You can add up to 8 real-time effects per track. Notes played live and recorded in a pattern are processed and sent to the outputs in real-time by the effect engines.
All the effects are non-destructive, and polyphonic capable. The position of an effect in the chain is very important: an Harmonizer placed after an Arpeggiator will not sound like an Arpeggiator placed after an Harmonizer. Experiment with the order of effects to generate eccentric melodies.
It’s also possible to add multiple effects of the same engine on the same track (e.g. chaining two arpeggiators).
Finally, every effect parameter can be edited in real-time via CC message and CV inputs, thanks to the modMatrix.
Adding an effect, tweaking parameters
Press effect , select an empty slot and Press the menu encoder to add a new effect in the rack.
Use left screen and Rotate the 8x encoders to play with the selected effect parameters.
Tip Hold encoder param to reset the value.
Advanced operations
Select an effect and Press menu encoder : a context menu will appear, allowing you to :
toggle the effect (mute/unmute it)
delete it
replace it (by another effect)
copy/paste it
Tip Select an effect and Hold it with the menu encoder. Then you can change its position in the chain.
Tip Hold 2ND and Press "TOGGLE ON/OFF" to lock the effect mute/unmute on the selected pattern: "ON*" (or "OFF*" if the effect is muted) will appears on the top of the context menu when it's locked.
Locking effect parameters to patterns
While effect parameters are per-track by default, a pattern may lock an effect parameter to a specific value. Changing the parameterʼs value on another pattern will not change the value on the pattern onto which it is locked.
While an effect is selected and the left screen is displaying the effect parameters, Hold 2ND and Press the associated encoder to toggle the param locking.
Below you can see an arpeggiator effect with 2 parameters locked: Octave and Repeat.
ModMatrix
The modMatrix is always the first effect in the rack and can't be deleted. It allows you to patch sources (encoder ①) to destinations (encoder ⑤) in order to modulate an effect parameter (or a midi output message, or a cv output) with an incoming signal.
With the associated encoders you can configure each of the 4 modMatrix parameters :
Depth : amplify, attenuate or invert the input signal
Offset : Set the modulation central value
Polarity : modulate value around or after the offset
Consume : drop the input signal
Particular sources:
Keytracking
Each time a note is played, takes the value of the note number. If a chord is played, takes the value of the average off all note numbers.
Velocity
Each time a note is played, takes the value of the note velocity. If a chord is played, takes the value of the average off all note velocities.
Fill
Reflects whether the fill button is pressed.
Arpeggiator
STYLE ORDER UP DOWN UP/DOWN DOWN/UP UP+DOWN DOWN+UP RANDOM VELOCITY UP VELOCITY DOWN CONVERGE UP CONVERGE DOWN DIVERGE UP DIVERGE DOWN CONVERGE DIVERGE DIVERGE CONVERGE PINKY UP PINKY DOWN THUMB UP THUMB DOWN REGRESS 2 UP REGRESS 2 DOWN REGRESS 3 UP REGRESS 3 DOWN REGRESS 4 UP REGRESS 4 DOWN DOUBLE 1:2 SILENCE 1:2 DOUBLE 1:3 SILENCE 1:3 Direction of the arpeggiated pattern. ORDER will play notes in the order they were played. UP plays the pattern from the lowest note to hightest. RANDOM will play notes in a random order.
RATE 1/1 ... 1/64 Speed of the pattern. A rate of 1/4 will play a note of the arppegio every beat.
GATE 1% ... 200% Pattern note lengths, depends on the rate.
HUMAN 0% ... 100% Adds some randomness to the velocity and gate length.
OCTAVE -5 ... 0 ... +5 To create octaves progression. If OCTAVE=1 the arpeggiator will play the original pattern, followed by the same pattern one octave higher. If OCTAVE=-2 the arpeggiator will play the original pattern, followed by the same pattern one octave lower, followed by the same pattern two octaves lower.
CHORD -2 ... +2 Plays the incoming notes as a chord, on top of the arpeggio, either up to two octaves down, or two octaves up.
RE-TRIG -- NOTE 8BAR ... 1BAR 1/2 ... 1/16 When active, the ARP will restart its sequence at the desired interval, or every added note.
REPEAT -- x1 ... x16 If enabled, do not play the pattern in a loop, but a defined amount of cycles
Chance
This effect plays or does not play a note based on probability. It’s a great way to add variations to drums or melodies.
