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ARTURIA – VOX Continental V – USER MANUAL 40
Tuning controls: The VOX Continental utilizes “octave divider” circuits to
generate the pitches in each octave. These controls allow you to fine-tune the
notes in the chromatic scale. So if you’d like to create a preset using altered
intonation, for example, these are the controls to use.
The range of each “potentiometer” is +/- 50 cents in 0.4 cent increments. But if
you need finer resolution, right-click on your mouse and then click and drag
the tuning potentiometer (a.k.a “pot”). This allows tuning to be done in
increments as small as 0.025 cents.
Engine: The large switch toggles the engine mode between two choices: VOX
and Jennings. A few minor differences exist in the circuitry between the two
organ lines, resulting in a subtle distinction in the overall tone quality. You may
find you prefer one over the other, but functionally they are identical.
Background Noise: As analog circuits age a certain amount of instability in
various components can give rise to a higher noise floor. VOX Continental V
models even this “undesirable” condition, but allows you to control the amount
of the background noise with this rotary knob. The range is from -90 dB
(completely sterile) to -30 dB (positively bristling with “maturity”).