Alesis Andromeda A6 Analog Synth: Clean Up Your Act With A Filter Sweep Demo
Like a hermit with crippling germophobia, Bill Holland just can't get enough filters. Good thing the Alesis Andromeda A6 has more than enough filters to keep him calm and occupied during those long, lonely hours.
The clip here is part two in our two-part Alesis Andromeda A6 Filters Modulation series-within-a-series; the series that it's within is a seven part series, of which series -- the latter -- this video is part five. Got it? You do if you're a fan of British History.
[BILL PLAYING THE ALESIS ANDROMEDA]
BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. My name is Bill Holland, and today I'm looking at the filters and modulation controls on the Alesis Andromeda.
[A RECAP OF LAST EPISODE'S FEATURE PLAYING]
Notice also we can assign modulator 1, 2, and 3 to these, got to hold it down to make sure it gets in there. I can enable it right here [BILL TESTS MODULATOR SETTINGS], enable mod 3 by using the control here [BILL TESTS MODULATOR SETTINGS], and mod 1 as we. [BILL PLAYS WITH NEW MODULATOR SETTINGS]
Keyboard tracking is the amount of tracking effect applied to the filters. At the +50 setting, the VCO and filters track in parallel. Now, let me show you what that means real quick. So, I a grab the key track and I take it to 50. Looks good. [BILL TESTS NEWLY APPLIED SETTINGS. Now let's take it off 50 [BILL TESTS NEWLY APPLIED SETTINGS]. What I'm doing there is I'm tweaking the oscillators off screen, and I'm showing you the difference between the different settings with these. Now, let's say I just adjust this, see how this works differently by sweeping the filter [BILL SWEEPS FILTER 2] and take it over here [BILL SWEEPS FILTER 2 AGAIN] the go up to the first filter and adjust it [BILL SWEEPS FILTER 1].
So, the lower your keyboard tracking is, the more range you're going to have out of this filter, and the same with this one down here [BILL DEMONSTRATES MODULATOR EFFECT ON FILTERS] although evidently that one's not really doing it right now [BILL TRIES OUT FILTER 2 AGAIN]. There we go.
Now also, envelope amount we have control over and what this does is its use is to set the amount of envelope modulating the selected filter, so for example, envelope 2, that's my filter envelope over here (we talked about this earlier) [BILL TWEAKS ENVELOPE 2]. I can change the right here.[BILL TWEAKS RATE ON ENVELOPE 2 AND ADJUSTS OTHER FILTER/MODULATOR PARAMETERS]
Now, on the post-filter mix you'll see we have filter 1, so this is your low-pass filter, the high-pass filter, filter 1 band pass, filter 2 low pass, and then pre-filter which can be oscillator 1 sine, oscillator , ring modulator, or mod -- it's like you can get a straight oscillator 1 sine wave [BILL DEMONSTRATES OSCILLATOR 1 SINE WAVE], oscillator 2 [BILL DEMONSTRATES OSCILLATOR 2], or both [BILL DEMONSTRATES BOTH].
Well, those were the filters and modulation. In the next demo, I'm going to take a look at sequencing and arpeggiation. But for now, this is Gearwire.Com and my name is Bill Holland.
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