Plug-in Reference

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The included VST Instruments
Crackle
This allows you to send noise directly into the comb filters.
Small amounts of noise will produce a “crackling”, erratic
effect; higher amounts will give a more pronounced noise
sound.
Feedback
This determines the amount of signal sent back into the
comb filters (the feedback level).
• Setting Feedback to zero (twelve o’clock) will effectively turn
off the comb filter sound, as no feedback tone is produced.
• Setting Feedback to a positive value will create a feedback
tone, with higher settings generating longer decays.
• Setting Feedback to a negative value will create a feedback
tone with a more hollow sound, pitched one octave lower.
Lower settings generate longer decays.
Detune
This offsets the notch frequencies of the three parallel
comb filters, effectively changing the pitches of their feed-
back tones. At low settings, this creates a chorus-like de-
tune effect. Higher settings detunes the three tones in
wider intervals.
Pitch and Fine
Overall pitch adjustment of the final sound. This changes
the pitch of both the impulse sound and the final comb fil-
ter sound.
Key Tracking
This button determines whether the impulse sound should
track the keyboard or not. This will affect the sound of the
comb filters in a way similar to a key track switch on a reg-
ular subtractive synth filter.
Portamento
This parameter makes the pitch glide between the notes
you play. The parameter setting determines the time it
takes for the pitch to glide from one note to the next. Turn
the knob clockwise for longer glide time.
The “Mode” switch allows you to apply glide only when
you play a legato note (when switch is set to Legato). Le-
gato is when you play a note without releasing the previ-
ously played note. Note that Legato mode only works with
monophonic Parts.
Master Volume and Pan
The master Volume controls the master volume (ampli-
tude) of the instrument. By default this parameter is con-
trolled by Envelope 1, to generate an amplitude envelope
for the oscillators.
The Pan dial controls the position in the stereo spectrum
for the instrument. You can use Pan as a modulation des-
tination.
Modulation and controllers
The lower half of the control panel displays the various
modulation and controller assignment pages available as
well as the effect page. You switch between these pages
using the buttons above this section.
The following pages are available:
• The LFO page has two low frequency oscillators (LFOs)
for modulating parameters – see below.
• The Envelope page contains the four Envelope genera-
tors which can be assigned to control parameters – see
“Envelope page” on page 64.
• The Event page contains the common MIDI controllers
(Mod wheel, Aftertouch etc. and their assignments – see
“The Event page.” on page 65.
• The Effect page has three separate effect types avail-
able; Distortion, Delay and Modulation – see “Effects
(EFX) page” on page 66.
LFO page
This is opened by clicking the LFO button at the top of the
lower half of the control panel. The page contains all pa-
rameters and the modulation and velocity destinations for
two independent LFOs. Depending on the currently se-
lected Preset, there may already be modulation destina-
tions assigned, in which case these are listed in the “Mod
Dest” box for each LFO – see “Assigning LFO modulation
destinations” on page 63.