:
• Vector Envelope Time 1 > 2 (= Decay 1),
• Vector Envelope Time 2 > 3 (= Decay 2),
• Vector Time Scaling,
• Cursor positions in the Square for points 1, 2, and 3 (= Cutoff Frequency),
• Choosing other waveforms.
Templates for Logic’s ES2
Welcome to a brief programming tour of the ES2!
While working on the factory preset programming for the ES2, a number of beta
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 covered 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, we kept this basic goal in mind, and included this programming tour for
the ES2 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.
-1- 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). We tried to emulate the
noisy “twang”, typical of this sound’s characteristics.
This might be a useful template to start work on emulations of fretted instruments,
harpsichords, clavinets, and so on.