Elektron Monomachine - Manual (Page 133)

Appendix A: MACHINE REFERENCE A-9
VO-6 TUTORIAL
Getting words out of the VO-6 is pretty
straight forward once you get to know it. In
this section we offer a short tutorial to get you
started. It will make a Monomachine track fit-
ted with the VO-6 spell out the word "Mon-
omachine".
Start with loading the VO-6 machine on one
of the Monomachine tracks, and verify that it
makes sound as you play it on the keyboard.
Be sure to start with a clear pattern, set the
tempo to 120 and make sure that the V-SW
parameter in the VO page is set to 1 (on).
You then need to adjust the amplitude enve-
lope to make the VO-6 respond the way we
want. Set ATK = 0, DEC = 127 and REL = 0.
The VO-6 now responds quickly, holds for as
long as the note is held, and quiets quickly
when we let the note go.
Now we can start with the actual program-
ming. Our method will be to work in four
steps for each syllable of the word:
1. Find the right vowel by turning the VOC1
and VOC2 knobs while playing on the key-
board.
2. Choose the right consonant with the
CONS parameter and adjust its sound
with the CLEN and CVOL parameters.
Remember that when you look for the cor-
rect consonant you should seek a conso-
nant that makes the sound you want
rather than how the word is spelled. For
example, if you want to say "cat" you
should start with a "k".
3. Enter GRID RECORDING mode. Put a
trig on the step where you want it.
4. Press and hold this trig and push each
knob you used in step 1 and 2 to lock the
parameters. You might want to lock the
VOC1, VOC2, CONS and CLEN parame-
ters.
To program the VO-6 to spell out "Monoma-
chine" we need to set 5 trigs with the sounds
"mo"+"no"+"ma"+"shi"+"n". You will find the
right vowel for “mo” by setting VOC1 = 35
and VOC2 = 5. Trig the machine and it
should say “o”.
Now select "M" with the CONS knob, and set
CLEN to 5. Now it is time to set the first trig.
In GRID RECORDING mode, set a trig on
step 1. Hold it while clicking the knobs for
VOC1, VOC2, CONS and CLEN, so that
these parameters get locked. Also adjust the
pitch of this trig by pressing [LEFT] and
[RIGHT] while holding the trig. Choose pitch
"F-2". Now we are ready with the first trig,
time to set the second one.
Make sure the VOC1 and VOC2 knobs are
still in the same position as for the first trig,
as the vowel for “no” is the same as for “mo”.
Turn the CONS knob to "N", set CLEN=5.
Set this trig on step number 4. Press and
hold it and push the VOC1, VOC2, CONS
and CLEN knobs to lock them.
To make a more natural sound, set a note-off
trig on step 6 by pressing the [TRIG] key
while holding [FUNCTION].
For the third trig we want to say "ma". Set
VOC1 = 127, VOC2 = 60, CONS = "M" and
CLEN = 5. Set a trig on step 7 and lock the
parameters mentioned above.
The fourth trig should say "shi". Adjust the
parameters to VOC1 = 40, VOC2 = 110,
CONS = "SJ" and CLEN = 0. Set a trig on
step number 10 and lock the parameters
mentioned above.
If you press play now, the pattern should say
"monomachiiii". The last thing we need to do
is to end the track with an "n". Make sure that
VOC1 and VOC2 retain the settings from last
trig. Set CONS="N". Set a trig on step
number 13, and lock VOC1, VOC2, CONS
and CLEN. This time we also want to lock
the V-SW knob to 0 in order to make it say
"n" and then stop. Do this by holding the trig
while turning the
V-SW to 0.
Now press play and the Monomachine
should spell out "monomachine" when you
press play.
You can continue exploring the possibilities
by adjusting the filter, adjust the sample rate
reduction or other effects you might think of.
You can lock the effects on individual steps
to get different effects for the syllables. Use
MULTI TRIG mode to control the pitch of the
words in real-time.