N.I. Massive Flashcards
he signal flow in MASSIVE is relatively easy to understand, as it follows the well-known paradigm of a ______ synthesizer
subtractive
Three ___ and a____generate four audio signals to form the basis of the sound.
wavetable oscillators
noise oscillator
4.1. Signal Flow and Voicing:There is also an additional modulation oscillator that does not mix its signal into the_____, but is used to modulate the _____.
audio signal
three main oscillators
4.1. Signal Flow and Voicing:Various modulation modes (___ modulation, ___modulation, ___ modulation) can be selected. Besides these modes, the modulation oscillator can also be used to modulate the _____’ frequencies.
phase
ring
position
filters
4.1. Signal Flow and Voicing:In addition, there is also a feedback bus (explained further below) that brings back part of the signal from later in the chain and _____as an input source
mixes it back in
4.1. Signal Flow and Voicing:source signals are mixed down to two individual filter busses using the ____ on each source.
Routing Faders
4.1. Signal Flow and Voicing:you can crossfade between a____filter routing (the second filter uses an individual input bus) and a_____filter routing (the second filter uses the output of the first filter).
parallel
serial
4.1. Signal Flow and Voicing:After the filters, the signal is routed to the ___Section and the ___. It goes first through an ____ envelope in the___ Section, then through a___ control; then parallel voices are _____. Then the signal passes through the ____ one at a time, then a final ____, and finally through a Master____ to set the ___
Amp Master Effects amplification Amp pan downmixed Master Effects EQ Volume global output volume.
4.1. Signal Flow and Voicing: Note that there are also a few parts of the signal flow that can be moved or changed: the ___, the ___ Section, and the ___Section.
Insert Effects
Bypass
Feedback
4.1. Signal Flow and Voicing: The____are effects that can be inserted into the signal flow at various places to manipulate an audio signal.
inserts
4.1. Signal Flow and Voicing: The ____ control selects the output from one of the three main oscillators or the noise oscillator and routes this signal directly to the Amp Section at the end of the signal chain, where it is added to the downmixed signal at various places: after the ____, or after ___ in the Master Effects Section. This can be used to keep a direct, raw signal mixed in the ___, such as a subbass.
Bypass
Pan
FX1 or FX2
output
4.1. Signal Flow and Voicing: The ___ control lets you route an audio signal from a number of different points in the chain (selectable in the ____ Page) and route it back to the____Section. ___ can be used to alter a filter’s frequency characteristics, to saturate/distort the sound, or to use ____with delay signals and so on. (See section 4.4.6 for details.)
Feedback
Routing
Feedback
Feedback
feedback
4.1. Signal Flow and Voicing: tightly linked to signal flow is the ___ structure of MASSIVE, which specifies how the synthesizer’s___ are handled. If you want to play chords, you need several___ one per note, just as when playing a chord on a keyboard, you need multiple fingers to press all keys simultaneously.
voicing
voices
voices,
Each of MASSIVE’s voices can generate one of the _____ ,i.e. each voice can have its individual ___and _____. However, all voices share the same structure and general settings as adjusted in the ______
notes within the chord,
pitch
starting point
User Interface
You can see the number of voices when looking at the _____: the number of voices currently being used is displayed first, and the ___number of voices available is displayed second.
Navigation Bar
maximum
The sound of each voice is computed independently from all others until the signal is ______to generate a ____output signal (like a downmix in a ____ sequencer). This downmix process takes place just before the signal is routed through the_____. This is particularly important as the tube effects, for example, would sound different and less interesting if the downmix took place after the effect.
downmixed
stereo
multi-track
Master Effects
In the Voicing Page you can also find the ____Control. This can enable you to trigger several internal voices when triggering one note with the MIDI keyboard. This is analogous to the situation in an orchestra when several violins are playing the same notes, or when several singers sing the same part in a choir.
Unison
Click with the __mouse button to open a context menu providing a list of commands concerned with MIDI and modulation.
right
Hold the keyboard’s ____key while changing the knob’s value with the left mouse button to make finer adjustments to a control.
shift
• You can also use the mouse wheel to change the __ of a control; if you hold down the __ key while using the mouse wheel, the value will change in coarser steps.
value
shift
•___with the___mouse button to reset the knob to its default position.
Double-click
left
One of the most important innovations in the design of MASSIVE is the way we have made use of Range Knobs to map and control ____effects. Colored rings around each knob are used to indicate which ___ targets are routed to this parameter.
modulation
modulation
Sidechain modulation allows you to set up quite dramatic effects with the other available modulation slots, and then vary those effects by _____ of effect, somewhat similar to using a ____ control to vary the amount of an insert effect.
wet/dry
a percentage
LFOs are_____, i.e., they oscillate between positive and negative values
bipolar
Macro controls They help unify your interaction with all of the other controls in MASSIVE, particularly when you are trying to_____instead of just creating and programming new sounds.
make music
The audio output may also become grainy or distorted if you are using too much of your CPU power. In this case you should try increasing the __/___ of your soundcard
latency/buffer size
The_____button (labeled with a small “_” exclamation point) will stop the sound and reinitialize all internal DSP parameters.
Panic
!
The generation of sound in MASSIVE begins from the_____Section, which can be found at the____-hand side of the interface. It includes three ___, a_____, a___, and a____ section.
Oscillator
left
wavetable oscillators
modulation oscillator
noise generator
feedback
Three wavetable oscillators form the basis of sound generation in MASSIVE. In this type of synthesis, ___representations of various types of basic waveforms are stored in wavetables. Instead of directly computing a sine wave, for example, a wavetable oscillator uses a ____of a sine wave stored in memory. This synthesis technique is similar to ___
numerical
digital representation
sampling
MASSIVE uses a particular form of wavetable: each wavetable contains not only one waveform, but ____.
at least two of them
urning the _____ control from left to right now slowly morphs the waveform shape
Wt-position
Each oscillator has three___ and two ___that control its functioning.
knobs
popup menus
u can also go through the wavetables in order by using the ___ buttons here.
