[tutorial] Waldorf Quantum 6: Particle Oscillator

[@mooseinbeesocks2700]

Wow this granular engine is more impressive than I thought! Can't wait for the resonator video!

[@StphRolland]

Thanks! I was intrigued what was behind that "particle oscillator".

[@collectionofsensations]

Thank you for your hard work. Is it possible to send a mono signal into the Live granular and output stereo?

[@SynthesizerVideo]

Thank you! Yes, this should work because the Quantum spreads the grains into the panorama, not the original signal.

[@xuiqen]

Any chance you could do a follow up on the “live granular” engine you touched on? (pun intended)

[@kimzim2001]

Thanks for the fine tutorial. Could you please answer some questions: 1. How many samples can one Quantum voice play at the same time? Is it for example possible to play two separate samples that are detuned from another (as with a two oscillator analog synth) without using up polyphony? Is it possible to play stereo samples within one voice? 2. Is it possible to conveniently load and save a patch complete with all of its samples from internal memory or SD-card? Thanks

[@SynthesizerVideo]

You have 3 OSC and 8 voices, so you can play 24 stereo samples at once. The option to store a patch with it's samples was already added with an update. If you want to detune a sample without loss of polyphony, you can use two OSC and resample the result internally in order to get a new detuned version of your sample.

[@kimzim2001]

@@SynthesizerVideo Thanks for your answer. So this means up to three stereosamples per voice. The oscillators can be individually tuned I suppose so if I don’t want to resample I can still get an 8-voice synth with three individually tunable sampleoscillators? I’m planning on sampling analog mono synths and making them polyphonic with detune possibility.

[@SynthesizerVideo]

Yes :)

[@CharlesFerraro]

Is there a limit to the amount of velocity layers you can have? Also is there a crossfade option between velocity layers?

[@SynthesizerVideo]

I don't know of any limitations for the number of velocity layers, but I guess most people would not need more than 3 or 4 layers. There is no cross-fade.

[@CharlesFerraro]

For the granular engine, is it possible to patch keytracking into grain length? And if so, do you know if it’s possible to chromatically tune grain length?

[@SynthesizerVideo]

You can modulate the length by keytrack but I think it will be hard to get it chromatically. It's not made to work like that.

[@CharlesFerraro]

@@SynthesizerVideo it really wouldn’t be that hard. I could easily do it. It’ll probably be my first tutorial if I get an Iridium.

[@owenkitto27]

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