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Quick start

1. Connect audio outs to a mix table, turn the volume knob fully clockwise.

2. Connect a MIDI keyboard into the MIDI Input

3. Power the MM with a 9V DC 2.1mm PSU.

4. Play some notes on MIDI channel 1, you should hear patch number 1 playing

5. Press Load

6. Turn encoder 6 to navigate thru the patches. Press Load again to load selected patch, press 

Home to cancel and return to previously loaded sound.

7. Alternatively, you can push encoder 1 & 2 to navigate and load the previous or next patch

Audiothingies Micromonsta user manual

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Содержание Micromonsta

Страница 1: ...Audiothingies Micromonsta User manual preliminary version...

Страница 2: ...ning the Micromonsta It features 8 voices of polyphony 2 oscillators 1 sub oscillator 1 multimode filter 3 envelopes 3 LFOs 6 modulation slots 3 scalers 1 lag operator per voice 12 oscillator types 30...

Страница 3: ...e and accent capable for 303 ish arpeggiated phrases Deep modulation matrix with for example filter parameters envelope or LFO speeds as destination A chorder module allowing the generation of 4 note...

Страница 4: ...Front panel On the front panel you will find 2 x 24 characters LCD screen Black on white 6 encoders 9 pushbuttons with their associated LEDs Audiothingies Micromonsta user manual 4...

Страница 5: ...left to right on the above picture Audio outputs use left output when using mono MIDI connectors USB port used only for firmware update and user wavetable update 9V DC input socket Power switch Audiot...

Страница 6: ...PSU 4 Play some notes on MIDI channel 1 you should hear patch number 1 playing 5 Press Load 6 Turn encoder 6 to navigate thru the patches Press Load again to load selected patch press Home to cancel a...

Страница 7: ...by successively pressing the same button several times When you are on the last page it returns to the first one For example pressing OSC several times will make you travel the following pages OSC1 O...

Страница 8: ...r and name as well as shortcuts to 4 different parameters You can set these parameters per preset in the Globals menu 2nd page You can navigate presets from this screen by pressing encoder buttons 1 a...

Страница 9: ...shape modifier lfo1 lfo1 modulation amount targets shape parameter mix oscillator mix level Oscillator 2 Oscillator 2 is functionally the same as oscillator 1 but its tune can be offset from 24 to 24...

Страница 10: ...mph Morphing oscillator when turning the shape parameter it morphs from triangle shape 0 to sawtooth shape 42 to square shape 84 to pulse width Quite a very versatile oscillator it can do lots of thin...

Страница 11: ...ls the detuning of 3 oscillators ss2 Same as ss2 but the detuning between oscillators is unbalanced which gives slightly different results Shape controls the amount of detuning sws This oscillator int...

Страница 12: ...sample 2 w08 sample 3 w09 sample 4 w10 random organ waveforms w11 sine even harmonics sweep w12 sine odd harmonics sweep w13 sine even odd harmonics sweep w14 vowels w15 spoken words Each wavetable co...

Страница 13: ...ontrol the pitch of the slave oscillator with env3 This makes a better use of the internal architecture and can save modulation matrix slots About the noise filter and all bipolar value filters inside...

Страница 14: ...d nze vca 100 99 50 0 0 6 You have access to the 2 oscillators mix level as well as the Sub and noise level You can also set the rmd level which is the level of the output of osc1 and osc2 thru a ring...

Страница 15: ...off frequency in semitones res resonance amount env2 envelope 2 modulation amount targets cutoff lfo2 lfo2 modulation amount targets cutoff kbd keyboard tracking amount 0 25 50 75 100 Filter types The...

Страница 16: ...This is where you will find the settings related to the voices mod uni detunin pan p2 1 32 20 lin 28 mod synth mode polyphonic 1 polyphonic 2 mono legato uni number of unison voices 1 2 4 detunin voi...

Страница 17: ...V1 envelope curve fast exponential linear atk attack time dcy decay time sus sustain level rel release time rst reset switch when on the envelope is reset to zero when the voice is re triggered off an...

