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Keyboard
Modal 008R has several options for the keyboard in order to transpose, control glide and
manipulate different voices.
1. Octave:
this parameter controls the octave shift of the keyboard, allowing you to
transpose the whole keyboard by up to 2 octaves up or down
2. Glide:
this parameter controls the speed with which the oscillators change their pitch,
‘sliding’ from one note to the next one pressed:
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a large value will mean the ‘glide’ takes longer to reach the new note
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a shorter value will result in a quicker ‘slide’
The 008R glide unit has a rich feature set allowing both linear and exponential glide
curves in both ‘normal’ and ‘auto’ modes. The glide circuit can be modulated by any of
the internal sources allowing velocity, note, LFO or other sources to dynamically adjust the
glide rate for natural sounding variations in the portamento time.
3. Auto Glide:
this parameter controls the mode of the glide unit. In ‘auto’ mode the
glide circuit is enabled only when overlapping notes are played, also known as legato. In
‘normal’ mode the glide circuit is always enabled.
4. Glide Curve:
this parameter controls the shape of the glide curve between notes, either
linear or exponential.
5. Transpose:
This allows you to transpose the Keyboard, Sequencer and Arpeggiator. To
use the function simply hold down the transpose button whilst pressing a key on the
keyboard. A ‘Zero’ transpose is obtained by pressing the third C from the bottom of the
keyboard.
6. Chord:
This allows you to transpose a stored chord when pressing a single key. The key
held down is the root note of the chord. To turn on chord mode hold down a chord via
MIDI-in to set that chord to be transposed when playing notes (via the keyboard, MIDI-in,
arpeggiator, and sequencer) then select the Chord button on the LCD. Chord mode only
works in poly and stack modes.
7. Size:
(available for both Unison and Stack modes): this parameter controls how many
voices the synth is using for a single note
8. Key Mode:
Select between Polyphonic, Monophonic, Unison and Stack
9. Spread:
this parameter controls the amount of frequency detuning between the currently
used voices (note that this is different from oscillators Fine parameter, which is the
amount of frequency detuning for the 2 VCOs in the same voice)
