Quick tip

Pitch Envelope Shapes for Techno Screeches

If you're making techno screeches, you have to know these pitch envelope modulations.

My notes from this Short

01

Envelope 2 on the coarse pitch

I take envelope 2 and assign it to the coarse pitch. The first shape you can do is just add some attack and let it go up.

02

Minus 12 semitones in the matrix

In the matrix you can also reverse the effect by taking envelope 2, double clicking it and typing minus 12 semitones. That reverses the effect and makes it a pitchy attack.

Then I add an octave, make it go up 12 semitones again, and use a shape that's more stabby.

03

A long envelope for long screeches

Finally, you can make it very long. This is great if you want to make long screeches. These are very simple techniques, but they work really well.

Serum envelope 2 for a long hard techno screech: a pitch envelope with 116 ms attack and a 1.73 s decay
Envelope 2 made long, with the decay at 1.73 seconds.
What I use in this video

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