Crossfading
Crossfading
controls what happens when an oscillator’s pitch before quantization falls between
two notes of the scale. To understand this feature, you must first understand how the oscillators
and scales work. See Scales and Oscillators section and diagram (pages 11 to 13).
Hold the
Shift
(
Freeze
) button and turn the
Crossfading
(
Balance
) knob to adjust this feature.
The lowest setting (knob fully counter-clockwise) disables
Crossfading
and forces each oscillator
to play the nearest note of the scale. With this setting, adjusting
Root
or
Scale
causes the pitches
to jump from note to note. Each oscillator will only play one pitch at a time, so the sound is
somewhat less full than in the other settings. There will be a discontinuity when changing from
one allowed note to the next. This setting can be useful for more abrupt and harsh patches.
Another use for disabling
Crossfading
is to listen to the notes of a scale one at a time. This is
done by setting the
Balance
and
Spread
knobs all the way down, and turning the
Root
knob
slowly to sweep through the scale.
With the knob at center, a small amount of crossfading is applied. This is the default setting. If an
oscillator is tuned near (but not necessarily exactly equal to) one of the notes of the scale, it will
play only that note. The other neighboring note will be silent. On the other hand, if the oscillator is
far enough away from any note of the scale, then both of the closest neighbors will be heard,
crossfading the volumes normally. This setting allows you to distinctly find the notes of the scale,
but makes transitioning between notes more seamless.
The highest setting (knob at fully clockwise) applies maximum
Crossfading
. The two nearest
allowed frequencies are always played, crossfading normally based on proximity. This setting
makes it difficult to dial-in just one note, but it offers maximum smoothness when adjusting
Root
or
Spread.
# Oscillators
The
Ensemble Oscillator
can potentially use 16 oscillators to produce sound. By default, the
module uses all 16 available oscillators, but you can reduce the number of oscillators with this
feature.
Hold the
Shift
(
Freeze
) button and turn the
# Oscillators
(
Spread
) knob to adjust this feature.
There are sixteen
# Oscillators
settings: 1–16. The
Shift
button will flash each time you select a
different setting.Reducing the number of oscillators will reduce the density of the sound, and will
also increase its overall perceived loudness, since less volume normalization is needed.
Note that disabled frozen oscillators will not remember the frequency they were previously frozen
on.
Freeze Mode
When you press
Freeze
, some oscillators are frozen and others remain unfrozen. The sub-group
that gets frozen can be adjusted with this feature.
Hold the
Shift
(
Freeze
) button and turn the
Freeze Mode
(
Twist
) knob to adjust this feature.
There are three
Freeze Mode
settings.
The lowest setting freezes the odd-numbered oscillators.
The middle setting freezes the lower half of the oscillators.
The highest setting freezes only the root oscillator.
Changing the
Freeze Mode
while Freeze
is enabled will immediately freeze the new sub-group of
oscillators, and unfreeze the rest.
Page of
16
19
Shift
Shift
Freeze
Delete Note
+
# Oscillators
1
16
8
# Oscillators
Spread
Freeze Mode
Freeze Mode
Twist
Shift
Shift
Freeze
Delete Note
+
Crossfading
Crossfading
Balance
Shift
Shift
Freeze
Delete Note
+
