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Chapter 5: Virus Indigo Tutorials 37

chapter 5

Virus Indigo Tutorials

One of the greatest pleasures of owning a pro-

grammable synthesizer is making sounds that

are uniquely your own.

In this chapter you’ll learn how to do just that

with the help of the Tutorial sessions included

with Virus Indigo. Make sure you have installed

these sessions before proceeding.

Creating New Sounds

The key to successful sound design is experi-

mentation, and the cardinal rule is that there are

no rules. There are, however, a few guidelines

that will help you along the way:

Start with a Patch You Like

One of the best and fastest ways to create a new

sound is to open a patch that you like and start

changing things. When you finally stop, you’ll

be surprised at how different it is from the orig-

inal.

Try Everything

Turn every knob—even if you’re not sure what

will happen. Sometimes the most interesting

patches are the result of “accidents.”

Save Everything

Save variations of a patch as you edit it. You’ll

not only create more patches, but you’ll also be

able to go back to a particularly interesting vari-

ation and use it as a new starting point.

In the tutorials that follow, you’ll work with

patches designed to be as neutral as possible.

These make an ideal starting point for learning

the basics of sound design.

Tutorial 1: Waveforms

Waveforms are the raw sound material that

you’ll shape into patches. In this tutorial you’ll

learn how use the Virus Indigo oscillators to se-

lect waveforms and vary their shape.

Wave Select

The Wave Select control selects among 64 differ-

ent waveforms ranging from a simple sine wave

to more harmonically complex waveforms.

Each has its own unique timbre.

To use Wave Select:

1 Open the “Tutorial 1” session.

2 Record enable the Instrument track so that

you can play Virus Indigo using a MIDI key-

board controller.

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