User's Manual

KARMA GE guide
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which of up to ten notes you may have played are to be
generated. If a step of the Cluster Pattern has rows 0, 2
and 4 selected, then the first, third, and fifth notes in
the Note Series will be generated at that step. What
these notes actually are will be influenced by the Note
Series and Input Sort settings. This can be used to
simulate the operation of the Korg Triton Arpeggiator,
for example. Note that filling all ten rows of each
column is essentially the same as using 0: Vel above.
2…5: CC - 4 different CC Gate Types
When one of the four “CC Gate Types” is chose, the
“Gate CC Number” parameter specifies a MIDI
Control Change Message (CC) to be used in place of
note-ons and note-offs. The actual notes given as input
source material are then generated as note-ons only
once at the beginning of the effect; the rest of the note-
ons are turned into the specified CC controller value
with the same value as the velocity of the note-on; the
note-offs are turned into CC values of 0. Essentially,
this means that a pad will be sustained, having the
attack portion triggered only once. For example, if the
selected CC was #11 (Expression) or #07 (Volume), the
pad will be repeatedly turned on and off, simulating
the popular techno effect of gating a synth pad with a
hi-hat track and an external audio gate/compressor. In
KARMA however, the Velocity Pattern can be used to
control the value of each CC that is generated for a
note-on (the volume of each “slice”), and the Duration
Pattern (☞p.914) can be used to control the duration of
each “slice.”
Other CCs can produce other interesting stepped and
wave-sequence like effects. For example, using CC#74
to control Filter Cutoff Frequency can produce
interesting “Sample & Hold” effects.
2: CC [T]-sustain notes; retrigger only if Phase Transpose
is different
When this first CC option is chosen, the “pad” will
only be triggered manually (i.e. when you strike the
keyboard), or only if there is a Phase Change and the
Phase Transpose (
☞p.10) is different, requiring that the
generated notes be transposed. Therefore, if the Phase
Transposes are the same, the “pad” will never retrigger
unless you trigger it manually.
3: CC [1]-sustain notes; retrigger when entering Phase1
Same as CC [T] above, with the exception that the
“pad” will be retriggered when striking the keyboard,
and every time that the Phase Pattern enters a step
containing Phase 1. You can use this to have the notes
retriggered occasionally while moving through the
Phase Pattern.
4: CC [2]-sustain notes; retrigger when entering Phase2
Same as CC [T] above, with the exception that the
“pad” will be retriggered when striking the keyboard,
and every time that the Phase Pattern enters a step
containing Phase 2. You can use this to have the notes
retriggered occasionally while moving through the
Phase Pattern.
5: CC [A]-sustain notes; retrigger when entering any
Phase
Same as CC [T] above, with the exception that the
“pad” will be retriggered when striking the keyboard,
and every time that the Phase Pattern causes a Phase
Change. You can use this to have the notes retriggered
occasionally while moving through the Phase Pattern.
Gate CC Number [–1, 0…127]
Select which CC will be transmitted instead of the
note-ons and note-offs of the generated notes. For
example, for “chopping” effects, set to 11: 11 (CC#11)
.
–1: Off
No MIDI CCs are generated.
0…126: MIDI CC #00…126
The specified MIDI CC is generated in place of the
Module’s note-ons and note-offs. Note-offs are
generated as a value of “0,” while note-ons are
generated as a value equal to the velocity of the note-
on.
Available only when “Gate Type” is one of the 4 CC
options.
Force Mono [0, 1]
Selects whether the GE will operate polyphonically
according to its other internal settings, or whether the
generation of more than one note at a time and
overlapping durations will be suppressed.
0: Off
Notes will be generated as expected according to the
internal settings of the GE. Polyphonic clusters of notes
may be generated according to the Cluster Pattern,
repeated notes may be generated on top of other notes,
and the durations of notes may overlap according to
Duration settings.
1: On
The normal behavior of certain aspects of the GE will
be overridden, suppressing the generation of multiple
notes at the same time. Any clusters being generated
will be removed, essentially generating what would be
the single lowest note in the cluster. Any notes from
Melodic Repeat that happen to be generated on top of
another note will be suppressed. Multiple repeated
notes happening at the same instance will only play
one of them. Durations of generated notes will not be
allowed to overlap, but may only extend up until the
next note to be generated. Any note will cut off the
previous note’s duration if it is sustaining. The result is
that only one note at a time will be generated or
sustaining at any given moment.
Note: When polyphonic GEs are applied to
monophonic programs, the results may be strange due
to the overlapping notes and durations. By turning on
“Force Mono,” any GE can be applied to a monophonic
program and made to sound good. However, it can
also sound good as an effect on polyphonic programs,
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0: Off 1: On