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Keyboard Mode and Glide
There are three keyboard modes:
•
Polyphonic
: the default mode where each new pressed key creates a new voice.
The maximum number of simultaneous notes can be adjusted with the
Polyphony
setting. Noxious has a maximum polyphony of 16 voices.
•
Mono-Retrigger
: when pressing a key, the synth retriggers the envelopes and
changes the pitch if a previous key is pressed.
•
Mono-Legato
: this is the same as
mono-retrigger
but the envelopes are not
retriggered.
By changing the
Glide
duration, you can add portamento effect that will make the pitch
glide from the previous note to the next. This also works in
polyphonic
mode but in this
case the portamento will take place only if you press a new key will previous notes are in
release mode.
Sound
Architecture
In Noxious, you don't directly create partials. You
start from a set of partials corresponding to a wave
form which you then modify. These modifications
are done through two “classic” filters and up to five
“modifiers”. All these are applied in sequence to the
partials. This architecture is summarized by a
schematic on the back panel, reproduced on the
right of this page.
Waveform
The wave form is selected by navigating through the
list of wave forms with the left or right buttons or by
directly selecting it in a list by clicking on the current
wave form label.
Variation
Each waveform has a number of variations (for example pulse width for the sawtooth
waveform) that can be selected in a continuous manner. Sweeping smoothly between
each variation is a first method of changing your sound over time.
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