One of my very favrioute features form the my access c is the sub oscillator.
It comes in very very usefull when creating pads, leads & just about anything.
However I have recently aquired a novation Ks Rack it lacks this feature as do many other synths but I'am sure there must be some hidden way to create this feature.
Thanks 4 any help
May-23-2006 21:36
Diginerd
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Stamford, CT, USA but from the UK
The short version is no.
A slightly longer answer is that a suboscillator was fairly commonly found on single oscillator synths of yester year. The simply were fixed at being tuned one octave below the main oscillator, and usually fixed with a single waveform (Usually square) being triggered by the same EQs as the main Osc.
ie useful for thickening sounds.
If you are using a synth with multiple oscs, try tuning one an -ve below the main one(s) with a square wave and the same enevlope shapes. Not really a sub osc, but making one of your primary ones behave the same way.
The sub oscillator on an Access Virus C is a Square/Triangle wave pitched 1 octave below oscillator 1.
To simulate this effect on a synth without a dedicated sub oscillator you can either:
1) Mix in a separate oscillator an octave below the first as either a triangle/square wave. You need more than one oscillator to do that though.
2) Create a multitimbral patch if your synth allows it and use the second part patch as a dedicated sub oscillator using the method described above.
3) If you use a VSTi, just clone the instrument and set up a sub osc in that instance of the instrument.
You wont get exactly the same effect as on a Virus or one of the old monosynths because of the differences in the raw waveforms, how much they alias, and the type of filter used.
