User Manual

MALSTRÖM SYNTHESIZER
(RECORD+REASON)
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Routing external audio to the filters
The audio inputs on the back of the Malström allows you to connect any audio signal to the filters and Shaper.
To use this feature, it’s important to understand the following background:
Normally the Malström behaves like any regular polyphonic synthesizer, in that each voice has its own filter. The filter
settings are the same, but each filter envelope is triggered individually when you play a note.
However, when you connect a signal to the audio inputs, it is routed to an “extra” filter. The envelope for this filter is
triggered each time any of the other filter envelopes is triggered. In other words, the “extra” filter envelope is triggered
each time you play a note on the Malström.
There are two different uses for the audio inputs:
Connecting an external signal source
Connecting an audio signal from another device in the rack to the audio input allows you to process the signal
through the filters and/or Shaper of the Malström. The processed signal will then be mixed with the Malström’s “own”
voices (if activated) and sent to the outputs.
The result depends on the following:
• To which jack you connect the signal.
• Whether the filters and/or Shaper are activated on the front panel.
• The routing button for filter:B.
If this is activated and you connect a signal to the Filter:B input, the signal will be processed in filter:B and then
sent to the Shaper and filter:A (just as when routing Malström’s own oscillators on the front panel).
Note again that the filter envelope is triggered by all voices. To make use of the filter envelope, you either need to
play the Malström or use gate signals to trigger it or the filter envelope, separately.