Akai Rhytm Wolf, User Manual

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o

Filter Cutoff:

 Turn this to set the bass synth's filter cutoff frequency. This value 

also determines the frequency of the Sustain stage of the filter envelope.

o

Filter Res:

 Turn this to set the bass synth's filter resonance (also known as 

Q

).

o

Env Amt: 

Turn this to set the peak of the bass synth's filter envelope. This 

controls the difference in frequency between the 

Filter Cutoff

 setting and the 

highest part of the filter envelope.

o

Decay:

 Turn this to set the Decay time of the bass synth's amplitude envelope.

9.

Mute/Solo:

 Press and hold this button to mute specific voices in the sequencer's 

playback. Press a pad to mute or unmute its voice. Unmuted pads are lit red, while 
muted pads are not lit. This affects sequencer playback only; you can still play the pads 
to trigger their respective voices. 

Press and hold 

Shift

 and then press and hold this button to enter 

Solo Mode

. When in 

Solo Mode, you can press a pad to solo its voice (muting all others). Release the button 
to return to normal operation. This is a temporary mode, independent of any pad mutes. 

10.

Velocity:

 Press this button to edit the velocity of a step. See the 

Record Step Mode

section of this guide to learn more. 

Press this button and 

Play/Stop

 at the same time to start playback from the very 

beginning of the pattern rather than from the current position. 

11.

Play/Stop:

 Press this button to start or stop playback. 

Press this button and 

Velocity

 at the same time to start playback from the very beginning 

of the pattern rather than from the current position. 

Press and hold 

Shift

 and then press this button to send an All Notes Off message. 

12.

Fill:

 Press this button to play the fill for the current sequence (A, B, or A 

and

 B). See the 

About Patterns

 section to learn more. 

13.

Seq Variation:

 Press this button to select whether you are playing/editing Sequence A, 

Sequence B, or Sequence A 

and

 B. See the 

About Patterns

 section to learn more. 

14.

Pattern Select / Last Step:

 Press this button and then press one of the 16 

Step 

Switches

 to select the pattern of the same number. Press the 

Pattern Select

 button 

again to return to normal operation. If you do this during playback, the current pattern will 
finish before moving to the next one. 

Press and hold 

Shift

 and then press this button. The pattern's length (in steps) will 

appear in the display, and the 

Step Indicators

 will light red to show the pattern's length. 

Press one of the 16 

Step Switches

 or turn the 

Tempo

 knob to set the pattern's length (in 

steps). If the 

Seq Variation

 button has 

either

A

or

B

 lit, the maximum pattern length is 16 

steps. If 

both

A

and

B

 are lit, the maximum pattern length is 32 steps, and the minimum 

pattern length is 17 steps. Press the 

Last Step

 button again to return to normal 

operation. 

15.

Tie:

 When the bass synth is selected, press and hold this button, and then press a 

Step 

Switch

 to "tie" its note to the previous step or to return it to its previous ("un-tied") state. 

A tied note is "held over" from the previous note, meaning that its envelope is not 
retriggered. When you press and hold this button, the 

Step Indicators

 of tied steps will 

be lit amber, those with "un-tied" notes will be lit red, and those with no notes will be 
unlit. 

You can do this to multiple 

Step Switches

 at once, and you can tie several consecutive 

notes together. Tied notes can also "wrap around" from the end to the beginning of a 
sequence.  

16.

Main Volume:

 Turn this knob to set the output volume of Rhythm Wolf's 

Main Out

 and 

Synth Out

. 

17.

Howl:

 Turn this knob to set the amount of overdrive (distortion) applied to Rhythm Wolf's 

Main Out

.