Specifications

Chapter 84: Vacuum 463
Vacuum Pitch and Mod Wheel
Controls
Pitch and Modulation wheels are the most com-
mon controllers on almost any electronic key-
board. The pitch wheel shifts the pitch up or
down a specified amount, for pitch-bending ef-
fects.
The modulation wheel is traditionally used as an
expressive tool. In most cases, it controls the
modulation of one or more parameters using an
LFO (low frequency oscillator).
Pch and Mod Onscreen wheels move along with
incoming pitch bend and modulation MIDI mes-
sages. They can also be clicked and dragged like
other controls.
Dest Sets what parameter is modulated when the
Mod wheel is moved upward.
Rate Sets the modulation speed from
0.01–20 Hz.
Vacuum Setup Page
Click the Setup button to view the Setup page.
The Setup page provides three controls that af-
fect Vacuum’s behavior.
Glide
The Time control sets the amount of slewing (or
Portamento) applied to the pitch of the VTOs.
When set to 0s, the VTOs will play as normal.
When set to a higher setting, the VTOs will take
the number of seconds chosen to glide up or
down to the next note played.
The Mode menu provides the following options:
Off No Glide.
Held Only apply glide when more than one note
is held at once.
On apply glide to every note.
Pitch Bend Range
This sets the range of the Pitch wheel, in semi-
tones.
Envelope Retrigger
When set to On, each note played in a legato
phrase will retrigger the actions of Vacuum’s en-
velopes. When set to
Off, legato notes will not re-
trigger the envelopes until all notes are released
and a new note is struck.
Pitch and Mod Wheel controls
Dest Description
Off No modulation occurs
Vib Pitch is modulated, creating a
vibrato effect
Wah LPF cutoff frequency is modu-
lated, creating a wah-wah effect
Trem Overall volume is modulated, cre-
ating a tremolo effect
Setup button