elevated wrote:mp3 wrote:With transwaves, you can essentially chop a sample up into a hundred pieces and use a MIDI controller (CC, aftertouch, etc.) to determine which slice gets played back in realtime, without retriggering the sample.
I'm trying to get my brain around what this feature does. Maybe this is what Alchemist used to make that classic "alalalalalal,,, alchemist" vocal tag?
could be... I could think of a lot of other ways to get that effect though.
You can think of transwaves essentially as wavetable synthesis (ala PPG Wave) where you can use any MIDI controller to determine what part of the wavetable gets played, but instead of being locked into whatever wavetables the manufacturer sticks in the board, you can use any sample you want. That's the beauty of it. You can do a lot more than that, but that's the gist.
Quick and Dirty Transwaves
* Take a microphone and sample the word "hello"(its good for hearing the results)
* Now press <edit wave> and turn the loop on, loop forward for now(i forgot about this one, its a basic thing)
* Now you should hear "hellohellohello"
* Press <edit, system-midi> and scroll to AUTO LOOP FINDING. Turn it off.
* Press <edit,wave> again,and scroll to "loopend". Turn it to zero.now you should hear either nothing or a very high tone(or the whole memory of your sampler,but that's another story)
* Underline the fine position (the one to the left) and move the loopend away from zero slowly. The tone you hear should become deeper.turn it away until its about the same pitch as your original "hello" was. This is a single cycle loop.
* Now go to "mod/src" as I told you,select "transwav" as mod. and "wheel" as source.
* Go to the next page ("mod amt=+0") and turn the modulation amount to maximum,+99.
* Now if you move the wheel,you should hear your singlecycle (=VERY short) loop. Move from h to e,to l,to o. This won't sound like the best audiomorph you've ever heard, but it explains the basic technique just fine. It depends on the source sample you use what results you get. A simple "bweeeaaaooouuuu" from a resonant filter is a much better source for example. The realtime timestretching can be done if you use the envelopes as the modulation source.a slow envelope will move slowly through the sample, a fast one will do it fast, all without changing the pitch.But, remember, finding the right loop, getting rid of all the clicks that might occur is a HARD job and you'd be wasting your time if you try it if you don't know the asr/>eps by heart."loopstart+x" is a much quicker way to get a really wild modulation out of ANY sample! And, once more, if you're interested in all the details, buy the Waveboy Transwave Library. You'll get a great manual and many examples for what a transwave can be good for.
