Unisono in DIVA?

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im trying to recreate some presets from synth1 in DIVA but find it a bit hard for me (yeah im not so good in sound design yet, hope i will be better ;)) and didnt find unisono, did i miss something? ;)

i wanna recreate the left preset in DIVA and thought the minimoog template with 3 osc is the most fitting one + digital adsr, what would you suggest?

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It's in the "main" page tab, just above the "main" button, you've got "Voices" and "Stack", Stack being the amount of unison layers. Be sure to give enough voices to satisfy the Stack requirements (and take into account if you're playing a solo line or chords, for example). Also, if you have a multi-core computer, TURN ON MULTICORE! This is a lifesaver!

Then in the Trimmers page you can set offsets for each voice and set the spread of eg. panning and pitch, etc, to customise the unison sound.

To be honest, I don't find myself using unison much in Diva. The sound is incredibly rich as it is. It's something I should look into more.
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Sendy wrote:It's in the "main" page tab, just above the "main" button, you've got "Voices" and "Stack", Stack being the amount of unison layers. Be sure to give enough voices to satisfy the Stack requirements (and take into account if you're playing a solo line or chords, for example). Also, if you have a multi-core computer, TURN ON MULTICORE! This is a lifesaver!

Then in the Trimmers page you can set offsets for each voice and set the spread of eg. panning and pitch, etc, to customise the unison sound.

To be honest, I don't find myself using unison much in Diva. The sound is incredibly rich as it is. It's something I should look into more.
thanks a lot mate, again learned more about DIVA :), and yes the sound is very thick already from it, i sometimes want a thinner sound and tend to use TAL plugin or something but when i wanna rich the sound i get back to DIVA ;).

can someone who has DIVA maybe give me a hand to recreate the left synth1 patch? i try to learn it more with understanding to recreate a bass sound and then go on. would be awesome :).

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If the stack amount is set use the "stack index" as a modulation source for detune of the oscillators. Same with stereo, use for the Pan Mode the stack index. This will give stereo spread.
But Diva has not enough voices for bigger stacking and playing chords, so I would not go over 2 or 3 for this.

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4damind wrote:If the stack amount is set use the "stack index" as a modulation source for detune of the oscillators.
(Psst... use the dedicated "Stack Tuning" controls instead)

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Direct translation:

num: "stack" on the main page or trimmers page

det: You can set the Tune Mod source to StackIndex and Tune Mod knob will be the same as det, or as Howard suggests you can tweak the voices individually with the knobs under "stack tuning" on the trimmers page. This will allow you to save the pitch modulation source for something else.

Phase: Diva's OSCs other than DCO are free running, so it will usually act like the phase knob is turned all the way up. AFAIK there is no way to "spread" the phase of unison voices in Diva (the phases of free running OSCs are already spread), however if you want a similar sound to the phase knob being turned down, set transient mode to "OSC reset" on the trimmers page, and the 3 knobs above it will give a similar effect to "phase" in the synth 1 unison panel.

sprd: Set the pan mod (main page) source to StackIndex and the pan mod knob becomes sprd.

pitch: You have to do this manually in the stack tuning section. Set each knob to the pitch you want (the number in the top display is in semitones, same as pitch in synth 1). Then detune each one slightly if you're using that method for detuning. If you need this feature and don't mind losing the pitch mod source it might be easier to use StackIndex for detuning.
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3*s wrote:Direct translation:

num: "stack" on the main page or trimmers page

det: You can set the Tune Mod source to StackIndex and Tune Mod knob will be the same as det, or as Howard suggests you can tweak the voices individually with the knobs under "stack tuning" on the trimmers page. This will allow you to save the pitch modulation source for something else.

Phase: Diva's OSCs other than DCO are free running, so it will usually act like the phase knob is turned all the way up. AFAIK there is no way to "spread" the phase of unison voices in Diva (the phases of free running OSCs are already spread), however if you want a similar sound to the phase knob being turned down, set transient mode to "OSC reset" on the trimmers page, and the 3 knobs above it will give a similar effect to "phase" in the synth 1 unison panel.

sprd: Set the pan mod (main page) source to StackIndex and the pan mod knob becomes sprd.

pitch: You have to do this manually in the stack tuning section. Set each knob to the pitch you want (the number in the top display is in semitones, same as pitch in synth 1). Then detune each one slightly if you're using that method for detuning. If you need this feature and don't mind losing the pitch mod source it might be easier to use StackIndex for detuning.
AWESOME! thanks a lot, i love especially the SPREAD function :)

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