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CHANNEL SETTINGS
Function Channel Settings (FUNC)
The Function Channel Settings page is a set of event filters and
processors: echo delay, arpeggiator, keyboard tracker, time
shifting and a gate. These functions are available for all
generators (including third party ones), except the TS404, which
has different sound generation approach, so it can not have echoed
or arpeggiated note events (you can still have echoes in TS404, see
TS404 Channel Settings).
1. Echo Delay Section
This section lets you set up echoes for the channel, but be
warned that this is NOT a real delay line. It does not create
echoes of the wave output of the channel, but creates echoes of the
note events instead. This enables some special effects like pitch
shifted echoes, but also requires additional CPU power for each
echo generated (because each echo created with this section is a
normal note event). If you want to use a standard delay line, use
the Fruity Delay effect instead (see Effects).
All options described below are applied additive to each
successive echo. For example, if you set the pitch knob to +10
cents, the first echo will have 10 cents higher pitch than the
original sound. The second will have 20 cents higher pitch than the
original sound etc.
- Feedback (FEED) - Sets the volume of echoes.
If this knob is centered, echoes have the same volume as the
original note. Turning it to left creates fading out echoes.
Turning it to right increases the volume of each successive echo.
Turning this knob to the leftmost point turns echo delay off.
- Pan (PAN) - Sets the panning of echoes.
- Cutoff (CUT) - Sets the cutoff value of
echoes.
- Resonance (RES) - Sets the resonance value of
echoes.
- Pitch (PITCH) - Sets the pitch offset of
echoes.
- Time (TIME) - Sets the delay period between
echoes in units of beats. This enables you to set a tempo based
delay, so echo will follow properly tempo changes in the song.
- Number of Echoes (# ECH) - Sets the number of
echoes generated for each note. It is recommended to keep this
number down for lower CPU usage.
- Ping Pong - If turned on, the pan value will
"bounce" when it reaches 100% left or right panning.
- Fat Mode- This is a special mode of the echo
delay effect, which makes subtler echoes with alternating panning -
useful for creating flange and chorus-like effects. If this option
is turned off, some options of the echo delay unit are reset to
their defaults. The reason is that settings that sound fine in fat
mode, usually are extremely loud in normal mode.
NOTE: If you click the small arrow at the top
left of this panel you can access some presets for this
section.
2. Arpeggiator
This section lets you add a real-time non-destructive arpeggio
effect to the sequence of an instrument. To use the arpeggiator,
select a direction from the icons in the top left corner of this
section. The available options are: Off (default; turns off the
arpeggiator), Up, Down, Up-Down, Up-Down (twice the lowest and
highest notes), Random (selects random notes from the range and
chord specified).
The arpeggiator can operate in two modes - classic arpeggiator,
that uses any chords present in the channel note data, or it can
use a predefined chord template. The mode is selected from the
Arpeggio Chord option (see below):
- Arpeggio Time (TIME) - Select the delay
between the successive notes generated by the arpeggiator.
Right-click the knob and select Set for some time presets.
- Arpeggio Gate (GAT) - Gates the arppegio
notes, this results in shorter notes and a more staccato
sound.
- Slide (Slide) - Check this option to make the
arpeggiator slide between notes. This option will not work with
generators that do not support slides.
- Arpeggio Range (RANGE) - Lets you set the
arpeggio range in octaves. The arpeggiated chord is transposed
within the specified range to create additional notes for the
effect.
- Arpeggio Chord (CHORD) - Select
None if you want the arpeggiator to progress with
a step of 12 semitones (1 octave) within the specified octave
range. Select Auto or Auto
(sustain) to set the arpeggiator in classic mode - it will
create arpeggio effects based on any chords contained in the
instrument sequence. The rest of the presets are a set predefined
chords that will be applied to the instrument sequence (sequence
chords will not be arpegiated as in classic mode). Auto
(sustain) will not apply arpeggio effect on monophonic
sequences (given that the octave range is set to 1)
3. Time
Two filters are available in this section - a gate that
"truncates" the note events when they pass a specified limit and a
filter that shifts notes' start time.
- Gate (GAT) - The time interval set with this
knob defines the maximum possible length of a note event in the
channel - i.e. long notes are truncated to the set length. Look in
the hint bar (see Main Panel) to see
the length you set in STEPS:TICKS format. To disable the
gate effect turn the knob fully clockwise.
- Time Offset (OFS) - Turn this knob to right to
delay notes' triggering with up to 16-th note time period (one
step).
4. Velocity/Keyboard Tracker
This section contains the settings of the velocity and keyboard
trackers. The keyboard tracker "links" the note number (i.e. note
pitch) to the cutoff, resonance and panning properties of the
notes. Thus you can set the keyboard tracker, so higher note
offsets the cutoff frequency to a higher value, for instance. The
velocity tracker works exactly in the same way, but instead of
following note's pitch, it uses note's velocity.
- VOL/KB Switch - Click VOL to set the
properties for the velocity tracker and KB to set the properties
for the keyboard tracker. Selecting either of the trackers does not
deactivate the other one, to turn off a tracker completely, reset
its PAN, CUT and RES knobs (right-click a knob and select the
Reset command).
- Middle value (MID) - For both trackers there
is a middle value where no offsets are generated. Higher values
generate positive offsets for the properties and lower values
generate negative ones. For the keyboard tracker, the role of a
middle value plays note's pitch (for ex. C5 or B3). For the
velocity tracker that is note's velocity.
- Panning Offset (PAN) - Sets the offset for
note's panning. Turning this knob to right means panning to right
for notes with higher than the middle value and left panning for
those with lower value. Turning the knob to left generates the
opposite effect.
- Cutoff Offset (CUT) - Sets the offset for
note's cutoff frequency. Turning this knob to right means higher
cutoff frequency for notes with higher than the middle value and
lower cutoff frequency for those with lower value. Turning the knob
to left generates the opposite effect.
- Resonance Offset (RES) - Sets the offset for
note's resonance. Turning this knob to right means more resonance
for notes with higher than the middle value and less resonance for
those with lower value. Turning the knob to left generates the
opposite effect.
The image below shows how offsets look for the sample settings
in the screenshot.
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