Does Fabric XL support "unison" feature?

I didn't find "unison" when I tweaked around with sounds. Can anyone give me some coaching?

Regards,

Wayne Chen wrote:I didn't find "unison" when I tweaked around with sounds. Can anyone give me some coaching?

Regards,

Strangely, there is no unison feature in Fabric XL. Currently the only way you can get the effect is to manually de-tune the oscillators (samples) yourself. Please contact Akai through the MPC Software feedback feature and submit it as a feature request, because Fabric XL most definitely needs a proper unison mode!

Thanks for the comment and suggestion, EnochLight!

Do you mean to pan the 2 samples of oscillators? That's definitely not enough to enrich the sound feeling. Understood that the unison feature is the killer of CPU utilization, but it can easily walk around this problem by bouncing to an audio track. I will go to post it as your suggestion.

Wayne Chen wrote:Thanks for the comment and suggestion, EnochLight!

Do you mean to pan the 2 samples of oscillators? That's definitely not enough to enrich the sound feeling. Understood that the unison feature is the killer of CPU utilization, but it can easily walk around this problem by bouncing to an audio track. I will go to post it as your suggestion.

You don't have to pan them, but to fine tune them one to +12 or +16 cents and the other in negative. That way you create unison. Note that the +12 or 16 I mention are examples, once you start finetuning them you'll hear where is the sweetspot for you

Although I‘ve never used the plugin and I don‘t know whether that‘s clever memorywise, you could also duplicate your programs (and tracks) e.g. twice and detune the new programs by a bit.

83dude wrote:Although I‘ve never used the plugin and I don‘t know whether that‘s clever memorywise, you could also duplicate your programs (and tracks) e.g. twice and detune the new programs by a bit.

To leverage multiple programs to generate unison sound is a really good idea. However, it might only work for the "after-process". The unison sound cannot be generated for lively hitting the pads.

TT_Lab wrote:

Wayne Chen wrote:Thanks for the comment and suggestion, EnochLight!

Do you mean to pan the 2 samples of oscillators? That's definitely not enough to enrich the sound feeling. Understood that the unison feature is the killer of CPU utilization, but it can easily walk around this problem by bouncing to an audio track. I will go to post it as your suggestion.

You don't have to pan them, but to fine tune them one to +12 or +16 cents and the other in negative. That way you create unison. Note that the +12 or 16 I mention are examples, once you start finetuning them you'll hear where is the sweetspot for you

Got it. Thanks a million!

Wayne Chen wrote:

83dude wrote:Although I‘ve never used the plugin and I don‘t know whether that‘s clever memorywise, you could also duplicate your programs (and tracks) e.g. twice and detune the new programs by a bit.

To leverage multiple programs to generate unison sound is a really good idea. However, it might only work for the "after-process". The unison sound cannot be generated for lively hitting the pads.

You could use the MIDI 'SEND TO' feature. So set up two tracks running different program instances of Fabric, set track 1 to 'send to' track 2. Now with track 1 selected, any notes you trigger on track 1 are simultaneously sent to track 2, so can be used to work on layered programs 'live'.

MAIN > eyball > MIDI strip > SEND TO.

MPC-Tutor wrote:You could use the MIDI 'SEND TO' feature. So set up two tracks running different program instances of Fabric, set track 1 to 'send to' track 2. Now with track 1 selected, any notes you trigger on track 1 are simultaneously sent to track 2, so can be used to work on layered programs 'live'.

MAIN > eyball > MIDI strip > SEND TO.

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