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	ASR-X Pro's Onboard Effects Previously posted at E-mu<>Ensoniq; Author unknown.
	The X's effects are really amazing. You can take something that was boring and played out and turn it into fresh groove food. With the amount of FX algos and parameters the possibilities are mindboggling but here's a few simple ones to chew on. Sync Delays The X's Delay effects can be synced to System Tempo. Here's a simple way to make a tripped out song intro or to add some spice to a bridge section in your tune. Go to Pad/Edit and set the pad you want to work with to INSERT. Go to the Effects/Select and choose Insert effect 23 DDL-EQ. Next go to Effects/Edit and choose Preset=Sync Delays. This preset is set up to sync to System clock. If you haven't already, adjust the System clock to the BPM of your sample. If you don't know what the BPM is, set it by using the tap tempo feature in the Sequencer/Edit button. This should give your loop some nice rhythmic slapbacks, for further variations, edit the delays times. Once you get it goin on, resample and add to your recycled kit. Xtreme Filtering Go to Pad/Edit and set the pad you want to work with to INSERT. Go to the Effects/Select and choose Insert effect 30 Dist-VCF-DDL. Next go to Effects/Edit and choose Preset=Slow Envelope. Just applying this is cool. Listen to how it sweeps the filter. Go in and edit to get it working perfectly with your loop. Try moving the VCF Fc parameter in real time to get some speaker shaking sweeps. Warning: this can wreak havoc on your speakers and ears, be careful. Once you got it good resample and add to your recycled kit. In the above examples we used the X's synth Hi Pass filter. Here's a few more cool synth edits to try. Envelopes In Drum 'N' Bass and Techno you hear alot of "machine gun snares" you know brrrrrRRRBRRRRRRRRR... You could sequence this by step recording 32nd notes, but here's another way to do it: Sample a break that has a snare drum that you like. Now find a snare in the break and loop a very small section like 1 or 2% around that snare. You should have that BRRRRRRRRRRRRR...happening already. But you want it to go brrrrrRRRBRRRRRRRRR... Go to Pad/Edit/ENV3/Attack and raise it a little. Ahh.. Adjust to your liking. If you want it even more machine sounding raise the pitch a few semitones. Glide Time Although this is not a parameter you traditionally use for Loops it's a very cool effect. Try this. Go to Pad/Edit/set Glide Mode=On and Glide Time to something other then 0. Hit a pad above or below the pad you edited. Now hit the pad you edited. You will notice that pitch will "glide". "Where" it glides from is determined by what you hit before. So to get a very extreme glide try hitting a pad an octave or more higher or lower first, it will glide from there to where you're at. Not something you can use all the time but fun. Pitch Modulation Here's a cool thing to make your loop sound "wobbly", kind of like a Leslie Speaker on ACID. Go to Pad/Edit/Ptch and set... PTCH ModSrc=LFO Pitch ModAmt=+127 Pitch ModRange=64st Go to Pad/Edit/Mod and set... LFO Rate=99 LFO Depth=4 That's a really Xtreme setting, try lesser settings for a milder effect. If you've done all the above you should have a nice Recycled Kit by now. With this much variation that 4 minute song should be cake. Make a system of putting the same elements in the same place. (Original Loop, quarter loop, Kicks, snares, Panned Left and Right, hi passed, reverb, reversed....etc) That way you can interchange kits with sequences that use the same BPM.

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