In this case the low notes receive more masking and the high notes less masking.

This is caused by the LFO modulation of the Harmonic mask mix value. Mix is being varied as a function of note pitch. How it's done: The LFO section has been set to a special pitch mode, that is a modulation value that tracks note pitch (small for low notes, large for high notes). It is a fairly subtle difference so you may want to set Wave Candy What you hear: This patch morphs the wave-shape (timbre) from a square-wave at the lowest notes to a saw-wave at the highest notes.

Filter types - Experiment with the various filter types selecting them from the drop-down menu.

Amount sign - The amt control has a positive and negative direction (either side of the 12 o'clock position).

Attack time - Try changing the attack time, att knob, and notice how you can sweep the cutoff frequency up to a peak then down according to the.

This reflects the rounded slope profile shown below the knob. It should sustains, it may take a while, then suddenly drop off. Turn the decay slope ( dec) all the way to the right and

Decay envelope slope - The Wave Candy display (above) also shows the decay slope.

Decay time - Try changing the decay knob and notice how the decay-time changes.

This can be useful to make higher notes relatively brighter than lower notes. Keyboard tracking, kb.t, is adding an offset depending on note pitch. Starting frequency is set by the amt knob, the decay time is set by the dec knob and the final frequency is (largely) set by the filter cutoff frequency ( freq).

How it's done: The filter type has been set to ' Crude low pass', low pass filters allow frequencies through lower than the filter cutoff frequency ( freq). Low as shown by the Wave Candy spectrum analysis below. This is caused by the loss of high frequencies as a low-pass filter cutoff frequency is swept down from high to What you hear: Play a note (C5) and notice the sound becoming 'darker' over time. Here we will explain what's happening with each of these presets. If you open the Harmless presets you will notice a ' Tutorial' category. Attention class! Miss Harmless is ready to start 'Subtractive-Additive Synthesis 101'.

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