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1-2-Many · Post by **1-2-Many** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:36 pm

Are we close???

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:56 pm

http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/faq.cgi
http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/todo.cgi

no. the answers given on those two pages are going to remain the same as the ones you get directly from me. i wrote those pages. if things change, the pages will change.

at the moment i do not have all that much interest in xhip.

payt69 · Post by **payt69** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:57 pm

Jono-60 wrote:How do I create a nice String pad sound in xhip?

take 2 ramp waves, detune slightly, slow attack,slow deacy, lot of sustain, slow release, a sine lfo to one or both of the oscs, filter from about halfway open to all the way open, add resonance to your flavour, and that should pretty much be that basics of some nice strings.

scoobz · Post by **scoobz** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:06 am

aciddose wrote:at the moment i do not have all that much interest in xhip.

Well that's sad to hear man, you've gone so far with this and you have so many people supporting you, it's rare that you see that on the net.

You're making a great synth here, you've had some great offers of people wanting to help with the GUI. As far as my personal testing goes this is a finished synth and a worthy one too. A problem I used to have was never knowing when to finish a track, I'd obsess over the details when the best thing to do was to put it out there and let it fly.

Hope you find your muse......

Jono-60 · Post by **Jono-60** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:17 am

payt69 wrote:
Jono-60 wrote:How do I create a nice String pad sound in xhip?
take 2 ramp waves, detune slightly, slow attack,slow deacy, lot of sustain, slow release, a sine lfo to one or both of the oscs, filter from about halfway open to all the way open, add resonance to your flavour, and that should pretty much be that basics of some nice strings.

Cool! thanks, I will try that later.

How do you assign LFO to one OSC only?

funkadil · Post by **funkadil** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:33 am

The second osc is the only one with its own mod section. It's on the osc page.

Jono-60 · Post by **Jono-60** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:03 pm

I tried to make the string patch following your instructions, however it still sounds 'buzzy'. How do I make it sound smooth? I guess its the filter section I need to look at, but it seems like its not working. I cant hear much difference when moving the sliders here. How do I use it properly?

payt69 · Post by **payt69** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:39 pm

Jono-60 wrote:I tried to make the string patch following your instructions, however it still sounds 'buzzy'. How do I make it sound smooth? I guess its the filter section I need to look at, but it seems like its not working. I cant hear much difference when moving the sliders here. How do I use it properly?

First of all, i think you want to check how many voices per note you have on. On the last page you can select something to that extend. It should be just 1.

Secondly, if i remember correctly, you can adjust the resonance and the filter and the input frequency for the waveshaper. If any of those are set in a certain way, you end up getting all sorts of weirdness. It'd be best to set the cutoff and resonance to 0, and play around a bit with the input freq.

Also check out the saturation of the filter, since too much of that will also result in buzzyness.

gsoto · Post by **gsoto** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:41 pm

Jono-60, many ways to make a string pad.
Another approach could be to start with a supersaw. Example: http://xhip.cjb.net/temp/public/basic_strings_2.adxi

Branis · Post by **Branis** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:07 pm

Jono-60 wrote:I tried to make the string patch following your instructions, however it still sounds 'buzzy'. How do I make it sound smooth? I guess its the filter section I need to look at, but it seems like its not working. I cant hear much difference when moving the sliders here. How do I use it properly?

Check the filter mode. It's probably set to none, set it to 12 or 24db lowpass.

Jono-60 · Post by **Jono-60** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:11 pm

gsoto wrote:Jono-60, many ways to make a string pad.
Another approach could be to start with a supersaw. Example: http://xhip.cjb.net/temp/public/basic_strings_2.adxi

Thats lovely, thanks a lot!

Boulotaur2024 · Post by **Boulotaur2024** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:37 pm

gsoto wrote:Jono-60, many ways to make a string pad.
Another approach could be to start with a supersaw. Example: http://xhip.cjb.net/temp/public/basic_strings_2.adxi

Nice one, did a small test in eXT (played on my laptop with this fantastic instrument)

http://www.s146380088.onlinehome.fr/Muzik/AA.mp3

Here is the eXT file

Jono-60 · Post by **Jono-60** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:53 pm

Thats most excellent. Wish I had eXT just to see how it was made.

Was the crescendos done with amp envelopes?

Boulotaur2024 · Post by **Boulotaur2024** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:57 pm

Nope, just using Xhip ADSR sliders. Btw it's just -not very necessary- 3 instances of Xhip, Overtone GEQ and a [great algo reverb].

gsoto · Post by **gsoto** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:58 am

That's lovely, Bulotaur. Regardless of the sound I like what you've played, even if it was random.

Jono, I'm glad that helped. The patch is pretty basic actually; there's a lot of unused synth potential there (2nd oscillator, waveshaper, 2nd filter, LFOs, ...). Try tweaking all that stuff.

XHip--Please finish your synth!!