The Editor - Panda-Audio Future Impact v3 User Manual

The Editor

The FI is a very complex device with over 100 fully-adjustable parameters per sound. These
are mostly adjusted in the Editor using sliders but there are a few pushbuttons too. In order
to get an overview we recommend you first familiarize yourself with the panel layout in the
image above (or in that of the Alternative Editor Skin) and investigate the block diagrams
of the FI algorithms in the Appendix. On the first page of the Appendix, you will find a
diagram of the whole device (minus the effects). Note however that the oscillators appear
here just as a rough outline; the detailed diagram of the oscillators is on the second page.
The third page shows how the Effects Block is inserted into the structure of the FI.
The FI has two basic sound sources: The harmonizer-and-input-instrument block and the
synthesizer block. The synthesizer is driven by the pitch and volume information derived
from the sound of the input instrument. The sounds of the FI can be created from the
synthesizer sound, the harmonizer-and-input-instrument sound, or a mixture of the two.
This all might seem quite daunting or confusing at first but don't worry, the following sections
of the manual will explain what all the controls do and teach you what you need to know in
order to start editing sounds deeply or building your own.
Let's begin by looking at the more general controls, tools and navigation features before
moving on to tackling the parameters themselves.
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