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Cherry Audio:  Surreal MG-1 Plus User Manual 

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Top Toolbar and Preset Browser 

 

The purple strip at the top of the MG-1 Plus interface is where you’ll load, save, and create 
sound presets. It contains utility functions such as undo/redo, UI zoom and 

Focus 

controls, 

under-the-hood settings, and more. Let’s go over them: 

New

- Opens a new blank patch preset. If an unsaved patch is currently open or you’ve 

modified an existing saved patch, a dialog asks if you’d like to save the patch in its current 
state. This greatly reduces the possibility of losing an edited unsaved patch. 

 

Save

- Use this to save patches. There are a couple of levels of hierarchy: 

 

Collection

- This is the top level of organization, and contains entire “sets” of presets. 

The 

MG-1 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 in the 

Collection

 text field (where it says 

User Presets

 above) and type a name. User-created sounds can be freely saved to 

any collection; we like to keep ‘em separated for organizational purposes. 

 

Categories

- Within each 

Collection

 are a number of sound categories. As with 

collections, you’re free to create as many categories as you like. To create a 
category, click in the 

Category

 text field of the 

Save

 dialog window and type a new 

category name. 

 

Patch

- A patch is an individual sound. To save a patch, simply type the name in the 

Name

 field and click 

Save

 

Keywords

- You can add descriptive words such as “huge,” “noisy,” “poly,” etc., to 

patches to make them appear when terms are typed in the 

Search

 field. Use commas 

to separate multiple keywords entries. 

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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