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Pro 3 User’s Guide
Oscillators
Exploring Oscillator 3
Because Oscillator 3 is a digital wavetable oscillator, it generates a vari-
ety of waveshapes. In addition to the standard, static waveshapes of sine,
sawtooth, super saw, and pulse waves, it provides 32 wavetables, each
with 16 different waves within that table.
Once you select one of the 32 wavetables with the shape knob, you
can then select a wave within the wavetable using the shape mod knob.
When you turn the shape mod knob, you’ll hear the waveshapes morph
smoothly from one to the next as the Pro 3 interpolates between them.
If you select one of the 32 wavetables, you can then select a specic
static wave. Or, if you use an LFO or the modulation matrix to control
shape mod, you can sweep through the selected table’s 16 waves to create
timbres that shift and evolve in interesting ways.
To listen to Oscillator 3:
1. Press the global button. Use Soft Knob 1 to navigate to the basic
program command, then press Soft Button 1 (write now).
2. In the basic program, only Oscillator 1 is audible. The levels of Oscilla-
tors 2 and 3 are set to zero in the Mixer by default.
3. In the mixer section, turn down the level of Oscillator 1 and turn up the
level of Oscillator 3.
4. Play and hold a note on the keyboard. In the oscillators section, turn
the shape knob on Oscillator 3 to select one of the 32 wavetables. The
rst choices are sine, sawtooth, super saw, and pulse, after that are
wavetables 1-32
5. Turn the shape mod knob to select a waveshape within the currently
selected wavetable. When you turn the knob, you’ll hear the wave-
shapes morph smoothly from one to the next.