With No Device Connected:
RANDOM VOLTAGE GENERATOR–
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Change to Preset 00.
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Unplug the Manta from the MantaMate, so that there is no USB cable connected. This
puts the MantaMate in No Device Mode, but it is not yet active.
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No Device Mode is activated by pressing either the UP or DOWN button on the panel.
This is so that it’s not going crazy whenever you unplug a device momentarily.
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Connect a clock source to the CLK IN jack (or use turn on the Internal Clock as you
learned in the Sequencer section of this walkthrough). The MantaMate outputs will
start lighting up.
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Preset 00 acts like 11 random voltage sources feeding into 11 sample-and-hold modules,
all clocked from the same clock input. A new random voltage is produced on each
output whenever there is a new clock. Try connecting the random voltage outputs to
some synthesizer CV inputs (like 1V/O pitch inputs) to see this in action.
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The 1A output is always just the clock trigger. In the case of an external clock input, this
is a mirror of the input (converted into triggers if it’s a gate signal). This may not seem
particularly useful in this case, but when using the internal clock, the clock trigger
output is very useful.
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Try Presets 01 and 02. These are similar to Preset 00, but the random voltage outputs
are put through a comparator so that random Gates and Triggers come out instead.
CLOCK DIVIDER–
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With a clock still running (either internal or external) change to Preset 03.
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This is very similar to Preset 00, except that instead of all the random-voltage sample-
and-holds being fed by the same clock, each successive output is clocked by a divided
version of the input clock. The divisions are the consecutive integers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.).
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Try Presets 04, 05 and 06. These are gate and trigger outputs based on those consecutive
integer divided clocks. 04 is gates, 05 is gates that toggle (creating a /2 frequency), and
06 is triggers.
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Try Presets 07, 08, 09 and 10. These are similar to 03-06, except that the dividers are
powers of 2 instead of consecutive integers (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.).
REPEATING PATTERN GENERATOR–
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Now comes the really fun stuff. This functionality has become very useful for me, and is
really handy for dance music production. With a clock still running, change to Preset
11.
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The output on Preset 11 is similar to Preset 00, except instead of continually outputting
random voltages, it repeats the random patterns every 16 clocks. Actually, on power up,
the MantaMate created 11 different random patterns and it’s looping them. How can
