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Other Functions – Tips & Tricks

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Tips & Tricks

• Noise as FM Source for an oscillator gives a coloured noise output whose character can be

changed with FM Amount, the oscillator waveform and the pitch of the oscillator.

• Use Envelope 3 or 4 to blend in one of the oscillators. If you e.g. need a small blip in the

attack phase, just use a free oscillator and a short percussive envelope to create this effect.

You can do that in the Modulation Matrix by setting the source to Env3 or Env4, the

destination to O1Level, O2Level or O3Level and setting up a positive amount. If this blip

should be noisy, use FM with Noise as source for this oscillator to control the strength of

the noise.

• For a classic “Filter Trigger” sound, you don’t need to actually use a filter. You can also

use a sine oscillator that is pitch modulated by an envelope. This frees up the two filters

and you can use them to perform other tasks, e.g. filtering noise for a snare drum sound or

the like.

• Use the LFO as FM Sources. With this technique, you get up to six oscillators frequency-

modulating each other to create extremely complex timbres. Just keep in mind that the

LFO have a maximum speed of around 2500Hz and that they can produce aliasing side

effects.

• Use the wavetables as FM sources. If a LFO modulate the wavetable at the same time you

will create really amazing sounds.

• For extremely wide sounds, you can do the following: Create a sound that uses only Filter

1 with the desired settings. Now set Routing to 64 so that both filters are routed to the

panning stages with equal volume. Set Filter 2 to a comb filter type with middle or low

cutoff and no resonance. Now put the Pan parameters of the filters to opposite directions

and you should get a very fat sound. You can create further movement by applying an

LFO to the comb filter cutoff.

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Waldorf Q+ User Manual Page 156