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Transwave example sounds

Post by Stafftunes » Thu May 02, 2013 11:56 am

Hi folks, not often I post in these forums, but always enjoy reading what's going on! 8-)

Does anyone out there have any good recordings of patches,sounds or tunes with Ensoniq transwaves being used, preferably not the Fizmo, stuff like the SD, VFX etc.

I'm assuming that these can be manipulated in the same way as Waldorf's wavetables? Can you go back and forth through the wavetable/transwave? I really love this sound on my Blofeld and am looking for more colours to add to my music! Nearly every video on youtube is of the cheesey presets, I'm wondering if anyone's made any cool shifting/moving sounds.

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Re: Transwave example sounds

Post by Ashe37 » Thu May 02, 2013 11:53 pm

You can scan through the wavetables just like a Waldorf synth... backwards, forwards, use any modulation source to scan it, including using the modulation mixer to mix two mod sources. I've got a bunch of patches i got off the VFX/SD yahoo group, plenty of stuff with lots of motion.

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Re: Transwave example sounds

Post by Stafftunes » Fri May 03, 2013 8:51 am

Thanks Ashe37! :)

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Re: Transwave example sounds

Post by balma » Sat May 04, 2013 1:25 am

I was really surprise when I realized the Korg Radias can scan the wavetable list on realtime (without having to retrigger notes). Obviously it cannot go backward and forward inside a single waveform like Ensoniq´s transwaves....

There are two wavetables on the second oscillator. 64 for synths and 128 for drums. When using them, the 2nd oscillator´s knob browses the list of waveforms. This browsing action can be assigned to the motion sequencer and tweaked with 32 steps. So literally, you can use all the wavetables inside a single patch, creating sequences with them according to the paramater values of the motion sequencer. You can also hold a note, and record the scanning process of the knob on the sequencer.

The MP7 ROM for the Emu Command Stations and Proteus romplers, specifically, waveforms 759 and 758.
These two samples aren´t actually samples, but the whole list of samples of the MP7 ROM, one after another. While holding a note, you can hear a mess of all the 1080 samples indexed.

This fast scanning process cannot be controlled like the Radias, but the start point, wich can be use to select wich sample will be played first, can be controlled by LFOs or any other parameter on the modulation matrix. kind of "eastern egg" of these awesome synthesizers...
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Post by ninja6485 » Sat May 04, 2013 2:39 am

Don't forget you can use the mod sequencers with the wavetable as well. It's great for sequencing additional drum rhythms since you only get one dedicated drum part.
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