8
BASICS
ANTS!
is a modular synth. This means that you must connect cables from
the inputs to the outputs to create your patches. White symbol over black
background represents inputs. Black symbol over a white box, outputs.
This is an input.
This is an output.
Patching is easy. You just need to connect a cable from an
out
to an
in
.
However, not all the connections will produce something coherent or
useful. Synths work with two kinds of signals:
sound
and
CV
. There are
synth functions that accepts and generates CV, some sound and some both.
Sound signals
are those audible by us. They are in the form of waves (AC
signals) and oscillators are the main source of them. If you patch your mixer
directly to an oscillator you will listen the different sound waves generated
(sine, square, pulse, saw tooth, etc.).
Be careful with the levels if you plug your amp directly to an oscillator!
Technically, we should call these signals ‘audio’, but the ‘sound’ term will be
easier to visualize for the newbie. The main purpose of this manual is to
learn how to use the synth. From now on we will use both words
interchangeably.
CV signals
(control voltage) are the ones that we use to control and modify
the parameters of the synth. They can be DC (direct current) like the signal
generated by an envelope, or AC (alternate current) like the wave resulting
of an LFO. In the second case, despite they are waves, they are below the
audible limits (infrasounds), so we can't consider them as sound.
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