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F237 PianoSndBrd
Designed for use with the Stereo Grand Piano, the filters in this cube create
a variety of resonances designed to imitate the resonances of both the piano
soundboard, the surrounding wood, and various mic placements. All filters
in this cube are scaled for Keyboard Center, Minimum Morph, Minimum
Transform 2. Provides fat, bass-heavy resonances, somewhat like miking a
piano from the bottom. Contains lots of wood knock.
Max. Morph, Min. Transform 2: Pronounced mid-range resonances, as
though the soundboard was close-miked near its center without any
direct string sound being picked up.
Min. Morph, Max. Transform 2: Lots of mid and high frequency energy,
as though the soundboard was being miked by a contact pickup.
Exhibits a pronounced electronic sound.
Max. Morph, Max.Transform 2: Almost pure piano sound, with only a bit
of high boost starting at about 8kHz. This is the closest to the sound
of the raw sample.
F238 Strike Cube
Designed for use with Aux Envelope or Func. Gen. patched to Morph to
give struck or plucked tones. Front of Cube gives max brightness, back of
cube gives sine wave if Frequency Tracking is used. Transform 2 controls
the amount of this effect and can therefore be used for velocity informa-
tion.
Set-Up Instructions: Set Envelope Generator to Morph in Realtime
Controllers. Set velocity to Transform 2 in Note-On Controllers for
good velocity response. Set Key Center to C1 and Filt. Freq. Track
+64 in order to maintain appropriate pitch tracking. Can also be used
for upper register brightness.
Morph: Controls brightness and volume.
Freq. Tracking: Provides slight increase in upper register brightness,
maintains some harmonic filter tracking.
Transform 2: Controls brightness and volume.
F239 Clav Curves
Morph: At no offset, starts 24dB down at 20Hz and increases gain to 0
at ≈800Hz then decreases again until reaching -70dB at 20kHz. At
full offset, resolves into a series of closely space peaks between 67
and 284Hz.
Freq. Tracking: Tracks filter over keyboard range.
Transform 2: Keeps the same frequencies but inverts the lowest fre-
quency peak to a notch; higher values produce brighter sounds.
Z-PLANE FILTER DESCRIPTIONS
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