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| 1816.1 | I doubt that it's the box. | DYO780::SCHAFER | Brad - back in Ohio. | Fri Dec 16 1988 12:27 | 22 |
| The "118 limit" you're thinking of is the old DX7 keyboard itself,
which was incapable of sending a velocity higher than 118, no matter
how hard you hit it. This is a limitation of the keyboard, not of the
synthesizer itself.
Does the FB01 distort on EVERY patch, or just some? It's been my
experience that *some* DX7 patches distort a bit when played from a
keyboard that's capable of velocity values greater than 118. It's
possible that the patch is designed to distort.
Also, make sure that you're running line level in on the mixer with
attenuation way back, and that you don't have a bad cord. I've seen
bad cords do this several times.
BTW - for those who remember the "why can't I get velocity out of my
KX76" discussions, I found out last week that my problem is not the KX
itself, but my stand. The stand has enough bounce in it that I can't
get over 109-118 out of the KX when it's mounted. When it sits on the
edge of a stage or on a scissors stand, I have no trouble getting 127
consistently. For what it's worth.
-b
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| 1816.2 | Slightly pertinent ESQ stuff | CHUNK::PICKETT | David - Beware of the dogma | Fri Dec 16 1988 12:58 | 7 |
| FWIW this phenomenon (and lotsa of other auditory crap) can be heard on
an ESQ-1. Scaling down the parameters a bit such as not to overload the
intermediate VCAs should do the trick. The ESQ-1 sounds A LOT better is
you run the DCAs at 75% of capacity, and let the final amp on the
keyboad, and your PA do the work.
dp
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| 1816.3 | That's a feature!!! | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | Yo! | Fri Dec 16 1988 14:49 | 29 |
| re: .2
Regarding the ESQ-1 distorting when the DFO's are run flat out.
Believe it or not, this was a DELIBERATE feature.
I mentioned this to Bob Stillman of Ensoniq, and he told me that
the first ESQ-1 prototypes did not do this. When they were trying
to develop the very first patches for the thing, they wanted to
get an overdrive sound for some patch or another and couldn't do
it.
They told the hardware engineers to design it such that a DCA level
above 56 would overdrive the VCA's.
Bob recommends that when you are initially createing a patch, you start
with the DCA's at 56. He was such a nice guy that I didn't want to
bug him about not being clear about that in the documentatiion. I
wasn't even sure whether it was indeed not documented (I don't
remember reading about it).
I think this is really neat. Another example of Ensoniq's trait of
understanding HOW their stuff will be using and designing the equipment
for how it will be used.
Anybody know of any other synths that do something like this
(intentionally, that is)?
db
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| 1816.4 | | SALSA::MOELLER | Richard Clayderman wannabe | Fri Dec 16 1988 15:04 | 17 |
| < Note 1816.3 by DREGS::BLICKSTEIN "Yo!" >
> Anybody know of any other synths that do something like this
Well, I'm not hip enough to the architecture to know how it's done,
but the Kurzweil (K)1000(PX)' new ROM (no I don't have it yet but
I played with it in the store) has a wonderful distorted 'honk'
on the Rhodes sounds.
Also, the EMAX has a digital volume parameter that directly affect
the sample, not the output amplitude, that gives a great, linearly
controllable distortion. I was surprised, digital distortion is
usually uncontrollable and sounds like loud static. So I've used
this on normally tame lead sounds, sax/guitar/Moog.. also the EMAX
has a 'mono' mode that allows a patch, when played legato, to not
trigger the attack..
karl
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| 1816.5 | RTFM? | CTHULU::YERAZUNIS | I can add, test, and branch; therefore I am. | Fri Dec 16 1988 17:27 | 10 |
| Re: Ensoniq ESQ Overdrive sounds:
Not only is it documented, it's even documented IN THE MANUAL, and
it gives a chart like this (this is from memory) and an explanation.
3 oscillators --> 56 or less
2 oscillators --> 59 or less
1 oscillator --> 61 or less
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