Organ - Elektron Monomachine SFX-6 Using Manual

F +3 +6 +8
and vary last 2 steps with
D +3+7+ +10
C# +3 +7 +11
ORGAN TONES
Start with a supersaw
set the three pitches to taste
automate filter sweeps with lfo
a very common thing to get organs in analog synths is to use a sub oscillator TWO octaves
below the main oscillator....then choose a square wave for the main oscillator; you can get
such oscillator arranges by using the superwqve square or ensemble
In ensemble you can also get some intermediate harmonics by setting notes to specific
intervals...set the wave parameter to achieve an square wave
Set a lowpass filter static in a low to mid frequency and turn up resonance.
With classic ADSR you could use the amp EG to simulate the click at the start, but no luck
whit the odd EG on the mono...still you can use an LFO with max modulation aplied to volume
to get a spaike at the start of the sound...just put the LFO in one-shot mode, choose a linear
or logarythmic falling curve and set the speed as fas as you can.
Another way is to set the filter EG to minimum time attacjk and decay, and turn up a little the
EG depth of the filter. The amp has to be controlled by a kind of gate EG, so choose minimum
attack and release and set decay to max to get infinite sustain.
Use the other LFO to achieve Leslie-style FX by modulate pan and pitch in a
doppler way.
If you're in the ensemble oscillator you can fat your organ using the chorus in the synth
section.
Put some reverb with long decay but in very little quaqntity, so you can only hear the tail when
you leave the keys
In Ensemble Wave where you have 3 pitch parameters which you can setup in relation to the
note triggered, e.g if you trigger G3 and set the first parameter to +2, the second to +3 and
the fourth to +7, then you're triggering a Gmin9 chord. Now use locks on the fourth parameter
going to +5 or +8 (meaning youl'll go from D to C and then to Eb).
Organ sounds are like chords in itself...with strong frequency components that could match
note frequencies, even in a single played note, so you could use the ensemble "notes" to get
something similar. Sometimes these notes could be too loud to get just formants but try it
anyway; with a bit of lowpass filtering you could soft the higher ones leaveing the fundamental
dominate the timbre
FM is another way of get organ sounds because of the ability of this synthsis method to get
several harmonics from just 2 oscillators...try exact multiples of modullator/carrrier
frequencies relationship to get those harmonic regions in the organ, after that you could
shape some things with the EQ to get some region low or high
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