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Cherry Audio:  Surreal MG-1 Plus User Manual 

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QWERTY Musical Typing Keyboard (MTK)  

 

If you don't have a MIDI keyboard attached to your computer, the standard QWERTY 
computer keyboard can be used to play notes - we're pretty sure you've got one of those!





 

We'll refer to this as the "MTK." Following is a list of MTK keyboard modifiers and functions: 

Opening and Closing the MTK

 - click the the circular keyboard icon in the 

top toolbar. To close the MTK, click the keyboard icon in the top toolbar, 
or click the 

in the top right corner.  

 

Play Notes

- To trigger notes, simply press the corresponding computer keyboard key or 

mouse click the onscreen keys.  

Adjust Currently Visible MTK Range

- Slide the purple scroll bar horizontally to adjust the 

currently visible keyboard range.  

Adjust Overall Visible Keyboard Range

- Clicking and dragging the right edge of the MTL 

window allows the overall size of the window to be adjusted. This lets you view more or less 
of the onscreen keyboard. Note that the MTK window's borders cannot exceed the overall 
outside dimensions of the MG-1 Plus window.  

Shift Range Up/Down Octave

- Click the 

OCT- 

and 

OCT+

 buttons at the top left and right of 

the onscreen MTK. The current range is displayed above the keyboard.  

Shift Range Up/Down Semitone

- Click the 

STEP- 

and 

STEP+

 buttons at the bottom left and 

right of the onscreen MTK. The current range is displayed above the keyboard.  

Hide/View Controllers

- Clicking 

CONTROL 

at the far left hides and displays velocity, bender, 

mod, and sustain control parameters. Hiding the control view makes more space available 
for the keyboard.  

Set Note Velocity

- Move the purple 

VELOCITY 

bar to adjust the output velocity of notes. 

This will only be audible if the 

VEL 

sliders in the 

VCF 

or 

VCA 

sections are raised.  

Содержание Surreal MG-1 Plus

Страница 1: ...Surreal MG 1 Plus...

Страница 2: ...half octave keyboard MG 1 Plus responds to any keyboard range limited octave switching MG 1 Plus adds a three position transpose switch and very limited square wave only polyphony section MG 1 Plus ad...

Страница 3: ...Plus Presets are the main included collection We also include a User Presets Collection for storing your own presets but you re free to create your own collections To create a new collections click i...

Страница 4: ...or updated presets Pin Clicking the push pin icon locks the patch selection list open allowing fast and easy browsing and auditioning of patches Click the icon again to disable pin mode when in pin m...

Страница 5: ...information see QWERTY Musical Typing Keyboard MTK section Help Clicking this launches your web browser and opens the help document you re currently reading Which means you re already here Surrealist...

Страница 6: ...ted A star will display next to the preset name Right click on the preset and reselect Favorite to un favorite it Delete Deletes the selected preset Restore Factory Preset If one of the factory i e no...

Страница 7: ...Two s waveform to the beginning of its cycle resulting in a wide range of harmonic tones from Tone Source Two The range of tones can be varied by adjusting Tone Source Two s Detune and Octave control...

Страница 8: ...ntour Generator triggering behavior In Retrig position the Contour Generator will retrigger any time a new note is played in Legato position retriggering only occurs if no other keys are currently hel...

Страница 9: ...derably with a few additions We added a saw wave a three position range selector and a modulation amount slider in the Modulation section This may not seem like a much but trust us these simple additi...

Страница 10: ...for each octave played on the keyboard Cutoff Freq Sets the frequency where high frequency attenuation begins from 20 Hz up to 24 000 Hz Though it seems odd to have a cutoff control that goes 4000 Hz...

Страница 11: ...set to the In position and the holds at 5V until the key is released If the Sustain switch is set to Out it immediately moves to the Fall Time stage The Fall Time i e decay and release slider defines...

Страница 12: ...sound Contoured Rise Time Sustain and Fall Time parameters are applied to amplitude Keyed Rise Time Sustain and Fall Time parameters have no effect on amplitude notes play in simple on off fashion Th...

Страница 13: ...rnal keyboard controller mod wheel If the mod wheel is all the way down modulation depth is zero This makes setting up a mod wheel to add vibrato or wah effects very easy If it seems like the LFO isn...

Страница 14: ...sections respectively Setting moderate but different amounts of modulation to the Tone Sources and Poly sections is particularly useful for creating naturally chorused sounds using both sections Keyb...

Страница 15: ...generator is routed through the filter and amplifier Bell Tone Sets the level of MG 1 Plus pseudo ring mod section This multiplies the signals of Source One and Tone Source Two together typically res...

Страница 16: ...e ll assign a hardware slider control to the filter cutoff frequency Begin by right clicking on the Freq slider in the VCF section and selecting MIDI Learn A transparent purple overlay appears over th...

Страница 17: ...troller To assign multiple controls click MIDI Learn click an on screen control move the desired hardware knob or slider continue clicking and assigning on screen controllers until all desired control...

Страница 18: ...est value any automation control can set a mapped controller to This actually recalibrates the range of the automation controller to the remaining parameter range Max Sets a limit on the highest value...

Страница 19: ...pens the menu below MIDI Learn This is used to change the controller assigned to a particular parameter Unlearn Deletes the selected automation parameter Unlearn All Deletes all controller assignments...

Страница 20: ...verall Visible Keyboard Range Clicking and dragging the right edge of the MTL window allows the overall size of the window to be adjusted This lets you view more or less of the onscreen keyboard Note...

Страница 21: ...eys while playing a note The modulation amount will vary from none 0 to full modulation 9 Note that modulation will stick at the selected number to disable modulation click the 0 key Mod can also be e...

Страница 22: ...and typing in the field o Browse Displays the current location of preset folder in the file manager o Set Default Sets the current displayed Preset Folder path as the default location Clear Cache Fil...

Страница 23: ...if you d like to save changes if a patch has been edited and a new patch is selected If you re the type that likes to click through presets and tweak a control here and there it can be annoying to hav...

Страница 24: ...l audio output source This defaults to Built In Line Output i e your computer s onboard system audio but you ll get better fidelity with an external professional audio interface The biggest audible di...

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