ALESIS ANDROMEDA A6 - Manual (Page 62)

Chapter 2: Playing the A6
60 A NDROMEDA A6 R EFERENCE M ANUAL
ON/OFF Button
This button simply turns the portamento function on or off. When on, the LED will
light. Pressing this button selects the
ENABLE parameter on the PORTA page.
Portamento Parameters
SOFT KNOB
PAGE TAB
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
PORTA TIME SPEED MODE CURVE ENABLE OSC EN FLT EN
STMODE MODE OFFSET
MOD SOURCE LEVEL OFFSET ENABLE
PORTA Parameters
PAGE PARAMETER
OPTIONS
or RANGE DESCRIPTION
PORTA TIME OFF
2 M ···
32.77 S
Sets the speed of the glide between notes.
Minimum is
2M or 2 milliseconds; maximum is
about 33 seconds. Longer portamento times
may be achieved by modulating the time
through a mod route.
SPEED This parameter determines the method used to
calculate the rate of portamento between notes:
OCTAVE When set to OCTAVE , the TIME setting is
determined by the interval between notes and
is expressed in “seconds per octave.” If
TIME is
set to 5.00 seconds, for example, the time it
takes to slide one octave is 5 seconds. The time
it takes to glide the entire length of the
keyboard (five octaves) is 25 seconds.
1SPEED When set to 1SPEED , the TIME setting doesn’t
care about the interval in its calculations. The
rate of sliding is the same between semitones as
it is between octaves. Using the previous
example of
5.00 seconds, it takes five seconds
to glide from the E key to the F key just above it,
just one semitone. It also takes five seconds to
slide from the same E key to the E three octaves
above it.