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Take 5 User’s Guide
Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
Here’s another classic sound: a hard-sync lead. A famous example of this
is “Let’s Go” by the Cars (performed on a Prophet-5). In this example
you’ll learn how to hard-sync the oscillators, pitch-modulate one of them
with an auxiliary envelope, then add effects.
To create a hard-sync lead:
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 mixer, turn up Oscillator 2 to 127. (Osc 1 is already at 127.)
4. In the oscillators section, set both oscillators to sawtooth.
5. Enable the sync 2-1 button. (See page 19 for an explanation of hard
sync.)
6. Set Oscillator 1’s octave to 1. This will allow for a wide range of pitch
modulation in step 9.
7. Set Oscillator 2’s octave to -2. This will help create a more aggressive
hard-sync effect.
8. In the envelope section, set the envelopes to env 1: aux and env 2
filter + amp. This will allow you to use Envelope 1 as an auxiliary
envelope that will modulate the pitch of oscillator 1.
9. Press the mod button. In the display, use the select knob to choose env
1 as the source.
10. Set the amount to 127.
11. Set the destination to osc1 fine.
12. This routes Envelope 1 to modulate Oscillator 1 pitch according to its
ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release) settings.
13. Set Envelope 1 (Aux) to attack: 9 o’clock, decay 2 o’clock, sustain
9 o’clock,, and release to 12 o’clock,. This will set the amount and
“shape” of the modulation.
14. Play some notes. Classic hard-sync lead!
15. Experiment with Envelope 1’s Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release
settings to better understand how these affect the shape of pitch modu-
lation routed to Oscillator 1.
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