User manual KORG MONOTRIBE

[. . . ] These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: • Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. [. . . ] It’s a great way to create tricky rhythms and sequence patterns with unique grooves. Multi-function LFO A broad range of RATE and INTENSITY settings cover everything from subtle change to drastic modulation. in addition to convention- 5 Block diagram NOISE CUTOFF PEAK LEVEL AUDIO IN NOISE GENERATOR PITCH VCO KEY TRACK VCF CUTOFF VCA AUDIO OUT LFO SLOW FAST 1SHOT RATE INT. VCO+VCF VCO SYNC EG EG 3 PART DRUMS TRIGGER LEVEL VCF RANGE PITCH TARGET SEQUENCER STEP, TRANSPORT CONTROLS OCTAVE RIBBON KEYBOARD SYNC IN SYNC OUT TEMPO 6 Owner’s manual Getting started Installing batteries Turn off the power before replacing the batteries. Leaving depletedbatteries in the battery compartment may cause malfunctions (the batteries may leak). You should also remove the batteries if you don’t expect to use the monotribe for an extended period of time. don’t mix partially-used batteries with new batteries , and don’t mix batteries of differing types. If an AC adapter is connected, the remaining battery amount will not be shown correctly. In order for the remaining battery amount to be detected and shown correctly, you must use the Global menu (p. During operation If the batteries are running low, the monotribe will warn you by blinking the four part LEDs (p. If the batteries run down completely, the step 1 LED will blink, and then the power will turn off automatically. Disabling the auto power-off function If desired, you can disable the auto power-off function. 9 Panel description and functions Synthesizer section 1 2 5 7 9 10 3 4 6 8 11 12 13 14 10 Owner’s manual VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) The oscillator generates the waveform that’s the basis of the sound: a sawtooth wave, triangle wave, or square wave. If an external audio source is connected to the AUDIO IN jack, it will be mixed with the VCO’s output. The VCO generates a waveform at a pitch that’s determined by the position being touched on the ribbon keyboard or by performance data that you’ve recorded as a sequence. In addition, the LFO can also apply time-varying changes to the pitch. WIDE The pitch range will be extended to approximately six times that of the NARROW setting; pitch change will be continuous. The pitch will change continuously according to the printed ribbon keyboard. The pitch will change in chromatic steps according to the printed ribbon keyboard. With the ”64’” setting, the pitch range of the ribbon keyboard will be A0–D2. VCF (Voltage Controlled Filter) The filter modifies the timbre (tonal character) by boosting or cutting specific frequency regions of the sound produced by the oscillator. The monotribe uses the traditional 12 dB/oct low-pass filter (LPF) that was also used on the Korg MS-20. [. . . ] When you play the ribbon keyboard, the data of your performance will be recorded. Pressing this button while stopped will put the monotribe in recordready mode; the REC LED will blink. In this state, pressing the PLAY button to start playback will activate record mode. To exit record mode or record-ready mode, press the REC button once again to make the REC LED go dark. [. . . ]