Tokøta from Mastering.com walks through Alchemy's 8-zone Vector XY pad in Logic Pro, showing how dragging across it blends pre-assigned effects into evolving, modulated sounds with almost no synthesis knowledge required.
Each zone holds its own snapshot, and you can tweak amp envelope settings like attack and decay per zone to shape the sound further.
Instead of dragging with a mouse, MIDI key switches let you jump between snapshots by playing specific notes, with a rate control determining how quickly the sound glides from one zone to the next.
For two-handed control, record your chords or melody first, then layer key-switch movements on a second pass using merge or overlap recording. Without a MIDI controller, you can record pad movements directly as X/Y automation using latch or touch mode.