Mutable Instruments ambika User Manual page 25

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LFOs, pitch-bend and MIDI note number modulations are bipolar. If you are used to
electronics/Modular speak, it is equivalent to say that the LFOs are always "AC-coupled" instead of
"DC-coupled".
Another thing worth noting is that the modulation amount of the last patch in the modulation matrix is
always attenuated by the modulation wheel. Let us say that you have connected patch 14 from LFO 4
to the oscillators fine pitch (actually this is done by default in the init patch!):
Modul. 14|srce lfo4|dest vibr|amnt
This modulation will be applied with an amount proportional to the mod-wheel position – by default it
will not be active until you start moving the modulation wheel, and to get it at full strength, you will
have to push the modulation wheel to the max. In the modular synth world, you would have obtained
the same effect by patching the LFO at the signal input of a VCA, the joystick at the control input of
the VCA, and routed the resulting signal to the exponential FM input of the VCO. Pheww!
The lower page of the modulation/modifiers page allows the combination of up to 4 pairs of
modulation sources to create new modulation signals. The first knob on the bottom row is used to
select one of the 4 modulation modifiers, while the other knobs on the lower row are respectively used
to edit the two inputs of the modulation modifier (*in1* and in2), and the operation (*oper*) to apply.
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