F-em User Guide
more than 800 modulations per sound (if you use all 4 Layers) but
F-em reminds you politely if this unlikely situation is about to ever
occur.
You can even modulate parameter values of other modulation sources,
like changing the decay phase of the envelopes by keytrack resulting in
shorter decays when playing higher notes. Just let your imagination go
crazy.
As soon as you press one of the
Assign
buttons, the view of the F-em
sections changes slightly and the selected Assign button lights. All
continuous parameter controls are now bipolar, which means that you
can modulate each parameter in either direction. You might use this to
e.g. apply a positive modulation of LFO 1 to the Feedback of Operator 8
but a negative one to Noise Cutoff. Non-continuous parameters like
switches or selection buttons are disabled.
Here is a short example how to proceed when setting up an envelope
modulation for cutoff frequency:
1) Go to the Filter 1 (F1) page and set up Filter 1 as desired. We
recommend to set Cutoff to a lower setting, so that it sounds
noticeably duller.
2) Click on the MW Assign button in modulation assignment section.
The user interface will change slightly and is now ready for
destination selection and amount setting.
3) Move the Filter 1 cutoff knob to set up the modulation amount. As an
orientation, the original position of the cutoff knob is also shown. The
amount range will be shown as colored line.
4)Now the modulation wheel controls the cutoff frequency of Filter 1
with the corresponding amount. A little rectangle beside the Cutoff
dial shows, that a modulation assignment has made. Click on this
rectangle to view the modulation source(s) and the corresponding
amount.
5) If you want to add more control to this modulation, you can also set
up Velocity in addition to the regular envelope modulation. Click on
the Vel button. Now you can move the Filter 1 cutoff knob to add the
amount.
6) If you now play with different velocities, the filter modulation
controlled by the Mod wheel is also influenced by the actual played
velocity.
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Please keep in mind that the assignment mode is active as long
as one or two assignment buttons are pressed.
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Please note that some combinations of modulation sources and
destination parameters are less audible than others or even
inaudible. E.g., modulating the Operator Start Phase parameter
by an Envelope always results in the same behavior, since the
Envelope always starts at 0 while Start Phase, as its name already
says, only affects the start phase of the Operator and doesn‘t do
anything afterwards
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