Using more than one oscillator
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- KVRer
- 14 posts since 18 Feb, 2009
Hey guys,Im new.This message was posted in another place so ignore that one.Im messing around with the zebra vsti and have chosing a preset.Now my problem is this preset that was made has oscillators if I may,cancelling eatch others sounds out.See one thing I do to test a vsti sometimes is constantly press the tranport button on and off repeatedly to see if the response of it is rock solid and the preset when doing this sound becomes thin,then thick,then thin again.Now Im not saying its always the plug,but could someone explain to me about a thing called phasing I heard about.I've tried tweeking the preset and not go,even messed around with the phase buttons and well still no go.What am I missing out on here,can somebody please help me out.
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- KVRian
- 1100 posts since 4 Aug, 2004 from Copenhagen, Denmark
Hi natecha, welcome to KVRnatecha wrote:Hey guys,Im new.This message was posted in another place so ignore that one.Im messing around with the zebra vsti and have chosing a preset.Now my problem is this preset that was made has oscillators if I may,cancelling eatch others sounds out.See one thing I do to test a vsti sometimes is constantly press the tranport button on and off repeatedly to see if the response of it is rock solid and the preset when doing this sound becomes thin,then thick,then thin again.Now Im not saying its always the plug,but could someone explain to me about a thing called phasing I heard about.I've tried tweeking the preset and not go,even messed around with the phase buttons and well still no go.What am I missing out on here,can somebody please help me out.
Is that preset part of Zebras factory soundset ? Then tell which it is so people have a better chance at guessing whats up here
/Michael
www.xsynth.com - Sound Synthesis with Vintage flavour
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- KVRAF
- 1622 posts since 10 Jul, 2006 from Paris, France
This is not really a preset, it's just a "note" to say you to try the modwheel on all the others sounds of the factory soundbanknatecha wrote:It's the ------ try WHEELS on ALL sounds ------.h2p preset.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 14 posts since 18 Feb, 2009
Geez,it sounds like a preset to me but oh well.I just wanna know why do oscillators when using more than one tend to overide eatch others tones as you press the keys repeatedly.What is it about oscillators I don't know about,please help.
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- KVRist
- 289 posts since 25 Jul, 2006
Hmm it sounds ok to me, can you post an mp3 of what you're talking about exactly?natecha wrote:Geez,it sounds like a preset to me but oh well.I just wanna know why do oscillators when using more than one tend to overide eatch others tones as you press the keys repeatedly.What is it about oscillators I don't know about,please help.
- u-he
- 30215 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Add some detune and see what happens.natecha wrote:Geez,it sounds like a preset to me but oh well.I just wanna know why do oscillators when using more than one tend to overide eatch others tones as you press the keys repeatedly.What is it about oscillators I don't know about,please help.
The actual reason to have more than one oscillator is to create a fuller sound (among other things, but this is the most commonly used reason). This is achieved by setting the oscillators to a slightly different tune. That way they continuously shift phase against each other. Depending on the *changing* phase offset, different harmonics of the two oacillator waveforms cancel out while others emphasize. This makes for lively, non-static and full sound. If detune is missing and thus the phase offset stays static, each note may vary from "dull & static" to "strong & static" because the continuous phase shift doesn't happen while oscillators start at different random phase.
Hence, add some detune (different values for each oscillator) and see what happens
