# M3 - a BUZZ Plugin

This is a short explanation of the M3 buzz plugin. It consists of 4 main sections: the oscillator section, the amplifier section, the filter section and the LFO section.

The oscillator section consists of 2 oscillators and a sub oscillator. With the wave controllers you set their wave forms. the random options sets every new note a new waveform except noise (was uncool ;). The pulse width sliders are not only for the pulse (square) waves but for all (except noise of course). They simply move the centers of the waves to left/right. Oscillator 2 is detuneable with 2 sliders (semi and fine) and syncable to oscillator 1 (master). The sub oscillator oscillates always one octave below oscillator 1.
With the mix slider you control the balance between both. The mixtype fader is for controlling the kind of mixture. Normally you use the simple 'add', but the others sound somehow cool, i think. The Pitch Envelope Generator (PEG) with its simple linear AR-curve bears upon all 3 oscillators (1/2/sub). The Glide controller is the speed of portamento (0 = off).

The amplifier section consists of a linear ASR curve. The sustain slider is NOT the sustain level but the sustain time. The level is controlled by the volume parameter.

In the filter section you can choose between lowpass/highpass with resonance adjustment and bandpass/bandreject(notch) with bandwidth controlling. You also have a ASR curve for modulating the cutoff/center frequency.

Finally you have 2 LFOs (low frequency oscillators) for modulating different parameters of the oscillators, filter and amplifier. The waveforms are the normal ones, but if you choose noise the LFO holds one random value for the time of one cycle. You can modulate different parameters by 1 LFO at the same time but only with the same amount.

Hope that was enough. Sorry for bad english. Have fun
MAKK makk@gmx.de