Diva: Is there a good way to systematically determine where the vibrato in a preset is?

[kierumcak]

I am working my way through Syntorial and learning how to make sounds from scratch. It is going to take me a few weeks-months to get my bearings and longer to learn everything I would need to as Diva seems to have a superset of capabilities of what Syntorial teaches. Anywho I am working on learning and there is a great deal of this interface I still do not understand. I am hoping to still be able to noodle on ideas while I learn from the basics.

Chiefly I love this preset called "Dr Diva" for a song but wanted to decrease its sense of "vibrato" and make transitions between notes less interesting. Curiously this does happen if I move only one note while holding other notes in a chord which I suppose is my key that its something a bit more advanced going on with portamento/legato etc. LFO 1 doesn't appear to be doing anything/changing the knobs doesn't do anything. LFO 2 seems to be modulating the sound in a different way. You can flatten the pitch a bit but just a little. The tune mod doesn't seem to make it less vibratto-ey.

I suppose I wish there were a way that I could just get a text output of every knob thats been changed from its defaults so I can tell what knobs have been messed with and may be impacting the sound. I figure if I could completely remove the vibrato from the preset I would probably understand enough to be able to dial it into what I am targeting in my head.

Without a tool telling you which settings have been modified from a basic wave, how would you go about reasoning your way through how to reduce the sense of vibrato on a plugin you are unfamiliar with?

[adamszabo]

In the LFO1 (vibrato) section, you have the Depth Mod all the way up, and its assigned to the Mod Wheel. Maybe you have your Mod wheel all the way up, or a Midi CC1 (which is the mod wheel) increased somewhere hidden in your project?

[Fette Töle]

LFO 1 doesn't affect pitch of any of the oscillators regardless of Depth Mod or Mod Wheel Setting, because the Tune Mod buttons in the oscillator section are disabled. I don't hear vibrato either (pitch variation). Maybe you mean tremolo (amplitude modulation)? This seems to come from the delay effect.

[joradn]

Record automation in your daw, and switch from the preset to init. That should give a list of every parameter that's changed when you check the activated automation lanes.

[zfyy]

yeah i checked out that preset and there's no vibrato. when you turn down the LFO 2 and ENV 2 filter modulation it's a pretty static patch. as for your question... it's just about experience with the particular synth... diva for example has a lot of per-voice modulation you can do that not a lot of other synths offer.
maybe you're mistaking oscillators beating against eachother as vibrato? the oscillators are slightly detuned, the 3 different voices are as well. i think in diva there's always a little bit of detuning/voice drift even if you set everything to 0.

[muki]

there is vibrato
aka frequency modulation of the 3 OSCs via LFO1
but:

you have to turn it on to be effective
those are the 3 switches left to the "tune mod" knob in the oscillator section
just below the "LFO 1" label

switch OFF the SYNC switches

and turn the "tune mod" just to around 2-3 (full up is way too much imho)

enjoy

[zfyy]

there is vibrato
aka frequency modulation of the 3 OSCs via LFO1
but:

you have to turn it on to be effective
those are the 3 switches left to the "tune mod" knob in the oscillator section
just below the "LFO 1" label

switch OFF the SYNC switches

and turn the "tune mod" just to around 2-3 (full up is way too much imho)

enjoy

he's saying there's vibrato in the patch and he's trying to turn it OFF....

[muki]

he's saying there's vibrato in the patch and he's trying to turn it OFF....

that's done by setting the switches to off and/or set "tune mod" to 0
(in the "dr diva" preset (which is the screenshot) it's set to -0.16 which is quite subtle btw...)

hth

[zfyy]

[TheMaestro]

Turn the Wow down on Delay1.