We will get into the TRK SOUND and how to design patches using this method
Layering synthesis method
This is really different approach to synthesis. Here you will separate distinctive characteristics of the sound you have in mind. Let me explain further by taking examples from the acoustic world. You will perfectly be able to learn the basic principles and then apply it to the synthetic world.
Percussions are often struck with tools or hands. It’s what characterizes the sound. The sound we hear is from the strike of the percussion and the skin of the percussion making its own resonating sound.
A Piano has hammer mechanics strike and resonating the fundamental and the strike on the attack portion of the sound.
A Bass guitar has it’s own resonance when strummed. If the strings are slapped then the sound is quite different.
Layering is kind like of designing those sounds characteristics but controlling the elements separately. Coming back to our Analog Four, on OSC1 you will design the strike sound and on OSC2 the Tone. Looking further ahead on TRK1 you design the strike and on TRK2 the Timbre. It depends if we are using 2 oscillators and their subs and only one filter can give you the sound or not.
For me, layering is out of this course but I synthesized the final sound of a patch with this concept in mind. The patch is called RAVEY in the LowEnd101 Sound Pack
RAVEY Patch explained post will be published just after that post later today
- RAVEY/T1 > (Layer T1)
- RAVEY/T2 > (Layer T2)
T1 + T2 played together at the same time gives the final sound of RAVEY
we use here the Analog Four option (in Poly Config)
USE TRK SOUND checked and make sure Voices 1 and 2 are checked.
Layering was also close to an old concept called MULTI, when you played essentially 2 different sounds on top of each other. It’s a similar idea, except on a layering synthesis one sound alone probably does not work because it can cancel out other parts of the patch. On the contrary when in a multi, both sounds are designed to work together and also may work alone.
