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Take 5 User’s Guide
Global Settings
To listen to the oscillators:
1. Press the global button.
2. Use the
select knob to navigate to the basic program command, then
press the write button to set the synth to the Basic Program.
3. In the basic program, only Oscillator 1 is audible. (The levels of Oscil-
lator 2 and the Sub Oscillator and Noise are set to zero in the Mixer by
default.)
4. Hold down a note on the keyboard and in the oscillators section,
turn the shape knob left and right to hear the waveshape change from
sine to sawtooth to pulse. (Sawtooth is selected by default in the basic
program.) Note that when using shape with the pulse wave, it’s possible
to make the pulse width so narrow that the sound “disappears.”
5. Turn up the level of Oscillator 2 in the Mixer and experiment with
setting each oscillator to a different waveshape. Experiment with the
pitch knob on the oscillators and notice how slightly detuning the oscil-
lators in relation to each other creates movement and thickness in their
combined sound. Try tuning one oscillator to an interval such as a third,
a fth, or a sixth.
6. Experiment with the octave knob on the oscillators and notice how
setting each oscillator to a different octave inuences their combined
sound.
7. Rotate the lter’s
cutoff and resonance knobs to see how this affects
the sound of the oscillators.
8. With Oscillator 1 and 2 on, press the
sync button on Oscillator 1, and
set it’s octave to +2. Then rotate the pitch knob on Oscillator 1 while
you hold a note. This is the classic hard sync sound that you’ve prob-
ably heard before. Instead of rotating the pitch knob by hand, you can
use the modulation matrix to route an envelope to Oscillator 1 to sweep
the oscillator’s pitch and create this effect each time you play a note.
You’ll learn more about the mod matrix in “Modulation” on page 34.
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