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[shanley1]

Hey, hows it going? Im new here. I bought my first synth the other day! A monologue. And i mainly understand it, but i have a few questions and i was wondering if someone could please help me to understand?

1. I don’t really understand the purpose or the way the “EG MOD” switch works. Or how its incorporated, it doesn’t seem to change the noise or parameters of anything at all, as far as i can see. What does it actually do? I get the rate and intensity, but flicking this switch doesn’t seem to change anything?

2. This next one is a bit more vauge. When i want to affect the pitch, shape or cut-off, (with the switch that says target), I understand the LFO effects that parameter. But does or can it affect all 3? At the same time? OR only one? So once i have the cut-off rate and intensity set, and my sound sounds a certain way, when i flick it to shape (or pitch), the sound changes again. What sound am i hearing? Is the LFO still affecting the cut-off, or is that gone now? Or does a new set of parameters take over, and then i can do this with the pitch too? It seems to me like once i flick the switch the sound is just different. Like i can’t set it and move onto further modulating the sound, if that makes sense? Is this how it works, and with synthesis in general? I can’t have all 3 parameters working at once? Also once i flick the switch, are the ADSR settings different, or gone?

3. The other thing i don’t quite get is if VCO 1 and 2 are identical? Like are they running and parallel or series or something? Because sometimes i think the EG (ADSR knobs) effects VCO2, and other times it doesn’t?

Im sorry if this doesn’t make much sense, its the best way i can describe it all. Maybe theres just one little thing thats really easy to understand that i haven’t learnt yet.

Regards,

Shanley

[sutekh]

I can help with quesrtin 2 (maybe)

The LFO can only affect one of the three, not all three at once. So when you switch it from Cutoff to Pitch, its no longer affecting Cutoff. To really hear what it does, try setting the LFO speed and intensity very high. This does some crazy things especially when it's set to "pitch". The LFO switch shouldn't affect the ADSR settings at all.

As far as the EGMod, try turning the EG Sustain up high to hear what effective having.

One thing that really helped me with the Minologue, I picked an initial sound (blank sound) with voice 2 and noise turned all the way down. Then starting from the upper left I went thru each knob to see what it does, following along in the manual.

[shanley1]

thanks for answering my question. its much appreciated. have a nice day/ night