Even presently, nearly all synthesizers would give you the monophonic or polyphonic option. Presently though with new technology this has become a lot stronger, yet cheaper to produce. It's got to the point where nearly all of the newer synthesizers can create an almost innumerable amount of notes all at the same time. Just like a piano would. In simpler terms, a monophonic synthesizer plays 1 note at 1 time. It is a useable setting because it prevents 2 keys from being hold down at the same time.

This will imply they will over lap one another giving terrible effects. The monophonic is good for a few of the lead and bass sounds as well. For two or more notes to play simultaneously you require the polyphonic.

To be able to glide 'tween two notes the synthesiser needs the Portamento/guide. You'll get your best effects of producing a bending 'tween notes if you utilize the portamento on monophonic sounds. On the other hand it can likewise be utilized polyphonically if played in the block chords style. You can go from a truly slow sweep 'tween 2 notes to a simplex glide. This'll permit a difference in the severity of bending. This's complete when you change the time and at times the scale of the glide. Its very useable for SFX.

In subtractive synthesis, you can utilise the basic ideas of frequency modulation, which's a complete entity of synthesis. You will be utilizing it's sound creation methods. If you were to speed up LFO, you would be capable to produce FM effects. The rate is set at such a high speed an audible pitch is created by the oscillator.

A truly sharp piercing effect is attained when a non-harmonic sound is created by using the 1st oscillator to modulate the pitch of a second oscillator. It has been learned that FM effects cannot be utilized successfully on analogue synthesiser keyboards.

If you utilize two oscillators, with one being the master and the second one slave youre creating the effect of hard sync (oscillator sync). In this instance, the slave oscillator works faster or slower than the master, whereas the master operates as standard with its waveform. If you trigger the two oscillators at the same time, you'll get very unique harmonic effects. The slave would also start to perform again via it's wave form. It will not matter whether it completed it's cycle. This takes place when the master oscillator is put into action.

Take two oscillator inputs and multiply them against one another. This is dependant on the frequencies. This is recognized as ring modulation in music synthesis. This is the perfect answer for creating dissonant, percussive sounds, due to the non harmonic result