u-he CVilization, User Manual

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MATRIX MIXER

LE3 

Tracking Time 

‘Tracking Time’ affects the 

Sample & Hold

 (S&H) processors, ensuring low latency while minimizing glitches. 

The name is a reference to the principle of ‘Track & Hold’.  

The tracking time can be set independently for the S&H of each output, and these apply globally to Modes I, 
II and III. As Mode IV does not use S&H, it is not affected. 

Turn RE1-4

  Each 

tick

 while turning the encoder represents 1 millisecond (maximum is 10 ms). 

Tracking Time addresses a common problem that plagues Sample & Hold timing in many modular systems. 
For example, if a sequencer and a S&H are receiving the same clock, the S&H can too easily ‘freeze’ a value 
before the sequencer has properly responded to the clock, before the target voltage has been reached. 

Keyboards that trigger an envelope before the pitch CV has been fully established exhibit the same problem: 
The S&H will often send the ‘previous’ pitch instead of the current one. Or even something in between. 

Delaying the clock for the S&H by a few milliseconds can help, but this is cumbersome and adversely affects 
overall timing – not the best strategy unless you enjoy spending more time finding the optimal settings. 

CVilization can make its Sample & Hold quasi 

permeable

 for a few milliseconds after a trigger has occurred. 

With the right setting, pitches e.g. from a sequencer are only ‘frozen’ (i.e. sampled and held) after the target 
value is reached. This ensures optimal timing without any serious side effects… 

Note: If there is visual feedback during tracking (e.g. recording in Mode III), the brightness of the LED can 
indicate a state somewhere before the end of the tracking time. This has no effect on playback or the audio. 

LE4 

Go to Config Page 1 

Open the other configuration page. 

Static Offsets 

Applied to CV, you can use static offsets to retune oscillators or even shift notes via ‘in scale’ transposition, 
for instance. Adding a few Volts to an audio signal can be used to create characterful asymmetric distortion. 

Long-press RE1-4

pastel orange 

Octaves (1 Volt) steps, max +/- 10 octaves 

pastel green 

‘In-Scale Transpose’ shifts notes within the scale selected in the Quantization page

Shifts semitones if quantization is switched off 

pastel blue 

Semitones (0.083333 Volt) post-quantization, max. +/- 24 semitones 

pastel magenta 

Cents (0.000833 Volt) post-quantization, max. +/- 100 cents 

Select units by 

pressing LE1-4

. Press the breathing encoder to return to the Performance Page. 

Turn RE1-4

 to set the amounts for each output (brighter = more, negative values appear ruby). The values 

from each unit will be added together, per output.

MIX  SEQ  MUC  PAN  EXP

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Although Tracking Times can only be adjusted in Mode I, they apply GLOBALLY