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Totally wrong by Entropy Stew 02/14/2012, 11:32pm PST
Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) wrote:

Not being experienced with synthesizers I don't know what "routing" is, when you mention that the synth has routing possibilities.

Is this like, you create a particular sound or you import a sound instruction through a MIDI port, and send it out as piano, or horn, or guitar, instead of what it originally was (like perhaps a cymbal or drum) and "route" it as a different instrument? Or is it something else?


You're too high level. Instead, think electrical wiring. In a subtractive synth, you have an audio signal path that generally looks like [oscillator] ---> [filter] ---> [amp] ---> [effects]. The osc generates a tonal waveform (sine wave, square wave, etc) at a certain frequency, the filter selectively removes and allows harmonics through (hence "subtractive" synthesis), and the amp controls volume. That's just the audio portion of what's going on. You also have separate wiring paths (routing) which can alter things like your filter and osc settings dynamically. On the lead synth from the mp3 example in the other post, there's a tempo-synced LFO (low frequency oscillator - basically a slow osc that doesn't oscillate fast enough to produce audible tone) modulating the filter's cutoff frequency up and down every 8th note, which is why it sounds like bum bum bum bum bum bum bum instead of buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum. This same LFO can be routed to modulate a ton of other parameters very easily.

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Massive is amazing by Entropy Stew 02/14/2012, 2:42pm PST NEW
    What's "routing"? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/14/2012, 3:53pm PST NEW
        Totally wrong by Entropy Stew 02/14/2012, 11:32pm PST NEW
    It's the best softsynth ever made. by Fullofkittens 02/14/2012, 7:46pm PST NEW
        Re: It's the best softsynth ever made. by Entropy Stew 02/14/2012, 11:07pm PST NEW
            It seems like they're leaving a lot of money on the table (surprising for NI) by Fullofkittens 02/15/2012, 7:25am PST NEW
 
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