One Synth Challenge #120: SE PolyMod KX by KX77FREE (Voting Time!)
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- KVRist
- 199 posts since 17 May, 2013
Thanks! I think I would pick EG if I would use it as a standard LFO. That's good to see
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- KVRAF
- 3008 posts since 17 Apr, 2010 from Croatia
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- KVRAF
- 3008 posts since 17 Apr, 2010 from Croatia
Ok then, here's a first go at a few sounds... kick, snare, hihat and a curious organ. 
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- KVRian
- 779 posts since 1 Dec, 2016
Ha, I finally stumbled on the lfo depth eg thing and it looks like everyone stumbled on it at the same time! hmmm, according to some careful time stamp cross-calculations to the slack, something seems fishy 
Just a touch of EQ and a tickle of compression
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- KVRist
- 199 posts since 17 May, 2013
Ok ok 
in case anyone else is wondering about the velocity envelope times: You need to dial up the Vel parameter of the whole envelope first in order to get any results with the small knobs.
What a shame ... I had hoped that the Vel parameter was for velocity depth. But control over envelope times is a neat feature anyway
in case anyone else is wondering about the velocity envelope times: You need to dial up the Vel parameter of the whole envelope first in order to get any results with the small knobs. What a shame ... I had hoped that the Vel parameter was for velocity depth. But control over envelope times is a neat feature anyway
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- KVRAF
- 2166 posts since 7 Mar, 2014
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- KVRist
- 429 posts since 4 Jun, 2018 from The UK
I was struggling to get the envelopes to reset for new notes - they were staying open and wan't good for long releases. I think I found what I need - if you set the Note Steal section from the default (Init patch) of Hard Steal to Overriden then that seems to act the way I wanted!
Though I'd share in case it helps anyone (sorry if someone already pointed it out).
Though I'd share in case it helps anyone (sorry if someone already pointed it out).
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- KVRian
- 653 posts since 13 May, 2017 from Virginia
Ah you guys are geniuses. LFOS working. My first complaint about this synth is that you can't manually set every knob, so sometimes you're just hoping the value is set to the right number. Grr!
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- KVRian
- 653 posts since 13 May, 2017 from Virginia
Some synths just can do everything so well. Torn between an 80s style action movie track, or a Boards of Canada reflective piece.
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- KVRAF
- 3008 posts since 17 Apr, 2010 from Croatia
That's your 1st complaint?!? 
...my first would've been that it does take a good deal of investigating to figure out what does what, even after you've found at what is what, haha.
...my main "complaint" is the Eg implementation, which is either mysterious or totally mad, because the Eg dial seems to just provide an offset to the envelopes, rather than a multiplier or some odd combination out of the two. Even after connecting the matrix like hooking EgF into F1 and/or F2, it still acts well... mysteriously, haha. I don't quite get it, yet. Needs more experimentation.
But IF it is how it seems and you can only multiply the values with the tiny dials on the matrix, then it's sad, because those cannot be automated.
No less: The sound is GREAT! Love the quality and richness of it already.
...my first would've been that it does take a good deal of investigating to figure out what does what, even after you've found at what is what, haha.
...my main "complaint" is the Eg implementation, which is either mysterious or totally mad, because the Eg dial seems to just provide an offset to the envelopes, rather than a multiplier or some odd combination out of the two. Even after connecting the matrix like hooking EgF into F1 and/or F2, it still acts well... mysteriously, haha. I don't quite get it, yet. Needs more experimentation.
But IF it is how it seems and you can only multiply the values with the tiny dials on the matrix, then it's sad, because those cannot be automated.
No less: The sound is GREAT! Love the quality and richness of it already.
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- KVRist
- 429 posts since 4 Jun, 2018 from The UK
I have been setting the value of the knobs in FL using the 'set value of last tweaked knob' feature. I don't understand why you can't reset the knobs by double clicking, or alt clicking or whatever... Getting stuff back to 0 is almost impossible. I have been tweaking and then undoing in my DAW instead 
@functionform Boards of Canada was also the first thing that came to my mind when auditioning the presets.
Most of the interesting sounds I've come up with so far have been from experimenting with the mod matrix! I'm having more fun than I thought I would at first blush. Playing with phase, pan, noise etc.
I want to figure out how to apply an envelope to modulate the depth of the FM sounds...
Btw, has anyone figures out what C is in the mod matrix? Judging by the colour code it's something related to the filter section.
@functionform Boards of Canada was also the first thing that came to my mind when auditioning the presets.
Most of the interesting sounds I've come up with so far have been from experimenting with the mod matrix! I'm having more fun than I thought I would at first blush. Playing with phase, pan, noise etc.
I want to figure out how to apply an envelope to modulate the depth of the FM sounds...
Btw, has anyone figures out what C is in the mod matrix? Judging by the colour code it's something related to the filter section.
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- KVRian
- 653 posts since 13 May, 2017 from Virginia
I've also noticed the ubiquitous keyboard tracking sometimes causes strange behaviors wrt envelopes. I set them to 0 as best I can before attempting to do standard operations like setting envelopes.
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- KVRist
- 466 posts since 19 Oct, 2012
