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Published in SOS February 2013

Technique : Ableton Live Notes


From the conventional to the chaotic, Live’s Operator synth does it all.
Len Sasso
1: Operator’s user interface has four panels of primary controls on each side and a central display for editing the finer details of the selected side panel. The four left-hand panels are identical and affect Operator’s four additive oscillators. The right-hand panels manage the LFO, the multi-mode filter and global pitch and output parameters. In the FM algorithms shown at the bottom, vertical placement indicates frequency modulation, and only oscillators in the bottom row are heard in the mix. In the algorithm chosen here, oscillators A and B (yellow and green) are not frequency modulated and oscillator C (blue) is frequency modulated by oscillator D (orange).
1: Operator’s user interface has four panels of primary controls on each side and a central display for editing the finer details of the selected side panel. The four left-hand panels are identical and affect Operator’s four additive oscillators. The right-hand panels manage the LFO, the multi-mode filter and global pitch and output parameters. In the FM algorithms shown at the bottom, vertical placement indicates frequency modulation, and only oscillators in the bottom row are heard in the mix. In the algorithm chosen here, oscillators A and B (yellow and green) are not frequency modulated and oscillator C (blue) is frequency modulated by oscillator D (orange).
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