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Edit All

When Edit All is enabled, turning any knob and dragging any fader will adjust all un-

muted drum channels simultaneously. For example, if you turn Distort up 10% then

the Distort amount of all (un-muted) channels will be increased by 10%. If you are

recording automation in your host, Microtonic will write parameter automation for all

affected channels.

Mixing Section

The mixing section is the leftmost group and the final stage in the audio processing

chain. It mixes the oscillator and the noise generator together and optionally distorts

and equalizes the channel. After this stage the audio from the various channels are

mixed and sent to the host.

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Oscillator / Noise Mix

Range: 0/100 to 100/0

Default: 50/50

Oscillator / Noise Mix controls the mix of oscillator versus noise. At the far left

setting (100/0) only the oscillator is heard and at the far right (0/100) only the

noise. At the middle (50/50) the volumes are balanced so that the oscillator and

noise sources are mixed with equal power.

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Equalizer Frequency

Range: 20Hz to 20 000Hz (20kHz)

Default: 632.46Hz

This is the equalizer frequency setting. Use the equalizer to either boost or cut

frequencies in the signal spectrum. The equalizing is applied after the distortion.

Proper use of the equalizer plays an important part in achieving a professional

sound. You can use the equalizer to boost the bass frequencies of bass drum

sounds or to make the high-end frequencies of hi-hats sound crispy and sharp.

Negative equalizer gain can be used to create notch effects such as the typical

loudness curve (where the middle range is attenuated and bass and treble is

boosted). Sweeping the frequency using parameter automation usually creates a

cool effect.

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Distortion Amount

Range: 0 to 100

Default: 0

This parameter controls the amount of distortion. Zero = no distortion (100% lin-

ear), 100 = complete and utter destruction. The distortion unit is specifically de-

signed to be useful for creating powerful drum sounds. At very low settings, it

softly shapes the signal, adding both odd and even harmonics, which creates a

warm and thick sound. At higher settings, the distortion turns more into an over-

drive effect, creating a harder sound. The distortion unit is the only part of Micro-

tonic that has not been specifically designed to prevent “aliasing” artifacts on

high-frequency material. There are two reasons for this: first, to be perfectly “alias

free” the distortion would require very much CPU-power. Secondly, “aliasing” can

be cool and since everything else in Microtonic is virtually “alias free”, this is a

good place to give the user the choice. (A word of caution here: the amount and

the character of “aliasing” will be different when running in different sample rates.)

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