Main Section - Tone2 Saurus ANALOG SYNTHESIZER Reference Manual

The bottom row shows the currently loaded patch. If you left or right click on the patch
name, a drop-down list will appear where you can select any patch in the current category.
The bottom right of the BROWSER window serves as a parameter indicator. If you alter
any parameter in Saurus' interface, the parameter name and value will be displayed here.
The program buttons cycle through all the presets loaded in the current bank. The bank
buttons cycle through the various category lists in the bank loaded. The file button opens a
dialog menu where you can load or save a sound, download more sounds, visit the Tone2
website, view the manual or initialize various sections of the synth.

4.2 Main section

Inside the main section you'll several controls that have to do with general operation of
Saurus: Volume, Pan, Glide, Unison controls and the psycho-Acoustic boost switch.
Master voice mode selectors
Saurus offers both monophonic and polyphonic voice modes, the following modes are
available:
Mono -
This mode sets the polyphony to 1 note (monophonic) which mimics the way the
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classic analog synthesizers of the past behaved. The envelopes are retriggered each time
a new note is played.
Legato -
This mode is also monophonic but if a new note is played while an
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existing note is still being played it will glide to the new note without re-triggering
the envelopes.
OldPoly8 -
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polyphonic synthesizers. If the note is already playing and the same note is triggered
again the same voice will be used and the envelopes are retriggered in a soft way. The
advantage of this mode is that the voice mix will be less 'muddy' when melodies are
played in a fast way and the CPU usage is low.
Poly16 -
Modern, polyphonic voice handling with 16 voices.
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The maximum number of voices playing at the same time is 64 when 4x Unison is used together
with Poly16 mode (64 = 16x4).
Along the bottom of the patch window are 5 buttons
In this mode the Voice handling behaves similar to that on old 8 voice
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