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So we're trying to make an expressive lead with this patch.
We want to have lots of different
ways of manipulating the patch during our performance.
So we'll look at how to get velocity to manipulate the patch,
look at pitch bend, mod wheel, and even pitch gliding between notes.
And we'll introduce the really big topic that's left, which is trans mod,
which is how we can really expand the number of possible modulations in Strobe2.
Let's see how to do it.
The first thing we're going to check is make sure our voicing section
is just a single voice, which it is.
So we have the ability to only play a single note at a time.
A monophonic synth, it feels a little constraining,
because it only can play one note at a time.
There's a beauty to that in that we can adjust how the note transitions work.
How do we move from one pitch to another?
And that's found over here under glide and key, and we'll turn that up a bit.
Let's see what happens even with our basic init patch when we start working
with glide.
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We get that kind of movement between the note.
Let's turn that up even further and see what more extreme setting would do.
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You get those great glides, and working with that amount can be really key.
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Now what we have right now is it always will glide, so if I just play notes.
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Which can be [LAUGH] it's kind of vocal in a way, right?
It has this kind of interesting quality to it, but it's not always what we want.
It would be nice if I choose to glide sometimes and
just jump to the note sometimes.
And that's what the legato function here is really good at.
Legato is kind of note overlapping, and if two notes overlap now we'll get the glide.
And if they don't overlap it will just jump to the new pitch.
Let's hear.
[SOUND] We get the glide but if I release both notes.
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I can kind of choose when I have that glide.
Really key and
something you'll start noticing a lot in the songs that you've been listening to.
Now it's also nice to have like really dramatic pitch motion with pitch bend, and
pitch bend is on most controllers.
It's a really high resolution knob,
you'll notice it's the knob that kind of snaps back to its middle location
when you move it, trying to get back to that initial pitch.
We have to tell the synthesizer though, the range of this pitch bend,
what does that actually mean in a synth?
Does putting this down go down a semitone, or does it go down a whole octave?
Well we have that choice.
We have this bend section in Strobe2.
The bottom knob is if I bend down, how far the pitch will move.
And the top knob is when I bend up, how far the pitch will move.
And for this example, let's try making them different which is kind of fun.
I'll have bend up go +3 and I'll have bend down go -24 so I can play a note.
[SOUND] Get a big dive bomb kind of sound.
I can play around there.
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[LAUGH] And you get kind of interesting control over it so
I like having those two different ones.
I also like the idea of just having it move a semitone in either direction.
It can be fun to kind of perform with.
So we're getting a nice performable patch.
But there's one other parameter that you really want to be working with, and
that's your mod wheel.
Because on most controllers you have these two knobs, pitch bend and mod wheel.
And I think what I'm hearing is this patch, it's kind of bright and piercing.
And I'd like to kind of dull it down a little bit.
And we know the filter's really good for that.
Let's try it.
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So it gets a little more like a sine wave.
Now, we know that we can do MIDI learn, which we did in a previous patch.
And MIDI learned the kind of mod wheel to control that parameter.
But, we have another way we can assign this, and this gives us more flexibility,
it's using trans mod.
And trans mod will let me have one mod wheel, and you'll see as I move this,
Perf1 is moving, and if you don't see that, you can use your CC Learn,
just like we did before.
So, I could hit CC Learn, click on that mod wheel, and then move it, and
get out of CC Learn, and now we will see they're associated.
You see, above that, it says P1.
It stands for performer one, or performance one, and
we can use that to assign to multiple things.
See, the MIDI learn function,
it means a single knob on your controller is controlling a single parameter.
With the trans mod, we can have that single knob control many parameters,
which could be really, really interesting.
So I'll go up to slot one.