Volume Control; Assign And The Soft Knobs - Access Virus Rack XL User Manual

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CHAPTER 12
Tips, Tricks& Words Of Wisdom
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VOLUME CONTROL

Next to the Oscillator Volume parameter, the Vi-
rus features four other volume stages for every
SINGLE or PART:
PATCH VOLUME
Volume level of the sound program. Use Patch
Volume to balance out the fundamental differ-
ences in levels between the different sound pro-
grams. The Patch Volume is stored along with
the sound program. The unit value is 100.
PART VOLUME
Volume level of the MULTI-PART. Use Part Vol-
ume to balance out the different levels within a
MULTI program. Part Volume is stored along
with the MULTI program. The unit value is zero
since Part Volume is a bipolar, relative parame-
ter.
CHANNEL VOLUME
and ExpressionThese two performance control-
lers (Ctr. #7 and #11) can be used in order to
make temporary changes in signal level via a
sequencer or volume pedal. Like all perform-
ance controllers, these are not stored with the
sound program. The unit value is 127. A dou-
ble-click on the POWER and STORE buttons
together (Panic function) resets Channel Vol-
ume and Expression to this unit value.
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ASSIGN AND THE SOFT
KNOBS
The ASSIGN section in the EDIT menu lets you
control up to six freely selectable parameters
via up to three modulation sources. The modu-
lation sources can be MIDI controllers such as
the modulation wheel as well as internal, voice-
related modulation sources such as envelopes
and LFOs. In addition, LFO 1 and LFO 2 each
offer a further, freely selectable modulation des-
tination when they're set to the ASSIGN posi-
t i o n ( u s e t h e A M O U N T b u t t o n s f o r t h i s
purpose).
The obvious thing to do would be to use one of
the Soft-Knob as a modulation source for one
or several ASSIGN units. However, we deliber-
ately chose not to create a direct, fixed link be-
tween the Soft Knob and the ASSIGN units
since, by definition, neither the output of the
Soft Knob nor the inputs of the ASSIGN units
have a fixed controller number.
Instead, you are free to select one of the possi-
ble controllers as an ASSIGN source (e.g. the
modulation wheel or Controller #12). All you
have to do is enter this controller as the param-
eter for the Soft Knob. This configuration is
identical to that of a conventional parameter
that has a dedicated controller number and
knob. The knob movements are sent to the se-
lected MIDI Out via the selected controller and
on to the sequencer where they can be record-
ed and sent back to the Virus. Reasonably
enough, you should set the controller number
for the Soft Knob under Soft Knob Single be-
cause this setting (like the ASSIGN settings) is
stored with the SINGLE program and doesn't
apply to all SINGLEs (as is the case with the
Soft Knob Global setting).