User Manual
Voluum
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Owner’s Manual
down smoothly over a chosen time to give you super-smooth fades that are impossible to do by
using just foot-control.
In envelope mode, the level change is triggered when you play a new note or strum a new chord.
Combine this with built-in
ADSR
shaping and you can create synth-like tones from your instrument.
Limiter
The high voltage analogue power rails in the V oluum give great sonic quality, but it means that high
output levels can overdrive other effects in your chain. The limiter can be engaged to soft-limit the
signal peaks to keep them within the input range of your other effects to avoid nasty clipping
distortion.
The limiter can also limit asymmetrically, which can give overdriven signals a sweeter sound.
Control
Unlike other analogue stomp boxes, the effects on the Voluum are not static, where you adjust the
parameters to get the one sound you want
Instead, the Voluum has been engineered to make many aspects of each effect controllable so that
effect parameters can smoothly go between hi and lo values that you choose. This modulation can
be controlled using the pedal,
MIDI
controllers or the signal envelope. (See “Effect control methods”
on page 16.)
USB & MIDI interface
The Voluum has a
USB
connection and standard 5-pin
MIDI
connections. You can send
MIDI
to the
Voluum to control effects, or send
MIDI
from the V oluum to control other
MIDI
devices.
USB
-
MIDI
allows
MIDI
messages to be sent straight to a computer, whereas the 5-pin
MIDI
connections
make it easy to connect the Voluum to other
MIDI
equipment.
The
USB
connection also allows you to use the Voluum Desktop Editor Software and to use the
Voluum as a
USB
-
MIDI
interface to connect
MIDI
gear to your computer.
Desktop Editor Software
Although you can access all of the effect parameters from the V oluum’s control panel, to make it
faster and even more intuitive, we provide a Desktop Editor Software application that runs on both
Microsoft Windows and Apple OSX.
The Desktop Editor Software is available once you register on-line: register.sonuus.com