Digital Effects; The Digital Effects Section - Arturia MiniFreak User Manual

7. DIGITAL EFFECTS

The MiniFreak can make all kinds of great sounds just using the Digital Oscillators and the
Analog Filter with multiple modulation options in the Matrix, but sometimes it's nice to put a
finishing touch on a sound with a little something extra... or a lot extra.
The MiniFreak includes a set of three Digital Effects at the end of its signal path, and they
offer a wide variety of tones that can be called up rapidly or tweaked to taste.

7.1. The Digital Effects section

As noted in our front panel tour
the Oscillators section. There are a few basic controls, their function vary depending on the
selected effect.
Select chooses whether the four knobs are controlling FX1, 2, or FX3. A bright
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white LED indicates that FX is selected for editing. If an FX LED is dimly lit, that
means it is turned ON but not being edited; if an LED is off, it means that FX is
OFF.
Type/Sub selects the kind of effect, or the Sub Preset for that specific effect –
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for example, there are six presets of Distortion FX, each with its own character.
Clicking the encoder lights the On LED and turns that particular FX on. Click again
to turn that FX off.
Time, Intensity, and Amount have different functions depending on which Type
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of FX you've chosen. These are shown on the Display with exactly the same "test
tubes" as seen when editing the Digital Oscillators; turning the knobs pops up the
actual parameters being adjusted.
7.1.1. Insert and Send routings
The three FX are always handled in the same order: FX 1 into FX 2 into FX 3. However, in the
case of the Delay and Reverb, there are two available routings: Insert and Send.
Pressing Sound Edit and selecting FX from the menu gives you the option of changing the
Delay Routing and/or the Reverb Routing. Each Routing can be set to Send or Insert, and
those settings will be saved with the preset.
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Remember that each effect has a Dry/Wet control, letting you set how much dry signal gets through
each FX in the chain.
With Send mode, the FX routing allows you send a specific amount of each signal to each
effect separately, then brought together at the end.
Arturia - User Manual MiniFreak - Digital Effects
Digital Effects controls
[p.6], the Digital Effects section is set up to work similarly to
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