Quad Wave

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:43 am

<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/mod ... .zip"><img src="/forums/images/file_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" File"> File</a> <a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/mod ... .mp3"><img src="/forums/images/listen_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" Sound Example"> Sound Example</a> <a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/mod ... .txt"><img src="/forums/images/notes_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" Notes"> Notes</a> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Type: Synth <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Pulsar Version: Pulsar 3.x <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Requires: mod III Lots of DSP _____________________________________ My newest modIII synth ready to share with you.

First I must say that this synth has not much presets yet but I will update the presets as soon as I can.

Quad Wave has four Wave OSC two wavetableOSC and two Waldorf OSC.

I zoned this synth into 4 columns, each colum for one OSC. The fifth column contains the mvc, micro mixer, bpm clock+divider for the effects.

Let me explain one column for you from the top to the bottom.

First you will see a VU meter, this VU sits behind the filter so you can see the amplitude before the signal goes through the micromixer and effects. The second VU(column 1 and column 4) indicates the final amplitude L/R.
After the VUs you can see the OSC wich don´t need to explained. Under the OSC is the polyout, here you should level the volume of the signal before it is modulated through the envelopes and filters. -Hint don´t use the maximum volume from the beginning to avoid cliping!-

Located under the Poly out is a pitch modifier.Here four modulation sources can be used to pitch the signal. Sources are a pitch envelope, two LFO´s and the velocity.
Most presets use all four pitch modulations to show you for what kind of sound I build this Synth. I want to have a synth for strange sequences without a sequencer, all sequences use the lfo´s or/and the multi segment envelopes. Of course you can program "standard" sounds with QuadWave too.

Behind the pitch modifier sits the Pitch envelope, VCA envelope and VCF envelope.

After the envelopes all four waves are routed into a quadXxfade module. This quadXfade use the LFO to shuffle all four sounds around.
Finally I use a filter combination of a 24dB lowpass and a poly filter, both filters are mixed in the mix2 module.
-hint: be sure that the mix2 module isn´t closed in his volume, you won´t hear anything in that case.-

At the bottom sits the lfo that feeds the quadXfade,Envelopes,pitch modifier and waldorf OSC modulation.

All four waves are mixed in the micro mixer and can be panned and leveled in their volume.
Under this micromixer are two 12db gain for the final volume boost one gain left the other for the right channel.

The midiclock feeds the LFOs, so you can sync them to your project tempo. The frequency divider divides the tempo for the effect times of the Phaser,Flanger and delayLR modules.

The sound example uses five tracks of Quad Wave sounds and I made a small mastering without EQs or other additional effects.

I hope you like QuadWave, please comment it and give me some feedback or suggestions.
If you have any questions, ask!

Cheers

[ This Message was edited by: ChrisWerner on 2003-06-16 03:14 ]