Dictionary – Lexikon

Menu @ Synth Wiki: English & German content – Synth Dictionary. Deutscher und Englischer Inhalt – Synthesizer Wörterbuch – Kleine Info für absolute Synthesizer-Einsteiger, bevor man die Synthese-Grundlagen gelesen hat.. Tricks & Tutorials As the name says – from how to make a bass sound with FM to modular stuff wie der Name sagt: Tricks aller Art vom Bass mit FM Synthese mit Ableton Live Operator bis … Sound Synthesis Lots of synth & synthesis terms Klangsynthese und Begriffe zum Nachschlagen Sequencer All types of Sequencers listed here. Was gibt es…

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Basics & Tutorials – Sound Synthesis

Patches / Sounds / Downloads where can I find Sounds / Patches or Samples? where can I find Impulse Responses / IR? Programming Patches Tutorial FM Basses Sounds on Ableton Live Operator (4 OP FM Synthesizer) The real ancient Waldorf Programming section more Synthesizer Tricks (english) Sound Synthesis Tricks + Tutorials – Index MIDI History basics / tutorials / synthesis.. SYNTHESIZER INTRODUCTION Sound Synthesis Types additive synthesis physical modeling FM frequency modulation wavetable subtraktive synthesis (most common!!) sampler / sampling („rompler“) – PCM = Pulse Code Modulation vector karplus strong…

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WALDORF Ideas & things to remember Part 3 Soundprogramming

WALDORF… Ideas & things to remember Soundprogramming… how many voices can the microQ do and what about the DSP-power??.. go HERE! > > yesterday I tried to create a bunch of sounds (drones) that share the characteristics of being ‚airy‘. The german word ‚hauchend‘ might describe it quite well, though the similarly named preset is not really what I mean. I tried to use some noise as well as the wavetables with lots of higher harmonics – but it sounded to buzzy and to harsh to my ears. After some…

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WALDORF Ideas & things to remember Part 2 Ideas & Tricks

WALDORF… Ideas & things to remember Ideas & Tricks… how many voices can the microQ do and what about the DSP-power??.. go HERE! UPAW wavetables.. how to make some..? 1) Use the UPAW assembler which is available as open source on the FTP-server. 2) Use the Polyframe (atari ST, was what is now sounddiver) Adaption georg müller created back in time for the Atari. 3) Use a Hex-Editor to code the SysEx directly. but normally you can use the ones,that are already in: FM, and some more using sounddiver. upaw…

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Waldorf Info – Things to remember Part 1 Basics

WALDORF… Ideas & things to remember Basics… how many DSPs are in the XT? One!!!!! IIRC they are the same type used in Kyma, correct? Nearly, the Kyma uses Motorola DSP56309 and we use DSP56303, the only difference is that the 56309 has more on-chip RAM than the 56303.Waldorf V2.0 Beta team in 1994 and coding was done by Andreas Busse and Stefan Stenzel. Stefan focussed much on the Wavetable loader then. The machine use to code V2.0 was named RESI ;-) it was done on a SAM68K system, and…

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Ableton Live: Creating Bass Sounds with FM (works with any FM synth, too)

Creating Bass Sounds with FM by Moogulator TUTORIAL for Operator for Ableton Live 4.1 or higher and other FM Synthesizers like DX / TG (by Yamaha) this lesson should explain that it is quite easy to use FM. Operator makes it easier than what is said about FM. let’s start to make some bass patches and learn how to do it in this lesson. No matter if it’s an acoustic bass or some fancy synth bass lines you want to create. 1) Let’s start from the initialized sound which is…

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