Sonic-charge Microtonic User Manual download pdf (Page 10)

create musically interesting results (with an emphasis on the word “interesting”, as

in experimental, not necessarily musically pleasing). To test various random re-

sults, use the Repeat Last Menu feature.

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Edit MIDI Controllers / Keys

This menu toggles the on-screen editing of MIDI keys and controllers mapping.

See MIDI Controllers And Keys for a description on how this works.

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MIDI Config

This menu item opens the MIDI config dialog described below in MIDI Config Dia-

log.

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Preferences

Choose this item to open the preferences dialog described below in Preferences

Dialog.

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Brings up a registration dialog where you register your copy of Microtonic. More

information on how to purchase a registration key can be found on the Sonic

Charge web site.

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Read User Guide

Opens the Microtonic User Guide in your PDF reader.

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About

Choosing this item will display a window with information on the version of Micro-

tonic you are running.

Channel Buttons

There are eight channel buttons, one for each drum channel. Press a channel button

to display and edit the drum patch parameters for that channel. The pattern editor

will also display the triggers, accents and fills of the channel you select. The se-

lected channel is indicated by a blue light.

You may trigger a channel to preview its drum patch by clicking a selected channel

button again. If the Control Key is held down (Alt Key on Mac) the channel will be

triggered accentuated (MIDI velocity 127), otherwise it will be triggered normally

(MIDI velocity 64).

The channel buttons also indicate when channels are being triggered. The button of

a channel that is being triggered flashes quickly with a green light.

If you right-click a channel button a menu will popup offering a few different choices

that works on the drum channel. From this menu you can for example cut, copy and

paste entire channels, including the channel's pattern data for all patterns. This

makes it easy to swap the places of two channels. Just copy the first channel to the

clipboard, choose Exchange Drum Channel / Clipboard on the second channel, and

paste back on the first channel again.

Mute Buttons

Pressing a mute button will toggle the muting of a channel. A muted channel will not

respond to triggers from the pattern engine or MIDI notes. If a sound has already

been triggered it will not be shut off by muting the channel. Thus, the muting differs

from the muting on a mixer-console where the mute button turns the sound off and

on instantaneously. If you are using Microtonic to control other MIDI devices, the

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