From the course: Demystifying Audio Synthesis: The Basics
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Tutorial: Making a synth lead - Logic Pro Tutorial
From the course: Demystifying Audio Synthesis: The Basics
Tutorial: Making a synth lead
- [Instructor] A lead synth carrying a melody can be a crucial component to a song. In this movie we'll program a lead synth sound in to Logic Pro X's retro synth. Using some of the techniques we've discussed in earlier movies and a few new ones. First, let's talk about polyphony. Polyphony refers to how many notes or voices a synth can play simultaneously. Most modern synths will allow multiple polyphony. Usually something on the order of 16 voices. This is useful for chord making. But for a lead synth it's often helpful to go back to how early synths behaved. Which is that they had no polyphony. Allowing only one note at a time. The result of setting a synth to no polyphony, or monophonic, can actually be useful in terms of playing a single melody. And never overlapping notes. In retro we can do this by going down to the settings on the bottom right. Here, under where it says polyphony, we can choose. Right now…
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