AA1 – Sem2, Week 7: Sound Generation - Basic Synthesis

I spent some time in Studio 4, but ended up using the programming section on my old Ensoniq VFX-SD for this week’s samples.

Instead of the regular ADSR setup, it allows for ADDDSR if you get me … three decays.

The Ensoniq has an LFO and three envelopes:
* Envelope 1 controls pitch
* Envelope 2 controls filter cutoff frequency and
* Envelope 3 controls amplitude

As you can see from the screenshot above and pictures below, there are many options to experiment with.

Here are the 5 sounds:
1/ Strange bird #1
2/ Strange bird #2 (possibly strange telephone ring)
3/ Motorcycle approach, gearing up in distance after pass,
4/ Motorcycle standing start take off and into distance
5/ Siren starts and drives off

It was good to put into practice what we are learning about in class, and I certainly have a better understanding of the programming controls, carriers, modulators, LFO, etc … but I am not good at this without a subject. I love making noise but need some focus to actually be creating this noise for.

* http://www.box.net/shared/tbj62o5bdf *

References:

Haines, Christian. "Week 7: Sound Generation - Basic Synthesis." Audio Arts 1, August 21, 2007.

White, Paul. 1994, Sound Foundation - A Synthesis Primer Part 1,
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/feb94/soundsynthesis.html. Accessed 8th September, 2007.

White, Paul. 1994, Sound Foundation - A Synthesis Primer Part 2,
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/mar94/analoguesynthesis.html. Accessed 8th September, 2007.

VFX^SD User’s Manual. John O. Senior, Bill McCutcheon and Charles Alexander. Ensoniq Corporation, 1989.