Today I'll be breaking down a patch for you guys. This was one of the original intentions of the site, so hopefully this will happen more often from now on, since patch building is essentially the heart of synthesis. You can have a great synth with crap sounds if you're not careful. I didn't create this sound but I'd like to start with it as a template to what the future of this will look like. Above is the Prophet Piano patch (No. 77 on my DSI Tetra) playing Mozart's Sonata in C (MIDI from this website). I think it's a decent stab at the sound of a real piano, and should be easily recreated on any number of synths. Hopefully this tutorial will give you a really great understanding of what is happening in this sound.
Hey everyone! Feel a bit like I'm dusting off this blogger today. I recently picked up a summer job fo money, and money = synths, so I'm a slave to the paper these days. I have big things coming your way, and this blog is only just getting started. Here's a quick update on what's going on in the keyboard world...
Here's a little demo using my Tetra I got for Christmas. The Tetra is a great little piece of synth with an unfortunate interface and app holding it back. It's basically a 4-voice Prophet, but with even more features like sub-oscillators. The app that Soundtower makes (I won't even link it, it's that bad) doesn't play nice with DAWs, however, so any programming you'd like to do while recording this synth requires you to use the onboard controls, which is a fair amount of menu-diving, unfortunately. The app on its own works brilliantly for me but I've heard a ton of complaints from others, however, which is why I've joined the CTRLR crew (I've made a post about it earlier. MIDI controllers for every synth!). Let's hope Dave Smith and his crew cook up a Tetra keyboard sometime soon, otherwise I'll end up buying a Mopho keyboard to help this thing out (the Mopho keyboard's knobs map directly to the Tetra and they can be polychained). Enjoy! I think this turned out way better than I expected it would. The Tetra packs some great sounds.
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