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Creating Synth Brass
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Creating 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 use Poly
Mod to modulate the pitch of Oscillator A to simulate an aggressively
blown horn effect.
To create synth brass:
1. Recall the basic preset by holding down record and pressing preset.
Oscillator A is set to sawtooth by default.
2. Turn up Oscillator B in the mixer, then turn on its sawtooth wave and
set the fine control to 2 to detune it slightly.
3. In the filter section, set cutoff to 1, resonance to 3, and filter amount
to 8.
4. Press the keyboard switch twice to set keyboard lter tracking to full.
5. In the filter envelope section, set the attack to 4, decay to 6, sustain to
4, and release to 0.
6. Enable touch sensitivity by pressing and enabling the velocity button
once.
7. Play a few chords. Basic synth brass!
8. If you want, set the frequency of Oscillator A and Oscillator B an
octave lower using the frequency knob.
To create the “pitch blip”:
1. In the Poly Mod section, turn on freq a. This will route the modulation
to the frequency of Oscillator A.
2. As you repeatedly play a chord, gradually turn up the filt env knob.
This sets the amount of modulation from the Filter Envelope to the
frequency of Oscillator A. The exact shape of the Filter Envelope
determines the rise and fall of the frequency. This create the slight pitch
variation at the beginning of the sound (the “pitch blip”).
3. Set the filt env to somewhere between 0 and 1.
4. In the filter envelope section, experiment with different values for the
decay parameter. The controls how quickly the pitch falls.
5. Play some notes in the upper range of the keyboard. Classic synth
brass!