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First look... at 2 of the same synth!! (Patreon)

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2021-05-10 19:44:33
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I think this'll be my last 2600 video for a while ... it's been something I've enjoyed plying with a little too much :)

Having the 2 next to each other I thought it would be a good opportunity to have a reference for the comparison videos.  We all know 2 of the same analogs may have minor differences.. but how much?

If a softuynth is close buy not identical - is it the same as the specific emulated hardware unit - or way out of the expected variability? who knows? 

Now at least I have something to send the odd troll to watch ;). 


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Do Analog Synths Sound the Same? - is there a difference between identical synths?

#analog #synth How different would you expect 2 new analog synths to sound? They're all build with thousands of components each manufactured to within tolerances - so not exactly the same. I know it sounds crazy... but actually quite useful - if you think a software version doesn't sound exactly the same. then how different would you consider to still be the same synth, Thining about it.. it is nuts :) If you're looking at buying a new synth try this link for Perfect Circuit - I might get a bung ;) https://www.pjtra.com/t/SENKTExLTUtDSEpJR0ZGQ0hJTUZHTA synth on left on loan from -- check out his plugins https://mrwiggly.co.uk For some more in depth tutorials specifically on the 2600 and loads more on others :)... ► Patreon: https://patreon.com/starskycarr ►ClubbingTV From the Studio: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYIYEC4M53KQs4FeYpCY51sHxoK2l2Z0O Other places you’ll find me: ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starskycarr ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/starskycarr ► Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/starskycarr ► Bandcamp https://starskycarr.bandcamp.com/releases 0:00 intro 2:13 Oscillators 9:38 Filter 14:00 Mixing Oscillators 16:21 Filter FM 20:31 Final Thoughts

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Tegan McElligott

my blue marvin comes in about a week. do you have any beginner tips? or maybe the best place to begin?

Starsky Carr
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The best way to start is to ignore the patches cabers at first and explore what each section does. If you follow the signal flow it will make sense. If you follow these steps it should help explain all the fundamental principles and get you started. Make sure you’ve connected it via MIDI before doing anything.. obviously ;). Or to do some basic quick stuff you can follow the instructions below and just hit the red trigger button in the envelope section to hear a sound. 1. Push all vertical sliders down to zero, put the 3 sets of horizontal faders on the top left for the VCOs central, and the filter cutoff to the far right, and resonance to the far left. And check all the switches on the VCOs are set to audio (ie switched up, not LFO mode) 2. Make sure the Switch on the AR envelope section is set to gate (so the envelopes trigger with a key on) 3. On the bottom left switch the repeat to off.. otherwise it’ll keep repeating notes with the LFO 4. Make sure its in mono mode (switch just above the repeat switch) Now its ready to program. We’ll just look at the top section for now. 5. If we look at the signal flow.. it comes out of the VCA So turn up the VCA slider on the far right - which will add the VCA too the final mix. We then move to the VCA mixer/control section to the left of this. It has 4 sliders. 6. We need to add a signal into the VCA - which we’ll use the signal from the filter. So turn up the VCF input to the VCA 7. The VCA needs to be controlled by an envelop. So turn up the AR control. 8. We will now have the AR envelope controlling the volume. So add a little release to the AR release slider Now we need to put something into the VCF. In this section we have audio inputs and controller sliders. 9. We’ll start with adding VCO1. Press a key and you should hear it.. fingers crossed. This will be the pulse wave as it is normalised to the input. If you move the horizontal pulse with slider on VCO1 you should hear the change in tone. Now we’ve a signal coming into the filter.. try turning up the VCF slider to the final mixer (second slider from the far right). You should hear what’s coming into the VCF without having to trigger an envelop.. so can get a drone. If you wiggle the VCF cut-off slider it’ll change the tone. If you turn the VCA slider (far right) down and play a key there’ll be no change in volume as you’ve bypassed the VCA completely. Turn the VCF to the mixer down for now and turn the VCA back up. Above the VCA mixer/controls you’ll see the initial gain slider. If you turn this up you’ll also hear a tone without pressing a key either. Turn it up a little, then press a key. You’ll hear a change in volume, but the initial volume isn’t zero… just showing what tis 2 sliders do. They can be useful in various situations, but most synths don’t have them.. and it’s very likely you’ll never use them again! So this explains the basic signal flow. Now let’s add some envelope to the filter… we’ll use the ADSR for this. 10. slide the filter cutoff to half way 11. increase the decay phase of the ADSR envelope about 1/3 of the way up. 12. Add ADSR in the filter control section . move the slider about half way. Now the ADSR should be controlling the filter cutoff frequency. So hopefully the signal flow and how the filter is controlled is becoming clear. Next up we’ll add VCO2. 13. Turn up the VCO2 slider in the filter section. This will be out of tune I expect.. unless you miraculously tuned them when setting in the centre as there are no central indents. To tune the VCOs you can just tune them together by ear so they’re in tune with each other. To get them in tune with anything else I use an iPhone app. If you’re using the trigger button to fire the envelopes it plays the last note received. So you may thing you’re tuning to a certain note but when you play the keyboard it’s a different note completely! Once they’re tuned we’ll get the patch cables out. We’ll start by changing VCO 1 to a sawtooth. 14. Patch the VCO1 sawtooth output into the ring MOD input on the VCF. You now have VCO1 pulse, VCO1 saw and VCO2 pulse going into the mixer. Turn up the ring mod input. This is to demo that you’re not restricted at all by the normalised patch routings. You can patch VCO1 into anything. 15. Move VCO1 saw patch from the VCF and directly into the VCA slider on the far right.. you’venow simply bypassed the filter and VCA.. again demoing you can plug anything anywhere and once you understand the signal flow it all starts to fall into place. 16. Put that patch cable into VCO1 input on the mixer. You now have a pulse from VCO2 and a saw from VCO1 in the mixer turn down the ring mod inout as we don’t want to hear the ring mod yet .. (though as the sliders are turned down. On the ring mod circuit you won’t hear it anyway). Now we’ll do some PWM. There is a PWM input on VCO2 and 3 but not 1. So we’ll use VCO 2 as it’s normalised to the mixer as a pulse and its already tuned. 17. Patch the LFO triangle to the PWM input on VCO2. 18. Move the LFO slider up about 20% 19. Move the PWM slider on VCO2 about 30% Play a note and you should be hearing PWM on VCO2 and a saw from VCO1. 20. Turn down VCO1 so you’re now just hearing VCO2 PWM. … and now you should have a good feel for whats going on. Add VCO3 and tune it.. slightly detune them for fat 3 oscillators tines, or tune at intervals etc… play around with the cutoff, resonance=, ADSR amount and the decay time. Happy days :)