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SYNCHRONOUS TIMED EFFECT MODULATOR655
10.Now, click the Stepped Line Tool button and the Free button:
The Rate buttons have now disappeared from the panel, since they are of no importance when you use the Line
tools.
11.Click-hold the mouse pointer at the second thick line and then draw to the right throughout the rest of the dis-
play area.
Alter the amplitude (y-axis positions) as you draw.
12.Release the mouse button when you have reached the far right of the display.
Now, you have half a bar of a 1/8th sawtooth waves and one and a half bars of a stepped “free hand” curve:
Now, let’s assign the yellow modulation curve to the effect parameters to be modulated. In this example we will
assign the curve to the Freq and Resonance parameters of the Filter section:
1. Click the Filter button to switch on the Filter section:
2. Turn the Freq knob to a low value and the Resonance knob to a high value:
3. Raise the yellow Freq Modulation knob (above the Freq knob) to a positive value (past its 12 o’clock position).
Then, set the Resonance Modulation knob (above the Resonance knob) to a negative value.
Yellow modulation amount semicircles appear around the Freq Modulation knob and around the Resonance
Modulation knob, to indicate the modulation amounts and their “directions” (positive or negative modulation):
Setting the modulation amounts.
4. Start the sequencer.
Congratulations, you have now created your first looped Filter modulation in Synchronous!