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Creating a richer sound with oscillator tuning

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Creating a richer sound with oscillator tuning

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- Analog's oscillators output a perfectly stable sound with no pitch fluctuations, but because our experience of pitch in music, performance is unperfect at best. The unaltered oscillator output sounds very clinical to our ears. So let's take a look at how Analog's oscillators can be tuned and detuned in order to add power, bite and richness to a sound. So let's grab a default Analog, and I'm going to drag that onto the first MIDI track, and let's take a look at our tuning options. So first of all, here on Oscillator 1 and number 2, you'll notice that we have three options here: Octave, Semi, and Detune. With Octave, I can grab that and I can tune that up or down three full octaves. Let's hear what that sounds like. So here's middle C: (beeping three times) Now let me add an octave below. (beeping three times) So right now we have Oscillator 2 playing middle C, and we have Oscillator 1 playing an octave below that. (beeping three times) You can hear how it adds a little bit of…

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