One Synth Challenge #120: SE PolyMod KX by KX77FREE (Voting Time!)

[doctorbob]

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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[] Peter:H []

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.

Glad I could help you with editing the file...

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...

[doctorbob]

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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[Taron]

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.

[simanus]

What does “Eg” stand for?

Is it just an envelope or ...does it have some hiden function in this synth

[Taron]

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.

[Carl_saved]

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.

[schiing]

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.

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%!

[RichardSemper]

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.

[schiing]

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.

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

[Carl_saved]

Also, quickly, someone comment or play my tune!! Very superstitious, apparently

Oops ...
Well, I have been studying with a student number containing this for over three years now. I don't think it harmed me ... but I'd rather not say this too loud

[TheNeverScene]

I'm running 113 instances on my old Pentium 4 Windows XP and only hitting 7% cpu.

[Taron]

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

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...
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.

[functionform]

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.

[Carl_saved]

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.