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Am 17.07.2012 05:28, schrieb Omar:
? if you are doing lots of quick chord changes, then yea you'll hear it cut off
The Xpander must be programmed carefully to make voice steal as much inaudible as it can be.
The interaction of keyboard assign modes, envelope trigger modes and the behaviour of (the programmable) sustain pedal scaling is very important.
In most cases, there?s no general rule and it?s all about reverse engineering of a patch and experimenting until it satisfies.
But as a slightly general rule for fast chord changes,- don?t use long releases and pay attention what the sustain pedal does to which envelopes and if you are in "rotate mode" w/ the voices.
In opposite to most other poly synths, the sustain pedal as a modulator doesn?t cause infinite sustain when stepping on the pedal depending on which parameters are been modulated by MIDI CC64.
So, it can be used as a combined decay/release pedal instead of a simple sustain pedal which gives much more musical results.
According to the Xpanders factory patches volumes, I had to re-program every little bit to my taste,- these were only starters for me, then turned to different patches for different purposes.
It?s definitely a machine for programmers and keyboardplayers who don?t fear programming.
The Xpander is the synth I learned most about analogue synth programming,- even I own and owned earlier synth models like Minimoog D, Prophet-5 and the OB-8.
IMO, if you own a Minimoog D and a Xpander, it covers most you can get from a analogue synth.
There ?s the lame behaviour of Xpander envelopes for percussive sounds though.
I always compensate by layering w/ FM synths like DX7mkII, TX-816 or TG77.
If I need more modular weirdness, today I use the Sonic Core Modular III in SCOPE.
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