Sequential Take 5 Compact Synthesizer - Manual (Page 67)

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Chapter 3: Creating Sounds
The Take 5 can produce a huge variety of sounds. While the factory
programs give you some idea of its scope, if you only make use of its presets,
you’re not really using the Take 5 to its full potential. The real excitement is
in creating sounds that are uniquely your own.
This chapter provides some brief tutorials. While there isn’t enough space
here to cover how to use every Take 5 function, the examples will help you
get familiar with some basic concepts.
Synthesis 101: Synth Bass
Many great synth bass sounds consist of a single oscillator, a bit of filter
resonance, the right envelope, and not much else. So start with the Basic
Program and go from there.
Short Version
To create a classic synth bass:
1. Press the
global
button.
2. Use the
select
knob to navigate to the
basic program
command, then
press the
write
button to set the synth to the Basic Program.
3. In the basic program, only Oscillator 1 is audible. (The levels of Oscil-
lator 2 and the Sub Oscillator and Noise are set to zero in the Mixer by
default.)
4. Repeatedly strike a note on the keyboard as you do the following and
listen to how the sound evolves:
5. Set Oscillator 1’s
octave
knob to -2.
6. Set filter
cutoff
to zero.
7. In the
envelopes
section, set Envelope 1’s
amount
fully clockwise.
8. Set filter
resonance
to a 9 o’clock position.
9. Play a low note on the keyboard. Instant synth bass!
10. Experiment with Envelope 1 (the Filter Envelope)
amount
and
decay
settings to fine tune your synth bass sound.