Access os5 Manuale Utente

CHAPTER 12
Tips and tricks

ble-click on the two Transpose buttons (Panic
function) resets Channel Volume and Expres-
sion to this unit value.

 

The Virus modulation matrix (the ASSIGNS in
the LFOS/MOD section) allows you to modulate
up to nine selectable destination parameters
from six modulation sources. Possible modula-
tion sources are not restricted to MIDI control-
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Aftertouch, but also include internal sources
from within the voice, such as the envelope
generators and LFOs. The LFOs have their own
dedicated ASSIGNs (selectable with the corre-
sponding AMOUNT buttons) for a further modu-
lation destination each..

The obvious thing to do would be to use one of
the SOFT KNOBS knob as a modulation source
for one or several ASSIGN units. However, we
deliberately chose not to create a direct, fixed
link between the SOFT KNOBS and the AS-
SIGN units since, by definition, neither the out-
put of the SOFT KNOBS nor the inputs of the
ASSIGN units have a fixed controller number.

Instead, you are free to select one of the possi-
ble controllers as an ASSIGN source (e.g. the
modulation wheel or Controller #12). All you
have to do is enter this controller as the param-
eter for the SOFT KNOBS. This configuration is
identical to that of a conventional parameter
that has a dedicated controller number and
knob. The knob movements are sent to the se-
lected MIDI Out via the selected controller and
on to the sequencer where they can be record-

ed and sent back to the VIRUS. Reasonably
enough, you should set the controller number
for the SOFT KNOB under SOFT KNOB-1/2
Single because this setting (like the ASSIGN
settings) is stored with the SINGLE program
and doesn’t apply to all SINGLEs (as is the case
with the SOFT KNOB Global setting).

 

In AsPlayed mode, notes are played in the
same sequence in which the Arpeggiator re-
ceives them. As a rule, the Arpeggiator is able
to store up to 16 notes. At fi rst glance, it
wouldn’t seem possible to play a patter n in
which several notes have the same pitch. To do
this, you would have to release a key before you
can play it again, and when you release a key,
the corresponding note is deleted from the Ar-
peggiator pattern. You can circumvent this
problem by pressing a sustain or hold pedal
that is connected to your keyboard while you
enter notes to the Arpeggiator. These will be
held for as long as you hold the sustain pedal
down.

 

Every Vocoder parameter can be modulated
using the Modulation Matrix.