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This synth belongs to the "15" family
This one definitely belongs to the "15" family
 

  • Hover the mouse over a control: you'll see a balloon tooltip explaining the control
  • Right-click on a free space within GUI: you'll see the "About" window with several special notes on synth operation
  • Read the sections below
  • Contact me if you still have questions

    Q: What's the root of the "15 family"?
    A: These synths share the same tonegen basics (4-op sync subtractive crossfade synthesis)
    Q: What's the great about this architecture?
    A: It is specially developed to:
    - provide massive variety of sounds using as little controls as possible (usually 9 for tonegen)
    - sound OK on any random set of the controls
    - be easy-mixing (in other words, "to pierce thru the mix")
    Q: Why there are lots of them?
    A: It is the special playground for randomness, sound morphing and other situations when the above-mentioned features are essential


    Getting started
    Place the synth's dll file (plus the subdir if supplied) into your VST folder. That's all.
    To Vista/Se7en users: It is NOT recommended to keep your VST's in \Program Files\ folder (usually c:\Program Files\Steinberg\vstplugins) since a synth may need writing some files while working (usually on the first start). If you still need to keep them in such a place, and experiment problems - contact me for instructions or a special distributive version


    Common controls (may differ from synth to synth!)
    - [octave] - overall transposition
    Note: this control may happen (may not) to be global, i.e. the changed octave is kept while you browse the presets.
    - [porta] - portamento time (for legato notes)

    Effects:
    - [X-delay] - cross-delay amount
    - [Flng/RndPan] (or [sfx1]) - mix between chorus-flanger and random panning
    - [shift] (or [sfx2]) - left/right timeshift (stereo enhance)

    Filter controls:
    - [Q]: filter Q (resonance)
    - [Init Cutoff]: the initial filter cutoff freq (before attack)
    - [Peak Cutoff]: the peak filter cutoff freq (after attack, before decay). Note that it may be lower than "init" (thus you get inverted envelope)
    - [Sweep LFO]: the filter sweep, amount and rate in one control.
    - [Click + Attack] - attack sharpness + chiff click (up: shorter and sharper, dn: slower)
    - [Decay] - filter decay time (from "peak" back to "init")

    Tonegen controls:
    - [Tone Mix]: crossfade between carriers and modulators
    Note: the two controls described below may have no action when the ToneMix is all the way up
    - [Wavelength 1/2]: harmoics content (via carriers' pitches)
    - [Modulation]: wavelength modulation depth (rocking frequency used)

    When the synth is about morphing, Tonegen's and Filter's controls are usually groupped in two identical subsets ("Hi" and "Lo"), so morphing occures between the two.


    Troubleshooting
    This synth is probaly compiled with SynthEdit v1.0x. That means that, on several systems, you may face difficulties loading two same synths in one project. (Note: this never happens on single-core processors). Remedies are:
  • copy the synth dll several times under different names (somesynth.dll, somesynth1.dll, somesynth2.dll...) and load these copies. Your system will see them as different synths.
  • contact me for a 1.1x version
  • just use different synthz in one project :)


    Contacts
    Questions, comments, suggestions, presets, anything else: F@Fsynthz.com



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