Sonic Charge Microtonic User Manual
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automatable and MIDI controllable parameter, so it can be used both as a per-
formance parameter as well as an editing feature.
• Matrix editor window for viewing and editing the pattern steps of all eight drum
channels simultaneously.
(Bonus feature: you can drag channel labels to reorder
the drum channels of the preset.)
• MIDI Program Change message support for instantaneously switching between up
to 16 different presets
(loaded into memory)
.
(It is also possible to switch programs
with MIDI notes.)
• Drag and drop patterns as MIDI files directly into your sequencer
(supported by all
major hosts)
.
• “Edit All Channels” button enables adjusting parameters for all drum channels si-
multaneously. E.g. turn up the distortion on all channels.
Microtonic
will write pa-
rameter automation for all affected channels, so the effect can be automated.
• A new “choke group” feature lets you assign two or more channels that should
play mutually exclusively and cut each other off. Useful for closed and open hi-
hats for example.
• A preset name display sits in the top of the window, with previous and next preset
buttons and a popup list when you click the display.
• Support for MIDI Pitch Wheel for real-time pitch transposition with a range of up
to 2 octaves.
• A new “Stop Voices with MIDI Note Off” option makes it possible to sustain the
sound while you hold down MIDI keys (if you use
Microtonic
as a synth). It is also
useful for changing the length of drum sounds with note lengths in your se-
quencer.
• Alternative “pattern launch modes”: “Switch Next”
(the behavior in earlier versions
of
Microtonic
)
, “Switch Directly”, “Retrigger” and “Retrigger Gated”.
• Undo / redo.
• Shift-click menu buttons to quickly repeat last selected menu item.
• New 3D-rendered skin. Sharper, brighter, sexier with 32-bit graphics.
(Yes,
Micro-
tonic
version 2.0 was using 20th century 16-bit RGB graphics still)
.
Other Improvements
• New menu functions: “Transpose”
(all channels or a single drum patch).
“Alter
Drum Patches”
(all channels or a single drum patch)
. “Randomize Accents and
Fills”
(on entire pattern or single channel)
. “Revert to Saved”
(revert to last saved
version of preset)
.
• New trial system: up to three weeks of trial with full functionality. After that
Micro-
tonic
will go silent until you register. Weeks will only be counted when you actually
use
Microtonic
.
•
Microtonic
will now reload the most recently used program bank
(of 16 programs)
automatically when you create a new instance.
(This behavior can be changed
from the
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