Korg modwave native User Manual

Key Track
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Key Track
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Keyboard Track
Most acoustic instruments get brighter as you play higher
pitches. At its most basic, keyboard tracking re-creates this
eect by increasing the cuto frequency of a lowpass lter
as you play higher on the keyboard. Usually, some amount
of key tracking is necessary in order to make the timbre
consistent across the entire range.
e modwave native keyboard tracking can also be much
more complex, since it allows you to create dierent rates
of change over up to four dierent parts of the keyboard.
For instance, you can:
• Make the lter cuto increase very quickly over the
middle of the keyboard, and then open more slowly–
or not at all–in the higher octaves.
• Make the cuto increase as you play lower on the
keyboard.
• Create abrupt changes at certain keys, for split-like eects.
How Key Track works: Keys and Slopes
e keyboard tracking works by creating four ramps, or slopes, between ve keys on the keyboard. e bottom and top
keys are xed at the bottom and top of the MIDI range, respectively. You can set the other three keys–named Low, Mid,
and High–to be anywhere in between.
e four Slope values control the rate of change between each pair of keys. For instance, if the Low-Mid Slope is set to
0, the value will stay the same between the Low Key and the Mid Key.
You can think of the resulting shape as being like two folding doors attached to a hinge in the center. At the Mid Key
(the main hinge), the keyboard tracking has no eect. e two folding doors swing out from this center point to create
changes in the higher and lower ranges of the keyboard.
Slope
Positive slope values mean that the keyboard tracking output increases as you play farther from the Mid Key; negative
slope values mean that it decreases. Because of this, the meaning of positive and negative slopes changes depending on
whether the slope is to the le or right of the Mid Key.
Low and Low-Mid: negative slopes make the output go down as you play lower on the keyboard, and positive slopes
make the output go up.
Mid-High and High: negative slopes make the output go down as you play higher on the keyboard, and positive slopes
make the output go up.
e table below shows how the slopes aect the modulation output:
Slope value Modulation change
–Inf 0 to minimum in 1 half-step
-10.00 0 to minimum in 6 semitones
–5.00 0 to minimum in 1 octave
–1.00 0 to minimum in 5 octaves
0 no change
+1.00 0 to maximum in 5 octaves
+5.00 0 to maximum in 1 octave
+10.00 0 to maximum in 6 semitones
+Inf 0 to maximum in 1 half-step
Low Key Mid Key High Key
+12.00
+1.00
00.00
–1.00
–12.00
Slope:
Max
Min
0
Slope= –1.00
Slope= +1.00
Mod Amount
Mod Amount
Slope= +1.00
Slope= –0.50
Slope= –Inf
Slope= +Inf
At the Mid Key, the modulation amount is always 0.

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Brand	Korg
Model	modwave native
Category	Synthesizer
Language	English