Andromeda A6 Tips and Tricks

There's been some discussion in the comments of this post regarding the Andromeda A6 and it's ability or inability to produce vintage sounds including snappy bass and leads. The comments made me think of how diverse the A6 is and it reminded me of the Andromeda A6 Tips and Tricks on the excellent Andromeda A6 Community Website. If you have an A6 take the time out to explore it a bit. The A6 actually has an "Engine Optimizer" section that allows you to adjust the settings below. This has often been said to result in what sounds like snappier envelops settings. If you have an Andromeda the following is worth a try. Set up an arpeggio with an attack of zero, short decay and sustain of zero then flip through the different settings. You will hear the difference. This is an example of how much detail in control the Andromeda offers. BTW, if anyone can create a sample of this, send it in and I'll post it.

"11.7 SETTING THE ENGINE OPTIMIZER:

The engine optimizer is a function hidden in the “Process” menu. The normal “compromise” timing of the Andromeda works well for bass and pad sounds, but it could be made better for either type of sound.

Hit “Process”, then turn soft knob one all the way to the right hand side to select the engine optimizer. Then hit soft knob one to select this function.

The engine optimizer has several settings for VCO:
*Normal – The default.
*Fast – Fast pitch changes, good for bass sounds.
*Smooth – Smooth pitch changes, better for pad sounds that aren’t too slow.
*Mushy – Good for deep drones and slower sounds.

The engine optimizer also has several settings for VCA:
*Normal – The default.
*Fast – Fast filter changes, good for bass sounds.
*Slow – Slow filter changes, better for long sweep sounds.
*Medium – Medium percussive, for slower bass sounds.

In general, you want “fast” VCO changes, and either “fast” or “medium” filter changes (depending on whether you are doing techno bass or more of a funky bass feeling). This is not a hard and fast rule; not every sound benefits from this."

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