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20.3. OPERATOR 304
20.3.8 Strategies for Saving CPU Power
If you want to save CPU power, turn off features that you do not need or reduce the number
of voices. Specically, turning off the lter or the LFO if they do not contribute to the sound
will save CPU power.
For the sake of saving CPU resources, you will also usually want to reduce the number of
voices to something between 6 and 12, and carefully use the Spread feature. The high
quality setting can also be turned off to conserve CPU resources.
Note that turning off the oscillators will not save CPU power.
20.3.9 Finally...
Operator is the result of an intense preoccupation with FM synthesis and a love and dedi-
cation to the old hardware FM synthesizers, such as the Yamaha SY77, the Yamaha TX81Z
and the NED Synclavier II. FM synthesis was rst explored musically by the composer and
computer music pioneer John Chowning in the mid-1960s. In 1973, he and Stanford Uni-
versity began a relationship with Yamaha that lead to one of the most successful commercial
musical instruments ever, the DX7.
John Chowning realized some very amazing and beautiful musical pieces based on a syn-
thesis concept that you can now explore yourself simply by playing with Operator in Live.
We wish you loads of fun with it!
20.3.10 The Complete Parameter List
The function of each Operator parameter is explained in the forthcoming sections. Remem-
ber that you can also access explanations of controls in Live (including those belonging to
Operator) directly from the software by placing the mouse over the control and reading the
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