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90 Creating Stereo Synth Brass Dave Smith Instruments
Creating Stereo Synth Brass
Here’s another easy-to-construct sound: synth brass, with a classic “pitch
blip” effect on the attack. In this example you’ll learn how to pan the
oscillators hard left and right to create an ultra-wide stereo spread, how
to detune the super saw wave, and how to use an auxiliary envelope to
modulate the pitch of oscillator 2 to simulate an aggressively blown horn
effect.
To create synth brass:
1. Press the global button.
2. Use Soft Knob 1 to navigate to basic program and press Soft Button 1
(write now). As a shortcut, hold down the front-panel transpose down
button and press the hold button.
3. In the mixer, turn up Oscillator 2 to 127. (Osc 1 is already at 127.)
4. In the oscillators section, set both oscillators to super saw and set
shape mod for osc 1 to 45 and osc 2 to -45 to detune and thicken them.
5. With the Mixer parameters shown in the display, press Soft Button 2
to select panning, then set osc1 pan to -64L and osc2 pan to 63R for an
ultra-wide stereo spread.
6. In the oscillators section, set slop 1&2 to 15 to add a little analog-
style oscillator drift.
7. In the filter section, set cutoff to 10, resonance to 5, and drive to 100.
8. In the filter envelope section, set the env amount to 80, the attack to
16, decay to 88, sustain to 58, and release to 90.
9. Enable touch sensitivity by pressing and enabling the velocity button.
10. In the auxiliary envelope section, select envelope 3 and set its desti-
nation to osc2 freq. This routes envelope 3 to modify osc 2 pitch
according to its ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release) settings. This
will create the slight pitch variation at the beginning of the sound (the
“pitch blip”).
You can quickly assign the mod destination for Envelope 3 by holding down
the envelope’s selector button and turning the Oscillator 2 frequency knob. This will
auto-assign the modulation destination to the envelope.