Yoshimi User Manual ~ PadSynth

## PadSynth

The PadSynth engine has two tabbed views in a single window. You will normally be shown the harmonic structure, the envelopes one (as it's name suggests) consisting mostly of envelope and LFO inserts.

### Harmonic Structure

(left side)
Base Type Base shape of the harmonic: Gauss, Square or Double Explonentioal
Width Width (spread) of one harmonic
FreqMlt Multiplier for base harmonics
Str Stretch ?? of the harmonic profile
SFreq Stretch ?? frequency
Size Size of the base harmonic (Hz?? cents??)
AmpMultiplier Amplitude multiplier type: Gauss, Sine or Flat
AmpMode Amplitude mode: Sum, Multiply, Div1 ??, Div2 ??
Par1 Parameter 1 for AmpMode (depends on mode slected)
Par2 Parameter 2 for AmpMode (depends on mode slected)
AutoScale ??
(right side)
base ??
smp/oct Samples per octave ??
no.oct Number of octaves
Sample Size Size of the sample
There is a button to give access to an overall Resonance that can be applied to the engine. Below this is a Waveform button which gives access to a highly detailed waveshape editor.

(bottom)

Bandwidth Bandwidth in cents. The higher the bandwidth the wider the harmonic spectrum.
Bandwidth Scale
Spectrum Mode
Overtones PositionThis sets the type of overtone variation. For Harmonic there is no control, so the other paramaters are inactive. Similarly Par 2 does nothing for Shift so is disabled for that variation.
Par 1 spreads the harmonics according to the 'position' type.
Par 2 provides a further variation on the harmonics spread.
ForceH This moves the shifted harmonics by a variable amount towards to the nearest actual multiple of the fundamental.
If any of the above controls are alterered it will be necessary to click on the Apply button as the wavetable has to be rebuilt.

### Envelopes and LFOs

Once again we have all the standard inserts. There are also the local controls found in AddSynth and SubSynth. None of these affect the wavetable itself, so there is no need for the apply button here.

The Export button that appears at the bottom of both of these views takes you to a filer window for exporting a complete wavetable with the total number of samples you have currently set. These don't include any changes in the sound produced by controls in the envelopes window.

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