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5.2 The Modes View 33
Clicking on the
Legato
button switches the module into legato mode and the sliding between
two notes then only occurs if the second note is played before the first one is released. When a
note is played staccato, or in other words if a key is released before the next one is depressed, there
is no glide effect. Note that even though the glide effect is available when the
Key module is in
polyphonic mode, it is mostly dedicated to monophonic playing. In polyphonic mode, the sames
rules apply to individual voices and the overall result is less predictable.
5.2.5 The Macros Module
The Macros module includes four different macros associated with different high-level qualities or
characteristics of the sound. These macros are used to easily control general aspects of the sound
and therefore rapidly obtain different variations. These modules, labelled
Modulation , Timbre ,
Envelope , and Effect , correspond to the macro controls found on the Home view introduced in sec-
tion 2.3.1. The modules are used to create the assignments between specific synthesis parameters
and each macro and control the amount of possible modulation for each parameter.
The Modulation macro is used to control the amount of modulation in the sound and it is
usually assigned to parameters from the vibrato module (frequency modulation) or the tremolo
effect module (amplitude modulation). The
Timbre macro is used to modify the tone quality of
a sound and is typically mapped to parameters from the filter modules of the synthesizer. The
Envelope macro is used to adjust the time-domain characteristics of the sound and make it shorter
or longer for example. This parameter is usually mapped to the parameters from the different
ADSR modules of the synthesizer. Finally, the
Effect
macro allows one to controls the amount of
effect applied to the sound. This knob is typically mapped to key parameters of the effect modules
used in each sound. Note that there is formally no restriction on the parameters which can be
assigned to a macro and they do not necessarily need to correspond to the macro label. These
labels have been chosen as indications and corresponds to sound qualities which are normally most
relevant in the majority of sounds. Assignments for the sounds from the factory library have been
chosen to follow these categories as much as possible.
Up to four synthesis parameters can be assigned with each macro. Assignments are created
by clicking on the label located above the four small range knobs in each macro module (or the