Apple MainStage 3 Instruments - MainStage 3 Instruments
Apple MainStage 3 Instruments - MainStage 3 Instruments
Apple MainStage 3 Instruments - MainStage 3 Instruments
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ES2 Wheelsyncer setting<br />
Never obsolete—and undergoing a renaissance in electronic music—are sync sounds.<br />
Wheelsyncer is a single-oscillator lead sound; all other oscillators are switched off.<br />
Although oscillator 2 is the only one actively making any sound, it is directly dependent on<br />
oscillator 1.<br />
If you change oscillator 1’s pitch or tuning, the overall pitch of the sound will go out of tune or<br />
will be transposed.<br />
The pitch of oscillator 2 provides the tone-color (or the harmonics) for the sync sound.<br />
Pitch changes are controlled by modulation routing 7—oscillator 2 pitch is assigned to the<br />
mod wheel.<br />
If you move the wheel, you can scroll through the spectrum of harmonics that have been<br />
programmed—for real-time changes. Any modification here starts with the pitch of oscillator 2<br />
itself, which is set to 3 semitones below the overall pitch. Feel free to start with a different pitch<br />
for oscillator 2; it won’t affect the tuning of the sound.<br />
The next modification may be modulation routing 7’s intensity (or the interval). The maximum<br />
value has been chosen—if this is too extreme for your needs, feel free to reduce it.<br />
Another modification lies in the tone color of the lead sound itself. oscillator 1 is switched<br />
off, because the patch is OK as it is. If you switch it on, all oscillator 1 waveforms—including<br />
Digiwaves, standard waveforms, or a sine wave (which can be further modulated by FM)—are<br />
available for use.<br />
All real-time controls are via the mod wheel, which is used for opening the filter on modulation<br />
routing 6, a panning movement on modulation routing 8, and acceleration of panning<br />
movement on modulation routing 9. If you have deeper modulation ambitions, a similar setup is<br />
used for a Leslie speaker simulation in the Wheelrocker setting (see ES2 Wheelrocker setting on<br />
page 107).<br />
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