Access Virus TI Oscillator Tutorial With Bill Holland, Part Three
Bill Holland completes the oscillator tutorial on the Access Virus TI. In the final installment of this video, Bill displays the solution to a semitone problem caused by switching between the three oscillators and adds yet a third oscillator to the previous two.
Watch the video to hear Bill's finished product with the oscillator, and if you missed the first two installments check them out here and here.
BILL HOLLAND: ...and that's just kind of strange so let's tickle the oscillator 2 again [BILL TWEAKS OSCILLATOR 2]. There we go; semitone's off [BILL MAKES SOME FINE ADJUSTMENTS]. Okay. So, you'll notice what happened there was this [BILL MESSES WITH THE SEMITONE KNOB]. So what happened there was our semitone was actually off, and this will happen sometimes if you switch up oscillators. And if you go, say, right on that 2, if I go back to 1 and if I were to just assume that this would be it's about at the 12 point right now. If I were to assume that's the value [BILL PLAYS ARPEGGIO], I'd probably sorely mistaken because now if I move it just a little bit, it will reset that [BILL DEMONSTRATES ERROR], and now they're at the same place. So, where I want this for one is that I want to go back to zero [BILL MAKES ANOTHER ADJUSTMENT AND PLAYS ARPEGGIOS].
Alright, so now we've got two oscillators, what if we throw on the third, oscillator on for 3. Again, a special button for that; not exactly sure of the reason for that but there you have it. Now, one thing that's interesting about oscillator 3: it has a lot less options than oscillator 1 and 2 but that's again because on a standard synth you don't normally have more than two; you normally just have two. So if you'll look at the window, it says 2/2. So, the parameters are Detune and then, if I hit the parameter key, one a mode/wave -- now right now it's Slave. You can actually slave it to the other ones. But let's say, I don't know, let's make it a triangle wave, semitone probably better off keeping it at zero. Let's see what happens when we zero that out. [BILL PLAYS ARPEGGIATION] Hear that? As I bring the volume down and I bring the volume up, there it is [BILL TWEAKS SEMITONE VALUES]. And that's a little too loud because we've taken the frequency up higher so let's lower the volume [BILL AUDITIONS OSCILLATORS AGAIN].
Alright, so now we have three oscillators working together. Let's hear what that sounds like. [BILL PLAYS PASSAGES WITH NEWLY TWEAKED OSCILLATORS]. Alright. Well that's the oscillator on the...
VOICE OVER: ...Access Virus TI.
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