Access Virus TI Synth Programming With Bill Holland, Part Two

September 26, 2007
Access Virus TI

Bill Holland continues with his synthesizer creation tutorial with the Access Virus TI's editor section. Here, Bill concentrates on the Velocity Map section, shaping the sound of his GearWire patch further, and getting closer to his finished sound.

You can catch part one of this tutorial here. The third and final part of this series on synthesizer creation is coming to Gearwire very soon.

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just giving a tip to the guy giving us tips..

By: jason (not verified)
Just press the parameter change buttons to change slower.. you dont have to scroll through so fast like that! so it is easy to change slow and accurate.
Thu, 2007-09-27 15:06

I think it's the coffee

By: bholland
I tend to do things like that. I will slow it down next time. Thanks for the input, as I want to increase the quality of these videos. Motif 6, anyone? Soon to come.
Thu, 2007-09-27 17:16

Input

By: Anonymous Coward
Bill, would it make sense that some of us write a "script" of some other stuff we could demo and in that way, share knowledge with other users? e.g. something on the LFO's and how to use them in the different modes (LFO vs envelope). Regards, Bart
Fri, 2007-10-05 08:29

good point

By: bholland
Bart, That would be cool. I definitely want to get more in depth material up on the site. As I'm sure you know, it often proves difficult to have the time to delve into every aspect of a synth. Any input, however, would be helpful.
Thu, 2007-10-11 15:37

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BILL HOLLAND: [BILL PLAYING MORE LEAD LINES] Okay, now if I hit parameters again, we're in the velocity map. This is how you map the velocity for your patch, and you'll notice it says 1/4 so there's four sections [BILL TWEAKS VOLUME THEN PAN THEN FM AMOUNT] and even to FM Amount.

Alright, let's go to 2/4. You'll notice oscillator shape 1, oscillator shape 2, and pulse width. Again, we looked at this in the oscillator section, but here this is part of the velocity map so it's all contained within the digital parameters. If you want to change it up using analog, you can do that but this way you have all the numbers right in front of you, and I believe this also corresponds to the software package they send with the keyboard but we will find that out as soon as we get it into the studio. [BILL TWEAKS OSCILLATOR SHAPE AND PULSE WIDTH PARAMETERS THEN MOVES TO 3/4]

You can change up resonance [BILL TWEAKS RESONANCE], filter envelope amount [BILL TWEAKS FILTER ENVELOPE AMOUNT].

Alright, and again we’re on Velocity Map. You can change inputs. You can actually take an input in here. If you'll notice, it says "mode off". I turn it to static; I can also do dynamic input. I have yet to actually play with this but we will demo this at some point and just take a look at what we can do by inputting either a microphone signal or a guitar signal or other types of audio.

You have surround options. Again, this comes back to how fat of a sound you can get with this. Categories? In this case name category "lead"; you can probably make it "drum" if you wanted to but I'd probably keep in lead because it is a mono synth, really it's dedicated to this sort of thing so go back to "lead".

Soft Knob. Okay, these are the control knobs we saw earlier. Remember "Vibrato"? What I can do is I can actually change up the name. Let's say I want it to be "Mutate", and it functioned as a noise color before; we can change up what that does. Let's say I want to have my delay feedback as my knob. Set that. I will set this to -- we'll go up "Party". Why not? We can also set -- you see you have your arpeggiator here. You can set that to whatever you want: clock tempo, effects send -- I'm just going to pick something here. Let's go LFO1. I want LFO1 right, and see this is one thing that is very difficult about this particular synthesizer is it's difficult to change up parameters like this. Okay, again you'll notice I'm having some difficulty doing this.

Okay, now you'll see common 1 through 3; just common variables. Tempo, BPM; not really a big deal here.

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