Quickly step through patches or instantly load a patch from the current directory. All synth sounds are Zebra. Why we think you'll love Zebra. Downloads, Banks, Patches, etc. Not into modern much,but if you love retro,oldskool just like me! This is a 128 patch bank for Synth 1. Synthonia by S4K is an. The editor will connect to your instrument and show the first patch. Synth Patches Video Demo Lessons Forum Community. Mininova is a powerful mini synth- vocoder made by Novation whose popularity has rapidly grown between musicians, due to its extremely versatile character, to its very good sound quality, to the goodness of the materials used to build it and, last, but not least, to its very affordable price. Furthermore one of the most exciting features of this “small monster” is the very efficient vocoding system it offers.. And to do this, instead of using the buttons and the encoders embedded on the synth, I would like to use the Mininova VST/AU editor that lets the programmer use the mouse and his computer providing him a software interface that shows the whole set of parameters in a more comfortable way. You can grab the software for free from the Novation web site and, precisely at this link: choose the right version for your operating system, download it, double click, next, next, next, finish. You’re ready to fly! Load your favourite daw, create an instrument track and put the Mininova editor as a virtual instrument inside it. Obviously don’t forget to connect the Mininova to your computer using the USB cable and to turn it on, choosing USB bus power. The editor will connect to your instrument and show the first patch present on the slot A0. Choose the first empty slot in which to put your brand new sound and? Remember Blade Runner? I mean a synth lead like this one. The music is the “Opening titles soundtrack” from “Blade Runner”, a film that you HAVE to watch, if you haven’t yet. Awesome, isn’t it? Also, it seems a bit complicated to program.. The first thing you have to worry about when programming a timbre is to take a look to the scheme that briefly describes your synthesis engine, in order to fully control it without doubts. So let’s start from the sound sources.. Vangelis used to program this kind of leads on the Yamaha CS- 8. It’s a good starting point, isn’t it? Go to the oscillators section of the editor and enable the oscillator 1 and oscillator 2 on the mixer, choosing for both them a sawtooth wave. In order to start giving the sound more character, let’s perform a small detune of the two waveforms. Again, point to 1. Hard” in order to have a full sawtooth wave. If you prefer, you could choose to use also a third oscillator to give the sound more strength, as shown in the above picture.
It’s the time to take care of the amplitude envelope: the only two things we have to adjust are the attack and the release phases, augmenting both them a little bit as shown. It’s all for this section, let’s take a look to the filters. Regarding them, we have to remember that the original Yamaha CS- 8. So I guess we have to choose the same modules on the Mininova, that offers a lot of filter types to the programmer. Choose a HP1. 2 for the first filter and a LP1. Pick up the “Series algorithm” for the combination of two, rotate the “Balance” knob to the right and you’ve recreated the situation you have on the CS- 8. Now, the most interesting part: we have to emulate the filter sweep of this timbre, that is the most important feature of it. Furthermore it’s not a static filter sweep ? Furthermore we have chosen to let the aftertouch control the sweep, in case you would like to use an external midi controller that implements aftertouch. Now we have to choose the effects: Vangelis used a lot of reverb with a long decay for his timbres so let’s choose a similar approach considering the Mininova effects section, made by 5 slots you can arrange in different manners. For the first slot we chose to use an EQ in order to add more loudness to the sound. The second slot is occupied by the “Reverb 2” with maximum decay. For the third slot a small amount of “Chorus 1” to give the sound more richness and for the third slot a little bit of Delay. Voil? By the way, remember to give it a name and to press “Save”. You have to do it directly on the Mininova or export the patch to the “Mininova Librarian” from the editor.
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