[A6] Ordered A6, patch sets and data card

[Steven Wartofsky]

Hear, hear!  There may be something I don't get that some people find "oogy"
about the A6 envs, but I certainly don't hear it, and have no trouble doing
snappy, punchy, warm, round. no other synth out there comes even close after
you've learned to work with the A6 envelopes.  Most other synths seem like
toys by comparison at that point.

Steve



----- Original Message -----
From: "protokol13" <protokol13 at hotmail.com>
To: <a6 at code404.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:33 AM
Subject: [A6] Ordered A6, patch sets and data card


> > The LFOs stop at 25 Hz, the EGs are only 2 ms fast, the Arp and
> > Sequencer don´t send Midi, the knobs send only NRPR, etc...
> >
>
> I wish the LFOs went faster in some cases as well, but I don't think it's
a
> big issue for the types of sounds I'm doing with the A6 anyway.
> I don't really understand the whole 2ms argument which is stated in many
of
> the forums.  The EG HAS to fade in to not cut the waveform, especially
when
> you have an analog oscillator (which might have it's start point anywhere
on
> the waveform).  If you bring in the VCO too quickly you can get a
noticeable
> click from the waveform shooting up from DC.  The issue with the A6 is not
> the EGs attack, it's the slope and envelope configuration.  You need to
make
> sure that you give the EG plenty of headroom so distortion is not an issue
> (causing an oogy, slow sounding attack) and you also need to make sure you
> have the initial attack decay into a slightly lower sustain (this is why
the
> A6 has 2 delay stages for).  The Roland synths do most of these things
> without any choices, thus you get a bass that sounds snappy because of
it's
> preprogrammed attack to sustain portion, and there's also VCOs that sound
> like they've been passed through a highpass.  Go easy on the levels, and
you
> should be able to do basses as snappy as anything out there.  The
percussive
> modes are also helpful because they tighten the attack to the point that
the
> waveform clicks (if you need that kind of sound).  Just don't confuse
> punchiness to attack time, they are two different things and sometimes
> people automatically think a quick EG yields a punchy sound.
>
> The knobs sending NRPN is not a big issue for me.  Alesis did this because
> you can fit greater resolution with NRPNs, given that you have more bits
to
> work with.  Having a VCF controlled by a 7bit CC would be pretty cheap
IMHO.
> I think that Alesis did a good choice here, although it wouldn't have been
> too hard to add a really low controller transmit mode to just send 127
> steps.  I know that you can choose to thin the controller transmit on the
A6
> if midi events are slowing your project down.
>
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