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Table Of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
567
Introduction 568
Loading and Saving Patches 568
Thor elements 569
The Controller panel 570
Using the Programmer 572
Basic connections - a tutorial 573
The Oscillator section 576
Mix section 583
Filter slots 583
Shaper 587
Amp section 587
LFO 1 588
Envelope sections 589
Global section 590
Modulation bus routing section 592
Step Sequencer 601
Basic operation 601
Connections 605
Malström Synthesizer 607
Introduction 608
Features 608
Theory of operation 609
Loading and Saving Patches 609
The Oscillator section 610
Setting oscillator frequency 611
Controlling playback of the graintable 611
The amplitude envelopes 612
The Modulator section 613
Modulator parameters 613
Destinations 614
The Filter section 615
The Filters 616
The Filter Envelope 618
The Shaper 619
Routing 621
Routing examples 622
The output controls 625
The play controls 625
Polyphony - setting the number of voices 626
Porta (portamento) 626
Legato 626
The Pitch Bend and Modulation wheels 627
The Velocity controls 627
The Modulation wheel controls 628
Connections 629
Audio Output 629
Audio Input 629
Sequencer Control 629
Gate Input 630
Modulation Input 630
Modulation Output 630
Routing external audio to the filters 631
NN-19 Sampler 633
Introduction 634
General sampling principles 634
Background 634
Multisampling vs. single samples 634
About audio file formats 635
Loading a Sample Patch 635
Loading REX Files as Patches 636
Sampling in NN-19 636
About Key Zones and samples 637
Loading a Sample into an empty NN-19 637
Loading SoundFont samples 638
Loading REX slices as samples 638
Creating Key Zones 638