New synth day..

paulmapp8306

fretmeister said:

The only thing that annoys me about the BS2 so far is that the pitch and mod wheels are on the left.

As I have a little bit of a piano background I want to play bass parts with my left hand an control stuff with the right.

I suppose I'll just have to get used to that.

If your going to use synths - get used to it.  there always on the left.

hollywoodrox

That looks a fun setup . I just bought an Arturia mini lab Mk ii  controller as a portable ish fun sketch pad . I like 80s synths , DX7 Juno , D50 ,Korg K1 oberheim etc but mine are all software 
just for fun composing 

TeleMaster

I bought a Waldorf Iridium, sold two guitars to get it. I feel like I need a degree to use it. 

paulmapp8306

TeleMaster said:

I bought a Waldorf Iridium, sold two guitars to get it. I feel like I need a degree to use it. 

lol.

Teh VA aspect is pretty simple to be fair.  The wavetable stuff isnt THAT hard either.

FM.... well its FM.  I know the theory behind it BUT in practice?  designing sounds from scratch is still a black art - and of course your not just stuck to sine avers (as DX7 was) .  In some ways thats easier - you could have 2 carriers in parallel with sawtooth waveforms and its not different from a typical subtractive twin osc sound at heat.   Its not digging into this FM thats making me thing about the 3rd wave instead.

Resonator is OK.  Just play around gets you a feel - though I tend to use ars one part to att an attack to a sound rather than a sound in it own right - Im not that deep into it.

Ive never known what to do regards sampling - and especially multisampling.  Ive just never needed it - so never played with it.  Im sure its not THAT hard but I dont find the urge personally.  
 
I get granular as well - but again its not a synthesis type I have any rewal interest in - so not tackled that aspect either.

TeleMaster

paulmapp8306 said:

TeleMaster said:

I bought a Waldorf Iridium, sold two guitars to get it. I feel like I need a degree to use it. 

lol.

Teh VA aspect is pretty simple to be fair.  The wavetable stuff isnt THAT hard either.

FM.... well its FM.  I know the theory behind it BUT in practice?  designing sounds from scratch is still a black art - and of course your not just stuck to sine avers (as DX7 was) .  In some ways thats easier - you could have 2 carriers in parallel with sawtooth waveforms and its not different from a typical subtractive twin osc sound at heat.   Its not digging into this FM thats making me thing about the 3rd wave instead.

Resonator is OK.  Just play around gets you a feel - though I tend to use ars one part to att an attack to a sound rather than a sound in it own right - Im not that deep into it.

Ive never known what to do regards sampling - and especially multisampling.  Ive just never needed it - so never played with it.  Im sure its not THAT hard but I dont find the urge personally.  
 
I get granular as well - but again its not a synthesis type I have any rewal interest in - so not tackled that aspect either.

Yea I'm creating sounds on it already. It was just a bit frustrating figuring out what screen, what knob does what at first, and the manual isn't that explanatory. The kernel feature is incredible. I got the keyboard version.

paulmapp8306

TeleMaster said:

paulmapp8306 said:

TeleMaster said:

I bought a Waldorf Iridium, sold two guitars to get it. I feel like I need a degree to use it. 

lol.

Teh VA aspect is pretty simple to be fair.  The wavetable stuff isnt THAT hard either.

FM.... well its FM.  I know the theory behind it BUT in practice?  designing sounds from scratch is still a black art - and of course your not just stuck to sine avers (as DX7 was) .  In some ways thats easier - you could have 2 carriers in parallel with sawtooth waveforms and its not different from a typical subtractive twin osc sound at heat.   Its not digging into this FM thats making me thing about the 3rd wave instead.

Resonator is OK.  Just play around gets you a feel - though I tend to use ars one part to att an attack to a sound rather than a sound in it own right - Im not that deep into it.

Ive never known what to do regards sampling - and especially multisampling.  Ive just never needed it - so never played with it.  Im sure its not THAT hard but I dont find the urge personally.  
 
I get granular as well - but again its not a synthesis type I have any rewal interest in - so not tackled that aspect either.

Yea I'm creating sounds on it already. It was just a bit frustrating figuring out what screen, what knob does what at first, and the manual isn't that explanatory. The kernel feature is incredible. I got the keyboard version.

yep, me too.  the Poly Aftertouch keybed is a lot better than the one of hydrasynth

Creed_Clicks

fretmeister said:

I’ve had an hour or so with the BS2 tonight.

Just going through the presets at the mo. It’s great fun. Come up with some ideas for synth bass lines already. Need to get my drum plugins fired up next.

Don't forget to try the paraphonic mode if not already installed/updated. I had a BS2 and stupidly sold it as it didn't do what I wanted RIGHT AWAY!