User Manual

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 Key Click Volume can be turned up or down, altering the organ’s sound
to make it more or less percussive when notes are hit.
 Lower and Upper Attack and Release can be used to change the speed
at which a note comes in once pressed and how long it takes to fade
out when released, on each respective manual. For regular organ
sounds these would all be set very low, but if you raise them you can get
more synth-like sounds.
3.6 The Voice Modulator Section
3.6.1 What this section does
The organ sound can be quite static if the player does not interact with it much.
A true tonewheel organ player will move the drawbars a lot while playing, to
add evolution to the sound. We decided to pursue that idea by letting the user
automate the movement of drawbars using envelopes, LFOs and step
sequencers. This opens a lot of possibilities for sound design. It can be used to
create sharp attacks with lots of harmonics that turn into a softer sound. It can
also be used to create atmospheric, evolving sounds. The harmonic
relationship between drawbars means that the sound will always feel natural,
even when the drawbars are heavily modulated.
The Drawbar Modulator lets the user change the value of the drawbars over
time. It uses a number of mono modulators (not one for each voice, but
paraphonic), multi-point envelopes, LFOs and step sequencers. There are ten
modulator slots and the user can select which type they want for each of the
modulators (envelope, LFO or sequencer). Then they can edit the modulator
shape, and finally set bipolar modulation amounts for the drawbars of the two
manuals. A double click on one of the drawbars clears the selection.