How to use Sugar Bytes monosynth CYCLOP (Basic ⑦)
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Manual translation of the oscillator part of Cyclop
This time about the oscillator.
Cyclop produces sound with three oscillators, a sub-oscillator and two main oscillators.The sub-oscillator is part of the Master FX section.The main oscillator is a fairly complex synthesis unit, called synthesizers 2 and 3.These are in the lower left part of Cyclop.
Each synthesizer has six different compositing methods, with many auditions and tweaks to get the impressive and special sound of the cyclop.
The three main controls on the synthesizer unit are modulation targets that can be assigned on the assign screen.
Cyclop always produces four unison voices.You can use the unison control to offset the pitch of your voice.Detune the synthesizers to each other using the detune and octave controls.
Cyclop is equipped with XNUMX oscillators, XNUMX mains and XNUMX sub (mainly bass).
Maine
sub
You can change the main oscillator by clicking the red frame in the figure below.
Type of oscillator
There are XNUMX types of oscillators.
All have only three basic parameters.
・ Analog Sync
・ FM
・ Transformer
・ Spectromat
・ Phase Stressor
Saw Regiment
The Super-Saw oscillator realizes a profound sound by generating seven sawtooth waves with a slight pitch shift.In addition, you can stack octaves with four unison voices. The Digitize parameter is a frequency-dependent sample rate reducer.
Modifiable parameter.
Super:Offsets the pitch of the seven sawtooth waves.
Stab:Add up to 3 octaves to your sound.
Digitize:Special pitch-dependent sample rate reduction.
The sound is like this.
Analog Sync
This fat and juicy emulation produces a heavy bass sound by synchronizing two analog oscillators.Modulate the sink frequency to unleash the beast from the cage.
3 main parameters
Main / Sync:A crossfader that blends master and slave oscillators.
SYNCFREQ:Slave oscillator sink frequency.
PW:Pulse width of pulse oscillator and double saw oscillator. It ranges from 100% narrow to 100% wide. It ranges from 100% narrow to 100% wide, and using the center position produces a uniform pulse wave.
RAW:Disables special antialiasing to make the sound rougher.
Fixed Frequency: Sync Breaks the link between the pitch frequency and the master pitch frequency.When this button is disabled, the sink frequency is proportional to the master frequency.
FM
This is a simple 3-OP-FM synthesis method that we have come up with. The Modulator Oscillator modulates the two Carrier Oscillators. Two FM algorithms give you a versatile FM sound that fits the Cyclop concept.
Even if you don't know about FM synths, you can easily create sounds that you can use.
Main parameters
FM 1:Determines how much carrier 1 is modulated.
FM 2:Determines the amount of carrier 2 modulation.
Mod: Determines the overall linear modulation intensity.
Additional parameters
M: Modulation Oscillator frequency ratio.A heart will pop up when the harmonic ratio is selected.
C1:Frequency-related modulators and carriers 1.
C2:Frequency characteristics Modulator-to-Carrier 2.
Transformer
This special unit is basically a wavetable synthesizer.The loaded sample is analyzed and sliced into waveform cycles.These cycles can be specified with the Position knob.You can read the sample in a variety of ways by placing the position knob on the modulator.
In most cases, the loaded sample will not sound like it used to.This compositing method completely destroys the sample and assembles it so that you can always play the pitch you played on your keyboard.
This synthesis method also enables formant shift, which is one of the important features of Cyclop.This is a real vocal synthesizer.
You can get the best results by loading monophonic material.
You can also load your own sample.
Main parameters
Formant: Formant shifting.Double-click to move to the center position.
Post: Determines the wavetable selected in the sample.To read the loop in time with the song, modulate the position control with an upward sawtooth LFO. Set the Lfo Speed to 1 bar.
Use the envelope to load the sample as you wish.
Use the step sequencer to modulate the position control and apply the skip effect.
Grain: A control that fine-tunes the grain size that determines the size of the wavetable.Double-click to move to the center position.
Spectromat
Spectromat works with 32 internal oscillators for extremely complex sounds. The 32 spectral bands offer a huge number of tuning possibilities.Spread, shift, shape, and disable the band as you like.
Main parameters
spec: Offset of spectral frequency.The spectral bands are offset from each other by up to 5 semitones.Double-click to center position (spread by 2 semitones).
shape: Amplitude Curve Select the amplitude curve applied to the spectrum.
Shift: The entire spectral curve can be shifted within the frequency domain.
Each band has an on / off button that works as follows:
– Left click to draw
– Right click eraser
Phase Stressor
Phase Stressor is the Phase Distortion oscillator we have come up with.In essence, it is a sine wave modulated in various ways, including self-modulation.A very special display shows the phase distortion of a sine wave in a spherical coordinate system.
One oscillator makes a thin sound, but when combined with another oscillator, it seems to be a mechanism that causes distortion due to phase and changes the sound drastically.
Main parameters
Mod: The strength of the waveform modulation.
SelfMod: The strength of self-modulation.The surprise of the sound is also included on the way.
Sym: Sym:Defines the phase symmetry of the waveform.
How to use Sugar Bytes monosynth CYCLOP (Basic ⑦) Summary
Although the oscillator part has few parameters, it has a wide range of sound creation, and it feels like Sugar Bytes.
Next time is routing.
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