Play with the synth | Sound basics

Here is the synth with every control from this series. Start from the plain saw and design your own sound.

Your sound

Start anywhere.

Waveform: two cycles of the sound

Spectrum: low to high frequencies

Osc 1

Oct 2

LFO

Volume envelope (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release)

Envelope 2: moves the filter

Drag the squares on the envelope, or turn the knobs: they move together.

Shape0%

Mix0%

Detune0 ct

Cutoff6.00 kHz

Res15%

Env>Filt0.0 oct

Decay 2300 ms

Sustain 20%

Attack3 ms

Decay300 ms

Sustain80%

Release150 ms

LFO Rate4.0 Hz

LFO>Filt0.0 oct

LFO>Pitch0.0 st

Open in TuttiDAW

Ideas to try

Make a soft sine bell: sine wave, no filter envelope, zero sustain, long release. Make a buzzy lead: saw, detune, a little resonance. Make something strange: a fast LFO on the pitch, a deep one on the filter. Then open it in TuttiDAW and write a song with it.

That completes Sound basics. Drift in TuttiDAW has many more controls, but they all build on the oscillator, filter, envelopes and LFOs you now know. To use your sounds, go back to Music basics and write some parts.