Intellijel Cylonix Shapeshifter v1.03 User Manual

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Front Panel Elements (continued...)

RATIO/TIME POTENTIOMETER - this potentiometer provides an offset to the oscillator 2 RATIO setting.

This is summed with the external RATIO input signal. The pitch of oscillator 2 is shifted by an amount

proportional to this sum. Oscillator 2’s frequency setting is also used to set the delay time for the echo

effect, thus the RATIO/TIME potentiometer can be used to alter the delay time.

QUANT. BUTTON - this button, when pressed, toggles quantization of the oscillator 2 frequency ratio on

and off. When ratio quantization is enabled the pitch of oscillator 2 is tied directly to the pitch of oscilla-

tor 1. The external PITCH2 input is ignored in this situation. There are 16 different quantized ratios avail-

able: [1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, 1, 5/4, 3/2, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8].

MODULATION INPUT ATTENUATORS - these mini-potentiometers (without knobs) serve to adjust the

level of the modulation inputs (those coming from the second row of jacks from the bottom of the front

panel).

FINE and COARSE POTENTIOMETERS - these two potentiometers provide an offset to the pitch for both

oscillators. This offset is summed with the external pitch input signals (PITCH1 and PITCH2), as well as

the RATIO signal in the case of oscillator 2, to produce the oscillator pitches.

MODULATION INPUT JACKS - the top row of jacks are used to input eight different modulation signals.

These signals include:

RATIO: adjusts the ratio of the frequency of oscillator 2 as compared to that of oscillator 1.

IFM: sets the level of the internal frequency modulation of oscillator 1 by oscillator 2.

FM 1: audio rate linear frequency modulation of oscillator 1.

FOLD CV: adjusts the amount of waveform folding imposed by the analog wave folder.

MOD A: audio rate modulation input with a number of different modulation targets.

SHAPE 1: modulates the shape of oscillator 1’s waveform within the current wavetable bank.

SHAPE 2: modulates the shape of oscillator’ 2s waveform within the current wavetable bank.

MOD B: low rate modulation input with a number of different modulation targets.

PEAK/LFO 1 LED - this LED indicates whether either of the two audio-rate modulation inputs, FM 1 and

MOD A, have reached the limits of their range, and hence whether clipping of these signals is occuring.

If you see the PEAK LED come on, turn down the attenuator for these inputs. When oscillator 1 is op-

erating in LFO mode, this LED no longer signals the presence of peaks, but instead indicates the sign of

output 1 (i.e. the LED is illuminated whenever output 1 is positive).

INPUT JACKS - the four leftmost jacks in the bottom row are used to input the following signals:

PITCH 1: this input sets the pitch of oscillator 1. It has a 1 volt/octave scale factor.

PITCH 2: this input sets the pitch of oscillator 2. It has a 1 volt/octave scale factor. This jack is

normalized to the PITCH 1 jack, which means that if no cable is plugged into the PITCH 2 jack, the PITCH

2 input follows the signal input to the PITCH 1 jack.

SYNC:

positive-going pulses input to this jack cause the oscillators to be synchronized, according

to the current SYNC mode settings. These pulses are also used to trigger the percussive attacks when

the module is in PERC mode, and cause stepping of the presets when preset stepping is activated.

FOLD IN: the signal input to this jack is fed to the input of the analog wavefolder circuitry. It is

normalized to the OUT 1 jack, so that if no cable is plugged into the FOLD IN jack, the input to the wave-

folder is taken from output 1.

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