Contents
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Credits
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About this manual
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1: Introduction
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1:1 Welcome to DCAM: Synth Squad
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DCAM: Synth Squad at a glance
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A note on effects
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1: Shared aspects of all instruments
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1: Interface basics
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Loading presets: preset pickers
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Other Preset picker controls
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Preset browser
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Controlling parameters: initial values (Main view)
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Fine control over parameters
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Controlling parameters: TransMod modulation depths
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TransMod slots
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Rotary selectors and drop-down menus
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Numerical text-boxes
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Buttons
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Indicator LEDs
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Parameter context menu
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Snapping/unit options for tuning and filter cutoff controls
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On-screen keyboard and performance controllers
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2: Strobe
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:1 Overview
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Strobe highlights
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: Oscillator section
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Oscillator controls
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Waveform mixing controls
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Pulse Width controls
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Direct modulation
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: Filter section
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Filter controls
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Direct modulation
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:4 Amp section
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:5 Other functions
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:6 Modulation
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Gateable modulators
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Glide
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Keytracking (modulation from keyboard pitch)
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:7 Strobe signal flow
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3: Cypher
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:1 Overview
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Background
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Programming with Cypher
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: Oscillator section
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: Shaper section
:4 Filter section: shared controls
:5 Filter section: individual controls for filters 1 &
:6 Amp section
:7 Other functions
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:8 Modulation in Cypher
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Gateable modulators
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Glide
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Keytracking (modulation from keyboard pitch)
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Oscillators as LFOs
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Beating rates as LFOs
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:9 Cypher signal flow
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Osc section
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Shaper-Filter & Amp sections
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4: Cypher’s oscillators in detail
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4:1 Introduction to audio-rate modulation
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Basics of audio-rate modulation
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Audio-rate modulation implementations
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4: Frequency modulation
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Oscillator FM in Cypher
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Filter FM
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Envelopes and LFOs
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Programming hints
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4: Wave modulation
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Continuous waveshape of Cypher’s oscs
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Audio-rate waveform modulation
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4:4 Audio-rate sample and hold
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Using audio-rate sample & hold
4:5 Variable-depth oscillator sync
Main uses of osc sync
Variable-depth osc sync in Cypher
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4:6 Beat detune
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Using the Beat control
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Beat rates as TransMod modulators
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Usage with other oscillator functions
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5: Amber
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5:1 Overview
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Divide-down synthesis explained
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Implementations of divide-down synths
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String synths in popular use
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Amber: the next step in divide-down synthesis
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5: Master tuning controls
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5: Synth section
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Paraphonic oscillator control
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Filter stage (polyphonic multimode resonant filter)
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5:4 Ensemble section
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Paraphonic oscillator control
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Formant filter stage
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5:5 Ensemble section chorus stage
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5:6 Mixer / Amplifier stage
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5:7 Perform controls
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5:8 Other functions
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5:9 Modulation
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Paraphonic architecture and polyphonic modulation
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Gateable modulators
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Synth and Ensemble Envelopes
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Glide
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Keytracking (modulation from keyboard pitch)
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5:10 Amber signal flow
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6: Common synth functions
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6:1 Arpeggiator (Strobe and Cypher only)
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Arpeggiator and LFO
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Arpeggiator and Keying controls
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Arpeggiator controls
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6: Keying controls
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6: Glide controls
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6:4 Settings
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6:5 Preferences panel
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Oversampling
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Perf. Controls (Performance controllers)
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Managing settings
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6:6 Visualizer scope
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Locking and unlocking the Scope
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Parameter value display
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6:7 FX versions of synth plugins
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6:8 MIDI Learn and host automation
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MIDI Learn
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Host automation
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6:9 Program change panel
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Using the PC panel
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