Combo Sister Help

(Combo Sister VST synth by Liqih and WilliamK copyright © Dash Synthesis 2002)

Combo Sister requires a VST 2.0 Host running on Windows OS

This is a reference manual for the Combo Sister controls.

Suport is provided trought the support form on our site: http://support.dashsynthesis.com

• Drawbars:
  
  

  6 drawbars are available for the following ranks: 16', 5 1/3', 8', 4', 2 2/3', 2'
  
  Rank 5 1/3' can be switched to one of two higher ranks
  1 1/3' or 1' + 1 3/5' (mixture of two ranks),
  only the selected one will play. See table.
  
  

  5 1/3' and 2 2/3 shouldn't be used alone as they actually transpose the note by a fifth.

  
  Note that when BOOSTER is on ONLY Ranks 16', 8' and 4' are active.
  
  
  
• Oscillators Tabs:
  
  

  2 main oscillators banks: OSC and BASS
  transistor "enriched sine wave" sound (for "hammond imitator" electric organs)
  transistor square wave (for buzzer combo!)
  extra Bass oscillators bank for 16' and 8' ranks
  
  Note that when BASS is on you can still change the oscillator
  bank for the other ranks than 16' and 8'
  

• Filter Tabs
  
  4 timbre stops : Add (no filter), String, Reed, Flute,
  
  Note that when BOOSTER is on the setting of these four Tabs are ininfluent
  since Boster got its own filtering circuit.
  
  
  
• Effects Tabs
  
  Percussion: switch (louder attack of sound)
  Sustain: switch (longer release)
  Booster: with switch and distortion amount knob
  
  BOOSTER bypasses the filter Tabs and turn off the 5 1/3', 2 2/3', 2' ranks
  
  Tremolo: amplitune modulation with Rate and Depth knobs
  Vibrato: pitch modulation with Rate and Depth knobs
  
  
  Transistor: knob for electric click and analogue noisines amount,
  note that click can be turned off by the option menu.
  
  Soft: tone smoother knob, usefull to warm the sounds with to much edge
  
  
  
• Master Volume knob
  
  
• Other extra controls on the top bar
  
  Master Fine Tune: -+ 50 cents range, each click shifs a cent for precise tuning
  Max Voices Poliphony selection : 2 to 16 voices, it allows voices reduction for CPU saving
  MIDI Velocity sensivity switch : off (led light off) is the normal position for organ emulation
  Render Quality switch :switching Quality off the oscillator produce a little harsher sound,
  but this allows a smal CPU usage reduction when needed
  
  
  
• Features of the option menu
  
  clicking on the logo in the panel you get the option menu with:

  
  

  About Box link,
  
  

  Visual Help and MIDI CC# map,
  
  

  "Default" command to store Volume, Max Voices, Click on--off, Tuning, Velocity and Quality default settings,

  
  Presets friendly menu .
  
  
  
  

MIDI continuous controller values you can use
to automate sound creation in Combo Sister:

Here below a table to illustrate the relative value of the Combo Sister Ranks

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