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Chapter 9: Creative Applications
Using kantos with guitar
While kantos is designed to be particularly effective with voice input, it also
makes a killer monophonic guitar synth. For the best tracking from guitar
input, follow these guidelines:
Drive kantos with a clean guitar sound. Processing with echo, delay,
reverb or heavy distortion will compromise pitch tracking.
If you want a heavily processed guitar part doubled by a sound from
kantos, split your guitar signal into two feeds: a clean version...

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Experiment with different Gate Hold times to establish various rhyth-
mic pulses.
Use the Pitch Constrain keyboards to limit the generated pitches to
ones that will fit into your song’s harmonic structure. Select different
notes in each of the Oscillators for interesting harmonic effects.
Select Oscillator wavetables that have distinct attacks, and turn on
Retrigger for complex rhythms.
The Modulation Matrix is always your friend, but in this application,
can even become your best friend.
Use...

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Re-synthesizing a synth part
Ever record a synth lead or bass part that sounded fine at the time, but
when mixdown time rolled around, didn’t quite work with the rest of the
parts? MIDI is a good way around that problem — just set a different synth
patch, but use the MIDI data to drive it. However, quite a few computer-
based hard disk recording programs emphasis digital audio at the expense
of MIDI, and may lack the flexibility to do extensive MIDI editing.
kantos can solve the problem. For example,...

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Chapter 10: A Few Words About the
Factory Presets
nlike traditional MIDI synths, the sounds produced by kantos are defined\
not just by the presets, but also by the audio that drives them. Wheneve\
r a
sound designer creates a MIDI preset, they can be sure that when anyone,\
anywhere plays C3 on a keyboard, they’ll hear exactly the same sound \
that
the designer heard when they created the preset. Not so with kantos.
While our sound designers tried to design their presets around general
input audio...

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If a preset makes use of tempo synced LFOs or Delay, you will almost
certainly have to readjust the tempo for your particular input.
We have included a selection of basic presets designed to serve more as
examples and templates than finished presets. BasicVoice1 – 6 and
BasicLoop1 – 4 each provide progressively more complex treatments of
vocal and rhythmic loop input. They are a great introduction to basic
kantos techniques as well as serving as starting points for creation of
your own melodic or...

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Chapter 11:
Creating Your Own Wavetables
You can expand the Oscillator waveform list in kantos by creating a folder
and putting sound files into it.
• On a Mac, create a folder in System/Preferences called ‘Kantos Waveforms’
• For Windows 98/XP: WINDOWS\Kantos\User Waveforms
• For Windows NT/2000: WINNT\Kantos\User Waveforms
Start up your host program, instantiate kantos, and verify that the extr\
a
waveforms have been added (they will appear at the end of the list).
W e’ll be posting new wavetables...

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Chapter 12: Reference
This chapter is a quick reference for all of the controls used in the kantos
interface. It is intended for those who need to refresh their memories of
what a particular parameter controls, and its range of values. For more
basic information and explanations of these parameters, please refer to the
main section of the manual.
Of course, you can always just mess around with the controls and see what
happens. Don’t worry, you won’t break anything!
Input
WHAT’S IT FOR?
The input...

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Glide 0 to 100% Causes a note to slide to the next note
instead of switching instantly. The higher
the percentage, the longer the slide.
Wave number limited Each wave provides a different oscillator
sound
Retrigger on/off When enabled, a new gate causes the
oscillator to re-start its waveform at the
waveform’s beginning
Pitch Musical scale, C–B Click on keys to limit the notes kantos
plays to those you have selected. These
notes will glow.
Pitch On/off Constrains (quantizes) all pitches to
semitone...

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Filter
WHAT’S IT FOR?
kantos has three multi-mode (i.e., capable of different response) filters.
Each oscillator has an associated filter that processes the raw oscillator
wave by altering the timbre either statically, or dynamically with external
modulation. The Noise Generator has a filter that acts identically to an
oscillator filter.
WHAT ARE THE PARAMETERS?
Each filter has the same parameters.
NAME RANGE WHAT IT DOES
Mode lowpass 2P Selects among lowpass, bandpass, and
highpass responses, each...

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WHAT ARE THE PARAMETERS?
NAME RANGE WHAT IT DOES
Osc1 In On/off Feeds the Oscillator 1 output into the
Articulator for processing
Osc2 In On/off Feeds the Oscillator 2 output into the
Articulator for processing
Noise In On/off Feeds the Noise output into the
Articulator for processing
Amount 0 to 100% Determines the extent to which the input
section’s harmonic content and formant
information affect the output signal
Q0 to 100% Sets the overall tonal character of the
Articulator’s processing.
Formant...
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