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In Split and Double mode : The Lower Layer is panned to the left, while the Upper Layer is
panned to the Right. With higher settings or the Stereo knob, the distance between the two
layers gradually increase.
Tip : You can use this setting to hard pan the two layers fullleft and right for Pluck sounds for
example. This is often used in Club and EDM music to get interesting results effortless.
In Normal mode : the sound is randomly assigned to the right or to the left for each note. With
high settings successive notes will appear randomly at the full left or right of the stereo scene.
Advanced Mixing Tip : Sometimes, you'll want more control over the two layers than what is
provided by the MiniSynx stereo output, like compressing only one of the layers, or apply
different effects ( Delay, Reverb etc ) to each of them. This is very easy to achieve : Just
duplicate the midi part and assign another instance of the MiniSyn'X to the duplicated midi part.
Load the same preset in the second instance of the MiniSyn'X. Then the first instance of the
Minisynx, use the solo function on the Lower Layer, then solo the Upper Layer in the second
MiniSynX instance. You can now add separate effects, Eqing or compressors separately on both
Layers.
Chorus The MiniSyn'X Chorus is fully stereo. This means that the right and left Chorus
channels are independent, and have dedicated internal LFOs. As a consequence, using the
same sound in the DOUBLE mode will increase a lot the chorus effect.
The BBD Chorus effect was also responsible of the distinct sound of the hardware synthesizer.
It has been very closely modeled, and has three different settings.
7.3 Layers Management : Copy, Exchange, Gang Edit Mode
Copy and Exchange Functions : To make things easier we added two buttons Copy and
Exchange that allow you to copy and exchange layers : Clicking on the "Exchange" button
exchanges the two layer sounds, clicking on the copy button copies the selected layer to the
other layer engine.
Tip : Exchange Layers can be useful when you want to Switch the two layer in the stereo field.
The GANG Edit Mode : You can edit all the knobs parameters of the Lower and Upper Layers
simultaneously by entering the GANG EDIT mode.( Please note that therefore the GANG MODE
Button is only available when the Split or Double mode are selected )
When engaged, it will allow you to modify the two layers simultaneously, keeping the relative
settings of the parameters.
An example to explain the relative concept : Say you're editing the Cut Off of the two layers in
GANG MODE. Lower Layer initial level is 100, and Upper Layer value is 50. If you decrease
both cut off by 40, the resulting Lower value will be 60, while the Upper Layer cut off value will
now be 10. This means that the two layers keep their relative cut off difference.
This also means that the GANG EDIT mode is non destructive and reversible : You can always
revert to your original values ( In this example you would now add 40 to the cut off value using
the GANG MODE )
TIP : The Gang Mode is especially useful when editing envelope parameters, to globally shorten
the decay of a preset, adjust a sustain level while maintaining the balance between layers, or
tune the attack stage according to track context. It's also a powerful experimental sound design
tool, when you tweak filters of different types for example.
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