Which synths can do this?
- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 282 posts since 21 Jul, 2020
So I was hanging out with my little brother, and he has this little Kalimba that sounds pretty good. I thought it would be fun to create a soundpatch from scratch in a synth. I ran into a problem that MUST be due to user error, because it seems like something so obvious.
So I first tried this in Serum. I wanted to have a basic sine sound in Osc A, with a long release and a slight attack. Then I wanted a more percussive sound in Osc B with no release, and very little decay.
Basically I wanted Env1 to control Osc A, and Env2 to control Osc B. However, it seems both oscillators are hard-routed through Env1, and there is no way to change this.
I tried this in Pigments and ran into a similar issue.
I was able to do what I wanted in Rapid because you can basically layer stacks of different synths, so this was easily achieved using two separate synth stacks.
Now am I just ignorant, or is this really a limitation on many synths? Why not have the ability to have a separate amp envelope for each oscillator? Perhaps this was impossible on most hardware synths because the amp envelope was just part of the hardware, but in a soft synth this shouldnt be too hard to do.
So I first tried this in Serum. I wanted to have a basic sine sound in Osc A, with a long release and a slight attack. Then I wanted a more percussive sound in Osc B with no release, and very little decay.
Basically I wanted Env1 to control Osc A, and Env2 to control Osc B. However, it seems both oscillators are hard-routed through Env1, and there is no way to change this.
I tried this in Pigments and ran into a similar issue.
I was able to do what I wanted in Rapid because you can basically layer stacks of different synths, so this was easily achieved using two separate synth stacks.
Now am I just ignorant, or is this really a limitation on many synths? Why not have the ability to have a separate amp envelope for each oscillator? Perhaps this was impossible on most hardware synths because the amp envelope was just part of the hardware, but in a soft synth this shouldnt be too hard to do.
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- KVRist
- 392 posts since 10 Apr, 2010
You can have separate amp envelopes in VPS Avenger.
- Banned
- 7624 posts since 13 Nov, 2015 from Norway
Full Bucket the blooo, scrooo and the qyooo all have three envelopes. ModulAir can have 10 or more envelopes if you want since its a modular synth. Plus they are free and fantastic sounding synths.
https://www.fullbucket.de/music/vst.html
https://www.fullbucket.de/music/vst.html
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- KVRer
- 18 posts since 20 Mar, 2020
In Pigment's Analog module, all oscillators have separate volume controls. Have you tried modulating those with the envelopes?
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- KVRAF
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
In Serum set Env1 to max sustain, Env2 to Osc1, Env3 to Osc2
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- KVRAF
- 2008 posts since 11 Aug, 2012 from omfr morf form romf frmo
What Mushy Mushy said. Serum has many envelopes that will show up when you use them up.
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- KVRAF
- 2834 posts since 12 May, 2004 from Oxford, UK
It would probably be easier to do in one of the physical modelling synths, Chromophone, the NI thing, was it Prism or is that the reverb?
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- addled muppet weed
- 105855 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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- addled muppet weed
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- KVRian
- 710 posts since 26 Oct, 2018
Fair enough Guess the player doesn't offer any help either. Was going to say strap on some randomizers on the two big FM and AM knobs, and use a variable lowpass filter on the velocity sensitivity.
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- KVRAF
- 2834 posts since 12 May, 2004 from Oxford, UK
You know you are wasted here.
And I say that as one genius to another.
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