EFFECTS EDIT
S2000 Operator’s Manual - Version 1.30 Page 169
RING MODULATION/DISTORTION
Pressing PAGE DOWN will show this screen:
Here, you may switch the ring modulator and distortion on or OFF and this page acts as a
bypass function.
The next page down gives access to the ring modulator:
A ring modulator is a device with two inputs and one output. One input carries the audio source
and the other a sine wave signal of variable frequency. The two signals are modulated to
produce a variety of different effects. If the modulating oscillator’s frequency is low, the effect
will be a tremolando effect. At frequencies of 100Hz or so, you can produce the famous ‘dalek’
voices and other robotic, metallic effects on speech. At high frequencies, the results are rather
unpredictable and largely depend on the audio input signal but, basically, they can best be
described as discordant and clangourous.
The parameters on this page are FREQ(uency) and DEPTH. The FREQ parameter sets the
frequency of the sine wave oscillator and the DEPTH parameter sets the value. Press F1 to
select FREQ and use the DATA wheel to set the frequency and press F2 to select DEPTH and
use the DATA wheel to set the value.
The next page you encounter is the DIST(ortion) page.
Here, you can add distortion to a sound. This is primarily useful for emulating electric guitars but
you may also find it useful on electric piano sounds and organ sounds to emulate the sound of
these instruments slightly overloading an amplifier. Of course, you can use it on any sound and
you could add a bit of ‘dirt’ to a drums program by adding a small amount of distortion.
The parameters on this field are DEPTH and ATTEN(uation). DEPTH sets the amount of
distortion and ATTEN sets the output level of the distortion device. You will find that higher
DEPTH settings will require you to turn down the ATTEN parameter as increasing DEPTH
increases the signal gain quite considerably. High DEPTH settings produce extreme distortion
effects (i.e. heavy metal overkill) whilst lower DEPTH settings produce milder ‘clipping’ effects.
Press F1 to select the DEPTH parameter and use the DATA wheel to set the value and press
F2 to select the ATTEN parameter and use the DATA wheel to set the value.
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