Waldorf Mod1 User Manual - page 7
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DEVICE OVERVIEW
5.2
Signal Connection
5.2
Signal Connection
The second step is to integrate the mod1 to your Eurorack system.
Connect a trigger or gate signal or use the gate signal from the bus board to
control the mod1 and start to modulate your VCF, VCO or any other of your
modules by patching the mod1 outputs to your modulation targets.
Connections are made by using mini patch cables. These cables are standard
mono male-male mini-jacks (3.5mm) and can be bought from any audio store.
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Device Overview
Modulation is the spice of sound. A tone or a noise starts to bore our ears
without variation or change in terms of loudness, timbre, frequency or length.
Imagine a piano tune with every tone in exact the same length, loudness and
tone. This should be very mechanical, cause the lack of impression and varia-
tion.
Or think about a sirene in a police car without the modulation as a constant
tone. This would be very unpleasant. Normally you did not have a police sirene
in your musical setup, but in the best case an Eurorack modular system fully
loaded with analog tone generators, digital oscillators and other fine modules to
tweak and fiddle around with. Waldorf creates an amazing tool to design your
sounds.
Therefore Waldorf comes up with the fully analog mod1 modulator module to
shape, manipulate and create soundscapes for your imagination and made it to
your modulation center of your modular system.
The mod1 module comprises three different modulation engines to increase the
flexibility of your Eurorack system. Three highly flexible modulation sources in
one module. All based on innovative analogue circuits for snappy attacks and
super smooth curves.
First, a symmetry generator which could be used as a LFO or short envelope.
Second, a multi-stage envelope with three configurable decay stages including
loop mode for complex modulation shapes.
And third, a short envelope with optional loop mode and curve control.
6.1
Symmetry Generator
The symmetry generator has three modes: Trigger, Gate and LFO.
• In LFO mode it runs continuously when nothing is patched to the input.
This will be the most common form to modulate a destination parameter
in a cyclic way. For example to higher and lower the pitch of an oscillator
or to open and close a filter cutoff. The standard setting is by maximum
25Hz and minmum 0.2Hz. (5 seconds per cycle). But this is user-trimable
by a trimpot on the back of the module. You can slowdown the LFO to 1
minute per cycle, but then only 10Hz for the maximum is left. When the
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