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Originally Posted by GrooveNinja
Ok, so is that what the filter envelope does, modulate the cutoff frequency? Is it like time-domain windowing?
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Modulating means simply controlling. Modulating is a word you use when you want to sound like you are doing something important.
For example when you play your keyboard, you are modulating (controlling) the pitch. Simple as that.
Subtractive synthesis is simple as hell. Just avoid the fancy terms and voila. My best tip for beginners is that set your Virus to Init patch (only one saw oscillator with no filters and other crustings). Then just start to tweak one part at time. Check how the Amp envelope affects the sound, then reset back to init and move to filters, reset, etc. If you in addition to this experiment keep a Virus manual and that Virus sound design tutorial around, you'll learn subbtractive sound synthesis and Virus' architechture faster than you can say "orthorhombic crystal system".