What's that LED for?
 

On the Ti models there is that strange LED in the mix-section where osc volume would be on the C series. Anyone know what this is for as it is not a BPM indicator? If this has already been covered then i apologise.

I was wondering the same thing...

also, will the wavetables be customizable like in the korg wavestation?

i probably could answer that but i'm not certain in which way you can customise the wavetables in a wavestation. the wavestation is using something called wavesequencing, that' something different.

to my knowledge (please correct me if i'm wrong, i've sold my wavestation more than 10 years ago) the wavestation allows an oscillator to playback a chain of waveforms. korg did this by having a kind of sequencer triggering the samples for every oscillator.

what we do is a bit different. there is a set of samples called a wavetable and there is a pointer which describes which sample within the wavetable is being played. each wavetable can hold a certain amount of samples. now if the pointer is in between the samples the TI interpolates and builds a new sample which is a mixture of the samples next to the pointer (you could call this morphing although the expression is fairly blurred these days).

here is an example: a wavetable consists of only two samples. one is a sinewave, the other one is a sqarewave. in position 0 the oscillator plays a pure sinewave. in position 127 the oscillators plays a ... pure square - you got it. now when you move the pointer from 0 to 127, the waveform played gradually changes from a sine to a square. the pointer's position can be changed using the mod matrix.

now imagine you have a wavetable with 3 waveforms. one sounds like "ohh", the middle one like "ehh" and the last one like "ahh". you can set up a sound in less than a minute which lets you play vowels.

obviously those two are rather simple examples. certainly not the end of the rabbit hole.

best, marc

Thanks for the answer, Marc. What about the mysterious led?

What about the power switch? It's not in the back of the desktop or polar or kb. The transpose buttons acts as power on/off in the picture.

I posted this earlier :wink:

Yeh I noticed this also. I don't think Access would put an LED there just to look pretty, it must have a purpose. :roll:

Hmm....

PS > Looks like the FM feature is going to see an update, with the "FM mode" dual-function legending below the knob.

FM Mode is used to switch between PosTri, Tri, Wave, Noise etc, like in the B and C. As it happens though, the Wavetables offer two different types of FM - FreqMod and PhaseMod. Both are different implentations than in previous viruses, and sound pretty damn good..

Defenitely looking forward to hearing the phasemod on the wavetables! I bet that sounds nice and you can come up with some off the wall stuff.