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	Realtime Control Previously posted at E-mu<>Ensoniq; Author unknown.
	Fact: you love filter sweeps and all the things analog stuff usually does. Also: you have a bunch of CDs with lot of beeps & blips of ancient machines but they're static Polaroid's of the real world and you want more real-time control. The ASR-X has many mighty filters with squeaky resonance waiting to be modulated by the matrix options, or even by your hands tweaking a knob. And, as we know, the oscillators of the machines you adore generate only a few simple (and periodic) waves that repeat ad infinitum. So: Take a PC or Mac graphic wave editor. Sample, draw, or generate some seconds of the wave shape you like without any timbral, volume or pitch modulations. With the help of a zoom tool cut the wave at the level of a single cycle taking care of that both start and end points cross the zero line. Export it to the X. A DOS disk is OK. You don't need to use SCSI since the wave is VERY short and it loads very quickly from disk. Once in the X create a RAM kit, go to the "CUSTOM" category and select the sound, in the Pad Edit section and select "Loop Forward" from the wave Menu. Then you have your DCO ready to be shaped by the filter and amp. You can get a lot of analog-style patches from this single wave that responds just like you want (without the frozen quality of the sampled ones), and they takes a very little memory of your RAM. If you have access to external synth editor software, you can layer some of those patches and create some really PHAT basses, pads, etc. Yeah, you can do it with nearly any sampler with filters, but the X makes it especially fast thanks to the DOS capabilities and the popularity of computers and graphic editors.

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