Arturia 2.6 manual Sound design controllers, Envelope control sliders, 2D Pads

￿The “retrig” button, also active when the synthesizer is in monophonic mode, allows the systematic re-triggering of the envelopes, even if you link the notes in your playing sequence. If, on the other hand, you don’t wish to re-trigger the envelopes when 2 notes are linked, leave the button raised.

￿When the synthesizer is in polyphonic mode, 1 LCD display on the right of the switch allows the setting of the maximum number of notes that can be played simultaneously (“poly” screen. This setting can limit the CPU load provoked by each simultaneous note played on your MIDI keyboard or sequencer.

￿To activate the portamento mode, click on the “ON” button under the portamento intensity knob (“glide”), situated next to the 2 dials, on the right of the virtual keyboard.

The portamento settings

5.5.4The sound design controllers

Three control surfaces allow the modulation of the sound parameters in a fast and intuitive manner:

￿Eight sliders that allow control of the envelopes of the output VCA 1 and 2

￿Two 2D controllers that can be assigned to the parameters of your choice

￿Three knobs for the setting of cut-off frequency off the 3 filters.

5.5.4.1The envelope control sliders

The two envelopes are directly linked to those of the VCAs: if you modify one of the parameters (Attack, Decay, Sustain or Release – the 2 slope parameters are not represented here for simplicity), the modification will automatically and identically be taken to the synthesizer. The opposite is also true.

5.5.4.2The 2D Pads

Now try to use one of the 2D controllers to modulate the cut-off frequency (to X) and the resonance of filter1 (to Y).

￿For this, go back to the first screen to assign the 2 parameters to the 2D controller #1 outputs. The output connections can be found at the bottom of the synthesizer section (2D pad X /Y).

48 ARTURIA – MOOG MODULAR V 2.6 – USER’S MANUAL