Creating Stereo Synth Brass - Dave Smith Instruments Sequential PROPHET X User Manual

Creating Stereo Synth Brass

Here's another easy-to-construct sound: synth brass, with a classic "pitch
blip" effect on the attack. In this example you'll learn how to pan the
oscillators hard left and right to create an ultra-wide stereo spread, how
to detune the super saw wave, and how to use an auxiliary envelope to
modulate the pitch of oscillator 2 to simulate an aggressively blown horn
effect.
To create synth brass:
1. Press the
2. Use Soft Knob 1 to navigate to
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button and press the
3. In the mixer, turn up Oscillator 2 to 127. (Osc 1 is already at 127.)
4. In the
oscillators
shape mod
5. With the Mixer parameters shown in the display, press Soft Button 2
to select
ultra-wide stereo spread.
6. In the
oscillators
style oscillator drift.
7. In the
filter
8. In the
filter envelope
16,
decay
9. Enable touch sensitivity by pressing and enabling the
10. In the
auxiliary envelope
nation to
according to its ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release) settings. This
will create the slight pitch variation at the beginning of the sound (the
"pitch blip").
You can quickly assign the mod destination for Envelope 3 by holding down
the envelope's selector button and turning the Oscillator 2 frequency knob. This will
auto-assign the modulation destination to the envelope.
90 Creating Stereo Synth Brass
button.
global
). As a shortcut, hold down the front-panel
hold
section, set both oscillators to
for osc 1 to 45 and osc 2 to -45 to detune and thicken them.
, then set
panning
section, set
section, set
cutoff
section, set the
to 88, to 58, and
sustain
2 . This routes envelope 3 to modify osc 2 pitch
osc freq
basic program
button.
1 to -64L and
osc pan
1&2 to 15 to add a little analog-
slop
to 10,
resonance
env amount
to 90.
release
section, select
envelope
and press Soft Button 1
transpose down
and set
super saw
2 to 63R for an
osc pan
to 5, and
drive
to 80, the
attack
velocity
3 and set its desti-
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to 100.
to
button.