Creating with the Seaboard RISE - 2.4 Modulated Sound FX using Logic; ES2

many of the logic synthesizers have a
consistent modulation assignment matrix
in the middle of their interface you'll
see this on ES to e XS 24 and a varied
version on sculpture and it makes it
very easy to have the dimensions of
touch from the Seaboard rise manipulate
important parameters within your
synthesizer I had this great patch up in
ES 2 called wave pad groove 1 let's
check out the sound here has a nice
rhythm too it's kind of a deep sound
yeah I think it would work really well
kind of synchronized to my project we
also notice that it has some motion to
it that's kind of automatically cyclic
it kind of gets brighter and gets dollar
in time and that's Creed with an LFO and
let's see in the modulation matrix how
that was configured we see that cutoff 2
is a modulation destination LFO 2 is a
modulation source and the modulation
amount was adjusted with this fader
which all reduced down to 0 right now so
that way that LFO won't be doing
anything but now I can start assigning
parameters to respond to the dimensions
of touch the first thing I'm interested
in is maybe to get some pitch motion
based on pressure and we see that pitch
1 already is a destination being
controlled by control B let me just
change from control bay and put that to
touch and touch is shortened from after
touch and remember that the pressed
dimension on the Seaboard rise transmits
after touch midi messages so if I try
that let's see what I can do with this
sound now I'm gonna play it out and push
hard on that note
so it's cool we get this like one
oscillator kind of moving in there to
get some kind of dramatic motion gets
kind of dissonant but I still don't have
anything on the slide dimension and I'd
like to add that now and so I'd like it
to control Tambor dramatically if I
start moving this cutoff frequency here
I'd like slide to do that it's common to
set the slide dimension to control
filter cut off some kind of Tambor
control so I'll choose a destination of
cutoff one two which is going to be both
of the cutoff frequencies of the two
filters that we have in the synthesizer
for a modulation source
I'd like to choose CC 70 for the slide
dimension on the Seaboard rise
translates to CC or control change 70
for MIDI messages but if I go to
modulation source I don't see a big long
list of control changes instead I see
control A through F now this is common
in the logic synthesizers the reason
they do this is they want you to be able
to set your studio to work with your
control right so this always sends CC 74
for slide so if I can set control a to
BCC 74 then in every one of my patches
whenever it's using control a as a
modulation source it'll function
expressively so with this one change I
can make almost all my patches respond
to the slide dimension to do this we
have to switch over to the MIDI tab here
and then I can go to control a and I do
have the long list of cc's now and we'll
choose it to be CC 74 otherwise known as
brightness if I go to the modulation
matrix I'll choose the controller a as
my modulation source which we see here
says control a 74 bright and then I can
choose a very wide a modulation range
and I should get a dramatic filter sweep
as I slide up on a key wave
and they get pressure hull so it's a
really responsive patch and does a lot
for us you know honestly I think that
pitch manipulation might be a bit too
much so I'm gonna reduce that range just
a bit so it's just a little bit of pitch
variations what really cool thing about
this is because we're using an MP II
controller these messages are sent for
every single note and I just want to
make sure that ES 2 is in MIDI mono mode
I'll set that to on with base channel 1
by pitch Bend range is 48 semitones with
that I should be able to do that CC 74
do that slide motion on each of my notes
that I play independently let's try it
out so I can pull that one up I'll bring
that down I can bring another one up
even on a different pitch and kind of
fade in a different sound
now I'd like to look quickly at
sculpture because it has a similar
modulation matrix and we can try to
maybe use this cool XY touchpad over
there so I'm gonna go to another track
where I have sculpture and I have this
really nice preset called silver liner
let's just hear what the sound is and
I'm gonna work with this as morph pad
with the mouse here these are really
cool sounds I think it'll work well for
a dramatic intro for my song and I see
that pad I immediately want to control
it with this XY touch pad and it's
actually very easy to do like we have
control egg through F and ES 2 if we
look at the bottom of sculpture we're
gonna see that there's an option for
morph X and morph Y and we can choose a
cc for that let's go over to the really
dashboard and we'll see the XY touch pad
has two CCS we have the y-axis is CC 1 1
4 and the x-axis is CC 1 1 3 let's go
back to sculpture and we'll set the
morph X to be 1 1 3 and the morph Y to
be 1 1 4 immediately as I move the XY
touch pad we're gonna see it the morph
pad is going with me and I can have a
cool performance let's try it