User Guide

Chapter 21 ES2 315
Percussive Synthesizers and Basses With Two Filter Decay Phases
As with the Vector Kick, the Vector Perc Synth 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 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.