Alesis ANDROMEDA A6 Reference Manual page 62

Chapter 2: Playing the A6
ON/OFF Button
This button simply turns the portamento function on or off. When on, the LED will
light. Pressing this button selects the
Portamento Parameters
SOFT KNOB
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PORTA TIME
STMODE MODE
MOD SOURCE
PORTA Parameters
PAGE PARAMETER
PORTA
TIME
SPEED
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ENABLE
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SPEED MODE CURVE
OFFSET
LEVEL OFFSET
OPTIONS
DESCRIPTION
or RANGE
OFF
Sets the speed of the glide between notes.
Minimum is
2 M ···
about 33 seconds. Longer portamento times
32.77 S
may be achieved by modulating the time
through a mod route.
This parameter determines the method used to
calculate the rate of portamento between notes:
OCTAVE When set to
determined by the interval between notes and
is expressed in "seconds per octave." If
set to 5.00
takes to slide one octave is 5 seconds. The time
it takes to glide the entire length of the
keyboard (five octaves) is 25 seconds.
1SPEED
When set to
care about the interval in its calculations. The
rate of sliding is the same between semitones as
it is between octaves. Using the previous
example of
to glide from the E key to the F key just above it,
just one semitone. It also takes five seconds to
slide from the same E key to the E three octaves
above it.
parameter on the
PORTA
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ENABLE
2M or 2 milliseconds; maximum is
, the setting is
OCTAVE TIME
seconds, for example, the time it
1SPEED , the TIME setting doesn't
5.00 seconds, it takes five seconds
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