Programming question (ie. The Great Debate)

[jacksmash]

Hi,

I've been trying to learn how to edit/create sounds.
I thought a good place to start would to be to try and reproduce a sound that Jordan uses during TGD.
It's simply the part where the band plays in unison - although his keyboard part is much more evident when they play live. It's the main riff (E-D-E-D-F-E-D...etc).
I thought his patch was really cool live - I don't know if I can explain this properly - but as the riff went on the sound would kind of oscilate (hopefully that's the right word!). Sounded kind of like a wave ascending and descending.

I was wondering if anyone knows what I'm talking about? Or what this is called that he is doing? Is it "LFO" that I hear so much about?

Any replies would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Deceit]

It might be an LFO-bound parameter. I can't recognize the exact patch, tell me the minute when the sound starts and I'll try to guess IMHO how it's done.
Deceit.

[jacksmash]

It's as soon as the band plays in unison together after the intro with all the samples. Actually, I shouldn't say unison - it sounds like Jordan is playing something different - but the same pattern anyways.
I've heard some people say it reminds them of Natural Science by Rush.
I would tell you the time but I don't have the CD on me right now.

[Drusillus]

Yeah you could likely recreate that by modulating the filter cutoff with the LFO... or you can cheat like me and throw a flanger effect on it :)

[jacksmash]

Ok, well, I'll look up those words and see if I can figure out how to do what you're talking about! (I'm totally new at this!)