Pot mapping seems like a potentially very powerful feature of OS 2.0, but truthfully, I'm having a hard time coming up with useful routings --- beyond the obvious ones such as routing performance controls like the mod & pitch wheels to additional parameters.
Has anyone got any musicially interesting routings to share?
Pot Mapping Tips?
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parallel98
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Experiement! Try things like reverse-tracking the filter's cutoff frequency with the keyboard. (This mimics string instruments that lose harmonics as the length of the vibrating portion of the string decreases). Or experiment with making the filter's resonance increase as the cutoff decreases. Or reverse the velocity like the Buchla / Serge touch controlers. Modulate the envelope sustain w/velocity to get the MMV to feel truly weird. The possibilities are endless and the best way to find new uses is to simply try new things.
So called "Pot Mapping" is really the holy grail for the MMV. I think it's better to think about it as a powerful modulation matrix, and modulation flexibility is one of the most coveted aspects of analog synthesizers in general. Just ask owners of OBXpanders and EMS synths. Modulation flexibility is what makes synths sound musical and human, and it's great the OS2 MMV now has one of the most flexible modulation matrices of any synth.
Hope this helps...
So called "Pot Mapping" is really the holy grail for the MMV. I think it's better to think about it as a powerful modulation matrix, and modulation flexibility is one of the most coveted aspects of analog synthesizers in general. Just ask owners of OBXpanders and EMS synths. Modulation flexibility is what makes synths sound musical and human, and it's great the OS2 MMV now has one of the most flexible modulation matrices of any synth.
Hope this helps...
Big Pot Mapping Limitation?
Thanks for the reply. Some good ideas there.
The thing that mystifies and rather disappoints me is that pot mapping seems to use the STATIC setting of a pot, which seems of limited usefulness.
Why doesn't Pot Mapping map the voltage-controlled setting of the pot instead?
By this I mean that if I map Filter Cutoff to Osc 1 Wave Shape, shouldn't this modulate the Wave Shape if the Filter Cutoff itself is being controlled via Filter Envelope? Currrently, this doesn't seem to be the case, and it's a real shame. This type of pot mapping would be much more useful, I think.
In the current implementation of Pot Mapping, the Filter Cutoff appears to stay at its current static setting, in spite of the fact that the Filter Cutoff frequency is being modulated by the Filter Envelope. Very odd.
Feature request?
-Mark
The thing that mystifies and rather disappoints me is that pot mapping seems to use the STATIC setting of a pot, which seems of limited usefulness.
Why doesn't Pot Mapping map the voltage-controlled setting of the pot instead?
By this I mean that if I map Filter Cutoff to Osc 1 Wave Shape, shouldn't this modulate the Wave Shape if the Filter Cutoff itself is being controlled via Filter Envelope? Currrently, this doesn't seem to be the case, and it's a real shame. This type of pot mapping would be much more useful, I think.
In the current implementation of Pot Mapping, the Filter Cutoff appears to stay at its current static setting, in spite of the fact that the Filter Cutoff frequency is being modulated by the Filter Envelope. Very odd.
Feature request?
-Mark
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parallel98
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Yeah, this is true. You really need the VX to modulate in the way that you describe. Only the source’s knob value modulates the new destination, not the source’s CV. I think Moog missed a golden opportunity here, but I still think that Pot Mapping gives some powerful modulation routings, espeically in the performance realm, as you can basically assign any knob/performance control to any function.
One other missed opportunity is a panel "local off" function, so that, for example, in a particular patch you could build a collection of knob functions unique to that certain patch, or you could use the panel to control other synths (since the controls now send CC data) WITHOUT altering any parameters of the MMV. This would really bring out the power of pot mapping I think.
Also, about your specific example:
"By this I mean that if I map Filter Cutoff to Osc 1 Wave Shape, shouldn't this modulate the Wave Shape if the Filter Cutoff itself is being controlled via Filter Envelope?"
I think you can just use one mod bus to do this. (I'm not in front of my MMV now, so not 100% sure) Select Filter Env. as a source (you have to do this from the sofware) and Wave as the destination. I don't think you can modulate an individual Osc's wave form, even w/the VX, but not sure.
One other missed opportunity is a panel "local off" function, so that, for example, in a particular patch you could build a collection of knob functions unique to that certain patch, or you could use the panel to control other synths (since the controls now send CC data) WITHOUT altering any parameters of the MMV. This would really bring out the power of pot mapping I think.
Also, about your specific example:
"By this I mean that if I map Filter Cutoff to Osc 1 Wave Shape, shouldn't this modulate the Wave Shape if the Filter Cutoff itself is being controlled via Filter Envelope?"
I think you can just use one mod bus to do this. (I'm not in front of my MMV now, so not 100% sure) Select Filter Env. as a source (you have to do this from the sofware) and Wave as the destination. I don't think you can modulate an individual Osc's wave form, even w/the VX, but not sure.