Advanced View Part 2 - Modulators; Assigning A Modulator - Arturia ACID V User Manual

5. ADVANCED VIEW PART 2 - MODULATORS

Modulators in Acid V are a very powerful means for applying variation to virtually any
parameter in the instrument. If you are familiar with synths, you might be asking "What
kinds of modulation sources are we talking about here? Envelopes or LFOs?" The answer is:
both! You can program the Modulators to act in either way, and they go beyond what either
a conventional LFO or an ADSR envelope can do, although they can certainly play those
roles with ease. Acid V has three Modulators, which function identically.
Access the Modulators by first going into
Modulation tabs.
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♪ Users of other Arturia instruments will know modulators by a different name: Functions. But this
time around we wanted to make it sound less like you're in math class.

5.1. Assigning a Modulator

Before we get into how Modulators work, let's cover how to assign one to a destination in
Acid V. On each one of the Modulation tabs, there is an animated thumbnail that displays
the waveform or action of that Modulator. Click on this thumbnail and drag it to whatever
you want to modulate, such as the filter cutoff, like so:
Arturia - User Manual Acid V - ADVANCED VIEW PART 2 - MODULATORS
Advanced View [p.77] then clicking any of the
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