One Synth Challenge #120: SE PolyMod KX by KX77FREE (Voting Time!)
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- KVRAF
- 2166 posts since 7 Mar, 2014
Unfortunately there's no definitive documentation! The best thing to do is to trawl through this thread and extract all the goodness from the OSC-ers who have discovered how things work and how things don't work as "expected".
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- KVRAF
- 2094 posts since 22 Sep, 2016
Glad I could help you with editing the file...MadPsyance wrote: ↑Sun Feb 10, 2019 11:31 am Thank you, the win 10 tip fixed it!
Is there any helpful documentation on this synth? I can’t seem to find my way around it too well. Like all the knobs in the LFO, I’ve never seen anything like it in a synth. Can’t make heads or tails of it.
The only usefull documentation seems to be this thread.
Talking about the LFO - It was a complete mystery to me as well. Then I read in a previous post in this thread that it only get's into effect if you crank up the Mod wheel...and voila... the LFO "does something". The other paramters, I haven't seen either and here we are at what OSC is about - at least for me - fiddle with software synths, figure out how they work, figure out special things you can do with them, or probably even software glitches... SE Poly Mod KX is still a mystery for me especially the Envelopes... but with a lot of will to experiment and the will to let the synth define the direction where the track is going ... I had some fun already...
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- KVRAF
- 2166 posts since 7 Mar, 2014
Peter - have you tried clicking on the black/white text box above the "LFO" text label? There you can change the "effect" of the LFO via different options of which of course Wheel is one [ Whl>R ]!
The 3 text items are individually clickable!
Hope this helps …
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The 3 text items are individually clickable!
Hope this helps …
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- KVRAF
- 3008 posts since 17 Apr, 2010 from Croatia
Oh, yeah, I was over the moon a while ago, after the brilliant "click on all bold labels to get a little submenu"-tip that made me find how to use the CC1 and CC2 routings. Happens to be one of my favorite "midi learn" like implementations in a synth, really. Very clear, once you know the submenu access, haha.
But, yeah, it works well. Only sad thing is the fixed choice maximum of 0.1 for the LFO depth, which is a bit weak, but EG, I think, helps to crank stuff higher.
But, yeah, it works well. Only sad thing is the fixed choice maximum of 0.1 for the LFO depth, which is a bit weak, but EG, I think, helps to crank stuff higher.
- KVRist
- 60 posts since 25 Jan, 2018 from Split,Croatia
What does “Eg” stand for?
Is it just an envelope or ...does it have some hiden function in this synth
Is it just an envelope or ...does it have some hiden function in this synth
- KVRAF
- 3008 posts since 17 Apr, 2010 from Croatia
Envelope Generator. Old word, hehehe.... ...think it's a tell-tale sign for being an analogue emulation of sorts. I'm not an expert, but envelopes were probably a controlled voltage release circuit of sorts, literally generating the voltage changes.
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- KVRist
- 199 posts since 17 May, 2013
Anyone else experiencing this? Keep adding stuff but it is already far beyond the capabilities of my poor little CPU. More than half the tracks are frozen. This Synth is a (free) Diva.
- KVRian
- 575 posts since 27 Oct, 2015
Yeah, I noticed that, too. I have plenty of power, so I didn't hit my limit. But I'm using one of the KX string pads from my OSC entry in a new song I'm working on together with all kinds of free and commercial synths and effects. The track is bubbling along nicely at about 20% CPU, but when the KX enters it jumps to 25%!Carl_saved wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:09 am Anyone else experiencing this? Keep adding stuff but it is already far beyond the capabilities of my poor little CPU. More than half the tracks are frozen. This Synth is a (free) Diva.
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- KVRian
- 951 posts since 30 Oct, 2013 from Scarborough
Even with oversampling off its quite power hungry. There's a couple of places to set this, one in the oscillator section and the Std Q in the output section.
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- KVRian
- 575 posts since 27 Oct, 2015
I wasn't aware of that, thanks. Love this about the OSC, I've had the KX77 synths in my vst folder for years and used them semi-regularly - but there are so many aspects of them that I hadn't even considered that I'm only learning now.RichardSemper wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:02 am Even with oversampling off its quite power hungry. There's a couple of places to set this, one in the oscillator section and the Std Q in the output section.
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- KVRist
- 199 posts since 17 May, 2013
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- KVRian
- 779 posts since 1 Dec, 2016
I'm running 113 instances on my old Pentium 4 Windows XP and only hitting 7% cpu.
Just a touch of EQ and a tickle of compression
- KVRAF
- 3008 posts since 17 Apr, 2010 from Croatia
LOL @666 and the same revelation I frequently have, finding that the synth is already on my drive. Soon after I first joined the OSC I fell into a free synth chase, frantically harvesting what I could find that sounded remotely interesting, but then forgot about them...schiing wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:49 am I wasn't aware of that, thanks. Love this about the OSC, I've had the KX77 synths in my vst folder for years and used them semi-regularly - but there are so many aspects of them that I hadn't even considered that I'm only learning now.
Also, quickly, someone comment or play my tune!! Very superstitious, apparently
That's really another super cool thing about the OSC: You get to really try out a synth you wouldn't have dared for no reason. Here and there you realize what gem you would've missed, too.
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- KVRian
- 653 posts since 13 May, 2017 from Virginia
Work is doing its best to keep me from finishing a track this month. I will prevail! (but it might take me till the end) I'm also trying out Ableton, I think it will help my drum programming.
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- KVRist
- 199 posts since 17 May, 2013
Live's drum rack is an excellent tool for one synth challenges, indeed. Out of the box it gives you one separate track per MIDI note without even thinking about it.