ProWave w/ Dynamic Aftertouch

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:10 pm

I do not wish to bother John Bowen with this question so any ProWave Modular owners please respond. I am used to old hardware and am not familiar with this trick.

I was playing a patch with a slow attack, and different velocity settings that correspond nicely with the envelopes. But in the velocity sections I stumbled on a setting that allows me to play a five note pad that has a long attack, but when I strike a one finger note with my free hand, I noticed the pad was un interrupted, while the one finger stab had a higher cut off rate and buzzed right in above the pad. WTF kind of aftertouch is this ? I am not at all mad, this is a bitchin' effect. Has anyone else here noticed this. I know that there are 11 guys out there, maybe more.

I have copied this preset in 3 places so I would not loose it. I had a few Flexor patches that took days to make, and have since learned my lesson. I don't even wait for the patch to be complete. As soon as I have a good template, I will save it.

I have to decided to name this Dynamic Aftertouch till I figure out what it is.

Chingalay,

johnbowen · Post by **johnbowen** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:51 pm

Jimmy,

Never a bother to ask, as I've often said....
So, the only difference with the extra added note is that the cutoff sounds higher than the other held notes? And you are sure that the added note is not stealing one of the 5 held notes?

Hmmmm......you should send me the patch to check.

regards,
john b.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:14 pm

So it is a hidden feature then. I have had to do splits, not layers to achieve this before.

1) play a 5 voice chord pianissimo " p ", with your left hand, then do one note stabs above the chord at " ff " velocity. The chord swells slowly, while the stab just cuts above the swell so nicely. I detected no note stealing, or retriggering of any envelopes.

I am afraid you have created another classic here, which I am only beggining to learn about. I mix Solaris from DAW #1, and ProWave from DAW #2 via MIDI. I cannot describe the beautiful mix these two achieve. There can be no possible equal to this. I will be sending some original material using this combo as soon as I finish recording it with Cubase 4. It will be using Larry Seyers awesome sounding acoustic drums w/ convolution reverb on each skin. Funny how great a mix using acoustic drums, upright bass, trumpet, sax, and Bowen synths sound. It is an original piece I made just for the forums sake. Resolved dissonance abound.

I will send the patch to you via the preset thread under Dynamic Aftertouch header.

As Usual, Thanks for your incredibly rapid reply.

Strength And Honor,

JV

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:44 pm

Another Dear John Letter,
I just zipped the pre. to you in the preset and tools thread.

johnbowen · Post by **johnbowen** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:56 pm

OK, I checked the patch - it's just normal Velocity control of the Filter Envelope's Amount and Attack time. Velocity is polyphonic....the first notes you are playing must be at a low velocity, then any note played with even a slight bit more velocity will "stand out" as you describe.

Regards,
John b.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:24 pm

Well Great,
For I have re created it in a couple of presets. I have never seen that type of programmability before in a polyphonic synth. It's truly great, and I plan on finding other ways to get this duo character of sorts to trigger other events. Thanks Again John 4 a great fuckin'
synth.