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MONOTONE BASS SYNTHESIZER915
•Triangle
The Triangle wave only contains odd harmonics, and at lower intensities than the square wave overtones. This
makes it sound a little “rounder” and with less bite than the square wave.
•Sine
The Sine wave doesn’t contain any overtones - only the fundamental. This makes it sound dull and makes it perfect
as a sub bass an octave or two below another waveform in the other oscillator.
Oct
D Set the pitch in octave steps.
Range: 5 octaves.
Osc Mix
D Set the mix of the Oscillator 1 and 2 signals.
Noise
D Turn up the Noise knob to introduce white noise to the oscillator signal mix.
Detune
D Change the pitch in steps of 1 cent (in opposite directions for the two oscillators).
Range: +/- 50 cents (down or up half a semitone).
LFO
D Turn the LFO knob to introduce pitch modulation to both oscillators from the current setting of the LFO section
(see “The LFO section”).
FM Env
D Turn the knob to have the oscillator 2 signal frequency modulate the oscillator 1 signal according to the cur-
rent Envelope settings (see “The Envelope section”).
Range: 0% (no tracking (constant pitch)) to 100% (1 semitone per note).
Osc 2 Semi
D Set the pitch of Oscillator 2 in semitone steps.
Range: +/-12 semitones (two octaves).
The Filter section
The Filter in Monotone is a classic 24 dB/octave lowpass ladder filter. If you raise the Resonance high enough, the
filter will start to self-oscillate.