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Rabid Acceleration to Use
Use the following state as a launching point when first getting familiarlised with Natural Gate. This
Base Gate State will allow the gate to fully close (and fully open) when receiving a HIT event.
Base Gate State
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OPEN slider all the way down.
DECAY about 25% up.
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MATERIAL switch in the upper position.
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With nothing plugged into the CTRL input, set the CTRL attenuverter to 0V by adjusting the
trimmer until you see GREEN illumination.
Plug an audio source into the IN jack. Plug OUT to your audio output module. Send a slow (~1Hz or
so), repeating signal into the HIT input. Leave the CTRL and DECAY input jacks unplugged for now.
The gate will start firing. Raise the OPEN slider and see how this holds open the gate. Turn it back
down. Adjust the DECAY slider to experience the range of decay available.
Pick a decay you like and listen to the changes in the gate as you try different MATERIALs.
Now adjust the CTRL attenuverter trimmer and see how it also opens and closes the gate. NOTE: this
is not exactly the same as the OPEN slider but has similar effect (you can exploit this difference when
you learn more about it later). The CTRL trimmer goes negative too... put the OPEN slider high and
turn this attenuverter CCW from 12 o'clock. See how it subtracts from the OPEN setting and will
close the gate.
Now feed in signals to the other jacks and do your thing.
Natural Gate is incredibly simple to jump in and start using, however, there are many of subtle
nuances that can be musically exploited. Read the sections "Interesting Bits" and "From Within the
Gate" if you'd like to explore more.
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