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Norand Mono Manual

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Quick-Start

If you are eager to start making music with Mono right now, this couple of

pages should get you started.

Panel Layout

Synthesis section

A

Oscillator section :

2 oscillators with quantized frequency, bipolar

detune and continuously variable waveform controls. Mod section with
Thru-Zero Frequency Modulation (TZFM) and hard-sync from oscillator
1 to oscillator 2.

B

Mixer section :

set oscillators level. Above a certain oscillator level,

the filter will softly saturate said oscillator, resulting in interesting
timbres.

C

Filter section :

state Variable Filter with cutoff, resonance,

continuously variable state, and bipolar envelope amount controls, as
well as a keyboard tracking “Follow” switch. Filter is self-resonant at
maximum resonance.

D

Main envelope :

a classic ADSR envelope. It is rettringering,

meaning a new note will restart the cycle.

E

Output volume :

pretty self-explanatory, although it’s a digital control

so it can also be modulated (Audio rate amplitude modulation ? Oh
yes.)

F

X-Modulator :

parameter-dedicated modulation oscillators with 4

types - low frequency, low frequency synced, audio-rate, audio-rate
quantized -, 4 waves - sine, triangle, square, sawtooth-, rate control
and bipolar amount control.

G

X-Envelope :

parameter-dedicated AD envelope with attack, decay,

and amount controls.

Each of the 20 synthesizer parameters have their own dedicated X-Mod

and X-Env (even sync and follow). To access it, just gently move the knob of
the parameter you want to select and the parameter LED will turn on.

Sequencer section

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Summary of Contents for Mono

Page 1: ...elope amount controls as well as a keyboard tracking Follow switch Filter is self resonant at maximum resonance D Main envelope a classic ADSR envelope It is rettringering meaning a new note will restart the cycle E Output volume pretty self explanatory although it s a digital control so it can also be modulated Audio rate amplitude modulation Oh yes F X Modulator parameter dedicated modulation os...

Page 2: ...2 Step switches these 16 switches along with the page selection switches allow users to edit the 64 step sequence and access other settings such as length pattern and synth settings Add note press the switch to add selected note Edit note length hold start position then press end position Edit pattern length hold Func and press pattern then press a step to set the length Change pattern press patte...

Page 3: ...cable 11 RESET INPUT CV clock reset input use a standard Eurorack cable 12 CLOCK INPUT CV clock pulse input use a standard Eurorack cable 13 MAIN OUTPUT Use a TRS phone plug Balanced connection Mono vocabulary Project Top structure of mono data architecture This holds 64 patterns global settings 40 Mod Notes and 4 custom scales Pattern A sequence of steps to be played in a loop Step An element hol...

Page 4: ... add between 1 and 4 random notes to the page the added note are always in scale Press a SEQ key Randomize every parameter of said step except its pitch Press GLIDE or ACCENT key to add random glides and accents Move a parameter s knob to create a random automation Remember you can always undo if you don t like what you hear ...

Page 5: ...CV Pot Mode Sets potentiometer mode 1 Jump 2 Passthru 3 Relative Bend Rg Sets pitch bend range from 1 to 16 semitones with SEQ key CV2 Src Sets the CV2 output source 1 Osc1 freq 2 Osc2 freq 3 Cuto 4 Envelope 5 Output level 6 Clock out Clock Trig in In the CV2 source settings page A and B are used to set the clock input behaviour Default is Clock input A B transforms the input into a trigger input ...

Page 6: ...lope every single synthesis parameter has its own dedicated modulation block The modulation block controls are called modulation parameters The sequencer block where you can record edit and play sequences of notes parameters modulations On mono everything is sequencable Now anyone with a decent understanding of synthesis can just power on Mono and start making music However I want this manual to t...

Page 7: ...hru zero frequency modulation and hard sync For the electronic geeks among us the oscillators are based around a unique discrete asymmetric East coast synthesis VCO VCF VCA East coast synthesis usually describe subtractive synthesis techniques where the sound designers start with an oscillator rich in harmonics and then shape the sound by removing subtracting harmonics with lters West coast synthe...

Page 8: ...amount of both oscillators fed to the lter with OSC1 and OSC2 parameters At high gain the oscillators overdrive the lter so you can also use this parameter creatively Although limited compared to other big monosynths only 2 oscillators No noise What is this this oscillator block allows for a huge landscape of timbre This can range from subtle bell like sounds to very harsh saturated noise All this...

Page 9: ...very interesting timbres in between each output For example put the knob halfway between low pass and high pass and you get a resonant all pass lter The FOLLOW key toggles keyboard follow when enabled cuto frequency is linked to the current note pitch Finally the ENV AMOUNT parameter adjusts how much of the main envelope contour is applied to the cuto frequency parameter It s bipolar no e ect in t...

