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Instrument mode

Instrument mode holds the eight tracks that make sound. Each track runs one engine — a synth, a sampler or the midi engine — and is shaped on four pages: engine, envelopes, filter and LFO.

Pick a track, then work through its pages: the engine creates the tone, the envelopes shape each note, the filter colours it and the LFO adds movement; every value can be parameter-locked per step. A track's complete sound travels as one preset, so a load from the browser (, or for the selected track) changes everything at once, the engine included. Brain, send effects, external gear and tape live in auxiliary mode.

How to

Open instrument mode and select a track

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Details

  • Instrument mode holds eight instrument tracks, one per track key …; the eight auxiliary tracks have a mode of their own.

    TE’s guide
  • shows the engine, the amp and filter envelopes, the filter and the LFO.

    TE’s guide
  • On OS 1.1.33, brings up the preset browser for the selected track, where loading one of an engine's presets changes the engine.

    checked on a unit · 1.1.33
  • opens the preset browser for that track, where a preset, sample pack or engine can be loaded in one go.

    TE’s guide
  • opens the preset settings: tuning, velocity sensitivity, width and modulation routing of the track's sound.

    TE’s guide
  • With a track key held, the module keys act on that track's whole sound: scrambles it, copies it, pastes onto it and saves it as a preset.

    TE’s guide
  • A fresh project puts drums on tracks 1 and 2, a bass on 3, a pluck on 4, a lead on 5, a soft pluck on 6, strings on 7 and a pad on 8.

    TE’s guide
  • Community captures name the engines behind those sounds as the drum sampler on tracks 1 and 2, then prism, epiano, dissolve, hardsync, axis and multisampler on tracks 3 to 8.

    community

Our wording, for OS 1.1.33. TE’s page source

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