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The oscillators 1 and 2 generate digital waveforms, which are digitally combined together using one of the
following operations: mix, sync and mix, multiply (ring-modulation), xor, mix and fold, mix and bit-reduce.
The sub-oscillator (whose pitch is linked to oscillator 1's) is added.
The click generator generates a short transient/click at the beginning of the note. Note that the sub-oscillator
and the click generator cannot be used at the same time. It's bassy-beefy or clicky, not both.
The output of the modulator, the sub-oscillator/click-generator and a controllable amount of white noise are
summed together. You can adjust the balance of each ingredient.
A controllable amount of fuzzy overdrive is applied to the signal.
The resulting signal is sample-reduced by a controllable amount.
The resulting signal is converted to the analog domain by a 12-bit DAC and fed into an analog VCF and VCA.
Each of these sound generation and modification modules have parameters which can be controlled by
any of the modulation sources listed below. However, some connections are already "hardwired" (or rather
"softwired" in the firmware):
The oscillators' pitch always tracks the note played on the keyboard. However, this can be disabled by
applying a negative modulation (amount: -63) from note to oscillator pitch.
The filter cutoff frequency always tracks the note. Again, this can be disabled or attenuated by applying a
negative modulation from note pitch to cutoff frequency. The rationale behind this choice is that most of the
time, you want 1:1 tracking, so this frees up a slot in the modulation matrix for something more interesting!
Lfo 2 and Envelope 2 are always connected to the filter, their modulation amount being controlled by
dedicated parameters on the
Besides this, it is up to you to route modulations to parameters. By default, the following routings are
wired:
Let us now review the different synthesis parameters.
Each row displays the settings of an oscillator. The parameters are the following:
wave
(waveform): Oscillator waveform family. Contrary to most synthesizers in which waveforms are static,
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filter
page.
Source
Destination
Env 1
Oscillator 1 parameter 0
Env 1
Oscillator 2 parameter 0
Lfo 1
Oscillator 1 pitch
Lfo 1
Oscillator 2 pitch
Lfo 2
Oscillator 1 parameter 0
Lfo 2
Oscillator 2 parameter 0
Lfo 3
Mixer balance
Lfo 4
Filter cutoff
Seq 1
Filter cutoff
Seq 2
Mixer balance
Envelope 3
VCA gain
Velocity
VCA gain
Pitch-bend
Oscillator 1+2 pitch
Lfo 4
Oscillator 1+2 fine pitch 2 semitones
Amount
0
0
0
0
0
0
100%
25%
2 semitones
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