 Hello, I'll say to sync here and welcome back to another video in the series where we are building patches from scratch on the mini-root 2 So in the previous episode, we ended up building a very evil slightly weird sounding bass And I don't want to give the perception that the mini-root is just about those big evil sounds So I thought today what we'll do is we'll create a super super classic lead sound instead So in this patch, we're going to keep things pretty chill pretty classic Pretty simple, but we'll try and throw an interesting twist in here and there just to keep a little bit of interest and make use of some of the features that the Mini-root has but I'm conscious that I'm going to try not to use features just because they're there and then definitely Sort of think carefully about whether or not it's adding something useful to the patch. So we've got our Initialized patch which I talked about in episode zero of this video if you're interested in checking that out Then then please do let's get to building the patch So it might be cliche, but I think probably a good place to start with this patch is to saw-tooth waves Tuned an octave apart, you know, there's a reason that is classic. So There's the one saw-tooth wave and if we bring it off side to there's two, but currently they're unison So let's tune this one up an octave Or not quite an octave Because you want them a little bit out of tune so you get that chorus in a little bit you will notice on the way past We did hit some other Other intervals we might revisit those Maybe a little bit if we want to sound like we're making prog rock and maybe we do want to make prog rock And let's not discount that as an option. Okay, so that's a place To start I'm wondering about maybe adding a little bit of fundamental in there with our Triangle wave on VCO one as well If you're listening on good monitors or headphones Here that there's a point Out there whether it starts contributing some nice fundamental just keep things anchored Okay, let me let's also introduce a little bit of glide a bit of pause You know if we do very little else That's kind of classic sounding but let's darken this up a little bit. It's a little bit buzzy at the moment Don't get super super dark But maybe a little bit so let's introduce a little bit of movement to the filter So the FM control by default is Linked to the ADSR envelope. So if we turns up a little bit, and I think we'll go for like a moderate sort of pluck ish sound Even one instant attack Maybe we'll introduce a little bit of resonance to that as well It makes me a little bit pluckier. So we reduce the decay to get a bit more Drop that resonance a little bit You Know it's a little bit too much attack there, so I'll just reduce the FM amount a touch Sometimes it's nice to introduce a little bit of noise to patches just in general it just gives them a little bit of character Let's see how that feels Sometimes it can just emphasize what the filter is doing a bit We don't want to sound noisy just kind of wanna Not feeling it. I will turn that off Okay, so that's kind of getting there with a kind of classic sound I think We probably want to make this AD envelope a little less snappy so at the moment this envelope is right the way the bottom This is controlling our output VCA A bit aggressive, so we'll just raise the attack and decay a bit Top end so let's open that Cool. Yeah, we're getting them again there. Um, needs a bit more movement. It's a bit static at the moment so Let's have a think about That's why it was sounding weird So I had this knob turned up here which meant that my pressure was adjusting the filter there That's better Nice, okay, so we're on a little bit of movement here I'm kind of thinking probably some pitch vibrato would make sense So we've got an FM control for VCO one, but This is currently patched by default sort of in the background to VCO 2, which means that we get these A bit unstable but cool So we need to override this patching that's straightforward to do we'll take a patch cable and we'll go from the output of our LFO one we'll use and we'll go into the FM control Here and now instead of it being controlled by VCO 2 instead. We've got LFO 1 doing it So if we it's interesting You kind of had this feeling that sort of sine wave should be More gentle when you've got them assigned something but actually because they spend more time at the top and the bottom You end up quite unstable pitch modulation. Sometimes it can be really cool. She wants a little bit swampy Switch to the triangle here. That's a bit more sort of Stable sounding to us to push it more nice. I kind of want the filter moving a bit more sort of a slow fading in and out perhaps So let's take Let's take the output of LFO 2 and let's bring that into the Attenuator one So the reason we're going into the attenuator one is that this knob here by default is a way of additionally adjusting the cutoff distinct from the FM control And we want that as usually that's if I turn and patch this is controlled by pressure, which is What I had turned on earlier Which is what was making things sound weird But we can also have that patched from anything else. So yeah, if we go into the input of that attenuator there Modulation so that everything kind of flows nicely together Slowed them down a little bit. There's a big part me now that wants to do a nice bass out of those Interval tuned VCOs Slow VCO to down a little bit, glide a little, have our envelope a little gentler, soften everything up So transpose there. Maybe even have this attack so we pinched a tiny bit, soften the attack It's interesting as you get further on when you're building a patch you can find There are certain things you want to change and we were being a little bit faster everything everything was moving a bit fast The light was too fast. It was adding a cursive start to the night. The envelope was a bit too choppy attack from our filter was plucky, but actually So we bring more stuff in we found maybe we need to take everything a bit more slow Active bit of background noise So I haven't touched the brute factors the brute factor adds sort of a feedback loop from the output into the start of the filter I think and You know it can be totally out of control on the older generation of the mini-root the original mini-root and micro-root Maybe over the top a bit too soon, but let's just try adding a little bit second This first half of the knob now. There's a lot more nuance to it a bit of warmth and saturation might be nice CS introducing that bottom end Decay down on the filter envelope without the brute factor Darken to sound a little bit bit more saturation higher octaves Without it brighter, which we might want Filter sweep go a bit more nice So we had a little bit of reverb. I think we shall from the dick it the digit tech Polara that's That's nice tweaking the metalizer around there on the triangle Different harmonics. That's really cool. Now. We've got the brief factor of strengthening on our bottom end a little bit That's we don't need this to be pure fundamental A bit of ultrasonic So what I found interesting as I was building that patches that my perception of what I wanted the patch to be Changed as the patch came into being, you know, I thought I wanted certain things happening I thought I wanted it to be more sort of plucky, but actually As the synth started talking back and giving back to To what I was doing it kind of Told me that maybe I was going too fast and everything was a bit too percussive and all the modulation was too fast and the glide was too fast and I was adding an attack to the note that didn't need to be there and And that kind of led to a much more gentle Maybe more classic. I'm not sure but but certainly a Better patch. I think you know that the synth led us to a more interesting place Then maybe we would have arrived to if we'd stuck to our original plan And you know that sometimes the way that these patches go, you know We think we know what we want, but you need to listen to what the synth is is telling you Sometimes and yeah, the mini-brute advised me well, I think on this patch Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that if you did enjoy the video Then please do give it a thumbs up and make sure you're subscribed for more mini-brute stuff and also more synth stuff in General it's always great to see new faces on the channel as always guys. Thank you so much for joining me I'll see you again soon. Take care. Bye. Bye