plugin questions

[abcde111]

i would like to know what the following controls are:

MALLETS
Hardness
Position
Vib Gain
Vib Freq
Stick Mix
Spread

Modulator
Crossfade
LFO Speed
LFO Depth
ADSR
Spread

Bowed on/off
Pressure
Motion
Speed
Vibrato
Spread


also, vibrato seems to be not working on bars

LB 302
Slide

where can i find information on freeboy, zynaddsubfx, vibed, and the other plugins that don't have wiki pages?
thanks!

[diiz]

Best way to learn things is by trial and error. Try out all the knobs like a hyperactive 6-year old in a nuclear power plant, "ooh what does this red button do" style...

Slide in LB302 activates portamento/legato mode, the knob controls the length of the slide from one note to next.

For ZynAddSubFX, you can try their homepage, but it's best to learn the basics before trying to tackle that beast.

[robiby]

I can't help you with Mallets


LB302
To use the Slide, you have to turn it on. Then you'll be able to perform slides between two notes, adjusting their speed with the controll.

FreeBoy
The first line of knobs has general left/right volumes and Treble & Bass filters. On the right you have 8 buttons
The 8 buttons (ch1 left&right, ch2 left&right etc) are 4 different sounds playing together. You can put them on/off
The first channel is the short arp you listen at the beggining. You can edit its values in the second line of knobs.
The second channel is a simple square wave, and you can edit it's envelope in the third line on the left
The third channel is another wave you can draw on the bottom of the window
The last channel is noise, which you can tweak a bit on the right part of the third line of knobs.

ZynAddSubFX
It's a very complicated plugin. It is an external plugin that was integrated in LMMS and it has its own documentation: http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/Doc/
Note: the version in lmms is outdated, and the that documentation is outdated too. Funfact: the version is the same, so that doc is for our version.


Vibed
It's a synth with 9 different waves. All the controlls are applied to the wave selected.
Default is just one sine wave. You can draw it or chose from the list on the right.
To add a wave, just chose one of the 9 slots and turn the oscillator on by clicking the button on centre-right, the one with no description.


If you have any other question, just ask here.

[abcde111]

thanks guys for the really informative answers

i have a question for the triple oscillator.
what do the controls mean when they're in a mode other than mix?
i understand the coarse detuning knob and the other ones in the mix, but for, say phase modulation mode, what does the coarse detuning knob change?
and when i set osc 1 + osc 2 to PM, that means i'm modulating osc 1 with osc2 right?

[diiz]

thanks guys for the really informative answers

i have a question for the triple oscillator.
what do the controls mean when they're in a mode other than mix?
i understand the coarse detuning knob and the other ones in the mix, but for, say phase modulation mode, what does the coarse detuning knob change?
and when i set osc 1 + osc 2 to PM, that means i'm modulating osc 1 with osc2 right?

1 is modulated by 2, 2 is modulated by 3.

What you have to understand is that only the output of osc 1 is actually sent forward from the instrument, it's the only osc that output sound. If you set 1<-2 to "mix", then 2's output gets mixed with 1's output, and goes out that way. If 2<-3 is also on mix, then effectively all the oscillators' outputs get mixed together with osc1, and that is then sent to the output.

The controls work exactly the same when they're in a mode other than mix. When you set the mode to fm, am, or pm, the oscillator works just the same as always, but it's output won't be mixed with the target osc (ie. the one above it), instead, the target osc gets modulated by the output of the source osc. For example, if you set 1<-2 to PM mode, the phase of osc 1 gets modulated by the output of osc 2. Therefore the crs knob controls the tuning of osc 2, just as it does in mix mode, but then the output of osc 2 is taken and used to modulate the phase of osc 1.

The sync mode is a bit of an exception as it works a bit differently from other oscillators. When you set eg. 2<-3 to sync, then osc 3 will not output any sound, nor will it modulate anything. Instead, osc 2 will be synced to osc 3, so that every time osc 3 starts a phase, osc 2 starts a phase. This means that effectively osc 2's frequency will be that of osc 3's, but the waveform is still its own, so if osc 2 has a lower tuning, the waveform gets chopped off before the end.

[abcde111]

thanks!

[musikbear]

freeboy has a fun almost hidden feature. To the right to the VOL knob there is a 'field' -looks just like its 'empty', but try clicking your mouse inside it, and drag leftpressed. The drawed waveshape is an amusing feature

[diiz]

freeboy has a fun almost hidden feature. To the right to the VOL knob there is a 'field' -looks just like its 'empty', but try clicking your mouse inside it, and drag leftpressed. The drawed waveshape is an amusing feature

Uh... hidden? I've thought that was common knowledge. Should maybe be better documented, or maybe the graph should be made more visible...

Anyway, it's basically just the same kind of wavetable graph that we have on Bitinvader and Vibed.