RAGNARÖK
Manual
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Performance Section
The performance section holds all the settings for keyboard
performance (portamento, legato and envelope re-trigger) and
external trigger/repeat options.
Portamento
Speed:
This knob sets the time it takes to 'glide' from one note to
another, when portamento is active (depending on the legato
switch, see below).
Legato:
With this switched on, you only have portamento when
playing 'legato', meaning 'holding the previous note while playing
the new note'. This is most obvious when playing monophonic or
with '1 voice' set.
NOTE: RAGNARÖK has polyphonic portamento. However, this is pretty hard to achieve
with more then 4 voices, so legato should better be switched off in that case.
Envelope
Mode switch: This sets the 'trigger behavior' of the synthesizer, meaning how the
envelopes are being triggered.
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Normal
means that a note plays when a key is played (or sequenced).
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Repeat
sets the key-trigger in repeat from the LFO. The speed of the repeating
notes is set with the LFO-speed knob. The length of the repeated notes is set
with the 'len.' knob in the settings section.
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Host
sets the repeat locked to the host tempo. Same as 'repeat', the length of
the repeated notes is set with the 'len.' knob in the settings section. Also, the
host sync can be set to several time signatures with the … option in the settings
popup-menu (button besides the 'len.' knob in the settings section).
NOTE: The repeat and host sync options only sync the tempo of the repeated notes
but NOT the exact timing of the notes: this makes for the possibility of creating
arpeggiator-like patterns in a performance, based on the timing of the notes played
(or sequenced). Try this with any (slow) repeat or host sync and playing notes with
different timings (use polyphony) to hear the effect and experiment with the
possibilities.
NOTE: The mouse-behavior of this knob is similar to the Filter dB/oct. Switch.
Retrig switch (re-trigger):
This switch determines if the envelopes are re-triggered
when a new note is played in legato mode. Re-trigger 'on' means that any noted
played will re-trigger the envelopes, off means that the envelopes will only re-trigger
when all previous notes are released.
NOTE: Retrig also works in polyphonic mode, but might be hard to use with more then
4 voices.