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Figure 4: Sequencer Mode Pitched Sequencer View 

 

The upper two rows of hexagons are called the Upper Hexagons. The bottom four rows 
are the Lower Hexagons. In Sequencer Mode, the Lower Hexagons are all sequencer 
steps. The Upper Hexagons set properties of those steps. 

 

Touch a few Lower Hexagons to light them up. This has selected those steps to be 
active. You should see them being stepped on each clock signal. 

 

Touch the upper-right round button to switch from “Play Mode” to “Edit Mode”. This 
will let you edit the selected steps without toggling them on and off. The LED will turn 
from amber to red. 

 

Touch a Lower Hexagon that you toggled on previously. In Edit Mode, this should turn 
that hexagon red, showing that you are currently editing that step. You can also hold 
down a Lower Hexagon and touch more Lower Hexagons to select multiple steps to 
edit. 

 

Touch one of the lit up Upper Hexagons. Notice that those hexagons are in a piano 
keyboard pattern. Selecting a pitch from that piano keyboard layout will set the current 
step to that pitch.  

 

Now edit the other active steps and set their pitch as well, by touching the step and 
selecting a pitch from the Upper Hexagons. You can also create a rest by touching where 
the high C would be, or you can switch octaves up or down by touching the Upper 
Hexagons above where that high C would be.  

 

While you have a step selected in Edit Mode, try changing the slider values. Notice that 
these set the values that are output on 1C and 2A for that step. If 1C is connected to 
filter cutoff, you should hear changes of the filter based on the settings of the top slider 

Summary of Contents for MantaMate

Page 1: ...tive outputting pitch information Try touching the top left and top right round buttons on the Manta These will transpose up and down by an octave The amount of transposition will be shown on the 7 se...

Page 2: ...hat the voltage on output 1C will change as the MantaMate arpeggiates to show the current surface area covered on the currently stepped hexagon play around with having some hexagons more covered than...

Page 3: ...Figure 2 Keyboard Left Option Menu...

Page 4: ...le VCO VCF VCA with and EG controlling the VCA and 1A 1B 1C controlling the VCO freq EG trig and VCF freq respectively One difference is that you should use the trigger input on the envelope generator...

Page 5: ...ing that you are currently editing that step You can also hold down a Lower Hexagon and touch more Lower Hexagons to select multiple steps to edit Touch one of the lit up Upper Hexagons Notice that th...

Page 6: ...n E and F and touch the top slider while holding it down you will set the glide time for the pitch of that step which applies to the glide TO that step Doing the same and touching the bottom slider wi...

Page 7: ...on Menu by holding down the bottom left round button and touching the top right Upper Hexagon That will present you with another page which is exactly the same as the first but it relates to the secon...

Page 8: ...Mode Left Option Menu We call the bank of 13 stored compositions a Composition To locally store the current sequence into your current Composition hold down the bottom left round button to enter Left...

Page 9: ...on flash memory that will be retained even when the device is powered down You can test it out by turning the MantaMate off and on again and then navigating to your saved preset TURNING A SEQUENCER IN...

Page 10: ...get the feel for recognizing it The different preference modes are all explained in the manual Once you are in the Internal Clock Preference it should display 00 on the 7 segment display with both of...

Page 11: ...controlled by the two sliders and four possible trigger outputs selectable by the four lit up upper hexagons Activate some steps by touching them while in Play Mode top right round button is amber The...

Page 12: ...k trigger output is very useful 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 CLOC...

Page 13: ...own the P button and pressing the DOWN button That will subtly change some of the values in the current patterns Try it out with drum modules plugged into the outputs and you can get really nice varia...

Page 14: ...needed for the monophonic pitch handling If you want to save the learned MIDI CCs you can save a preset by pressing S 7 segment will flash and then selecting which present number you want to save to T...

Page 15: ...knob controller output directly to CVs To do that go to Preset 5 This preset doesn t have the first few outputs taken up by pitch handling If the device doesn t automatically put out CC s 1 12 then us...

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