Creating Synth Sounds

blakrain · Post by **blakrain** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 5:37 pm

I just bought the EMX a few days ago. I had a chance t hear the demo tracks and was hooked. While I have never owned anything with tone or wave generation, I have owned a drum machine (albeit a very old one a Yamaha RX8). I have a good ear for sounds and once I know where to start I can run with it. My question is while the demos show the amazing sounds one can get out of it, It doesn't show the settings used to get those sounds. I found "Acid type" sounds more or les by trial and error. How do I find the settings used to creat some of the bass or piano-like souds? I know of tones and waves but I don't have training on how to apply them to create the sounds in the machine (i'e' creating a scratch sample or a guitar bass sound) Does anyone have any suggestions on a starting point to learn how to use the synth to its fullest?

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:49 pm

Here's a great resource I've referenced other people to several times here:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

There are also books, like welsh's synthesizer cookbook, and similar things.

knobfun · Post by **knobfun** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:46 pm

blakrain wrote:My question is while the demos show the amazing sounds one can get out of it, It doesn't show the settings used to get those sounds.

I thought you could analyze a demo sound by selecting it, and then checking the "original value" settings, to see how it was made...? I just got my EMX recently, so I have not had the chance to get into this yet. Some of the Demos on this box are pretty cool, IMHO...

blakrain · Post by **blakrain** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:39 pm

I found teh other sounds for pianos and guitars today! it ws completely by chance. I am more than a little disappointed in the instruction manual since nowhere does it mention how to find those sounds.

blakrain · Post by **blakrain** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:39 pm

sorry about the typos

Zandarck · Post by **Zandarck** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:03 pm

It does... It says about the PCM samples then has a list of them.

citizens_X · Post by **citizens_X** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:52 pm

Zandarck wrote:It does... It says about the PCM samples then has a list of them.

i just got my EMX-1 a few days ago and have the same question and while i did see the list of PCM samples i don't know how to get to them to make use of them.... any help would be greatly appreciated

chad9477 · Post by **chad9477** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:43 pm

Choose a synth part, then spin your synth oscillator knob to either the PCM + comb or the PCM + WS setting. Then hit part edit. You'll be in the sample list.

citizens_X · Post by **citizens_X** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:28 pm

chad9477 wrote:Choose a synth part, then spin your synth oscillator knob to either the PCM + comb or the PCM + WS setting. Then hit part edit. You'll be in the sample list.

thanks so much

Lloyd

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