User guide

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9 PROGRAM WINDOWS - THE PRESET GENETICS WINDOW
The Preset Genetics window is selected from the Options menu of the main page, or from the Editor window
under the Generator menu. Preset Genetics allows you to quickly build new sounds from two existing ones in a
similar fashion to breeding. Parameters of each of the two sources (parents) are combined using four different
functions to generate a new bank of presets (kids).
A view of the Preset Genetics window is shown below. The two source banks (parent banks, also called mommy
and daddy) are located in the upper left, along with buttons for the four different genetics functions. The generated
bank (kids) and the top offspring bank are located in the lower left. On the right is a scrollable filters window that
allows user-selected parameters to be excluded from the genetics function. Directly below the filters window is a
single parameter adjustment function that permits you to change one of the preset parameters for an entire
Voyager bank.
Both parent banks use the presets from the User Bank, and these banks will automatically load when the Preset
Genetics window is opened. Any pair of the 128 available presets can be used for the genetics functions (one
each from mother and father). The result of applying the user-selected genetics functions creates the child bank,
and any ‘keepers’ auditioned from the child bank can then be moved into the top offspring bank.
The four Preset Genetics functions are:
Mix: The parameters of each child preset are randomly chosen from either a parameter from the mother or father
source. For example, if the mother’s cutoff frequency was 10 and the father’s was 88, the child’s value would only
be 10 or 88.