User's Manual

UNO Synth

4 – Front panel interface

Tochangethetuningoftheoscillators,asemitoneanddetunecontrolforeachoscillatorisavailable.The

controlsarelabeledTUNE1andTUNE2.Fromthecenterpositionoftheknob,detunetheoscillator+/-100

cents.Thenattheouterextremes,thetuneadjustmentswitchestoquantizedsemitonestotransposethe

oscillator.

ToadjustthelevelsofOSC1,OSC2andthenoisegenerator,holdtheOSCbuttonfor1secondunitltheOSC

LEDstartsblinking.NowtheknobsadjustthevolumesforOSC1,OSC2andNoise.

Theoscillatortuningisdigitallycontrolled.Thetuningisupdatedatstartupandthenautomaticallyduring

momentsofinactivity.YoucanalsotunetheoscillatorsmanuallybypressingtheALT+TUNEbuttons.

4.1.2–FilterRow

Thefiltercolorsthesoundoftheoscillatorsinasynthesizer.

TheUNOfilterisa2-polemultimodefilter.Itfiltersfromthecutofffrequencyat12dBperoctave.

TheUNOSynthhasadedicatedfiltercutoffknob.TurningCUTOFFisthemostimmediateandeffectivewaysto

changethesound.

ThentheFILTERrowcontainsthesecontrols:

MODE:selectsbetweenLowPass(LP)wherehighsabovethecutofffrequencyarereduced,HighPass(HP)

wherelowsbelowthecutofffrequencyarereducedandBandPass(BP)wherebothhighsandlowsaroundthe

cutofffrequency(theselected“band”)arereduced.

RES:adjusttheresonanceofthefilterwhichistheleveloftheresonantpeakatthecutofffrequency.

DRIVE:adjuststheamountofsaturationappliedtothesoundgoingfromsubtleoverdrivetodistortion.

ENV AMOUNT:setstheamountthatthefilterenvelopewillmodulatethefiltercutofffrequencywithboth

positiveornegativevaluesavailable.TheFilterEnvelopeisapowerfultoolandanessentialpartofthesoundof

asynthesizer.Itssettingsandamountletsyoucreatealltypesofsounds.