Has anyone discovered a way to get the LFOs to modulate the panning parameters on individual operators? You can assign a CC to the panning slider and manipulate it via MIDI, but it would be even more interesting to allow one of it's free running LFOs to do this instead. Any thoughts?

-Tronam

i don't thinks its possible like you describe... would be pretty cool tho if every single parameter (effect time, pan, volume for the operator and etc) you could put into the LFO's or even have thier own mod matrix of some sort...

Yep, there's no way to do it right now, which is a shame.

The nearest you can get is to pan some operators to the left, and some to the right, then use the LFO to cut in/out the sound on each operator, that way you can "sort of" create panning effects using the LFO. Not nearly as cool as the kind of effects you could get if they allowed you to control the panning directly though

good trick pak!

Please don't see this post as a cheap way to pimp Orion but...

If you happen to use Orion ( ) there's an LFO tool in the automation window that allows you to set all kinds of cool LFO curves onto any parameter. You can then apply an LFO to any of the controls in the FM7 that you can automate. The advantage of doing it this way is you can see graphically exactly where the control will be at any point in the song.

If you don't have Orion, who knows, your host may have a similar feature.

Nick

Well, like the other guys say, there's no way to do this directly, but there are other workarounds as Pak mentions. I'd try setting two identical oscillators (using the cut and paste commands), then set the envelopes to modulate the sound, making sure that the two identical oscillators' envelopes are out of phase with one another and panned opposite to one another. Should result in modulated panning, plus you can use this to your advantage and alter one of the oscillators slightly, say put it an octave up and change the waveform, for some interesting effects - it would seem as though the oscillator would morph between waveforms from left to right etc.

You could also the envelopes to pan continuously from left to right, or various rhythmic patterns, which you wouldn't be able to do with an LFO.