User Guide
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The Modulation Matrix
The key to versatility in a synthesiser lies in the ability to interconnect the various controllers,
sound generators and processing blocks such that one block is controlling – or “modulating” -
another, in as many ways as possible. Circuit Mono Station provides considerable exibility of
control routing in the form of the Modulation Matrix Section. The available modulating sources
and the destinations to be modulated can be thought of as the inputs and outputs of a matrix:
Envelope
Osc 1 Pitch
MOD SOURCES
MOD DESTINATIONS
Osc 1 Pulse Width
Osc 2 Pulse Width
VCA Level
Filter Frequency
Post-filter Distortion
Aux CV Output
Osc 2 Pitch
LFO
AmpEnv
Each matrix crosspoint can
have its own level set
from zero to maximum
Modulation
Sequencer
The Modulation Matrix may be visualised as a system for connecting controlling sources to a
specic area of the synth. The matrix has four sources and eight destinations and thus has 32
crosspoints. The matrix is variable.
What do we mean by a ‘variable’ matrix?
We mean that it is not just the routing of a controlling source to a controlled
parameter which is dened in each slot, but also the “magnitude” of the control.
Thus the ‘amount’ of control – or Depth – used is up to you.
You need to be careful when setting up matrix routings to ensure that the
combined effect of all the controllers acting simultaneously still creates the
sound that you want.