Aodyo Instruments anyma Phi, User Manual

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The anatomy of a patch
By default, all three oscillators output on both buses, the Aux bus is
muted (only the Main bus works), and all ve e ects are placed on the
Main bus. If the signal path looks a bit restricted to you, please keep
in mind that using the dry/wet controls of most e ects, you could s ll
achieve much more complex mixes.
Mappings
We’re now at a point where all the sound-producing components of the
synth are in place. You can set them up however you like and get a wide
variety of sounds out of this, but there’s a crucial bit missing: how to
make everything move and react to what you play?
This is the job of mappings . A mapping describes how a control signal
(the note you’re playing, the modula on wheel on your MIDI keyboard,
a control in the matrix, etc.) in uences a parameter of any module in
the synth
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For instance, you might want to make the sound darker or brighter de-
pending on how hard you press a key on your MIDI keyboard. Or you
might want to make it so that pressing the modula on wheel drenches
your sound in a lush reverb. To do so, you can set up a mapping, choose
a control signal (the source ), which parameter of a module it in uences
(the des na on ), and the amount by which it will move that parameter
(the amount ).
Each mapping can also be customized so as to only take into account
some part of the source signal (e.g., the rst half of your modula on
wheel), to apply a non-linear curve to the rela onship, to smooth out
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Even another mapping! But let’s not get carried away too soon.
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