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Exploring Sound WITH THE ROLAND GAI
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Welcome to the exciting world of so
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Section 1 Terminology Before we beg
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TONE versus Tone Throughout this bo
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Section 3 The Basic Building Blocks
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Or more correctly as shown in Figur
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Now let’s experiment with the sof
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Lesson 2 Signal Sources - Waveforms
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would oscillate. It created an elec
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Now play an octave higher. How many
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Section 2 The Pitch Controls Once a
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Low Frequency and Audibility Now we
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OK, now look at the button marked
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Exercise Try selecting the Pulse wa
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Lesson 3 Signal Sources - Harmonics
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Sine Waves Let’s move forward, pl
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Now try switching on the second TON
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What are we subtracting? Well, we c
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You have just been able to prove th
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Harmonic Series Let’s look again
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Harmonics Charts Let’s review the
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Lesson 4 Filters This Lesson will d
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If we were to lower the bass contro
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Another very important difference b
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Please experiment with all three co
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What you are hearing, and seeing, i
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Lesson 5 Envelopes So far we have b
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Envelopes One type of modulator is
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Section 2 The Trumpet Back in Lesso
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If you have followed these instruct
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ut that doesn’t mean you have hot
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Section 5 Dynamics The Shift Key Ju
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Section 6 Lesson Five Assignment 1.
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Lesson 6 Controllers In this lesson
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Initialize the Patch, and set the L
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Section 2 It is worthwhile experime
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What’s Wrong With the Trumpet Sou
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Key Trigger You now know that by pr
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Section 5 More Controllers Mono/Pol
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Experiment with the three methods o
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Section 7 Pulse Width Modulation Th
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Lesson 7 The Action List In Lesson
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Press the one that looks like a Rew
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Section 2 Editing the Action List T
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Section 3 File Controls At the top
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Section 4 Bass Guitar Analysis Now
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Lesson 8 Combining TONES - Part One
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It’s that easy! So if you then wa
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Add Some Detune For the moment swit
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Section 3 Traditional Synth Patch -
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Section 4 Oscillator Sync You will
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Let’s try another version of this
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Try playing the sound with and with
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Section 1 Synthesizer Strings One o
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Step Two Now copy TONE 1 to both TO
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So now we have quite a convincing
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Section 2 Real Strings In this sect
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