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Shambolic Charm



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Softsynth with long release or hold? new
      #981035 - 08/04/12 08:03 PM
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Hi, I want to trigger A sofsynth with my midi guitar, leave it droning and playing along to the drone. I have been doing this on an Oberheim Xpander but it's a bit too vintage and fragile to cart to gigs. SO I am looking for a softsynth that'll do very slow release times. Haven't found a single one yet. Any suggestions?

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desmond



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Re: Softsynth with long release or hold? new [Re: Shambolic Charm]
      #981036 - 08/04/12 08:17 PM
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What does "very slow" mean? 1 minute? 10 minutes? An hour?


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Shambolic Charm



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Re: Softsynth with long release or hold? new [Re: Shambolic Charm]
      #981037 - 08/04/12 08:28 PM
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1 minute would do. the Oberheim can go on forever it has a second amplifier on the filter but as I say reckon 1 minute and beyond.

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Edited by Shambolic Charm (08/04/12 08:30 PM)


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Re: Softsynth with long release or hold? new [Re: Shambolic Charm]
      #981039 - 08/04/12 08:33 PM
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And a sustain pedal is not an option?


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Re: Softsynth with long release or hold? new [Re: desmond]
      #981041 - 08/04/12 08:59 PM
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Cakewalk's Rapture can do single envelope points of huge length. I gave up after dragging an amp envelope point past about one and a half minutes and I haven't found a limit yet - especially as you can have multiple points.

I guess any synth with complex envelopes can do something similar... for instance Absynth can do massively long envelopes as well. I think quite a few softsynths will do what you want...

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BJG145



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Re: Softsynth with long release or hold? new [Re: desmond]
      #981068 - 09/04/12 08:55 AM
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Quote Shambolic Charm:

I have been doing this on an Oberheim Xpander but it's a bit too vintage and fragile to cart to gigs.



Maybe you could try the free demo of the OP-X.

http://www.sonicprojects.ch/obx/products.html


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Re: Softsynth with long release or hold? [Re: Shambolic Charm]
      #981121 - 09/04/12 09:36 AM
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Thanks for that, will check them out

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