Use the Velocity view to map the Lowpass cutoff frequencies to velocity. On the first 4 articulators, turn on the envelopes, but delete the pre drawn shape using the step mode and make a single point, right click it and set it as the sustain. You now have Envelopes, LFOs and dedicated scaling articulators for Velocity, Keytracking, Macros X and Y and the built in Randomizer for each of the 8 parameter ouputs. Inside the Envelope Controller you now have access to one of the most powerful modulation tools around.

In this case that would mean one filter velocity map would affect two filters or volume knobs at the same time. You can of course connect a parameter output to multiple inputs, should you choose to do so. Your Patcher should now be looking something like this. Now, connect the first four red nodes from the envelope controller to the red nodes on the filters, and the second four to the red nodes on the Balances. Do the same for the Balances’ Volume knobs. Now, go to each Fruity Free Filter and activate the Cutoff knobs by right clicking it and selecting „Activate“. You should now have 8 red (parameter) outputs. Go to ‘Outputs-> Parameters“ and select ‘Activate All’. Once it’s in your Patcher, it will connect to the original MIDI stream before the key split. It’s an Envelope/LFO generator with Velocity mapping and Key tracking and it lives on the generator side of the menu. In the following sections I will walk you through how you can make a beautiful, velocity mapped, key tracking pad sound with integrated sidechain ducked reverb in FL Studio 12. It can contain an unlimited amount of plugins in series or parallel-generators or FX- in both versions and it even has dedicated VFX modules that help streamline the process of creating something rich in timbre and expressiveness.įor easier access to important modulation, you can put knobs and sliders on patchers, front panel, the control surface.

Patcher is a strange beast in the plugin world, because it has an instrument version and an effect version.

What I’ll be using to demonstrate this with is Patcher by Image Line, a very powerful modular plugin host environment.

Here’s the thing though: electronics and electronic music in turn have come a long way over the last few decades and there’s a vast amount of new and exciting software around that enables the electronic-music maker to have possibly more expresive control over their instruments than any other, traditional, instrument. We know this simply isn’t the case, but nevertheless – the perceptions persists. Many people wrongly assume that electronic music can never quite achieve the same depth or expressiveness as its non-electronic counterpart.

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