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Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
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Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
Here’s another classic sound: a hard-sync lead. A famous example of this
is “Let’s Go” by the Cars (performed on a Prophet-5). In this example
you’ll learn how to hard-sync the oscillators, pitch-modulate one of them
with an auxiliary envelope, then add effects.
To create a hard-sync lead:
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 latch 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 sawtooth.
5. On Oscillator 1, enable the sync 1 button. (See page 19 for an expla-
nation of hard sync.)
6. Set Oscillator 1’s octave to 1. This will allow for a wide range of pitch
modulation in step 9.
7. In the aux envelope section, select envelope 1.
8. in the display, press Soft Button 1 (aux 1 dest) and use Soft Knob 1
to choose osc 1 coarse freq as the destination. This routes envelope
1 to modulate Oscillator 1 pitch according to its ADSR (attack, decay,
sustain, release) settings.
9. Set the auxiliary env amount to 127 and attack to 23, decay to 60,
sustain to 100, and release to 65. This will set the amount and “shape”
of the modulation.
10. Play some notes. Classic hard-sync lead!
11. Experiment with Aux Envelope 1’s Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release
settings to better understand how these affect the shape of pitch modu-
lation routed to Oscillator 1.