My most recent plunge in the Q manual is reading again about the LFO’s. Sure the Komplex Manipulator has an amazing amount of flexibility – like being able to blend between two hand drawn value curves of up to 32 points each, at audio rates, controlled with 6 front panel knobs. But the ‘simple’ LFO’s are pretty powerful as well.
So you can adjust the amount you warp any of the six LFO shapes you pick, adjust the attack and decay speeds, choose between a range of sync modes, adjust the slew rate, change the spot where the LFO wave starts (useful for slower LFO’s), and add what sounds like a pre-attack. And then of course you can direct this change at a whole range of parameters via the modulation matrix.
Some of this seems really useful for the more ambient or drone sorts of patches. How about sliding between the three separate types of oscillators on one voice with these longers sounds with a very long LFO. Or change it all around and run the LFO at audio rates.
There’s also a way in the LFO to do a single sample and hold that is done just once at the start of a note, that i could see using for picking a random wave shape for instance.
I definitely see adding some external control knobs or sliders for these too or run them off the X Y pad on the touch screen.
Not sure of other synths that have this sort of functionality on their LFO’s – probably – i’m just ignorant.
