litesnsirens Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Does anyone know how to adjust these frequency parameters more precisely so that I'm not limited in the chords I want to create. I may be missing something but anything above 100hz goes in multiples of 10. So if I wanted to create a G chord using the 4 oscillators I would need, for example of a voicing of G, G = 98 hz, B = 247 hz (more precisely 246.94), D = 294 hz (293.66) and G again at 392 hz. But I can't get any closer than 98, 250, 290 and 390. This isn't close enough. I think without the decimal points it's going to be close enough, I'll settle for single digit increments above 100hz as opposed to multiples of 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncann Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 This is something they changed not too long ago. We used to have more resolution in dialing in frequencies. If I remember, you can get more precise, but that requires text editing a preset file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litesnsirens Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 Thanks for your reply .... But, Wow! Someone at Line 6 decided to detract from the resolution so that we couldn't use the 4 oscillator synth to create chords? Hopefully it was an oversight and can be fixed. I mean what could Line 6 possibly have against chords? I'll have to look more into the this notion of text editing a preset file until Line 6 fixes this. Do you know if there is any threads on text editing preset files. I'm going to search YouTube in the meantime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_m Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Why not use the 3 Note Generator which already has the frequencies laid out as exact notes? If you need more than three notes, you can always add another instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncann Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 57 minutes ago, litesnsirens said: Thanks for your reply .... But, Wow! Someone at Line 6 decided to detract from the resolution so that we couldn't use the 4 oscillator synth to create chords? Hopefully it was an oversight and can be fixed. I mean what could Line 6 possibly have against chords? I'll have to look more into the this notion of text editing a preset file until Line 6 fixes this. Do you know if there is any threads on text editing preset files. I'm going to search YouTube in the meantime. Not really. Just open the preset into a text editor (one that can interpret unix line returns) and find the parameter you want to change and change it. Everything is more or less in a human readable format. Then import the preset back to Helix. But then don't edit and save the preset with Helix or HX Edit anymore, or at least the parameter(s) you manually changed. I did do this in the past and it worked, but that was some time ago, so something may have changed since then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litesnsirens Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 That worked perfectly thanks a lot for the suggestion. I just used notepad. It's a bit of sifting to find what you're looking for, especially because I have to sort through the snapshots for the different chords and there's a bunch of other blocks in there for the guitar sounds, but I'm very happy to be able to edit with this kind of precision. I'm going to make snapshots of all the major chords and all the minor chords and spread them out over a couple of presets. If I'm not mistaken you can copy and paste snapshots across different presets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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