Experiment: Set Oscillator 1 and 2 to playback sawtooth waveforms. Adjust the tuning of OSC 2 until it feels
interesting to you. Now engage sync. What’s happened to the sound? Disengage sync. Listen again. Sometimes
you want sync for effect, other times you need sync for stability. Sometimes you really don’t want sync at all.
OSCILLATOR 3
RANGE
Sets the overall frequency range of the Oscillator’s tuning from LO, 32’, 16’, 8’, 4’ and 2’
FINE
Tunes Oscillator 3’s pitch relative to the tuning of Oscillator 1.
WAVEFORM
This is the waveform selector for Oscillator 3.
Choose between TRIANGLE, REVERSE SAWTOOTH (OSC 3 only), SAWTOOTH, SQUARE WAVE, PULSE WAVE
1 (wide,) and PULSE WAVE 2 (narrow.)
ENV-1 KNOB
This knob adjusts the amount of modulation is applied from the filter envelope to the frequency of Oscillator 2.
At 12 o’clock the result is nil. Rotating clockwise results in a positive modulation, and counterclockwise results in
a negative modulation. Using frequency modulation with the Oscillators can seem counter intuitive to those just
learning about analog synthesizers. Why would we want the sound to go in and out of tune? Try turning this up a
bit, and then adjusting the filter envelope. Turn things up pretty far. Sometimes the effect is a gentle wave of
vibrato, and other times it’s just madness. Explore. Don’t be afraid to make some noise.
KEYBOARD SWITCH
This switch tuns on and off keyboard tracking for Oscillator 3. When keyboard tracking is disengaged, OSC3
works as an independent oscillator. This is interesting when using OSC 3 as a modulation source, so the
modulation can do it’s own thing. It’s also interesting to drone out OSC 3 without key tracking as a juxtaposition
with tracked notes from OSC 1 & 2.
XMOD SWITCH
This is the selector switch for assigning which XMOD setting (cross modulation) will be effected by the mod wheel.
A- OSC 2 Modulates the FILTER cutoff frequency
B- OSC 3 Modulates the waveform of OSC 2
C- OSC 3 Modulate the pulse width of OSC 1 & 2 (which only works if you’ve selected a square or pulse wave
for OSC 1 and 2 - otherwise it won’t do anything.)
IMPORTANT NOTES FOR VERSION 1.11
When LO range mode is selected for OSC 2, no CV is applied to the oscillator; think OSC 3 KYBD switch (and
the Minimoog). OSC 2 FINE now becomes a very aggressive coarse tune—makes for feral XMOD
experimentation. No factory patches were to harmed in the switch to the new static OSC 2 LO mode/FINE tune
reversal, so we opted for the opening up of CV functionality. However, if LO is a OSC 2 setting on any of your
USER patches, tuning adjustments will have to be made. Thanks for understanding in advance.
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