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Norand Mono Manual
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Every single parameter of Mono has its own envelope and modulator with
their dedicated settings, there are no limitations. That’s 20 Modulators and
16 AD envelopes. the main envelope parameters don’t have an envelope,
that wouldn’t make sense.
If you have tons of modulation on a patch and you are lost, you can hold the
[FUNC] key, the potentiometer LED intensity will re ect the modulation of
each parameter as long as you hold [FUNC].
X-Envelope
The X-Envelopes are AD envelopes triggered by the sequencer’s note trig
or incoming MIDI. Like the main envelope, they always complete their
attack cycle before going to the decay cycle. The [ATTACK] and [DECAY]
potentiometers control attack and decay times, and the [AMOUNT]
potentiometer controls the envelope amount. Like the lter, it is bipolar, you
can have negative or positive envelopes.
X-Modulator
The X-Modulators are simple oscillators, I didn’t call them LFO because one
of their best use cases is in audio rate mode.
The [WAVE] key cycles between sinusoidal, triangle, square and sawtooth
waveforms.
The [TYPE] key lets you select one of the 3 types : LFO (LED o ), synced
LFO (LED blinking), and Audio Rate (LED on). LFO mode gives you rates
between 40 seconds and 100ms, synced LFO has 12 di erent sync values,
and resets at the beginning of the pattern. At audio-rate you get a tuned
modulator ranging from C0 to C8. In audio rate, the X-modulators follow
oscillator 1 frequency. The waveform is anti-aliased before analog
conversion.
A few examples
Kick drum
A kick drum starts with a simple tone with a pitch
envelope.
Open the lter
turn up oscillator one
Set oscillator 1 wave to sinus
Set a low frequency to oscillator 1
Select Oscillator 1
Set X-Env Attack to minimum
Set X-Env Decay center
Slowly turn X-Env amount clockwise while triggering Mono
Et voilà, the beginning of your own amazing kick
Evolving phase effect
When 2 oscillator's frequencies are very close, it leads to interesting phase
e ects. If you modulate that frequency with an LFO, the e ect will evolve in
time, leading to even nicer subtle changes.
Open the lter
Turn up both oscillator
Set both oscillator frequency to the same pitch
Select oscillator 1 detune
Set X-Mod to LFO or Synced LFO
