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Original Message 1/5 17-Jan-03 @ 10:46 AM - Strings that are *not* trancey?

Bastiaan

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How do I squeeze some of those lush, 70's style strings out of my nova? Or those airy etheral ones?

Mine's allways end up rather much like those found on William Orbit or Tiesto or Ferry Korsten's albums.....I use saw's a bit of detune, slow attack, slow release etc....possibly some lfo's and off course 'syfonic mode' and 'VCO' for all the oscillators. Unison tends to clutter the sounds too much, but chorus does wonders...(why *needs* that supersaw after all?)

still...they all sound too trance-like...is it me of just the nova?

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Message 2/5 18-Jan-03 @ 04:48 PM - RE: Strings that are *not* trancey?

psylichon

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well, depends on what you're after. Lush and airy are two different things. 70's strings were usually real (we talkin' disco here?), not analog.

If you want lush, use square waves or doublesaws with different widths for each osc and slow pulse width modulation in varying amounts and directions for each osc. This will give you a really thick sound that can have cool phasing qualities if you mess with it.

If you want airy, mess with band- and high-pass filtering. But you're not going to get a "realistic" string sound out of the Nova. pretty much any kind of classic analog string sound you can think of is attainable with a Nova, though. Well, excpet for a mellotron ;)

psy

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Message 3/5 20-Jan-03 @ 12:13 PM - RE: Strings that are *not* trancey?

BJT

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Try squares or triangles instead of saws.
Try a 1 pole filter.
Add a bit of tremolo but let it fade out.

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Message 4/5 20-Jan-03 @ 03:57 PM - RE: Strings that are *not* trancey?

Bastiaan

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I don't have a triangle....a softened Square will have to do the trick....lemme go and play around....

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Message 5/5 26-Jan-03 @ 08:55 PM - RE: Strings that are *not* trancey?

Thomas Laskowski

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Maybe this would be a better place for a smapler and some real smapled strings?

I know the question was how to get them on the nova... but just suggesting.

Tom

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