Flexi Controllers - Panda-Audio Future Impact v3 User Manual

When CHORUS is last in the chain, turning the EDIT dial towards 9 will increase both the
INSTR and VCF blends; turning towards 1 will decrease them.
When EQ is last in the chain, the EDIT dial functions as a "tilt EQ". Turning the EDIT dial
towards 9 will simultaneously boost the treble and cut the bass in 2dB steps (leaving the mid
controls unchanged); turning towards 1 will simultaneously cut the treble and boost the bass
in 2dB steps. So effectively, turning the EDIT dial to a higher value will make the sound
sharper, whereas turning it to a lower value will dampen the sound.

Flexi Controllers

The most important and exciting new feature in the FI v3 update is that of the four Flexi
Controllers. These constitute what is sometimes referred to as a "modulation matrix" and
provide a way to control almost any slider-based parameter in the editor in a very flexible
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and intuitive way from a choice of control sources.
What does this mean? Well, one example of a control source is an envelope and earlier
we talked about the FI's VCF envelope. If you remember, this controls a fixed destination,
namely cutoff frequency of the filter. Now, using a Flexi Controller, you can take that VCF
envelope and send it to almost any destination of your choosing, for example the pitch of
an oscillator, the speed of the LFO, the grade of the distortion, even the decay stage of
the VCF envelope itself!
The power of Flexi Controllers opens up a truly mind-blowing number of possibilities for
creating complex, highly-expressive and unique sounds, limited only by your imagination
and your willingness to experiment.
The process of setting up a Flexi Controller assignment is a relatively simple one and
basically consists of choosing a source and a destination. There are then a few choices to
be made which alter how and to what degree the source modulates the destination. This
will all be explained below later.
The four Flexi Controllers are situated towards the right in the top portion of the editor
screen. Each has a different color to distinguish it from the others but all are identical in
function.
The panel of each Flexi Controller has four windows and a pushbutton and these are as
follows:
3 There are 13 sliders that can't be controlled by Flexis: the 3 ON/OFF sliders in each of the effects,
the INSTR and VCF sliders of the EQ and Overdrive, the TRANSPOSE VOICE2 and VOICE3 sliders
of the harmonizer section, the VCF TYPE and PITCH FOLLOW sliders of the filter section, the ENV
MODE slider of the envelopes block and the KBD PRIORITY slider of the MIDI block.
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