Sequential Take 5 Compact Synthesizer - Manual (Page 74)

65 Take 5 User’s Guide Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
Here’s another classic sound: a hard-sync lead. A famous example of this
is “Let’s Go” by the Cars (performed on a Prophet-5). In this example
you’ll learn how to hard-sync the oscillators, pitch-modulate one of them
with an auxiliary envelope, then add effects.
To create a hard-sync lead:
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 mixer, turn up Oscillator 2 to 127. (Osc 1 is already at 127.)
4. In the
oscillators
section, set both oscillators to sawtooth.
5. Enable the
sync
2- 1 button. (See page 19 for an explanation of hard
sync.)
6. Set Oscillator 1’s
octave
to 1. This will allow for a wide range of pitch
modulation in step 9.
7. Set Oscillator 2’s
octave
to -2. This will help create a more aggressive
hard-sync effect.
8. In the
envelope
section, set the envelopes to
env
1:
aux
and
env
2
filter
+
amp
. This will allow you to use Envelope 1 as an auxiliary
envelope that will modulate the pitch of oscillator 1.
9. Press the
mod
button. In the display, use the
select
knob to choose
env
1 as the source .
10. Set the
amount
to 127 .
11. Set the
destination
to
osc
1
fine
.
12. This routes Envelope 1 to modulate Oscillator 1 pitch according to its
ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release) settings .
13. Set Envelope 1 (Aux) to
attack
: 9 o’clock,
decay
2 o’clock,
sustain
9 o’clock,, and
release
to 12 o’clock,. This will set the amount and
“shape” of the modulation.
14. Play some notes. Classic hard-sync lead!
15. Experiment with Envelope 1’s Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release
settings to better understand how these affect the shape of pitch modu-
lation routed to Oscillator 1.