CHAPTER 3. GETTING STARTED
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8. Turn the FOLLOW toggle down to activate pitch tracking, the
sine wave carrier will now follow the pitch of your instrument.
9. Play the highest string on your instrument and adjust the TUNE
control so that the pitch of the ring modulator is in tune with the
pitch of the clean signal. Once it is in tune, play your instrument
in all registers. The sine wave carrier is currently tracking the
pitch of your instrument, this is an intelligent ring modulator
and is less harmonically dissonant.
10. Turn up the GAIN knob to 11:00 to hear its effect on the RING
voice. Explore the range of the GAIN knob. Higher settings will
introduce more distortion to the sine wave.
11. Turn up the SOURCE knob to 12:00 to hear its effect on the
RING voice. Explore the range of the SOURCE knob. This knob
will blend between a tunable sine wave and the fundamental
square wave.
12. Turn the TREM toggle down to active the tremolo effect. TREM
lowers the frequency range of the sine wave carrier and effec-
tively gives you a tracking tremolo. Notice the speed of the
tremolo increases with your instruments pitch when FOLLOW
is on. Adjust the range of the TREM speed when FOLLOW
is on with the TUNE knob. When FOLLOW is off the TREM
speed is static and is adjusted with the TUNE knob.
CARRIER Jack
1. Plug a TS (Mono) cable into CARRIER. The signal will replace
your instrument signal and multiply with the internal sine wave
carrier. It is recommended that a sine, triangle, or square wave
be used as the external carrier signal. These can be obtained
from the Pigtronix Mothership 2.
