User Manual

THOR POLYSONIC SYNTHESIZER
(RECORD+REASON)
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Effects section
There are two global mono in/stereo out effects, a Delay and a Chorus. These effects affect all voices coming from
the Amp section equally if activated. The effects are placed after the Global Filter in the signal chain.
D There are controls for standard Delay/Time and Feedback parameters.
Chorus vs. Delay differ only in the delay time range - Chorus is for chorus effects, i.e. short delays, whereas Delay
produces echo effects.
D Delay Time can be Tempo Synced.
This is set with the Tempo Sync button - if on the delay time is set in beat resolutions synced to the main se-
quencer tempo.
D The Delay and Chorus effects can also be pitch modulated by a built in LFO (the “Mod” parameters).
“Rate” controls LFO speed and “Amount” the Stereo width.
D Dry/Wet governs the balance between the unprocessed (dry) signal and the effect (wet) signal.
Global Filter slot
This is the Filter 3 slot which can be loaded with one of the filter types. Filter 3 is basically set up as the other filter
slots. The difference is that all voices are mixed together before entering the filter. The “ENV” parameter governs
modulation by the Global Envelope. If you play one note the filter envelope will trigger. Adding new notes while a note
is still held down (legato) will not trigger the filter envelope.
See “Filter slots” for a description of the filter types.
Global Envelope
The Global Envelope 4 is an advanced envelope that is free to use for whatever purpose, but remember it is “single
trigger” so it will not retrigger legato notes as explained above. It is an ADSR envelope with a pre-delay stage and a
hold stage before the decay phase. You can make it Loop and Sync the time settings to the song tempo.
Apart from standard ADSR parameters, the Global Envelope has the following parameters:
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Parameter
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Description
Delay This can set a delay before the onset of the envelope.
Loop If this is activated, the envelope phase from Delay to Decay will continuously loop.
Hold This allows you to set a “hold” phase before the Decay.
Tempo Sync If this is on, each stage will have a length that corresponds to beat increments of the current
sequencer tempo. E.g. you can have a 1/4 delay before a 1/16 attack phase followed by a
1/8 decay. Each stage can be set a range from 1/32 to 4/1 (4 bars).
If this is off, the envelope times are free running and can be set in seconds (same time
ranges as for the Filter Envelope).
Gate Trigger The “Gate Trig” button can be used to switch off the envelope triggering from notes and al-
low the envelope to be triggered by some other parameter. This button is normally activated.