CHANCE 0% ... 100% VELOCITY If ”0%”, the note will never be played. If ”50%”, the note has a fifty-fifty chance to be played. If ”99%”, the note will almost always be played. If ”VELOCITY,” the note will have the same probability of being played as its velocity. Very handy for programming different per note probability.
LOT -- BAR 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32 When OFF, each note will "roll a die" to either play or not. When active, rather than evaluate each note individually, the Chance effect groups notes in time intervals, and "roll a die" for that interval. Either the full interval plays, or it does not.
SYNC -- BAR 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32 Adds a synced probability (”sync chance” parameter). If sync = ”1/4”, all notes that fall precisely on a quarter note will have a different probability of being played. If sync = ”1/16”, all sixteenth notes will have a different chance to be played...
SYNC CHANCE 0% ... 100% The probability of a synced note to be played. For example, if sync = ”1/4” and sync chance = ”100%”, all beat notes will be played.
Euclid
Easily generate euclidian rhythms with this effect.
NOTE IN C0 (0) ... G10 (127) When set to "IN", Euclid will use the incoming notes, e.g. if you hold the C, E, and G notes, Euclid will play a major C chord in a euclidian rhythm. Alternatively, you can choose to ignore the input, and generate a euclidian rhythm with a fixed note, while incoming notes will be passed on to the next effect untouched. Adding multiple Euclid effects on the same rack (with different notes) is an easy way to generate complex polymetric euclidean sequences.
RATE 1/1 1/2 1/3 1/4 1/6 1/8 1/12 1/16 1/24 1/32 1/64 Determine the clock rate of the internal euclidian sequencer.
STEPS 1 ... 32 Sets the amount of steps in the full cycle.
PULSES 1 ... 32 Sets the amount of pulses (filled steps) on which to play notes.
ROTATE 0 ... 31 Shifts the computed rhythm.
GATE 0% ... 200% Set the gate length of outputted notes.
Filter
NOTE LO / NOTE HI C0 (0) ... G10 (127) When "NOTE LO" < "NOTE HI", this sets the range of notes that can be let through the Filter. When "NOTE LO" > "NOTE HI" however, this sets a range of notes to ignore.
CC LO / CC HI 0 ... 127 Similarly to notes, CC messages falling in certain ranges can be accepted, or dropped. When "CC LO" < "CC HI", this sets the range of CCs that can be let through the Filter. When "CC LO" > "CC HI" however, this sets a range of CCs to ignore.
PITCHB -- DROP When set to DROP, will drop all pitchbend messages and not forward them to the next effect.
AFTERT -- DROP When set to DROP, will drop all aftertouch messages and not forward them to the next effect.
Harmonizer
ORIGIN ON OFF When ON, will let incoming MIDI notes through, and output harmonized version of these notes. When OFF, will drop the incoming notes, and only output harmonized notes.
NOTE 2 ... 8 -36 ... +36 Choose up to 7 intervals with which to harmonize incoming notes, to generate complex chords.
LFO
WAVEFORM SINE TRI RAMP SQUARE RAND Choose the waveform of the LFO.
SYNC ON OFF Choose whether the rate should be tied to the BPM of the project or not.
RATE (unsynced) 1 ... 100 Exponentially increasing frequency, from roughly 0.1 Hz to 1kHz.
RATE (synced) 64 bars ... 1 bar 1/2 ... 1/128 Synchronized rate of the LFO.
PHASE -180° ... 180° Phase shift the starting point of the LFO.
DEPTH -100% ... 100% Scales the LFO.
OFFSET 0% ... 100% Offsets the LFO central value.
MODE LOOP RLOOP ONCE 2x ... 16x
LOOP
Regular free running LFO
RLOOP
Retriggers on every note
ONCE, 2x, ... 16x
Plays once or multiple times through the waveform, then stops, like an envelope
DEST CC PITCHBEND CV OUT ... FX PARAMETER Destination of the LFO.
Randomizer
NOTE– / NOTE+ 0 ... 12 Increase the random pitch range downwards and upwards respectively. For example, an incoming note of 60 (C5) with NOTE– = 1 and NOTE+ = 4 will be randomly assigned a pitch between 59 (B4) and 64 (E5).
OCTAVE– / OCTAVE+ 0 ... 5 Increase the random pitch range downwards and upwards respectively. When active, notes will randomly be scaled up or down several octaves, within the selected range.
VELO– / VELO+ 0% ... 100% Increase the random velocity range downwards and upwards respectively.
