User`s guide

depending on whether you use a sine, triangle, square or sawtooth

wave for the modulator.

Mix Modulation

Mix modulation, or mixing, is simply a way of routing the output of

one module to the input of another, where it gets averaged with the

destination’s source signal and any other Mix inputs. (Signals are

averaged together to avoid overflows, but you can generally think of

them as being added together.)

Use mixing when you want another module to process the output of

the current module. For example, if you want to distort a sound and

then filter it, the current module could perform the Raise to Power

(distortion) process and then mix its output to a second module,

which will do the filtering.

Pan Modulation

Pan modulation allows you to use one module to control the

panning of another. This lets you create ping-pong effects, pass-by

effects, stereo tremolos, and effects where the sound’s position

tracks the pitch or amplitude envelope of another signal.

If you set the Pan Modulation Amplitude to 100%, the destination

signal will pan all the way to the left when the modulator’s source

signal is at –100%, and all the way to the right when the modulator

is at +100%.

Frequency Modulation

Frequency Modulation allows a signal to control the frequency of a

destination (“carrier”) signal. The module pointed to by the

Destination menu must have a sine, triangle, square or sawtooth

wave as its source.

A low modulation frequency will produce effects similar to those

produced by manually turning an oscillator’s frequency control. The

range of the resulting frequencies depends on the carrier frequency

and the modulation amplitude. Basically, the modulator’s

instantaneous amplitude (in percent) is scaled by the modulation

amplitude and multiplied by the carrier (destination) frequency; the

result is added to the carrier frequency.