Arturia mini v - 7 Few Elements in Sound Design; Subtractive Synthesis; A Simple Bass Sound

ARTURIA – Mini V – USER’S MANUAL
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7 A FEW ELEMENTS IN SOUND DESIGN
Here is a series of examples designed to guide you through the creation of a sound and a
sequence. They are classed in order of difficulty going from the easiest to the most difficult
and are organized into 3 parts:
 The first part will help you to grasp subtractive sound synthesis. You will start with the
most basic patch (make a VCO oscillator “sound” in an output VCA amp), to finish by
touching on the programming of a more rich sound (several oscillators, the filter, the
frequency modulation of the filter and oscillators).
 The second will help you to use the modulation matrix
 Finally, the third part will teach you to use the arpeggiator and the effects.
7.1 SUBTRACTIVE SYNTHESIS
7.1.1 A simple bass sound
To begin we will see how to program a bass sound. As we saw in chapter 3 (Quick Start), the
Mini V uses 3 oscillators. We will only use the first for this example. It will be composed of:
 An oscillator
 A low pass filter (Filter)
 An output VCA (Output)
 The envelope corresponding to the filter
 The envelope corresponding to the output amplifier (Loudness Contour)
You will thus obtain a base patch for subtractive synthesis.
 Choose the preset “Temp_Blank” in the “Templates” bank, sub-bank “Temp_Synth”.
This preset does not produce sound yet! Don’t worry, this is normal.
The following image shows the different knob positions:
 So as to hear the sound, click on the first of the 5 blue “Mixer” switches. This activates
the signal coming from the first oscillator.