Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Monophonic V.S Polyphonic Synths - A Guide To Dance Music

By Greg Hoffman

Even currently, nearly all synthesiser will give you the monophonic or polyphonic choice. At present though with latest technology this has become much stronger, yet cheaper to make. It's got to the point where almost all of the newer synthesiser could create an almost innumerable amount of notes all at the same time. Simply like a piano will. Which's to say, monophonic synthesiser only plays 1 note at any one time. It's a useable setting because it forbids two keys from being held down at the same time.

Which also means they can most likely over lap one another. The monophonic is fantastic for a few of the lead and bass sounds as well. For 2 or more notes to play at the same time you need the polyphonic.

To be able to slide between 2 notes the synthesiser requires the Portamento/guide. You would get your best effects of creating a bending 'tween notes if you apply the portamento on monophonic sounds. On the other hand it can likewise be applied polyphonically if played in the block chords style. You could go from a very slow sweep between two notes to a simplex glide. This will permit a difference in the severity of bending. This's finished when you change the time and some times the scale of the glide. Its very usable for SFX.

In subtractive synthesis, you can practice the basic ideas of frequency modulation, which is a complete entity of synthesis. You would be utilising its sound creation methods. If you're to speed up LFO, you will be capable to create FM effects. The rate is set at such a high speed an audible pitch is created by the oscillator.

A really sharp piercing effect is achieved when a non harmonic sound is created by utilising the beginning oscillator to modulate the pitch of a 2nd oscillator. It has been found that FM effects cannot be utilized successfully on analogue synthesiser key boards.

Say you practice 2 oscillators, with one being the master and the other one slave youre producing the effect of hard sync (oscillator sync). In this instance, the slave oscillator operates faster or slower than the master, whereas the master operates as standard with its waveform. If you trigger the 2 oscillators simultaneously, you'll get very particular harmonic effects. The slave would likewise start to perform once again via its waveform. It will not matter whether it completed it's cycle. This occurs when the master oscillator is put into action.

Take 2 oscillator inputs and multiply them against each other. This is dependant on the frequencies. This is recognized as ring modulation in music synthesis. This's the ideal result for creating dissonant, percussive sounds, due to the non-harmonic result

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