Detuning voices for mimicking analog oscillators on A1

[skipgilles]

The individual oscillators of Classic analog synths can often not be tuned perfectly. (or need to be tuned all the time). This out of tune-ness for a part defines the character of such synthesizers.

The A1 has several methods of playing with the tuning. Most obvious is the "dEt" option in the oscillator section, which adds a second, detuned oscilator to each note you play. Although this is a nice feature, it leaves each base oscillator in tune. Inspired by a post on the Prophet Rev2 forum by creativespiral (https://forum.sequential.com/index.php/ ... 449.0.html), who also made an entre website about his idea http://www.voicecomponentmodeling.com, I just discovered a way of doing something similar on the A1. It is very unlikely new, but I nonetheless like to share it with you, because it really allows me to get a warmer sound from the A1.

Select "P. t" in the oscillator section, set LFO amount to about 1.6 (or whatever you fancy)
Set LFO to function as "envelope" and select the random LFO form (rate/time has no function here)

This simple trick give every note you play its own random detune.

Hope some of you like it.

[23skidoo]

Hah, I've been doing this for quite a while for the same exact reason. Works really well and makes the A1 come very much alive. Works on almost any Nord, too, not just the A1 (my Stage synth and NL3 will both do a similar variant of the trick).

[kroffe]

A simple trick is to assign velocity to detune since it is very hard to accurately play exactly the same velocity repeatedly.