SYNTHESIS TECHNOLOGY
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MOTM-650 USER’S GUIDE
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Voice Group Settings
As explained previously, the MOTM-650 can have up to 4 logical groups of voices, as
determined by the global
Voice Group Type
option. Each voice group has the following
settings that apply to all the voices in that group:
MIDI Channel
Voice Allocation Mode
Pitch Bend Amount
Glide Type
Glide Time
Glide Rate
Gate Type
Velocity/Trigger Output
Auxiliary Output
Auxiliary Output Scale
Each one of the settings listed above applies only to the voices in that voice group. That
means there can be different glide settings for each voice group, different voice allocation
modes, different MIDI channels, etc., or in the odd case, more than one group can have the
same MIDI receive channel! They are completely independent from each other.
To get a feel for how a voice group works, let’s hook up the MOTM-650 to some modules.
For the sake of this example, we’ll assume you want to control a single VCO. Set the
MOTM-650 as follows:
•
Go to the
Global Settings
menu and change the
Voice Group Type
(
VGrpType
)
to
4
(single group, 4 voices per group).
•
Press
ESC
to return to the top menu level, select the
VoxGrp 1 Settings
submenu,
and press
ENTER
. The first option shown is
VG1 MIDI
. If it’s not already set to the
same channel as your MIDI control, then set it now.
•
Pressing
INC
should display
VG1Alloc
– set the option to
Solo
for now. This will
cause the MOTM-650 to allocate only the first voice in the group of 4.
•
Connect a cable from the
CV1
output to the 1V/OCT input of a VCO. Connect the
VCO’s output to a VCA’s audio input. Connect the MOTM-650’s
GATE 1
output to
the VCA’s CV input. Finally, connect the VCA’s output to a monitoring setup (e.g.
amplifier or headphones).
Now press a key on the MIDI controller. If everything is set correctly, then several things
should happen:
•
The
MIDI
LED will blink
•
The
V1
LED will turn on
•
The played note will be heard
Try the pitch bend (set to 2 note -/+ bend range by default), a few more notes, etc…
Everything should respond like a normal monophonic synthesizer.
