2/8/2021
Norand Mono Manual
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Mini keyboard
The [NOTE] keys act like a one octave keyboard (without velocity of
course). You can play a note to preview your current patch, use it in record
mode, and select the currently active note. When booting up, the active
note is C4, the selected note is indicated by a bright [NOTE] key LED. Press
a [NOTE] key to change the currently selected note. Use the [UP] and
[DOWN] key to change the current octave. There are 9 octaves available,
from C0 to C10.
Adding notes manually
Adding note trigs manually on Mono is quite simple : just hit the desired
[SEQ] key, it adds a note trig on that step with the currently selected
[NOTE]. An active step is indicated by a bright LED. Select the page where
you want to add a note with the [PAGE] key. To remove a note trig, hit a step
with an active note trig, the led will turn o .
Recording notes
You can record incoming notes live using the [NOTE] keys or an external
keyboard. Enable recording by pressing the [RECORD] key. The [RECORD]
key LED indicates wether the record mode is enabled or not. Recording a
note on top of an already active note trig overwrites it. Notes are recorded
with a precise timestamp and won't be quantized. To quantize the recorded
note you need to reset their microshift value.
Change the pitch of a note
Hold the [SEQ] key of an active step and hit the desired [NOTE] key. You can
also change the octave by holding the [SEQ] key and hitting [UP] or
[DOWN].
Note length
Single step note trigs, and very short recorded notes have a particular
behaviour on Mono. Classic ADSR envelope will not do much with a short
pulse - if the attack is longer than a few ms, you won’t hear anything …
Fortunately Mono’s envelopes are digital ! Basically, when the sequencer
hits a single step note trig, the envelope will act as an AD envelope,
ignoring sustain and release values. It was actually implemented by
mistake, but I found it amazing so I kept it.
Anyway, to edit a note length, hold the [SEQ] key of the desired step, and hit
the [SEQ] key where you want the note to end. The length will be visible
with dimmed [SEQ] LEDs.
Step parameters
Accent
Accent can be added on a per step basis. Hit [ACCENT] to open accent
mode, and hit the desired [SEQ] key to add or remove accents from steps.
In accent mode, the active note trigs are shown by a dim [SEQ] key LED,
active accents are shown by a bright [SEQ] key LED. Hit [ACCENT] again to
leave accent mode. The same can be done when just holding the [ACCENT]
key.
Accent parameters
By default an accent slightly increases the amp level and the lter cut-o
frequency, but this is entirely customisable. To set your own accent
parameters on the active pattern, start by clearing it by holding [DELETE]
and hitting [ACCENT]. Then hold [ACCENT] and turn any parameter
potentiometer to the desired value. The value stored in memory is an o set
from the initial value to the last position of the potentiometer. For example,
if the cuto value is set dead center and you move it 20% to the right while
holding [ACCENT], every accented step will have a higher cut-o frequency
