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Gps » Tue Jun 01, 2021 10:30 pm
I am not happy with this sound, mostly because I don't understand how this synth1 preset works.
Something to figure out.
Why does it swell ? Its probably the filter, it did not seem to be the lfo settings.
Getting 100% the same sound especially with analog synths is indeed impossible.
Two the same models already do not sound 100% the same.
There is also a vid were a Synth of Jarre gets out of tune, and no matter what he tries, it refuses to go back in tune.
With some help, found out, what makes the fade to grey sound. (The organ like sound)
It's the vox humana preset on the polymoog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_humana
Then somebody on the KVR forum said:
This is not a simple patch, someone sits at the synth turning knobs while playing. If you do this in a DAW you need to use some automation lanes to achieve the same.
The note starts already at 1:20. The (mono)synth was prepped before by playing the lowest note on its keyboard. Then the Portamento is turned all the way up, so the pitch rises slowly from that low note to the high A. The curve with fast start and slow near destination is natural for simple electronic circuits. When the pitch is at its destination, portamento is turned down again, so pitch follows the keyboard naturally again. There is a separate envelope generator (ADSR) for the filter. The attack of that is raised, that causes the wow wow: modulation of the filter cutoff frequency. Sometimes if notes are played overlapping, the envelope is not retriggered, so then the wow wow effect is missing.
I am impressed and very happy, I at least understand what he is saying.
Although I still feel like a total beginner, me understanding his reply does shows I learned allot.
I love how he points out how they prepped the real hardware synthesizer.
The first part of his reply I already have. Pitch automation. This slide is also at the beginning of the track.
It needs some finetuning though. Through his reply, I wonder f I should try to make that slide span more notes.
After watching some polymoog vids, and recognizing it from the vst I found, I might give that vst some more study.
One problem in LMMS(Linux) through Vestige is though, all labels of all knobs are missing.
It does make sound, and the knobs do work. It does not have presets, but the sound it does make out of the box, is that Vox Humana sound.
The vst does not have those blue preset knobs.