User Manual
COMMON
Common
The ‘Common’ parameters are those which determine the performance of the overall patch, for example
how the pitch bender will affect the pitch, how MIDI velocity will affect certain parameters, how the Soft
Knobs function etc.
In here you nd all paramters which do not belong to a specic section of sound engine.
• Tempo
63 bpm to 190 bpm: The Virus has an internal clock to which the LFOs, arpeggiator and delay/reverb can
be synchronized. The clock automatically slaves to any received MIDI clock signal, otherwise it adopts this
value.
Patch • Volume
0 to 127: Overall volume of a program, particularly useful for balancing levels between different programs
(or Parts when in Multi or Sequencer modes). Note that you may have to keep this value well below 127 to
avoid unwanted distortion, especially when playing many notes at the same time - 100 is a good starting
point. Patch Volume reacts to MIDI CC#7 (Channel Volume) as well as CC#11 (Expression).
Modulation destination “Patch Volume“.
• Panorama
-64 to +63: The position of the signal across the stereo outputs. Reacts to MIDI CC#10 (Panorama).
Modulation destination “Panorama“.
• Transpose
-64 to +63 semitones: Transposes the pitch of the entire program in semitones.
Modulation destination “Transpose“.
• Smooth Mode
Right from the very beginning, we have been applying a technique called “Adaptive Control Smoothing”
(ACS) in all their synthesizer models, thus avoiding the zipper noise that rapid changes (knob movements,
modulation) would otherwise cause.