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Voice
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Chord: Pressing this button while holding a chord (via incoming MIDI) stores this chord
and enables chord mode. This chord can then be played from a single note trigger until
the chord is changed, or chord mode is disabled. To change a chord, simply turn Chord
mode off and repeat the process holding your new chord shape. To exit simply press the
Chord button again. The Chord function is a performance feature and as such is not
saved per patch. It will remain until it is either reset or the unit is power cycled.
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Mode: This button cycles through the available voice modes:
Mono: Mono voice mode for the current patch. 4 oscillators will be stacked into a single
voice
Poly: Polyphonic voice mode for the current patch. 8 voice stereo true polyphonic path all
the way to the stereo FX engine input.
Unison: Unison voice mode. Cycle through to choose between Unison-2, Unison-4 or
Unison-8. These are monophonic voice modes where multiple voices are stacked and
detuned, the number reflects the number of voices per note.
Stack: Stack voice mode. Cycle through to choose between Stack-2 or Stack-4. These
are polyphonic voice modes where multiple voices are stacked. Stack-2 offer 4-note
polyphony and Stack-4 offers 2-note polyphony.
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Drift: This encoder controls the voice drift amount. This is the amount of slop or random
detuning of each oscillators phase and tune per note.
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Width: Holding the 'Shift' button and (or when latched in shift mode) turning this
encoder controls the voice width of the current patch. This sets how far left and right the
alternating pan of the voices is from mono at 0 to hard panned & wide at 127.
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Octave: This screen only control transposes MIDI-in notes if the "In Oct Offset" setting is
enabled.
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Transpose: This screen only control can directly transpose the pitch of both oscillators.
Note: Using transpose will not trigger a new note. If you are using low EG settings you
may not notice the change. This can be used to great effect while sequencing the synth
from its Arp or Seq or from external sources.
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Chord Invert: Holding the 'Patch' button and turning the 'Drift' encoder controls Chord
invert. Chord invert looks at the notes that are being played across the voices on the
synth, then adds octave offsets to these notes depending on the setting:
Oct 1 : n - adds 1 octave to the lowest n notes in the chord, inverting the chords in the
traditional way
Oct 2 : n - adds 2 octaves to the lowest n notes in the chord and 1 octave to all other
notes
Even 1 : n - adds 1 octave to the lowest n even notes in the chord i.e. the 2nd, 4th, 6th
and 8th notes
Odd 1 : n - adds 1 octave to the lowest n Odd notes in the chord i.e. the 1st, 3rd, 5th
and 7th notes
Shuffle 1 - adds an extra octave to each additional note in the chord up to 3 octaves. i.e
1 octave added to the 2nd note, 2 octaves to the 3rd note, 3 octaves to the 4th note, 1
octave to the 5th note
Shuffle n - the same as shuffle 1 but with different orderings of octave offsets
Note - Chord invert looks at the state of the synth voices rather than MIDI note input, so
pressing a 3 note chord with "Stack-2" voice mode will be counted as a 6-note chord.
You can take advantage of this for huge stereo pads by combining Chord Invert, Stack
and Voice Width/Drift settings.
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