Please relieve me of my ignorance.

ontik · Post by **ontik** » Wed Dec 05, 2001 4:07 pm

Ok so I am publically exposing my Noviceness as a muzo here but I have to know

For all of my efforts I have not been able to find an adequate description of the following concepts and what they do:

-Aftertouch
-Keyfollow
-Breath
-Expression (which is associated with a pedal if I'm not mistaken.)

Please help this poor little bastard become a wiser Pulsarnutter.

PEACE!!
ontiK

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felix o. · Post by **felix o.** » Wed Dec 05, 2001 5:50 pm

-Aftertouch
-Breath
-Expression (which is associated with a pedal if I'm not mistaken.)

this three are midi controlers. you can play them via hardware or/and you can edit them in your sequencer.

aftertouch determins the pressure change on the keys after stroke while keep pressing.

breath is a controler used by midified blowen instruments (there was even a breath control for some synth, whitch simply was a tube you had to take in your mouth for triggering by pressing air in).

expression is something like the soft pedal on a normal piano (not very common controler).

-Keyfollow

keyfollow you use directly when you edit synth sounds. for example the cutoff frequency and pitch have often the option keyfollow. what happens, is you can determin wether e.g. the center frequency of your filter stays the same while you play different notes on the keyboard (keyfollow 0) or the frequency gets higer the higher notes you play (keyfollow +x)or vice versa the frequency gets deeper the higer notes you play (keyfollow -x)

ontik · Post by **ontik** » Wed Dec 05, 2001 9:25 pm

Thanx 4 that

I have been using the keyfollow but have only known it referred to as keyboard and it just never clicked in my head.

And basically as I understand it the others are really just assignable conltrols, yeah?

ontiK

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Wed Dec 05, 2001 9:28 pm

yup, transmitted as CC#.

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Wed Dec 05, 2001 10:04 pm

My understanding of an expression controller is it is something that is assignable depending on what effect you are after, eg wah or volume for guitar. You would use it if you intended to effect a musical instrument while playing it live. Not really applicable if you do everything with a sequencer.

Stuart.

Koffilit · Post by **Koffilit** » Thu Dec 06, 2001 4:44 am

hi

expression(CC#11) is relative to the volume and is very useful during the mix....when you want to write/edit volume automation on an instrument you should use expression controller....so when you have edit several expression(CC#11) instrument...if on of them is to high or to low during all the song you don't have to edit expression again....just adjust your general instrument volume (CC#7) to increase or decrease your track volume...
so CC#11 (expression) to edit curve ,fade in/out etc....relative to volume
CC#7(volume) to edit the master volume of the part and so you can keep all your CC#11 editing
i m not very clear ...sorry...bad english

but if somebody here realy understand what i mean...could he translate my thoughts

thx

kof

felix o. · Post by **felix o.** » Sat Dec 15, 2001 7:47 am

oh buddy, thanx for that. a very usefull hint (i didn´t know that either so explicit).

bye felix

algorhythm · Post by **algorhythm** » Sat Dec 15, 2001 1:16 pm

I know white noise, and I know pink noise, but what about "blue noise"??? I like to think that I know a thing er two about synthesis, but this one I haven't heard of!

white noise is equal energy per unit bandwidth
pink noise is equal energy per octave bandwidth
and
blue noise is ????

I think the VA darkstar synth has it(?)

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Sun Dec 16, 2001 12:44 am

Blue noise sounds like something they made up to sound cool.

i will now put ultraviolet noise in a synth