User's Manual

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3 The Home View
This is the main view for auditioning sounds and playing. The first elements of the view are
displays with a representation of the resonator combination used in each layer of the current sound.
The output level for each layer can be adjusted using the knob located in the lower right corner of
the displays.
In the lower part of this view are four macro controls allowing one to easily adjust high-level
qualities or characteristics of the sound being played and modify it. These knobs, labelled Mod-
ulation, Timbre, Envelope, and Effect, control macro parameters in each layer which are mapped
to specific synthesis parameters affecting the same characteristic of the sound. In other words,
these controls add dimension by allowing one to obtain many different variations of a given sound.
Note that the mappings to specific synthesis parameters are carried out at the layer lever as will be
described in Chapter 5. To the left of these controls one also finds a pitch bend wheel.
Figure 13: The Home view.
The range of the macro knobs vary from -1 in their leftmost position to 1 in their rightmost
position with a value of zero in their center position. The value of these parameter represents
the amount of modulation applied to the synthesis parameters mapped to these macro controls.
For example if the Timbre macro is mapped to the cutoff frequency of a filter, the value of this
frequency is increased when the value of this knob is positive while it is decreased when the value
is negative. When the knob is in its zero position, the macro has no effect and the value of the