SYNTHESIS TECHNOLOGY
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MOTM-650 USER’S GUIDE
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Unison St
Unison Steal
works like
Unison
mode until all the voices are used and another note is
played. At that point, the new note will “steal” the voice of the first note played, just like
the
Poly 1 Steal
&
Poly 2 Steal
modes do.
VG1PBend
_
2
The
Pitch Bend Range
setting controls the number of notes (half-steps) that the pitch will
change when a pitch bend wheel is at either end of its range (i.e. the pitch bend CC received
is at its maximum or minimum value). The range can be set from
0
(off) to
24
(2 octaves).
When using MIDI pitch bend to control an
AUX
output, you may not want it to change the
pitch as well, in which case you should set the
Pitch Bend Range
to
0
.
VG1Glide
_
Off
The
Glide Type
setting selects between one of the MOTM-650’s two modes of Glide (or
portamento as it’s referred to by almost everyone except Moog & MOTM!), or having no
glide at all. Normally, when a voice is reallocated to a new note, the
CV
output changes
voltages nearly instantaneously. When glide is enabled, the voltage changes a
Constant
Rate
or
Constant Time
, depending on which
Glide Type
is selected. This allows the
pitch to “glide” from the old note to the new note.
When playing polyphonically, each individual voice within a voice group will glide
independently to the target note assigned to that voice. For example, with the
Voice
Group Type
set to
4
, it’s possible for voice 1 to be sliding from middle C to high C, while
voice 2 is sliding from middle C to low C, and voices 3 and 4 are not gliding at all.
CV
s
continue to slide even after notes are released – glide works independently of the gates.
Glides always occur between the
CV
s of the source and target notes. This means that it’s
based on
CV
value, not on MIDI note. Glide will slide between the
CV
values for any
Tuning Table
.
On powerup, all
CV
s are set to 0 volts, and will glide from that point to the first note
pressed.
The possible settings for
Glide Type
are as follows:
Off
As you’d expect, this option turns glide off. Glide can also be toggled on and off by sending
the standard portamento continuous controller message via MIDI.
