Auto-Manual Morph - Oberheim OB 12 Operating Manual

The MORPH function allows the sound produced by a Program or a single Timbre to be transformed
into another sound generated by another Program or Timbre. During the time, you may listen to all
variarions of the "continuous" parameters (like F.1 FREQ. for example) concerning the sound
generation creating extraordinary effects. The "non continuous" parameters (i.e. ON/OFF) will be
set automatically as per the final location.
Moreover, if the pages relative to the generation sections are displayed while this function is in
progress, you can observe the changes in the parameters from one Timbre to the other.
Therefore, the Program / Timbre which generates the original sound will be known as the starting
(or origin) Program / Timbre, while the one which generates the final sound will be called the
destination Program / Timbre.
The OB-12 allows you to perform two types of Morph:
an automatic Morph, with which the sound transformation takes place within a programmable
time or number of bars.
a manual Morph, with which you can control the passage from one Program / Timbre to another
by means of the [MODULATION] wheel. The minimum position of the [MODULATION] wheel
will be associated to the starting location and its maximum position to the destination location.
Intermediate positions of the [MODULATION] wheel will correspond to intermediate parameter
interpolation conditions.
N.B.: The Manual Morph can only be controlled by means of the [MODULATION] wheel if the
[M.MORPH] LED in the WHEEL MODE section is on (see also point 7.12).
The buttons in the AUTOMATION section can be used to select the two types of Morph: the
[AUTO] button enables the automatic Morph, while [MANUAL] activates the manual Morph. When
the selection is made, the display will show:
in case of automatic Morph. If the manual Morph is activated, the message AUTO MORPH in the
video page heading will be replaced by MANUAL MORPH.
In addition, with the Timbre operating environment active you can perform a Morph of two timbres
with the screen showing the message PLAY TIMBRE instead of PLAY PROGRAM. In this case,
the automatic Morph time depends on the setting made in the Program currently selected.
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