Waldorf Q Synthesizer User Manual

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Other Functions – Tips & Tricks157 Waldorf Q User’s ManualTips & Tricks• Noise as FM Source for an oscillator gives a coloured noise output whose character can bechanged with FM Amount, the oscillator waveform and the pitch of the oscillator.• Use Envelope 3 or 4 to blend in one of the oscillators. If you e.g. need a small blip in theattack phase, just use a free oscillator and a short percussive envelope to create this effect.You can do that in the Modulation Matrix by setting the source to Env3 or Env4, thedestination to O1Level, O2Level or O3Level and setting up a positive amount. If this blipshould be noisy, use FM with Noise as source for this oscillator to control the strength ofthe noise.• For a classic “Filter Trigger” sound, you don’t need to actually use a filter. You can alsouse a sine oscillator that is pitch modulated by an envelope. This frees up the two filtersand you can use them to perform other tasks, e.g. filtering noise for a snare drum sound orthe like.• Use the LFO as FM Sources. With this technique, you get up to six oscillators frequency-modulating each other to create extremely complex timbres. Just keep in mind that theLFO have a maximum speed of around 2500Hz and that they can produce aliasing sideeffects.• Use the wavetables as FM sources. If a LFO modulate the wavetable at the same time youwill create really amazing sounds.• For extremely wide sounds, you can do the following: Create a sound that uses only Filter1 with the desired settings. Now set Routing to 64 so that both filters are routed to thepanning stages with equal volume. Set Filter 2 to a comb filter type with middle or lowcutoff and no resonance. Now put the Pan parameters of the filters to opposite directionsand you should get a very fat sound. You can create further movement by applying anLFO to the comb filter cutoff.• The perfect place to read this user manual is your favourite bathroom. We recommend 5pages per session!