053.txt "Noise" Patch Programming You can achieve a lot with noises: thunderstorms, rain, wind and other strange noises. When working with noise however it is extremely important to make use of the instrument's filters. Remember that noise contains every frequency in your sonic spectrum (white noise contains more overtones and works good with rain), so use a peaking filter to emphasize certain frequencies which are characteristical for your sound. A bandpass filter can be of great help, too. I once tried to use a 24db BPF filter with a bit of resonance and modulated the cutoff-frequency with an LFO. Very nice for sound FX and techno sort of stuff, especially if you sync your LFO's to MIDI clock. If you want to make your sounds noisy, you can use ring modulation with certain samples to achieve this end or make use of the FXM parameter. Sounds quite nice if judiciously used. The FXM part of a sound can be routed differently than the rest through the internal FX (for example only through the reverb). If you want to program this "60's Vinyl" sound, use a four-tone patch with noise on each tone. Try to filter these sounds differently and to your likening. Turn down the TVA Levels of the sounds and make them come up periodically by the LFO's (different LFO speeds are a must). Second LFO can modulate pitch or filter for example. Add some FX (EQ for example to get the frequencies you wanted right) and this will sound as close as you can get with a not-that-expanded JV-2080. Christian J. Krause hagenk@metronet.de