Prev and Next
You can control the selection of the specific waveform to be played from the oscillator by using the____knob. Turning this knob scans through all of the waveforms included in the wavetable. The number of individual waveforms represented in each table can range from only _ to as many as __or more.
Wavetable Position Control
2
128
The Intensity knob for each oscillator gives you a number of ways of shaping the wavetable read-out, depending on which____mode is selected in the right-hand popup menu.Several different modes are available including ___, __, and ___modes. The default selection is __mode.
oscillator
Spectrum
Formant
three Bend
Spectrum
___mode. In this mode the Intensity control reduces the higher-frequency harmonics heard in the selected waveform. This functions similarly to a ____ cutoff, even though the algorithm behind it is different from a standard filter design
Spectrum
low-pass filter
When any of the Bend modes are chosen, the ____ will shape the readout curve of the wavetables. Normally, the wavetable is read out at constant speed. With the Bend modes you can raise and lower the readout speed depending on___, e.g. slow at the beginning
and fast at the end.
Intensity knob
the position within the wavetable
Some wavetables also react in very interesting ways to modulation of the __knob. This can cause very subtle changes of the sound’s frequency spectrum.
Intensity
Each oscillator also has a ____ Fader at the right edge labeled F1-F2. This controls the ____of the oscillator’s output into either filter 1 or filter 2 or a mix of both.
vertical Routing
balance
____:
This oscillator generates sine wave modulation source signals in the audible range. This oscillator is a perfect tool for sculpting ___sounds!
Modulation oscillator
aggressive, cutting
____is a well-known technique within electronic music since the 1950s. Its name is derived from early analog circuits, as the diodes were connected in a ring-like shape.
Ring modulation
. Ring modulation combines two audio signals in a way such that their frequencies are interrelated, creating new frequency components in the signal; these are called ___. They can be defined as the __and__of the various frequency components of the two source signals.
sidebands
sum and difference
Practically speaking, ring-modulating one of MASSIVE’s main oscillators usually creates___sounds. Try detuning the _____ when using the ring modulator; for example, tune the __ up or down by a tritone (6 semitones) for some interesting results.
bell-like, metallic
modulation oscillator
modulation oscillator
The ____modulation implemented in MASSIVE is sonically equivalent to the familiar frequency modulation or FM synthesis technique. The modulation oscillator acts as the ____while the main oscillator becomes the__.
Phase
modulator
carrier
You can use the phase modulation capacities of MASSIVE to create classic ___ sounds, for instance.
bass
Finally, _____ is a new and unique type of modulation, made possible by the design of MASSIVE’S new wavetable engine. The modulation is more audible the more the __oscillator’s wavetable differs from the ___oscillator’s sine wave. By enhancing the differences of the waves you can make the main oscillator’s sound ___. This can be used to establish signals that sound like a___ (or___) instrument that has some “surface noise” in its sound. Also try ____ or transposing the modulation oscillator to vary the effect.
Position modulation
main
modulation
rougher
bowed
blown
detuning
By default, the modulation oscillator is also ____, which means that tonal playability of ring modulation sounds is easily achieved.
pitchtracked
Note that due to the analog-style approach of the filter saturation,____ levels routed back through the feedback bus can change the filter behavior significantly and generate very different audio results through any effects that you might be using.
higher
another case where you might want to use the feedback bus would be to smooth out the resonance peak of a filter. Try smoothing the sound by___the feedback level back into the same filter bus
increasing
the filter section should never be__
ignored.
MASSIVE can blend between both routing modes with the ____ (labeled F2) at the left of both filters. It controls the signal source of Filter 2: Moved to the ___, Filter 2 will use the signal of Filter 1 as its input (serial routing). Moved all the way to the____of its range, Filter 2 will use its independent input signal as controlled by the oscillators’ Routing Faders.
Input Fader
top
bottom
a Mix Control at the right side of the filter section. It controls ____
which filter’s signal is used as the filter section’s output.
: It samples the incoming audio signal at a given time interval, and this sample is held until the next sample is taken. This results in a “stepped,” temporally quantized audio signal.
Sample & Hold
insert fx:
is a digital effect that creates distortion in your signal by reducing the bit depth of the signal.
The Bitcrusher
insert fx:
Just as its name implies, the ___ shifts the frequency of the incoming signal. This is a common effect found in many analog synthesizer designs, but is seldom implemented in___-based instruments.
Frequency Shifter
digital/software
he ___ effect contains two simple adjustable filters (low-pass and high- pass), placed one after the other.
HPLP
___ insert effect routes your signal through a wave shaper, in which the signal’s amplitude is mapped to the rising and falling amplitude of a sine wave.
Sine Shaper
_____ is a waveshaping effect like the Sine Shaper, but with a different shaping curve: where the sine shaper uses a sine shape, the ______ uses an s-like curve. As you turn up the Drive control, the linear transition becomes a rectangular one, distorting the smooth transitions of any input curve.
Parabolic Shaper
___ in MASSIVE contain modules at the end of the signal flow primarily concerned with the amplitude of the output signal
Output Sections
Note that the parallel voices are combined to a stereo down-mix after the____section and before the ___
panorama
master effects.
here is no amplitude control knob or fader here as such, just as with a classic synthesizer amplitude envelope: any modulation of the amplitude controls the output level ..
across the entire available output range.
default, the ___envelope is assigned to control the amplitude,
fourth
….allows you to take the direct output of one of the three oscillators or that of the Noise Section and mix it in with the output from the rest of the signal chain.
Bypass Section
