7. DIGITAL EFFECTS
The MiniFreak can make all kinds of great sounds just using the Digital Oscillators and the
Analog Filter with multiple modulation options in the Matrix, but sometimes it's nice to put a
finishing touch on a sound with a little something extra... or a
lot extra.
The MiniFreak includes a set of three Digital Effects at the end of its signal path, and they
offer a wide variety of tones that can be called up rapidly or tweaked to taste.
7.1. The Digital Effects section
As noted in our
, the
Digital Effects
section is set up to work similarly to
the Oscillators section. There are a few basic controls, their function vary depending on the
selected effect.
•
Select
chooses whether the four knobs are controlling FX1, 2, or FX3. A bright
white LED indicates that FX is selected for editing. If an FX LED is dimly lit, that
means it is turned ON but not being edited; if an LED is off, it means that FX is
OFF.
•
Type/Sub
selects the kind of effect, or the Sub Preset for that specific effect –
for example, there are six presets of Distortion FX, each with its own character.
Clicking the encoder lights the
On
LED and turns that particular FX on. Click again
to turn that FX off.
•
Time
,
Intensity
, and
Amount
have different functions depending on which Type
of FX you've chosen. These are shown on the Display with exactly the same "test
tubes" as seen when editing the Digital Oscillators; turning the knobs pops up the
actual parameters being adjusted.
7.1.1. Insert and Send routings
The three FX are always handled in the same order: FX 1 into FX 2 into FX 3. However, in the
case of the Delay and Reverb, there are two available routings:
Insert
and
Send
.
Pressing
Sound Edit
and selecting
FX
from the menu gives you the option of changing the
Delay Routing
and/or the
Reverb Routing
. Each Routing can be set to Send or Insert, and
those settings will be saved with the preset.
Remember that each effect has a Dry/Wet control, letting you set how much dry signal gets through
each FX in the chain.
With Send mode, the FX routing allows you send a specific amount of each signal to each
effect separately, then brought together at the end.
Digital Effects controls
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