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Cherry Audio:  Surreal MG-1 Plus User Manual 

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MIDI Tab

Opens the MIDI controllers tab for configuring internal and hardware MIDI 

controls. See th

MIDI Controllers Setup and MIDI Tab

 section for full information. 

! (MIDI Panic)

 

- Click to send an all-notes-off message in case of, "why won't this thing stop 

making noise?!?" stuck-note incidents. 

Tempo (Standalone Version Only)

- Displays MG-1 Plus’s current internal tempo setting. 

MG-1 Plus's internal tempo affects the 

LFO

Arpeggio

, and 

Delay

 sections when their 

corresponding 

Sync

 buttons are toggled. The tempo setting can be changed by moving the 

mouse up and down anywhere in the tempo section, or by double-clicking the number and 
entering the desired BPM value. 

The tempo display only appears in the standalone version of MG-1 Plus. VST, AU, and AAX 
plug-in versions receive tempo data from their host DAW app. 

 

QWERTY Musical Typing Keyboard

- Opens an onscreen keyboard allowing 

a standard QWERTY computer keyboard to be used for playing music 
notes. For more information, see 

QWERTY Musical Typing Keyboard 

(MTK)

 s

ection. 

 

Help 

- Clicking this launches your web browser and opens the help 

document you’re currently reading. Which means you're already here...  

 

 

Surrealistic MG-1 Plus (left side) and Synthesizer by Cherry Audio (right side) logos

Clicking either of these displays “about” information, and shows the version number and 
current registered user ID. 

2.1

 

Focus Button 

If you're using a wee laptop, the user interface can potentially be hard to 
see. With this in mind, the 

Focus

 button conveniently blows up MG-1's 

view to roughly twice its normal size within the current window size.  

Unlike the 

Zoom

 "magnifying glass" function, 

Focus 

doesn't affect the current window size. 

By default, the patch panel section fills the current window, but the view can be scrolled 
vertically and horizontally with a mouse wheel, track pad, or Apple Mighty Mouse finger-
scrolling

Or if you're the last person on earth still using a single-button mouse, scroll bars 

will appear at the window edges when in 

Focus

 mode. 

Using 

Focus

 mode couldn't be easier - just click the 

Focus

 button the top menu bar. To 

return to standard view, click 

Reset

There's also a superfast key shortcut

 - on Mac, hold the 

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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