Rubicon
2
Manual
Pulse Width Controls
A. PW knob
- Sets the width of the
PULSE
,
TRI STATE PULSE
and, by consequence, the
WARP
waveforms. At the noon position, both the PULSE and TRI STATE PULSE
waveforms are square.
NOTE: Rubicon
2
supports the entire range of possible pulse widths, meaning it can have
a pulse width as narrow as 0% at one extreme, and as wide as 100% at the other. At
such extremes, the wave is essentially a DC source, meaning you will no longer hear it.
Some oscillators limit these extremes to prevent the pulse wave from ever going silent,
but Rubicon
2
was created for sound designers. And sound designers often employ PW
modulation to exploit these extreme widths, allowing the modulation to rhythmically gate
the pulse output.
B. PW attenuator
- You can modulate the PW value with a control signal patched into the
Rubicon
2
PWM input
. The
PW attenuator
adjusts the extent to which that control signal
is added to the value set with the
PW knob
.
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