drop-off, and a pretty fast attack, which is true since you are striking strings pretty quickly with the
key hammers. I grew up playing piano in church so I have a good knowledge of that sound. There is
still an extra harmonic (or two) in the sound that does not belong, and I am trying to figure out how
to get rid of them. (I've turned off all effects and unnecessary mods like ribbon mods off to make it
easier to understand the whole sound.) I turned keytracking down a bit to get rid of one of the high
harmonics. When you said 'short' square waves the width was about low 20 range (for those out
there that might need specifics).
Still working. Maybe someone else may want to try as well. The Frankensteinwhey patch is a pretty
good place to get started. Looking for just 'that' sound is hard. Drums are pretty easy comparitively, I
think.
15.5 string synthesizer simulation:
I made a patch in order to attempt to emulate a string synthesizer. As in my description:
This was my attempt to do a "string synthesizer" based on descriptions that I heard on AH.
Two sawtooth oscillators are modulated (frequency wise) with sine LFOs at .6Hz and 6Hz,
respectively. While not really string synthesizer-like, it sounds very nice. The other nice
thing about this patch (seemingly, based on a recording I did) is how it reacts with the
standard "Dolby Surround" system (the sound will be in both the front and rear speakers).
Neat. :)
I had based the information off of an Analog Heaven post based on how string synthesizers
work. The basis is that string synthesizers take sine waves, modulate them at set frequencies
(like 10 times the speed, double them, etc.) via an ensemble unit, and mix them together. You
have 4 sine wave frequencies in a typical ensemble, so it’ s a little hard to duplicate with the
Andromeda. However, it is possible to get some unique effects from this technique.
15.6 pwm tricks for thicker sounds:
A good trick to do with this synth is to use one LFO waveform for the PWM modulation (as
a classic synth would do), but to positively modulate one wave, and to negatively modulate
the other. This is particularly good, I’ ve found, for string sounds.
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