 Hello Oscillator Sync here and welcome back to another video in the series where I'm hoping to share with you some tips and tricks that I've discovered while building patches for the wonderful Behringer Deep Mind. So today's tip concerns portamento. Portamento is that wonderful slurring that we can introduce in our patches which is almost synonymous with kind of analog bass and lead sounds. Patches kind of sound wrong sometimes if you don't have portamento that's certainly the case with mono sounds but portamento can be great on polyphonic sounds as well. So here I've got a little pad sound just a simple little pad sound there and I've turned up the portamento on this patch so if I play different chords you can hear that there's some sliding. Now what's interesting here is even if I just keep playing the same chord over and over again you'll hear that the portamento is kind of different each time so barely anything there sort of this up and down slide there different emphasis there and different emphasis there. So the reason this is happening is that portamento in the polyphonic mode is based on a voice-by-voice basis so whenever voice one gets called it's going to slide from wherever voice one used to be but of course in polyphonic mode we end up round robinning to different voices. There we go that one had no portamento at all that had a downwards portamento that had a longer downwards portamento sort of similar no portamento at all so what this means is that in polyphonic mode using the default portamento modes you don't get a consistent experience each time you play a chord or a line the portamento is going to be slightly different and it makes for things getting quite sort of cluttered I think. Ideally what I would like is a situation where that slur at the start of the note is repeatable and reliable a consistent portamento experience if you like and luckily the deep mind does provide this for us and you can find the functionality in the poly menu so if we go into the poly menu here and we're looking for the screen that says pitch parameter so we can see here that we have a section here called portamento at the moment this is set to normal and we've got a bunch of different settings in here and I will do an entire separate video I think on portamento to go through what some of these mean but the ones that I'm interested in in particular are these ones that start fixed fixed plus two fixed minus two and so on so what these fixed modes mean is that the slur is always going to be the same length and coming from the same place so for example fixed plus 12 means that that slur is always going to start 12 semitones or an octave higher than the note that you play so if I play the C you can hear that it's slurring down if I hit it again it's slurring down from the same place and again so I play a chord we get that slur and I play the chord again we get that same behavior and we've got a couple of different modes here so fixed plus 12 means it starts an octave higher I really like the fixed minus ones which means that they start lower so fixed minus 12 means 12 semitones lower or an octave lower I think this sounds so cool on bad sounds and we can go up to 24 so that's 24 or two octaves higher and then we've got the two octaves below slur up with fixed minus 24 which sounds really cool we can make that even slower love it and every single time we've got this wonderful consistent slur which makes the sound very very playable anyway guys I hope that was a useful little tip for you if you enjoyed the video and you found the tip useful make sure you do give the video a thumbs up and make sure you're subscribed to the channel so you don't miss out on any of the upcoming videos in the series on the deep mind and on synthesis in general if you've got any subjects that you want to see covered in this series then you can just get in touch you can leave me a comment below this video or you can follow me on twitter and facebook and instagram I'm oscillating on all of those platforms just drop me a message let me know what you want to see in this series and I'll see what I can do about it as always guys thanks so much for watching I will see you again soon take care