Novation MiniNova - Table of Contents

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CONTENTS
Important Safety Instructions ................................1
Environmental Declaration ...................................1
Copyright and Legal notices .................................1
Introduction ................................................3
Key Features: ...............................................3
About this manual ..........................................3
What’s in the box? ..........................................3
Registering your MiniNova .................................................. 3
Power requirements ....................................................... 3
Hardware Overview .........................................4
Top view – controls ........................................................ 4
Rear view – connections ................................................... 5
Getting Started .............................................5
Standalone and computer operation – a foreword .............................. 5
Standalone operation – audio and MIDI connections ........... 5
Using headphones ........................................................ 6
A word about Menu Navigation ............................... 6
Scrolling through Patches .................................................. 6
Searching through Types or Genres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Using the FAVORITE button to load Patches .................................. 6
Assigning a Patch to a Pad ................................................. 6
Loading a Patch from a Pad ................................................. 6
Demo Mode .............................................................. 6
Modifying Sounds - using the performance controls ...........6
Parameter Controls ........................................................ 6
Rows 1 and 2 – Tweak and (FX) Tweak controls ............................ 7
Rows 3 to 6 – Fixed Tweak controls ...................................... 7
The Filter knob ............................................................ 7
Using the Pads as performance controls ...................................... 7
The Arpeggiator ........................................................... 7
The Vocoder .............................................................. 7
Pitch and Mod wheels ..................................................... 7
Octave Shift .............................................................. 8
Storing a Patch ........................................................... 8
Updating the MiniNova’s Operating System ................................... 8
Synthesis Tutorial ...........................................8
Synth Menus – Reference section ...........................12
Top Menu: Audio In ....................................................... 12
Top Menu: Global ........................................................ 12
Top Menu: Arp ........................................................... 13
Top Menu: Chord .........................................................14
Top Menu: Edit ........................................................... 14
Edit menu - Submenu 1: Tweaks ........................................ 14
Edit menu - Submenu 2: Osc ........................................... 14
Per-Oscillator parameters ............................................ 14
Common Oscillator parameters ....................................... 15
Edit menu - Submenu 3: Mixer .......................................... 16
Edit menu - Submenu 4: Filter ..........................................16
Per-Filter parameters ................................................ 17
Common Filter parameters ...........................................17
Edit menu - Submenu 5: Voice ......................................... 19
Edit menu - Submenu 6: Env ............................................20
Amplitude Envelope .................................................20
What is Legato? ....................................................21
Common Envelope Parameter ........................................22
Filter Envelope .....................................................22
Envelopes 3 to 6 ....................................................23
Edit menu - Submenu 7: LFO .......................................... 24
Edit menu - Submenu 8: ModMatrx ......................................25
Edit menu - Submenu 9: Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
EQ Menu ..........................................................28
Compressor Menu ..................................................28
Distortion Menu ....................................................29
Delay Menu ........................................................29
Reverb Menu ....................................................... 29
Chorus Menu ......................................................30
Gator Menu ........................................................30
Edit menu -Submenu 10: VoxTune ....................................... 31
Edit menu - Submenu 11: Vocoder ......................................32
Top Menu: Dump .........................................................33
Waveform Table ......................................................34
Sync Values Table ....................................................34
LFO Waveforms Table .................................................35
Modulation Matrix Sources Table ......................................35
Modulation Matrix Destinations Table ..................................36
Tweak Parameters Table ..............................................36
Filter Table ...........................................................38
Arp Mode Table ......................................................38
Gator Modes Table ...................................................38
Effects Type Table ....................................................38
Firmware updates ..........................................39