MantaMate Tutorial Walkthrough
With a Manta Controller:
MONOPHONIC KEYBOARD –
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Change to preset 01.
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Connect 1A output to the v/oct input of an oscillator.
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Connect the 1B output to an envelope generator gate input.
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Connect the 1C output to the cutoff frequency of a filter.
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Connect the oscillator output to the filter input, and the filter output to a VCA, with
the envelope generator controlling the VCA amplitude.
Figure 1: MantaMate monophonic keyboard example patch
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Play around! The values of the two sliders will come out 2B and 2C, and a trigger will
come out 2A, so you can add those controls and extend your patch.
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The filter will be controlled by the surface area you are covering on the hexagon that is
currently active (outputting pitch information).
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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-segment display of the MantaMate (with the red LED to the left of the display
lighting to indicate negative numbers).
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Try holding down the bottom-right round button while touching the top-left and top-
right buttons. This will transpose by a semitone.
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You can change the
hexmap
, which is how the pitches are mapped to the hexagons, by
entering the Left Option Menu. Enter the Left Option Menu by holding down the
bottom-left round button on the Manta. While holding this button down, touch one of
the hexagons on the left side of the bottom row. There are six different built-in
hexmaps
available there. To create your own
hexmap
, look at the instructions in the full manual.
DUOPHONIC/POLYPHONIC KEYBOARD –
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Change to preset 02.
