LFO ?

Hi could somebody explain what can you do with the "LFO" page when you go mode ----> program and select a sample ? I modify the waveforms and the parameters in there but the sound does not get modified. So, to what is applying ?

you can use it to modulate pitch, filter and amp. keep at it, its pretty straight forward, you probably havent set your cycle rate(hz), thats why you cant hear anything

Up the 'Level' parameter too.

what sort of sounds does the LFO work best on? my trial and error has produced very little so far

I may seem dumb but I really can't hear anything. To make it sure I modify all the parameters and then test the sound repeatedly but I can't hear no changes . . . strange isn't it ?

Thanks

dcreatorx wrote:I may seem dumb but I really can't hear anything. To make it sure I modify all the parameters and then test the sound repeatedly but I can't hear no changes . . . strange isn't it ?

Thanks

hmm.... take a longer sample, something like a 4 bar loop or something... then set the settings, and i'm sure, you will hear something.... maybe set a low pas filter, to 50 or something, and then in the lfo settings, choose also filter 1.... (and the rates...) only for playing around, but I'm sure, then you will hear something, and you'll hear how the lfo's works.....

peace

Oh now I understand. That's for long samples, to modulate the effects on loops to give more movement and groove.

Cool, thanks !

lfo's are traditionally used to do a variety of things, filter oscillations , pitch oscillations, amplitude oscillations on or off time with the main tempo :

sync - set to off: LFO rate runs independently of tempo, set to on: LFO rate tied to tempo in beat/tick measures.

delay - LFO effect occurs later as the value is increased.

many uses are to be found in experimenting, lots of different sounds/samples can 'respond' differently to many variants in the setup of the filters (nice on rich sounds, to swell and sweep through frequencies in a sound), pitch (adds a more 'naturally played' nuance to stiff samples - like vibrato at small values, then super rubber bendy stuff at high values) twinned with different rates, this set low can be super mellow or high can be more of a dizzy robot.

just set it up and tweak, each different sound u use can give different results.

Sure, I'm going to resample some of my 4 bar beats and try then . . . a whole new world comes up ! I'm starting to love the MPC now. Do you agree with the JJOS being better than the AKAI OS ?

dcreatorx wrote:Sure, I'm going to resample some of my 4 bar beats and try then . . . a whole new world comes up ! I'm starting to love the MPC now. Do you agree with the JJOS being better than the AKAI OS ?

yes... AKAI OS is trash... in my opinion.....

put the rate on something like 0.20 then change pitch - or if you've applied a filter on the filter page then you can change the filter values and again - same with velocity.

then experiment.

illiterati wrote:put the rate on something like 0.20 then change pitch - or if you've applied a filter on the filter page then you can change the filter values and again - same with velocity.

then experiment.

maybe I'm stupid, but I don't find an option to do this with velocity..... or am I missunderstanding??? I searched here, and on google...but I don't find.....

Peace

you want to modulate the level with the lfo, this will create a tremolo effect. pitch for a vibrato and filter for a wah wah.

The picture shown is with the JJOS right ?