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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Alternate Voice Assign mode?

« on: October 07, 2018, 01:39:10 AM »

I was just reading this great interview with Mark Fell about his work with FM synthesis and this passage stood out:

For example, I had a Yamaha TX81Z, which uses four-operator FM synthesis and had a few quirks to it. There was this mode, which rather than being multitimbral was like a multitimbral setup, but every time you press the note to progress to the next sound in the series of sounds that you specify. So every time you played a note it could produce not just a series of notes but a series of sound changes as well. So I just did loads of work with that, setting up simple sequences of sound changes and note changes that would go in and out of phase and things. That became one of the kinds of techniques that I still use today.

Reading the manual for the TX81Z, this seems to be a reference to the Alternate Voice Assign mode that "allows you to play a different voice with each successive note". Would it be possible to have a function like this on the PreenFM, perhaps running through each patch in a combo when engaged?

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / mapping scala files

« on: December 13, 2017, 04:43:31 AM »

I'm really enjoying the PFM's ability to load scala files but have been having some issues getting the files to play the same way between it and my Korg Monologue. The Monologue accepts .kbm keyboard mapping files while the Preen does not - would there be any way to load these in order to change how scales are mapped and played? Or is there something I'm missing? Thanks!

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preenfm2 and preenfm3 / Re: October 22th 2017 - 2.08 beta 2 : LFO Freq up to 99.9 Hz + small fixes

« on: October 23, 2017, 01:04:39 AM »

The 3rd one is something i wanted to add for a long time.
3. multi edit
There's a new combo button+encoder:
Modifying some value while pressing the left middle button (button 3 from this picture) will modify  other values at the same time :
IM : modifying any modulation index (or v) will edit all IM (or all v) at the same time.
Mix : modifying any mix will change all mix.
Pan : modifying any pan will change all pans.
The most interesting one is for the enveloppe :
If you modify any of the 8 enveloppe parameters while pressing this button, it will modify the other enveloppes of the same operator type in the current algo : all carriers or all modulators.
Exemple with ALGO 15
If you press button 3 while modifying enveloppe of operator 1 (or 3) it will modify 1 & 3 at the  same time.
If you press button 3 while modifying enveloppe of operator 2 (or 4 or 5 or 6) it will modify 2,4,5 & 6 at the same time.
An other example :  Modifying attk of op1 (which is always a carrier operator) while pressing 3 will always modify the attk of the sound because all carriers attk will be modified
Should make editing easier.
Lies in LFO menu after the 3 LFOs.

This is great! Just wondering if it would be possible to assign these to a CC value or mod matrix slot - it would be great to control the attack of all modulators with a single CC from my sequencer, for example.