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The church has gotten a new Kurzweil SP6 and in addition to programming all the sounds that we will need, I also want to use this opportunity to learn a bit of Kurz programming. (I already have a quite good understanding of Roland sound architecture.)

 

The first sound I wanted to program from scratch is a simple triangle lead with portamento but I've hit a problem. Please listen to the sound example. First you'll hear a factory sound, then my custom sound. Why is my custom sound emitting audible clicks when the portamento notes are more than one octave apart? As a beginner I cannot find which option is the key difference between the factory patch and mine.

 

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Genres: Jazz, funk, pop, Christian worship, BebHop
Wishlist: 80s-ish (synth)pop, symph pop, prog rock, fusion, musical theatre
Gear: NS2 + JUNO-G. KingKORG. SP6 at church.

 

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Sounds like the attack or sustain is too short maybe? Not a VAST expert either.

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It turns out the built-in synth waveform samples are not suitable for this kind of portamento. You have to go to the Algorithm section and choose a DSP Function block that is a VA oscillator.

Life is subtractive.
Genres: Jazz, funk, pop, Christian worship, BebHop
Wishlist: 80s-ish (synth)pop, symph pop, prog rock, fusion, musical theatre
Gear: NS2 + JUNO-G. KingKORG. SP6 at church.

 

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It turns out the built-in synth waveform samples are not suitable for this kind of portamento. You have to go to the Algorithm section and choose a DSP Function block that is a VA oscillator.

One of the advantages of a VA engine is that an algortmically generated waveform behaves like an analog one for portamento. Sampled waveforms cannot pitch shift the same way.

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Actually Nord does a good job of crossfading samples when gliding.

Life is subtractive.
Genres: Jazz, funk, pop, Christian worship, BebHop
Wishlist: 80s-ish (synth)pop, symph pop, prog rock, fusion, musical theatre
Gear: NS2 + JUNO-G. KingKORG. SP6 at church.

 

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