User Manual

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Getting Started

Basic Functions

Powering on

Connect a power lead or the supplied USB cable to your COBALT5S then connect the outputs

of the COBALT5S to your mixer, or if you prefer, connect your headphones. Connect the USB

cable from your computer or tablet device to the COBALT5S for MODALapp communication.

Then power on.

You will see a loading animation on the screen. When the synth has loaded it will change to

show the main patch page.

Screen Control

The Modal COBALT5S interface is designed to be extremely intuitive and easy to use, so that

all the most important parameters are easily accessible and tweakable directly from the top

panel. However, all functions are also accessible and tweakable on-screen using the two

detented encoders.

These two switched-encoders are located either side of the screen are used for screen

navigation and control and can be clicked to either switch mode or trigger / modify the

selected function:

• Page/Param - When this encoder is in ‘Page’ mode (top row of on-screen text) it cycles

through the parameter pages / groups (e.g. Osc1, Osc2, Filter); when it’s in ‘Param’ mode

(bottom row of on-screen text) it cycles through the parameters on that page / group.

Use the switch by clicking the encoder to toggle between the two modes, where the

mode is displayed on the screen with a line at top for ‘Page’ mode and at the bottom for

‘Param’ mode.

• Preset/Edit (/Bank) - This encoder/switch is used to adjust the currently selected value

or ‘trigger’ the currently displayed parameter. When the panel is in ‘Shift’ mode the

‘Load Patch’ encoder is used to select the patch bank number, jumping up or down in

increments of 100.