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for each step. You can connect 2A to another synthesizer parameter to have more 
control (for instance, filter Q). 

 

If you touch the upper-left round button once, it turns amber and changes the sliders to 
be controlling another “page” of slider values. The second page of slider values is for the 
outputs on 2B and 2C. Try changing those. Then, try touching the upper-left round 
button again, and it will turn red to show the third page of slider values. These are 
octave (top slider) and step length (bottom slider). Try changing those for the different 
steps. 

 

How about some glide? If you hold down the unlit Upper Hexagon between 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 will change the glide time for the slider CV values of that step. Glide 
values of about 20% are close to the glide time of a TB-303, so see if you can get a good 
TB-303 emulation going. 

 

Want to detune some notes? While holding down a pitch on the Upper Hexagons, drag 
the bottom slider. This will detune the note. You can also quickly adjust the octave of a 
pitch by dragging the top slider while holding the pitch hexagon down. 

 

Try going back into Play Mode by touching the upper-right round button again. Now 
you can add or remove more steps from the sequence by touching them. 

 

 

Figure 5: Sequencer Mode Right Option Menu 

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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