Spectralis Walkthrough Part 1 - Navigate oscillator routing and some basic sequencing

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"I haven't made a Spectralis walkthrough or tutorial in a long time so I tried to make a more in-depth walkthrough of the Spectralis I and II oscillator routing and structure. Hopefully this is something you can go along with and learn some things as I walk through this. I realize I fumble around quite a bit, but some of the things in the Spectralis I just never use so I haven't put much effort into learning. Please set your bar low for quality of my video - I'm not loopop and don't have the time to produce better videos. Sorry for that.

Where I think this will help is for someone wanting to learn how to route the digital VCO's into different filters.

I go through the basic overview of the Spectralis, then demonstrate activating the oscillators, how to route them, how to modulate them, and how to sequence them. At the end, I also go into routing external gear into the analog filters as well, although I wasn't intending to do that during this video.

My apologies for the video quality. I chose to use my iPhone to see how it would work and I was absolutely disappointed with how it turned out, from a shaky screen to low resolution to the inability to use the video without converting it first (and finding that conversion of the video slightly changed the speed of it too, making it difficult to sync with audio).

Hopefully you find this useful. But if not. That's ok too.

0:00 Introduction
1:53 First song on power up
2:40 Part select
3:22 Mute parts
3:55 Solo parts
4:05 Play parts
4:43 Brief overview of other sections
6:08 Song select
6:45 Select Song 32 (for tutorial)
7:07 Pattern select
8:48 Connections and audio routing
9:17 Hybrid synth introduction
10:00 Setting hybrid routing and trigger groups
11:24 Analog filters
12:00 Basic pattern start
13:00 Oscillator 1 through LP filter (set routing)
16:37 Turn up Oscillator 1 through LP filter
18:42 Open up the LP filter
19:49 Oscillator 1 waveforms
21:43 Time Linearity Modulation (PWM)
22:18 Use LFOs and velocity to modulate PWM
24:45 LFO menu
28:05 Add a second oscillator to LP filter
29:27 Adjust tuning (OSC DETUNE)
34:55 Oscillator pitch envelopes
36:47 Oscillator keyboard pitch scaling
37:50 Using Oscillator 3 as an LFO
43:13 Creating a simple sequence with the oscillators
44:41 MIDI learn sequencer notes
46:25 Inputting sequence notes
48:25 Note priority adjustment
49:00 Note Probability
49:35 Adjust filter settings
50:30 Adjust Volume Envelope generator for oscillators
51:40 Adjust Filter envelope generators
52:53 Add dynamics of sequencer lines (Probability, velocity)
53:30 Adjust filter resonance
54:28 Add delay effects to the LP filter
54:52 Adjust Delay FX settings
57:12 Using oscillators to FM the filters
1:00:28 Sequencing oscillator 4 to modulate parameters (setup)
1:03:20 Adding a new sequencerline to use oscillator 4
1:08:34 A comment on the workflow
1:09:50 Saving the pattern
1:11:25 Navigate to another pattern
1:11:59 More comments about what we learned or didn't learn
1:13:26 Adjust LP cutoff LFO
1:14:00 Groove edit? No - another day.
1:15:13 EXTRA: Routing external synthesizer into Spectralis filters
1:21:25 Suggestions? Comments? Final notes, I mean it."