User`s manual

Appendix A: MACHINE REFERENCE A-11
VO-6 TUTORIAL
Getting words out of the VO-6 is pretty
straight forward once you get to know it. In
this section we offer a short tutorial to get you
started. It will make a Monomachine track fit-
ted with the VO-6 spell out the word "Mon-
omachine".
Start with loading the VO-6 machine on one
of the Monomachine tracks, and verify that it
makes sound as you play it on the Keyboard.
Be sure to start with a clear pattern, set the
tempo to 120 and make sure that the V-SW
encoder in the VO page is set to 1 (on).
You then need to adjust the Amplitude Enve-
lope to make the VO-6 respond the way we
want. Set Attack=0, Decay=127 and
Release=0. The VO-6 now responds quickly,
holds for as long as the note is held, and qui-
ets quickly when we let the note go.
Now we can start with the actual program-
ming. Our method will be to work in four
steps for each syllable of the word:
1. Find the right vowel by turning the VOC1
and VOC2 encoders while playing on the
keyboard.
2. Choose the right consonant with the
CONS encoder and adjust its sound with
the CLEN and CVOL encoders. Remem-
ber that when you look for the correct con-
sonant you should seek a consonant that
makes the sound you want rather than
how the word is spelled. For example, if
you want to say "cat" you should start with
a "k".
3. Now enter grid composing mode. Put a
trig on the step where you want it.
4. Press and hold this trig and push each
encoder you used in step 1 and 2 to lock
the parameters. You might want to lock the
VOC1, VOC2, CONS and CLEN parame-
ters.
To program the VO-6 to spell out "Monoma-
chine" we need to set 5 trigs with the sounds
"mo"+"no"+"ma"+"shi"+"n". You will find the
right vowel for “mo” by setting VOC1=35 and
VOC2=5. Trig the machine and it should say
“o”.
Now select "M" with the CONS encoder, and
set CLEN to 5. Now it is time to set the first
trig. In grid composing mode, set a trig on
step 1. Hold it while clicking the encoders for
VOC1, VOC2, CONS and CLEN, so that
these parameters get locked. Also adjust the
pitch of this trig by pressing [LEFT] and
[RIGHT] while holding the trig. Choose pitch
"F-2". Now we are ready with the first trig,
time to set the second one.
Make sure the VOC1 and VOC2 encoders
are still in the same position as for the first
trig, as the vowel for “no” is the same as for
“mo”. Turn the CONS encoder to "N", set
CLEN=5. Set this trig on step number 4.
Press and hold it and push the VOC1, VOC2,
CONS and CLEN encoders to lock them.
To make a more natural sound, set a note-off
trig on step 6 by pressing the [TRIG] key
while holding [FUNCTION].
For the third trig we want to say "ma". Set
VOC1=127, VOC2=60, CONS="M" and
CLEN=5. Set a trig on step 7 and lock the
parameters mentioned above.
The fourth trig should say "shi". Adjust the
parameters to VOC1=40, VOC2=110,
CONS="SJ" and CLEN=0. Set a trig on step
number 10 and lock the parameters men-
tioned above.
If you press play now, the pattern should say
"monomachiiii". The last thing we need to do
is to end the track with an "n". Make sure that
VOC1 and VOC2 retain the settings from last
trig. Set CONS="N" with the CONS encoder.
Set a trig on step number 13, and lock
VOC1, VOC2, CONS and CLEN. This time
we also want to lock the V-SW encoder to 0
in order to make it say "n" and then stop. Do
this by holding the trig while turning the
V-SW to 0.
Now press play and the Monomachine
should spell out "monomachine" when you
press play.
You can continue exploring the possibilities
by adjusting the Track Effect filter, adjust the
sample rate reduction or other effects you
might think of. You can lock the effects on
individual steps to get different effects for the
syllables. Use Multi Trig mode to control the
pitch of the words in real-time.