Need help with R3

chrischris · Post by **chrischris** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:26 pm

Alright I just bought an R3 but I do not have much use with the stock patches. Im trying to make passion pit or mgmt style sounds but I am not having much luck. It may be tedious but if someone could walk me through creating sounds like that or link me to somewhere where I could download similar sounding patches I would really appreciate it.

thehighesttree · Post by **thehighesttree** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:09 pm

TIPS FOR MAKING GREAT PATCHES:

-Read the manual. Keep it around while you edit stuff as a reference. Simply tweaking parameters with the manual open to the appropriate page is the best way to learn how to program your synth.
-Check old posts to see what others have suggested. You might not know why something works a particular way right away, but it'll at least give you some new direction to explore.
-Make sure you write down patch numbers for the sounds you don't mind overwriting. Use these as slots to save alternate versions of sound you've tweaked that sound good.
-Devote at least an hour a night to making patches. It takes real patience to master, and should be viewed as an ongoing learning experience even if you've got no new sounds to show for it.
-Every once in a while, look up pro reviews of your synth that go into detail about its different features. It may help you learn more about its capabilities and provide some more insight/inspiration.

axxim · Post by **axxim** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:09 pm

thehighesttree wrote: -Make sure you write down patch numbers for the sounds you don't mind overwriting. Use these as slots to save alternate versions of sound you've tweaked that sound good.

If you use the R3 sound editor, you don't need to do this. Just open a new sound library, copy your preferred sounds in it or create new ones from scratch using predefined inits and modify them as you want. Every time you doubleclick a patch, its data is sent to the R3 and every modification you do on the opened patch window is instantly transmitted to it, so you hear what your change is doing. Open other libraries and you can copy patches from one to other just with drag and drop. If you download from this site all the available R3 libraries, you may have hundred of patches to hear, modify classify and store in your preferred library. This can be send and saved into your R3 in a glimpse and can be changed or restored as many times as you like. Even the factory patches are available for download, so I can heartly recommend you to explore this editor.
Additionally it shows you more detailed how the parameters are related to each functional block and tweaking/adjusting them is far more comfortable than via the R3 menu.