LENGTH 0% ... 100% Randomly increase the length of incoming notes by delaying their NOTE OFF messages. At 100%, notes can be increased up to a whole note (4x 1/4 notes = a bar in 4/4).
CHANCE 0% ... 100% Probability per note of random having an effect on the note parameters.
Scaler
SCALE pScale Maj ... Octave Choose the scale to quantize to. Select the "pScale" value if you want to use the scale defined into project scale.
KEY C ... B Choose the root note of the scale.
STICK Down Up Filter When an incoming note is out of scale, the algorithm can quantize this note "down", "up" or "filter" it. For example, if selected scale is C Maj, an incoming out-of-scale note C# will be processed like:
Down : C# scaled to C
Up : C# scaled to D
Filter : C# is ignored (not played)
TRSP -36 ... +36 Transpose notes before applying selected scale.
Swing
GROOVE 50% ... 100% Percentage of swing (delay the off-grid notes position). 50% (default) has no effect on notes position.
SYNC 1/3 1/4 1/6 1/8 1/12 1/16 1/24 1/32 1/64 Swing quantisation grid. 1/16 is the classic value.
ACCENT 0% ... 100% Amount of swing velocity accent. This parameters affect all notes.
HUMAN 0% ... 100% Slightly randomize the position of swung notes (humanizer).
Env
ENV is an AHDSR envelope, with variable curvature per section, which can be assigned to any destination. It is triggered every time a note comes through it.
Tip Click on the ATTACK, DECAY or RELEASE encoder to go to the corresponding hidden curve parameter!
ATTACK 0 ... 3072 Duration of the ATTACK portion of the envelope, in clock ticks.
CURVE A -100% ... 100% Curvature of the ATTACK portion of the envelope. Positive values produce an exponential curve, while negative values produce a logarithmic curve.
DECAY 0 ... 3072 Duration of the DECAY portion of the envelope, in clock ticks.
CURVE D -100% ... 100% Curvature of the DECAY portion of the envelope. Positive values produce an exponential curve, while negative values produce a logarithmic curve.
SUSTAIN 0% ... 100% Level of the steady state (note ON), until the key is released.
RELEASE 0 ... 3072 Duration of the RELEASE portion of the envelope, in clock ticks.
CURVE R -100% ... 100% Curvature of the RELEASE portion of the envelope. Positive values produce an exponential curve, while negative values produce a logarithmic curve.
DEPTH -100% ... 100% Scales the ENV.
OFFSET 0% ... 100% Offsets the ENV central value.
HOLD 0 ... 3072 Duration of the HOLD portion of the envelope, in clock ticks. This section is in between the attack and the decay.
SIDECHAIN ALL, C0 (0) ... G10 (127)
Note Click on the HOLD encoder to toggle between HOLD & SIDECHAIN
When set to 'ALL', any MIDI note-on message will restart the envelope. When set to a specific note, only note-on messages of the selected note will restart the envelope.
Tip When the destination is set to VELOCITY, and the SIDECHAIN is set to a specific note, the sidechain note will not be affected by the envelope. A use case for this is ducking drums when the kick-drum hits, but leaving the kick drum at its full velocity.
WAIT AHD OFF, ON
Note Click on the SUSTAIN encoder to toggle between SUSTAIN & WAIT AHD
When set to 'OFF', a note-off message of the sidechain note will immediately short-circuit the envelope to its release stage, regardless of the current stage.
When set to 'ON', upon receiving a note-off message of the sidechain note, the envelope will wait for completion of the Attack, Hold and Decay stages before going into the Release stage. This results in a consistent timing of the envelope regardless of the length of the sidechain note (besides the sustain stage), making this option particularly suited to trigger envelopes with short ntoes, or trigs.
DEST CC PITCHBEND CV OUT ... FX PARAMETER Destination of the envelope.
Note 3072 clock ticks corresponds to 4 bars of 4/4.
Project LFOs
Press 2ND + effect to enter the Project LFOs submode.
Each project has two global LFOs that can be used across multiple tracks. They are available as sources in each track's modmatrix.
Quantizer
The quantizer is located in 2ND + track window and aligns notes to a time division to improve timing precision.
Press 2ND + track to enter secondary tracks settings.
STRENGTH 0% ... 100% Amount of quantization. As a 100% strength value will apply maximum quantization to the notes, lower values will allow the notes to be slightly off grid.