Page 10: ...k cycle and then a decay cycle down to 0 Modulation Intro This is where all the fun begins Remember your old synth where you get to play with one LFO that you can assign to a 2 or 3 parameters Those were great Then the digital era introduced the Modulation Matrix which are admittedly much better in terms of synthesis possibilities but are kind of a pain in the arse to work with One of my favourite...

Page 11: ...AVE key cycles between sinusoidal triangle square and sawtooth waveforms The TYPE key lets you select one of the 3 types LFO LED o synced LFO LED blinking and Audio Rate LED on LFO mode gives you rates between 40 seconds and 100ms synced LFO has 12 di erent sync values and resets at the beginning of the pattern At audio rate you get a tuned modulator ranging from C0 to C8 In audio rate the X modul...

Page 12: ...ou open it the bigger the e ect Filter FM Mono s lter responds really well to frequency modulation it s a cool option to add harmonic content to any patch Start with any patch you want Select lter cuto parameter Set X Mod to audio rate Set X Mod rate dead center frequency will be the same as osc1 Turn X Mod amount left or right to add FM Changing X Mod wave gives a di erent FM avour Sequencer Intr...

Page 13: ...N key to select a pattern Patterns can be changed while the sequencer is running Patterns can be changed with program changes messages While in pattern selection mode hold FUNC COPY and hit a SEQ key to copy the desired pattern then hold FUNC PASTE and hit the destination SEQ key Hold FUNC DELETE and hit a SEQ key to clear the desired pattern Note that undoing a pattern clear can only be done once...

Page 14: ... to chain up to 8 patterns to create a song When a song is playing it will play the selected pattern sequentially and loop back to the rst one at the end To create a song you need to be in pattern mode press PATTERN the LED should be on Once in pattern mode hold PATTERN and hit the SEQ key of the pattern you want to add to your song in the correct order you can add the same pattern several times O...

Page 15: ...y and hitting UP or DOWN Note length Single step note trigs and very short recorded notes have a particular behaviour on Mono Classic ADSR envelope will not do much with a short pulse if the attack is longer than a few ms you won t hear anything Fortunately Mono s envelopes are digital Basically when the sequencer hits a single step note trig the envelope will act as an AD envelope ignoring sustai...

Page 16: ...ability as its name suggests gives note trigs a certain probability to be sent to the synth engine or not From 100 probability hard left to 0 hard right When combined with the ratchet value each ratcheted note trigs are subjected to the probability parameter Parameter offsets or automations Mono s automations work a bit di erently from most of the other hardware synthesizers I know of They are not...

Page 17: ... add a parameter o set on each step where a parameter knob position change is detected so you need to continually move the knob to add o sets at every step This is a bit strange at rst but it was mandatory otherwise everything would be recorded at 0 o set as soon as RECORD is enabled that s obviously not the best behaviour Note that when recording automation on the FREQ parameter the recorded para...

Page 18: ...d scale are on with the root note a bit brighter If you are allergic to music theory this is a pretty handy tool Transpose To transpose a whole pattern hold FUNC and hit TRANSPOSE you can select the transposition level with the NOTE keys Use the UP and DOWN key to transpose to a full octave Beat division To set up the pattern beat division hold FUNC and hit BEAT DIV The selected SEQ key de nes how...

Page 19: ...ccent slide and Mod Note Page randomizer The page randomizer is useful to get a pattern going quickly or to create alternative patterns starting from a base pattern It adds between 1 and 4 note trigs with random pitch on said page The pitch is always quantized to the scale of the pattern this way you can safely use it in live situations Of course you can undo redo this operation The page randomize...

Page 20: ... in the Mod Note mode Since it is not limited to the 48 parameter o sets per step it randomizes every single synth and modulation parameters The result will usually be extremely weird bleeping noises but we all love that don t we To randomize a Mod note you need to enable the Mod Note mode with UP DOWN Hold FUNC TEMPO then hit one of the 8 bottom NOTE keys to randomize the desired mod note Project...

Page 21: ...either the minimum or the maximum value and the respective lower or upper limit of the pot s travel is reached For example let s say the cut o parameter has an internal value range of 0 to 100 chill out geeks it is 16 bit internally The physical position of the pot is at 80 and you load a program with a stored value of 20 Turning the pot all the way up will only set the parameter to 40 To get the ...

Page 22: ...g powered for at least 15 minutes Note that the VCA is open when calibrating so either disconnect the output or mute the synth s channel Resonance calibration The maximum amount of resonance you want to get out of your synth is very subjective Some people like very distorted self oscillating resonance others prefer no self oscillation On Mono it is possible to calibrate the maximum resonance level...

Page 23: ...ly Program dump receive Program dump allows users to dump a project as a MIDI sysex le to a computer It is useful if you need room for new projects or simply as a backup To dump a program launch your Sysex software set it in reception mode with Mono as source hold FUNC and press PGM DUMP To load a project back to Mono open the projects in which you want to receive the sysex le hold FUNC and press ...

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