Comment first - I really love this thing for livening up drone type sounds. Was playing a pretty rudimentary drone from my Nord G2 through it last night and it sounded just great.
I still am at a loss as to what several of the parameters do. I'm at work, so this is the one I can think of off the top of me head...
What does the blend parameter on the step sequencers do exactly?
Gene
Filterscape/question and comment
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- KVRian
- 1032 posts since 2 Aug, 2004
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- u-he
- 30209 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Hiya,
that's easy. The blend parameter lets the steps fade into each other rather than having the signal jump. This good for smoother modulation, as very heavy parameter jumps can occasionally cause clicks in the filters and the eq...
Here's an example:
Blend : -50%
Sync : 1/4
Current Step: 5, Value is 100
Next Step: 6, Value is 0
Now, Step 5 begins after 4 quarters. It starts out with a value of 100, as expected. After it's 50% (which is 1/8 note here) done, the value starts falling down to 0, because it fades its last 50% into Step 6.
Another one:
Blend : 25%
Sync : 1/1
Current Step: 2, Value is 100
Previous Step: 1, Value is 50
Now, on positive Blend values, the actual Step starts out with the value of the previous Step. Hence, when Step 2 starts, the value is still at 50. Within the first 25% of the Step (a quarter, in this case) the value rises to 100, as set for Step 2.
(Note, there's a bug currently for negative Blend values: After each loop, the value jumps from Step 1 to Step 2 instead of smoothly fading)
Hope this helps...
Cheers,
Urs
that's easy. The blend parameter lets the steps fade into each other rather than having the signal jump. This good for smoother modulation, as very heavy parameter jumps can occasionally cause clicks in the filters and the eq...
Here's an example:
Blend : -50%
Sync : 1/4
Current Step: 5, Value is 100
Next Step: 6, Value is 0
Now, Step 5 begins after 4 quarters. It starts out with a value of 100, as expected. After it's 50% (which is 1/8 note here) done, the value starts falling down to 0, because it fades its last 50% into Step 6.
Another one:
Blend : 25%
Sync : 1/1
Current Step: 2, Value is 100
Previous Step: 1, Value is 50
Now, on positive Blend values, the actual Step starts out with the value of the previous Step. Hence, when Step 2 starts, the value is still at 50. Within the first 25% of the Step (a quarter, in this case) the value rises to 100, as set for Step 2.
(Note, there's a bug currently for negative Blend values: After each loop, the value jumps from Step 1 to Step 2 instead of smoothly fading)
Hope this helps...
Cheers,
Urs-
- KVRAF
- 8099 posts since 12 Dec, 2003 from Canada
Second that!droolmaster0 wrote:Comment first - I really love this thing for livening up drone type sounds. Was playing a pretty rudimentary drone from my Nord G2 through it last night and it sounded just great. Gene
Because it does great choppy type stuff, I've been running pads and drones through it and getting great sounds. Ran a spacey C5K pad through 2 instances of Filterscape and then into Nitro and got some crazy stuff going on.
Been demoing Zebra as well, too bad it wasn't on my radar during the group buy frenzy. It's not too late to have a Christmas sale Urs!