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Date: 18-Jan-03 @ 04:48 PM -
RE: Strings that are *not* trancey?
well, depends on what you're after. Lush and airy are two different things. 70's strings were usually real (we talkin' disco here?), not analog.
If you want lush, use square waves or doublesaws with different widths for each osc and slow pulse width modulation in varying amounts and directions for each osc. This will give you a really thick sound that can have cool phasing qualities if you mess with it.
If you want airy, mess with band- and high-pass filtering. But you're not going to get a "realistic" string sound out of the Nova. pretty much any kind of classic analog string sound you can think of is attainable with a Nova, though. Well, excpet for a mellotron ;)
psy