Akai MINIAK, Reference Manual

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14. Track (Tracking Generator)
The tracking generator lets you create your own curves for the
modulation sources. This allows for non-linear effects. For instance,
as a source increases in amplitude, the destination can be affected
first negatively, then positively, and then negatively again.
The inputs for the tracking generator–like those for the S&H generator–are the same as the Modulation
Matrix's modulation sources (discussed later).
Grid: The input to the Tracking Generator is quantized to either 12 or 16 points above and below 0.
Point x: After you've created your grid, you can cycle through each point and set its value from -100%
to +100%.
An example should help clarify the concept:
At the left, 16 points are indicated. This is the number of positive points. There are 32 points total, if you
count the negative ones. Indeed, the display shows 32 points – 16 each to the left and right of the y axis.
Now, what's displayed is a pretty radical tracking generation. As you can see, before the midpoint of this
source's range, increasing values are intercepted by the tracking generator and turned into wildly non-linear,
unexpected results. When the midpoint is reached, the tracking generator locks the source's output at 0 (its
middle range). Then, at the eighth positive point, the tracking generator gradually ramps up the source's
output value. It holds steady for a while and then begins a gradual descent at the fourteenth positive point.
How does all this sound? Pretty weird.
Remember, without the tracking generator, the source's output would function normally – you'd see a
diagonal line rising from the bottom left to the top right, without interruption. The purpose of the tracking
generator is to intercept and regenerate that line.
15. Mod (Modulation Routing)
For each of the twelve possible modulation routes, set the source, the
destination , the level , and the offset .
The
level determines the extent to which the source will affect the
destination.
The
offset changes the destination's value before the modulation begins.
After the last modulation route, you can add a new route, up to the maximum twelve routes.
To remove a mod route, double-click on "Dest." The MINIAK will ask, "Remove mod?" Push the
DATA
DIAL to confirm.
Quick access to editing
To jump to the tracking
generator category, hold down
the
[PROGRAMS] button and
press the key labeled "track."
Quick access to editing
To jump to the modulation
routing category, hold down the
[PROGRAMS] button and press
the key labeled "mod."