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• Click point 3, and drag its corresponding square icon in the Triangle to Oscillator 3.
Listen to the three oscillators morphing from sawtooth to square to a triangular wave
at the final Sustain point.
• Click point 4 (the end point) and drag its corresponding square icon in the Triangle to
Oscillator 1, if it’s not already there. Listen to how the sound returns to Oscillator 1’s
sawtooth wave, following the release of the key.
Using the Planar Pad for Vector Synthesis in the ES2
The Vector Envelope setting starts where the Vector Start setting left off. You have a simple
Vector Envelope consisting of 4 points, which is set to modulate the oscillator mix (the
Triangle).
In this example, the Vector Envelope will be used to control two additional
parameters—the Cutoff Frequency of Filter 2 and Panorama. These are preset as the X
and Y targets in the Planar Pad. Both have a value of 0.50.
• Switch on Solo Point, to more easily listen to the settings for the single points.
• Click point 1. You will hear only Oscillator 1’s sawtooth.
• Drag the square icon in the Planar Pad to the far left, which results in a low cutoff
frequency for Oscillator 2.
• Click Point 2. You will hear only Oscillator 2’s rectangular wave.
• Drag the square icon in the Planar Pad all the way down, which results in the rightmost
panorama position.
• Click Point 3. You will hear only Oscillator 3’s triangular wave.
• Drag the square icon in the Planar Pad all the way up, which results in the leftmost
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 it moves
to the left while morphing into a triangular wave. After you release the key, the saw
sound will be heard.
Using Vector Synthesis Loops in the ES2
The basic sound of the Vector Loop setting—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.
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