Ableton/Live/UG/31 Instrument Reference/08 Meld/03 Oscillator Macros
- Each engine's two macro knobs change with its oscillator type. All four can be mapped to a MIDI controller, driven by an LFO device, or modulated in the matrix.
- Macros by oscillator type:
- Basic Shapes — Shape (sine → triangle → saw → square), Tone (pulse width).
- Dual Basic Shapes — Shape, Detune (adds a detuned copy).
- Noisy Shapes — Shape, Rough (noise distortion).
- Square Sync — Freq 1, Freq 2 of two synced squares.
- Square 5th — 5th Amt (morph to a square a fifth up), P Width.
- Sub — Tone (sine toward square), Aux (adds a lower subharmonic sine).
- Swarm Sine / Triangle / Saw / Square — Motion (modulates the swarm), Spacing (moves through more complex chords).
- Harmonic Fm — Amount, Ratio.
- Fold Fm — Amount, Shape (carrier shape).
- Squelch — Amount (FM depth), Feedback.
- Simple Fm — Amount, Ratio.
- Chip — Tone (pitch and pulse width), Rate (speed of the chip interval).
- Shepard's Pi — Rate (below 50 falls, above 50 rises, 50 still), Width (octaves used).
- Tarp — Decay, Tone.
- Extratone — Pitch, Env Amount.
- Noise Loop — Rate (how often noise-loop fragments change; high values become plain noise), Fade (graininess).
- Filtered Noise — Freq, Width.
- Bitgrunge — Freq (square frequency), Mult (number of sub-octaves; maximum gives none, minimum many).
- Crackle — Density, Intensity (spread of loudness and brightness).
- Rain — Tone (resonance of drops and wind, making it pitched), Rate (drop density).
- Bubble — Density, Spread (randomness of bubble size).
- Chord — four saws; Shape (intervals), Inversion. With Use Current Scale it builds chords from the set scale, otherwise from a major scale on the played note.
