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output parameters and modulation

scanner-darkly edited this page Jul 13, 2020 · 4 revisions

you can map a voice to multiple outputs that belong to multiple devices. you can control certain parameters on each one of those outputs individually. this is a powerful feature as you could create chords (where each note can have its own volume!), or modulate each parameter to create variations even with simplest sequences.

to open the output parameters page press on the voices button (left bottom corner button), hold it and then press the button above it. you select the device in the 2nd column from the left, and a parameter in the 3rd column. there are 4 devices: module / er-301 / just friends / txo. each device has a different number of parameters available - module can only output cv/gate, for instance, so doesn't have volume, and telexo has 3 extra parameters - waveform / attack / decay.

simply select a parameter and change its values in the right area. each row corresponds to an output. if you forget which button corresponds to which device and which parameter press the help button (the blinking one).

you can also select a range - press on one value, hold it and then press on another (to select a range of one value press, hold, and then press anywhere in that column). ranges are used with modulation buses.

modulation buses get their modulation from voices - see i2c control and voice assignment for details on how to assign voice parameters to each modulation bus. you can assign multiple voice parameters to each bus - they are not added together but rather whenever an assigned voice plays a new note any mod bus mapped to it will update its value accordingly. you can also assign notes and pattern start events to mod buses - whenever a note is played or a pattern start happens the mapped mod buses will get a new random value.

you can also use module knobs or controllers such as arc, shnth or MIDI controllers - these get mapped to mod buses automatically (if you have voices parameters mapped to these mod buses their values will get overwritten whenever you move knobs!).

to use a mod bus on a parameter choose a value range on the parameter you want to control, then press and hold the mod bus button and press in the parameter row. the range will get brighter - this means that this mod bus will now control this parameter.

a simple example: open the voice assignment page. select "note" and voice 1. press mod bus 1, this will assign voice 1 notes to that mod bus - now whenever voice 1 plays a new note, mod bus 1 will get a new random value. now switch to the output parameters page and use mod bus 1 to modulate some parameters (octave can be fun!). now whenever you play a new note with that voice a new value will be selected for the modulated parameters. it can be fun to assign the same voice to affect its own parameters!

more docs and videos coming soon