Ammo 100LA “Light Artillery”
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Performance controls
The
Ammo 100LA
provides an onboard pitch-bend and modulation wheel control. Pitch-bend is routed to oscillator Rate,
and the Mod Wheel controls oscillator Depth. The Mod Wheel is an inverting control, so the oscillator Depth
reduces
as you
increase
the mod wheel value. The Mod Wheel lamp output will decrease accordingly. This behaviour is the same regardless
of the inversion of the Depth knob itself: it will reduce inverted Depth to zero the same as non-inverted Depth.
Rate Mod Range selector
On the back of is an adjustment screw for Rate modulation sensitivity. At a basic level you can use this to ad-
just the pitch-bend range, but it has a more signifi cant use as it also allows greater range for other modulation
sources. Remember that an
Ammo
oscillator has a very wide frequency range, and so using the Pitch Wheel
with the oscillator at a very low rate, i.e., 0.01 Hz is not going to get the rate to move very far even with a
maximum input level: a one octave range up from 0.01 Hz is only going to be 0.02 Hz.
So to compensate for this you can set the sensitivity of the
Ammo
oscillator rate to modulation input:
• Low
:
—100% Pitch-Bend range = Seventh
• Standard
:
—100% Pitch-Bend range = Octave
• High
:
—100% Pitch-Bend range = Two octaves (default setting)
• Full
:
—100% Pitch-Bend range = 26 octaves
The Full setting may not be particularly practical using 100% modulation input settings to a High Range oscillator, but will be
especially useful a very low rates.
Back panel connectivity
By including both CV and audio input and output, Ammo 100LA punches above its weight with the ability to create a truly
modular system in conjunction with other Reason devices, but especially products in the Jiggery-Pokery Super-Spider range.
Inputs
• Sequencer CV In
:
—The Gate input alone can be used to trigger Ammo 100LA in one-shot mode
—If Gate and CV connections are used, you can trigger Ammo 100LA for continuous drone output; use the ModWheel
to adjust the Depth dynamically
—
Connect the Env, Gate and CV inputs to
Charlotte
for full envelope (depth), gate (trigger) and CV (pitch) control
