Simple. You set the destination of LFO 1 to oscillator pitch. Make the LFO have a fast rate and make it a sawtooth waveform. You must also set the LFO phase to 1 so that it will retrigger everytime that you play a note. Play around with the amount and the rate and I promise you will get some very nice results, at least that is how I make my Psi sounds.
Another thing: It is very helpful when you tweak it's amount or rate.
Nice collection you have there!
If you want to use Oscillators as sources, the current workaround is to set a LFO as a source and then give it some hefty Key Follow Amount. If you really want to beef up your speed, i.e. oscillator rates, set the source to a LFO and have them controlling each other's rate. This will allow you to get "tonal" rates. You would still have to use Key Follow, but I've played around with this before and it works!
I can't speak for mitchiemasha, but I often use all of the Matrix slots whenever I build "Morphing Patches". These patches are essentially a sound that morphs into a completely different sound by setting the source as the Modulation Wheel on all 18 slots. I use these a lot for Live PA work so that I can squeeze 32 parts out of my Virus TI without having to load a new Ableton Live file mid set.
You should really try it, I promise you will make some interesting sounds!
You have to set them to the same MIDI channel.
Psytrance baselines are two form: A good sound combined with a good sequence. If you are looking for that really cool drone type, but more mids, the trick is to make a very simple sub like sound with a highpass filter and mix it with a thin saw sound that has a bandpass filter. Both synths always play the same line as to create the illusion that it is in fact one synth. Put a huge reverb on your sub, but make it have an almost instant decay. Make sure that your mid sound has a LFO modulating the bandpass filter and make the rate faster, but with only a little amount. This will make your static sound start to evolve.
I was working out some sounds with the new Hyper Chorus and have been getting some very good results. I have always felt that the best Psy is and very dreamy ethereal sound mixed with a very dark mechanical sound. This tends to make the song more interesting.
It's a bug that I have too. The solution is to press the spacebar when doing a category search.
Alles anzeigenok, still having issues here
at rehearsal, the Audio IN's for the virus stopped working all together
(with the virus being used as a soundcard and no instance of virus control loaded)
i had to dig out a crappy behringer usb audio interface that was lying around to fix the problem,
and stop using the virus as a soundcard just to get through the rehearsal
lots of time wasted troubleshooting that till i had to give up and move on.
this was when using the virus as an audio and midi interface but not using virus control.
also, the first time i booted up my live set
the midi interface part of the virus wasnt working.
it would appear in the list of midi ports, properly enabled as it always has been.
but the external midi port simply wasnt receiving anything.
i connect 2 controller keyboards via USB to my laptop
and the virus via USB to my laptop
the external midi input on the virus is receiving midi patch changes from my band mates pc running reaper (who's running the backing tracks for our set)
so basically, i had no patch changes at all.
if this happened at a gig i'd be screwed, and i wouldnt know until we'd started the set
restarting the laptop and the virus fixed this.
also, for a track we'd been working on in Reaper (other members of my band use Reaper exclusively)
with VC
i had all the virus sounds drop in volume and become very distorted when using the USB outs
but they sounded fine when using the analog outs
the sounds seem to change every time i played the project too.
basically stuff was not responding the way it should.
basically, the Virus
which is normally the piece of hardware i can rely on when all else goes wrong
is having strange, serious, intermittent problems
anyone else having these issues?
any suggestions of things to try?
or should i downgrade for the time being?
(in the past i've never had any issues with the Virus Beta's)
Me too.
Yeah, I noticed that the classic chorus send amount knob in VC does not have the lite up ring around it anymore and Arps seem like that take a few extra measures to sync up. I have had VC crash on me a few time too, along with Live. I hope it is just some Beta issues.
Any more voters?
Your talking about when the LFO is sync'd to time, not frequency, right?
Maybe you should hard reset your Virus.
I was wondering how everyone's experience with the new beta is.
I installed it and it is working great! I can't wait to hear the sounds people will create!
No harm...but you might get some VERY QUIET signal interference. TS cables are unbalanced and TRS cables are balanced.
Check out this thread:
Virus TI - what cables are you using for recording?
Cool Track.
i just bought a yamaha FC 7 and FC4 the other day and cant get it to work properly, does anyone ahve any tips on how ot get it up and running
You have to set them up in the global settings AND you have to make sure the pedal's polarity is set correctly.
I agree. Learning how different parameters effect each other is the only way to learn how to visualize your sounds.
Great links!
All the psy-ish presents in Virus are so old school oriented that are practically useless if you don't tweak them. Unless you want to do some acid tunes. I suggest you to start learning Sound Synthesis because only through this you will be able to see the endless psy potential of this synth. I usually take some "primitive" patches, very basic sounds and start from there. In the meanwhile, try linking the arp to filter cut off on some mean sound with fast attack...yummey:)
Amen.
