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Turn the VEL (velocity) slider for ENV 1 to 35 so that the patch is a little quieter when you press a key gently. Now lets turn our attention to ENV 2. Set The Attack of ENV 1 to 14, its Decay and Sustain to 100 and its Release to 23. This sets the keyboard tracking amount, so that the filter becomes more prominent as you play higher notes on your keyboard. Lastly, turn the FM knob to -9 to add a little crunch to our sound.Īt this point our patch sounds more like a pluck than a lead, but we can address that by adjusting Diva’s ADSR (Attack Decay Sustain Release) envelopes. By default ENV 1 shapes the sound’s volume and ENV 2 shapes the filter’s cutoff frequency. Underneath the filter cutoff slider are two knobs for modulating the cutoff, the first assigned to Envelope 2 and the second assigned to LFO 2. Turn the first knob to 68 and the second to 8. We can further shape the filter using an envelope (more on that in the next step) and LFO. The cutoff determines how “dark” or “bright” our sound will be, and a touch or resonance adds some “shine”. Set the filter CUTOFF to 72 and resonance (RES) to 12. At the moment the square wave is too prominent, though, so turn the MIX knob to 15 so that it is more subtle.
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If you play your patch now you will notice that its character changes over time, thanks to the pulse width modulation. Change the rate of LFO 2 to -2.20, then increase the pulse width modulation slider (next to the PW slider) to 20. We can also add some movement to the sound by modulating its pulse width with a low frequency oscillator (LFO). We can make the square wave less “woody” sounding by increasing its pulse width to 75. In the Dual VCO section change VCO 2 to a square wave and set its tuning to 4 feet, so that it plays an octave above VCO 1.
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Switch back to the Main tab and here’s what you should see:
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In the upper pane click the preset named “INIT Jupe-8” to configure Diva to emulate Roland’s Jupiter 8 synthesizer. This folder contains initialization presets for each of the different synths that Diva models. I will also show you how to program a similar lead in Synth1, which is a great alternative if you don’t own Diva.Īfter launching Diva navigate to the Patches tab and in the directory tree open the folder named “8 Templates”.
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In this tutorial I will show you how to create an classic analog style lead in Diva, an excellent virtual analog synth from U-He that models several well known hardware synthesizers from the late 1970s and 1980s. Memorable synthesizer solos are a feature of many great synthwave tracks. So without further ado, over to Jonathan! -G He’s also my go-to guy whenever I get stuck and need some advice on patch creation. Jonathan is the genius behind Oblivion Sound Labs, who currently offer an excellent Juno 60-style chorus VST and a great synthwave-inspired Diva soundbank–absolutely free. Welcome to the third installment of The G’s guide to Synthwave Patch Creation! (New readers, please check out our previous tutorials: Juno-style polysynth for TAL U-No-Lx and resonant bass for Diva and PG-8X.) This week we have the illustrious Jonathan Nicol on board with a fantastic lead patch.