Страница 18: ...e time eq global eq bpm patch tempo only used if midi clock sync is off Home page parameter assignments In this menu you can set the 4 shortcuts to parameters available in the Home page encoder en3 en...

Страница 19: ...ttack time 0 to 30s phs phase 0 to 315 rst key trig reset LFO speed is available as a destination in the modulation matrix LFO waveforms Different waveforms are available they are sin sinus tri triang...

Страница 20: ...e parameter now controls the phase offset between the 8 voices Example if the phase is set to 90 voice 2 and voice 1 will have their phase offset by 90 Same for voice 3 and voice 2 Etc So if the phase...

Страница 21: ...Encoder 2 to 5 will set the 4 active step values Encoder 6 sets the length of the sequence Remember that to be active one or several LFO s shape must be set to stp for the sequence to have an effect...

Страница 22: ...mber envelope 1 envelope 2 envelope 3 Lfo1 lfo2 flo3 LFO 1 LFO 2 LFO 3 Modulation destinations Ptc fin tn1 ft1 tn2 ft2 osc1 osc2 nze xO1 Pitch coarse pitch fine osc1 tune osc1 fine tune osc2 tune osc2...

Страница 23: ...SC1 shape LFO2 is routed to filter cutoff Look at the OSC1 OSC2 and Filter page to set these modulation amount This means that if you want to modulate the filter cutoff by a LFO the first best candida...

Страница 24: ...er amount To better understand what the scaler is doing let s take an example say you scale LFO2 with modulation wheel and LFO2 is routed to filter cutoff with a value of 40 in the filter page If you...

Страница 25: ...or the scaler destination when the source is set to its minimum value Sounds scary Try them by yourself they re easier than you may think and they re the ideal way to add velocity or aftertouch expres...

Страница 26: ...octave spread 0 to 3 spd arp speed lat keyboard latch The arp pattern sequence edit page This is where you can add spice to your arpeggio sequence You access this page from the arp page by pressing a...

Страница 27: ...note gate arp setting X velocity full gate arp setting _ velocity note gate 100 tie velocity full gate 100 tie accent extends the previous step adds 1 step to gate time o rest or silence if you prefe...

Страница 28: ...the note you play CHRD key scl iv1 iv2 iv3 on D min 3 5 7 CHRD on off switch key base key for chord generation scl scale major minor harmonic minor iv2 2nd note to add to the base note from 1 octave...

Страница 29: ...FX cut mix stw 30 64 cut eq cutoff mix effect mix level p p The famous ping pong delay this one with balance control and low pass filter FX tim fbk bal cut mix p p 60 85 25 12 90 tim delay time fbk f...

Страница 30: ...line FX tim fbk spd dpt mix Mod 60 85 25 90 90 tim delay time fbk feedback amount spd lfo speed dpt lfo amount mix delay mix level chf Stereo chorus flanger effect with positive or negative feedback...

Страница 31: ...fbk feedback amount spd lfo speed dpt lfo amount mix chorus mix level Audiothingies Micromonsta user manual 31...

Страница 32: ...bl encoder double resolution switch off on acc encoder acceleration Note that to save the settings permanently you have to enter tools menu and press encoder 5 see next section Tools menu The tools me...

Страница 33: ...MIDI control All the Micromonsta parameters are mapped to either 1 CC or NRPN number The list can be downloaded from www audiothingies com micromonsta Audiothingies Micromonsta user manual 33...

Страница 34: ...rz2 and rz3 11 w01 to w15 12 w16 to w30 12 Oscillator tips 13 About the noise filter and all bipolar value filters inside the MM 13 Source mixer MIXER 14 Filter FILTER 15 Filter types 15 The voice set...

Страница 35: ...t 24 The pattern arpeggiator ARP 26 The arp page 26 The arp pattern sequence edit page 26 The 1st line 27 The 2nd line 27 The chorder Chord 28 Effects FX 29 stw 29 p p 29 dly 29 mod 30 chf 30 System s...

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