Turning Synth Brass Into A String Pad; Creating A Hard-Sync Lead - Sequential prophet 5 User Manual

Turning Synth Brass into a String Pad

It's a simple matter to turn the previous synth brass sound into a string
pad by simply adjusting its envelope and filter settings.
To turn the synth brass into a string pad:
1. Remove the "pitch blip" by turning off
2. Use the
3. In the
filter
4. In the
filter envelope
5. Set Filter Envelope
7.
6. Set Amplifier Envelope
release
7. Use the the
ing/chorusing.
8. Play some chords. You've now got a good basic string pad.

Creating a Hard-Sync Lead

Here's another classic sound: a hard-sync lead. A famous example of this
is "Let's Go" by the Cars, performed on a Prophet-5. In this example
you'll learn how to hard-sync the oscillators, and pitch-modulate one of
them with Poly Mod.
To create a hard-sync lead:
1. Recall the basic preset by holding down
Oscillator A is set to sawtooth by default.
2. On Oscillator A, enable the
nation of hard sync.)
3. Set Oscillator A
pitch modulation in step.
4. In the
poly mod
destination.
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switch to set keyboard filter tracking to
keyboard
section, set the
section, set the
attack
attack
to 6.
control in Oscillator B to adjust the amount of detun-
fine
frequency
section, enable
a in the Poly Mod section.
freq
to 7 and
cutoff resonance
env amount
to 5, to 6,
decay sustain
to 5, to 5,
decay
record
button. (See page 20 for an expla-
sync
to 4. This will allow for a wide range of
. This selects Oscillator A as the
freq a
Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
.
half
to 2.
to 0.
to 7, and
release
to 10, and
sustain
and pressing
preset
to
.
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