FXpansion DCAM Synth Squad Operation Manual - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
5 Credits
5 About this manual
6 1: Introduction
6 1:1 Welcome to DCAM: Synth Squad
6 DCAM: Synth Squad at a glance
6 A note on effects
7 1: Shared aspects of all instruments
8 1: Interface basics
8 Loading presets: preset pickers
8 Other Preset picker controls
9 Preset browser
10 Controlling parameters: initial values (Main view)
10 Fine control over parameters
10 Controlling parameters: TransMod modulation depths
11 TransMod slots
11 Rotary selectors and drop-down menus
11 Numerical text-boxes
11 Buttons
11 Indicator LEDs
1 Parameter context menu
1 Snapping/unit options for tuning and filter cutoff controls
1 On-screen keyboard and performance controllers
1 2: Strobe
1 :1 Overview
1 Strobe highlights
14 : Oscillator section
14 Oscillator controls
14 Waveform mixing controls
14 Pulse Width controls
14 Direct modulation
15 : Filter section
15 Filter controls
15 Direct modulation
16 :4 Amp section
16 :5 Other functions
17 :6 Modulation
17 Gateable modulators
17 Glide
17 Keytracking (modulation from keyboard pitch)
18 :7 Strobe signal flow
19 3: Cypher
19 :1 Overview
19 Background
19 Programming with Cypher
0 : Oscillator section
1 : Shaper section
:4 Filter section: shared controls
:5 Filter section: individual controls for filters 1 &
:6 Amp section
:7 Other functions
4 :8 Modulation in Cypher
4 Gateable modulators
4 Glide
4 Keytracking (modulation from keyboard pitch)
4 Oscillators as LFOs
4 Beating rates as LFOs
5 :9 Cypher signal flow
5 Osc section
6 Shaper-Filter & Amp sections
7 4: Cypher’s oscillators in detail
7 4:1 Introduction to audio-rate modulation
7 Basics of audio-rate modulation
7 Audio-rate modulation implementations
7 4: Frequency modulation
8 Oscillator FM in Cypher
9 Filter FM
9 Envelopes and LFOs
9 Programming hints
0 4: Wave modulation
0 Continuous waveshape of Cypher’s oscs
0 Audio-rate waveform modulation
1 4:4 Audio-rate sample and hold
1 Using audio-rate sample & hold
4:5 Variable-depth oscillator sync
Main uses of osc sync
Variable-depth osc sync in Cypher
4 4:6 Beat detune
4 Using the Beat control
4 Beat rates as TransMod modulators
4 Usage with other oscillator functions
5 5: Amber
5 5:1 Overview
5 Divide-down synthesis explained
5 Implementations of divide-down synths
5 String synths in popular use
6 Amber: the next step in divide-down synthesis
7 5: Master tuning controls
7 5: Synth section
7 Paraphonic oscillator control
7 Filter stage (polyphonic multimode resonant filter)
8 5:4 Ensemble section
8 Paraphonic oscillator control
8 Formant filter stage
8 5:5 Ensemble section chorus stage
9 5:6 Mixer / Amplifier stage
9 5:7 Perform controls
40 5:8 Other functions
40 5:9 Modulation
40 Paraphonic architecture and polyphonic modulation
40 Gateable modulators
41 Synth and Ensemble Envelopes
41 Glide
41 Keytracking (modulation from keyboard pitch)
4 5:10 Amber signal flow
4 6: Common synth functions
4 6:1 Arpeggiator (Strobe and Cypher only)
4 Arpeggiator and LFO
4 Arpeggiator and Keying controls
4 Arpeggiator controls
44 6: Keying controls
45 6: Glide controls
45 6:4 Settings
46 6:5 Preferences panel
46 Oversampling
46 Perf. Controls (Performance controllers)
46 Managing settings
47 6:6 Visualizer scope
47 Locking and unlocking the Scope
47 Parameter value display
47 6:7 FX versions of synth plugins
48 6:8 MIDI Learn and host automation
48 MIDI Learn
49 Host automation
50 6:9 Program change panel
50 Using the PC panel