A) Informations about the Rayblaster ResynthesisHere are some informations realated to the Rayblaster Resynthesis found in the manual:
1.) The File menuResynthesis: Opens the Quick Resynthesis importer. This is used to quick import & automatically configure the synth to use your sample.
Loop Resynthesis: Opens the Quick Loop Resynthesis importer, This is used to quick import & automatically configure the synth to use your drumloop. Note that you'll get the best results with correctly looped files (e.g. 4 full measures)
2.) Harmonic:Harmonic controls the harmonic content of the oscillator. When it is set to a value above 1 the waveform within the window is repeated for several times so it will sound more bright and harsh.
When negative values are used it will result mostly in a darker sound, since only a smaller part of the waveform will be part of the window.
The Start value defines the start offset of the waveform or the waveform's phase within the window function.
The Start value is for example used when you want to play granular or beat sliced sounds, where only a part of the sample is played back. If harmonic is set to a negative value the Start parameter can be used to scan forward or backward through a sample.
With these types of sounds usually a sawtooth LFO is routed to Osc Start Phase, this will allow the synth to scan-play though the sample in real time.
3.) NoiseNoise type:
Here you can choose between 3 different types of noise to add to the oscillator's sound
Pitch and Formant noise are useful to create a breathy/silky sound, to simulate filter instabilities,
or to add rhythmic chaos to granular sounds.Noise level:
Defines how much noise is applied to the sound. Every oscillator waveform can smoothly morph to noise in real-time.
4.) Formant:This is the most important parameter of Rayblaster. Formant controls the formant
frequency, the cutoff of the filter impulse responses,
the pitch of granular sounds or
in general the brightness of your sound.
5.) Sync:Switches the oscillator to another type of playback mode, this sounds more aggressive
and can for example be used to create the classic synced sound
Note: as shown in the demo examples above the Sync button could be also necessary for "normal" sample playback.
6.) BPM:When Osc BPM Sync is On the oscillator switches to another type of playback mode which will behave similar to an arpeggiator.
It plays back the oscillator with an very low frequency which is synced to your host's bpm rate. This mode is useful especially for beat sliced sounds or to add rhythmic patterns to a sound.
In this playback mode the Tune knob controls the rhythmic speed of the oscillator. Note that you might need to tweak Harmonic, Formant and Formant Key Follow a bit to get the desired results with BPM synced mode.
B) Additional tips/hints for the Resynthesis feature1.) about Tuningin resynthesis mode tuning works differently then in 'normal' ims, because it is a granular approach
- set Formant key follow to 100%
- use formant to tune it. fine tune it with shift+leftclick
- the 'tune' knob controls the granular density
So far the resynthesis feature doesn't support any autotuning or extract any tuning info from the samples.
i've noticed that the granuar approach works best with inharmonic content.
One thing that influcences detuning also is if you modify the start postition with an lfo (in fact it is like FM). The faster the lfo is the more detuning you'll get.