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UI Combinations
Quick Recalls
COBALT8X has 8 Quick Recall slots for quickly loading presets. Quick Recalls are controlled
using the following button combos:
• Hold ‘Patch’ + hold one of the eight buttons on bottom left of the panel to assign the
currently loaded patch to a QR slot
• Hold ‘Patch’ + press one of the eight buttons on bottom left of the panel to load the
patch in the QR slot
LFO
• Turn the ‘Rate’ encoders into the negative range to access synced rates
• To access LFO3 parameters enter ‘Shift’ mode and press the LFO2/LFO3 button
Filter
• Hold the ‘Patch’ button and turn the ‘Cutoff’ encoder to control the Filter Type parameter
Envelopes
• Hold either the FILT-EG or AMP-EG button for one second and then turn the ADSR
encoders to adjust all envelopes simultaneously
• Press the ‘MEG’ button when MEG is already selected to latch MEG assign
Sequencer
• Hold the ‘Mute’ button to clear the sequencer notes
• Hold the Anim1 / Anim2 / Anim3 / Anim4 buttons to clear an animation lane
• When the screen is displaying the ‘Linked Sequence’ parameter, hold the ‘Edit’ switch to
set the value to be the currently loaded sequence.
• Hold the ‘Patch’ button and press the ‘Record’ button to enter the Step Sequencer ‘Edit’
Mode, if the currently loaded sequence is in ‘Step’ mode
UI Combinations
Arp
• Hold the ‘Arp’ button and press keys on the internal or an external keyboard to add
pattern notes or press the ‘Rest’ button to add a rest to the pattern
• Hold the ‘Patch’ button and turn the ‘Division’ encoder to control Arp Gate
Keyboard/Voice
• Press ‘Unison’ repeatedly to cycle through the different unison modes; press ‘Stack’
repeatedly to cycle through the different stack modes
• Press ‘Chord’ whilst holding a chord on the internal or an external keyboard to set the
chord mode chord.
• Hold ‘Transpose’ and press a key on the internal keyboard to transpose all notes, where
the central C key is the root note. Press ’Transpose’ with no keyboard interaction to reset
the transpose value back to 0.
• Hold the ‘Sustain’ button for one second when turning on Sustain to enable Sustain
‘Latch Mode’
• Hold the ‘Patch’ button and turn the ‘Drift’ encoder to control the Chord Invert
parameter.
Modulation
• To assign a Mod Slot either hold (momentary) or latch the desired Mod source button -
then set a depth by turning desired modulation destination parameter encoder
• When latched in a Mod Source assign mode pressing the flashing Mod Source button
again will exit assign mode
• Mod source button + ‘Depth’ encoder - set global depth for that mod source
• Press ModSlot repeatedly to cycle through and view all mod slot settings on the screen
• When the screen is displaying a mod slot ‘Depth’ parameter (most easily accessed via
assigning modulation using the panel or via the ModSlot button), hold the ‘Edit’ switch to
clear the mod slot assignment.
• To assign a mod source to the global frequency destination, use either of the fine tune
controls. ‘Tune1’ will assign to Osc1 tune, ‘Tune2’ will assign to Osc2 tune.