OSC-1
A complete synth built from separate modules.
AvailableInstrument
Oscillator
Two oscillators with independent pitch, level, and stereo position.
A stage of OSC-1. It works the same on its own page as it does in the chain, same parameters, same paths.
About
The source stage: two oscillators with independent wave, octave, detune and level. Everything downstream is shaping what this makes, so it is the first thing worth understanding.
Presets
Start from a named sound, then adjust the instrument to make it yours.
InitDefault
Signal graph.
ExperimentalA sketch of the signal path, in the order of the parameter groups.
How it works.
Two oscillators run at the note frequency, each offset by its own octave and detune, and sum into the stage output at their respective levels. There is no unison stack and no phase reset - two voices, honestly counted.
The detune default of seven cents is not arbitrary. Two perfectly-tuned oscillators sum into one louder oscillator; a few cents of mismatch produces a slow beat between them, and that beat is most of what people mean when they say a synth sounds fat.
Each oscillator has its own stereo position, applied before the shared filter and envelope. Both default to centre, which sums to the mono signal this stage produced before the pans existed; moving them apart is what puts a genuine stereo image into the chain, and it is the difference between the Stereo Widener having something to widen and having nothing at all.
Part of these racks.
A rack is a fixed rig: several modules already wired together, playable as one instrument. This module is one of the pieces.
- Linesynth
Linestep writes one melodic line and plays it on a compiled synth voice and the Maru Sampler at once, summed through a ping-pong delay.
Opens on a Linestep melody played at once by the synth voice and the sampler's Aurora Keys bank.
4 modules · linestep → oscillator → sampler → ping-pong-delay
