ALESIS FUSION
EDITING AN ANALOG SYNTH PROGRAM
How to make changes to modulation
Fusion’s mod matrix is a powerful
component in Fusion’s synthesis armoury and allows you to
route almost any controller to almost
any destination - pitch, timbre (tone), amplitude, panning
and more. This is
done in the MOD pages and pressing this will show something like this
screen:
Here, you see a list of the mod assignments and you see the source and the destination for
each one (for example,
or
). To make any
changes to these,
move the cursor to the modulation ‘connection’ you want to edit and press SETTINGS. You
will
see this screen:
Probably the first (and maybe only!) parameter to head for is the
AMOUNT parameter down the
bottom of
the screen (as highlighted in the above screen shot). Use the data wheel to set a
value (to hear your changes as you adjust
the parameter, repeatedly play a note on the
keyboard as you adjust the parameter).
You can, of course, change the connection’s
source and/or assignment but for most ‘tweaks’,
simple adjustment of the modulation amount is usually all that’s required.
To select another modulation connection, either press EXIT to return to the ROUTES page or
move to the
EDIT MOD parameter at the top of the screen and select another using the data
wheel or INC/DEC.
To ‘cancel’ a connection, either set its AMOUNT to 0.00% (press INC
and DEC simultaneously)
or, in the ROUTES page, press DEL MOD. The first of
these two options is safest in case you
maybe want to re-instate the mod without having to build the connection from scratch.
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