Emulator Composite.book - Creative

6 - Voice Processing
Amplifier, Filter & Auxiliary Envelopes
Explore the Morph Designer:
You can create great sounding filters with just a few filter sections.
1. Select any preset with lots of harmonic content.
2. Go into the Voice Processing window, select all Groups and select Morph Designer
as the filter type.
3. Turn MIDI Controller A all the way down on your MIDI keyboard.
First Filter Section
4. Select LP as the shape for filter Stage 1.
5. Turn the Morph Wheel all the way down. (Select the Wheel, then press Home.)
6. Set the Gain Wheel to its center position. (Alt+click the mouse on the control.)
7. Set the Frequency and Gain controls of the Lo Morph all the way down.
8. Turn the Morph Wheel all the way up. (Select the Wheel, then press End.)
9. Set the Frequency and Gain controls of the Hi Morph to their maximum settings.
10. Now play the keyboard and turn the Morph wheel. You have just created the classic
synthesizer lowpass filter response, but in this case the Q turns up automatically
when you change the filter frequency. If you turn up the Q Wheel, you get even
more Q. (The Q control adds to the Lo and Hi Q settings.)
Add Another Section
11. Select Stage 2 and this time choose EQ as the filter type.
12. Turn the Morph Wheel down (you can leave the Gain Wheel centered).
13. Set the Lo Morph Frequency to the minimum setting.
14. Set the Low Morph Gain to zero. (Alt+click the mouse on the control.)
15. Turn the Morph Wheel to the maximum setting.
16. Set the small Hi Morph controls so that another
little resonance peak appears next to the one from
the lowpass filter. The filter response display
should look something like this:
17. Now play the keyboard and turn the Morph Wheel. The dual resonance peaks
come in as the filter frequency (morph) is turned up, and they sound much more
interesting than a simple lowpass.
18. Go ahead and adjust the controls some more, noting the interaction between the
Lo/Hi Morph controls and the Morph Wheel. It’s really pretty simple. The Morph
Wheel interpolates between the Lo and Hi settings of the filter section.
Add Another Section
19. When you’re ready go ahead and add yet another filter section. You’re on your
own now so choose any filter type you want. Using just three of the six sections you
can create some truly great sounding filters.
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