GAIA Exploring Sound (PDF) - Roland Corporation Australia

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What would happen with a square wave? It has two “snaps” per cycle. Would we hear twice as many clicks? Try it. What about a Sine waveform? Would you hear any “clicks?” Figure 2.12 Square Waveform Figure 2.13 Sine Waveform Audio 2.5 Low Square Waveform Audio 2.6 Low Sine Waveform 27
Lesson 3 Signal Sources - Harmonics In this lesson we will discover Harmonics. This is not a small thing. Many mathematicians and musicians have understood the theory for years, but in this Lesson, and the next, you will even get the chance to see them!
Page 1 and 2: Exploring Sound WITH THE ROLAND GAI
Page 3 and 4: Welcome to the exciting world of so
Page 5 and 6: Section 1 Terminology Before we beg
Page 7 and 8: TONE versus Tone Throughout this bo
Page 9 and 10: Section 3 The Basic Building Blocks
Page 11 and 12: Or more correctly as shown in Figur
Page 13 and 14: Now let’s experiment with the sof
Page 15 and 16: Lesson 2 Signal Sources - Waveforms
Page 17 and 18: would oscillate. It created an elec
Page 19 and 20: Now play an octave higher. How many
Page 21 and 22: Section 2 The Pitch Controls Once a
Page 23 and 24: Low Frequency and Audibility Now we
Page 25 and 26: OK, now look at the button marked
Page 27: Exercise Try selecting the Pulse wa
Page 31 and 32: Sine Waves Let’s move forward, pl
Page 33 and 34: Now try switching on the second TON
Page 35 and 36: What are we subtracting? Well, we c
Page 37 and 38: You have just been able to prove th
Page 39 and 40: Harmonic Series Let’s look again
Page 41 and 42: Harmonics Charts Let’s review the
Page 43 and 44: Lesson 4 Filters This Lesson will d
Page 45 and 46: If we were to lower the bass contro
Page 47 and 48: Another very important difference b
Page 49 and 50: Please experiment with all three co
Page 51 and 52: What you are hearing, and seeing, i
Page 53 and 54: Lesson 5 Envelopes So far we have b
Page 55 and 56: Envelopes One type of modulator is
Page 57 and 58: Section 2 The Trumpet Back in Lesso
Page 59 and 60: If you have followed these instruct
Page 61 and 62: ut that doesn’t mean you have hot
Page 63 and 64: Section 5 Dynamics The Shift Key Ju
Page 65 and 66: Section 6 Lesson Five Assignment 1.
Page 67 and 68: Lesson 6 Controllers In this lesson
Page 69 and 70: Initialize the Patch, and set the L
Page 71 and 72: Section 2 It is worthwhile experime
Page 73 and 74: What’s Wrong With the Trumpet Sou
Page 75 and 76: Key Trigger You now know that by pr
Page 77 and 78: 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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Now follow this Action List: Figure
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Section 3 Real Brass From the previ
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So now we can complete our brass se
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Section 4 Lesson Nine Assignment As
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Lesson 10 Effects We will approach
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So now you can choose which method
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Delay Experiment One Before we expl
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High Damp High Damp stands for High
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Before we leave the delay section l
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All this theory explains why the to
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The Flanger Having explored the tec
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Section 3 Distortion Effects Distor
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Bit Crash Although the Bit Crash ef
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Section 4 Reverb and Boost Reverb I
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Section 5 First Effects Here is a P
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Lesson 11 Combining TONES - Part Th
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From the description of the Electri
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Now for the body of the Electric Pi
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Pad TONE 2 Now that we have our sol
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Final Touches There are just two mo
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Now let’s look at the Spectrum of
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Section 4 Using Noise waveforms In
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Lesson 12 Global Review In this fin
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Section 2 Global Questions Just bef
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Section 3 TONE 1 Oscillator Let’s
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Section 5 TONE 1 Amplifier Figure 1
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Section 7 TONES 2 and 3 In reality,
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Section 9 Final Assignment Now it
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The Future However, this is not the
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