Cherry Surreal MG-1 Plus, User Manual

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Cherry Audio: Surreal MG-1 Plus User Manual
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2 Top Toolbar and Preset Browser
The purple strip at the top of the MG-1 Plus interface is where you’ll load, save, and create
sound presets. It contains utility functions such as undo/redo, UI zoom and
Focus controls,
under-the-hood settings, and more. Let’s go over them:
New - Opens a new blank patch preset. If an unsaved patch is currently open or you’ve
modified an existing saved patch, a dialog asks if you’d like to save the patch in its current
state. This greatly reduces the possibility of losing an edited unsaved patch.
Save - Use this to save patches. There are a couple of levels of hierarchy:
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Collection - This is the top level of organization, and contains entire “sets” of presets.
The MG-1 Plus Presets are the main included collection. We also include a User
Presets Collection for storing your own presets, but you’re free to create your own
collections. To create a new collections, click in the Collection text field (where it says
User Presets above) and type a name. User-created sounds can be freely saved to
any collection; we like to keep ‘em separated for organizational purposes.
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Categories - Within each Collection are a number of sound categories. As with
collections, you’re free to create as many categories as you like. To create a
category, click in the
Category text field of the Save dialog window and type a new
category name.
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Patch - A patch is an individual sound. To save a patch, simply type the name in the
Name field and click Save .
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Keywords - You can add descriptive words such as “huge,” “noisy,” “poly,” etc., to
patches to make them appear when terms are typed in the Search field. Use commas
to separate multiple keywords entries.