Sonic Charge Microtonic User Manual

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the visuals are virtually infinite in resolution as well.

(Try dragging some knobs and

faders with the shift key down, and boy is that smooth.)

• Patterns that are part of the current "pattern chain" are lit in blue color. Empty pat-

terns show up gray.

• You can drag and drop presets and drum patch files from the explorer / finder

onto

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• Clicking the drum patch name display will pop up a list with drum patches residing

in the same directory for quick loading.

• There is a "select channel with MIDI switch" that allows you to select drum chan-

nels for editing from your MIDI keyboard.

• Shift-clicking a step button

(trigger, accent or repeat)

sets or resets that step but-

ton for all

(un-muted)

channels at once. Try it out for making abrupt breaks or in-

tense fills in patterns.

Minor (but still cool) Improvements

• Windows version is even further optimized and generally uses around 15% less

CPU.

• No longer does

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pattern engine start to play automatically every time

you open up a preset. If it is stopped, it stays stopped.

• The randomization features have been tuned a little, they should now hopefully

give even more... erhm... interesting results.

• Soloing a channel will select that channel. This makes it easier to solo out and edit

one channel at a time.

• A star

(*)

is appended to the preset name when it is modified

(just like with drum

patches)

• Both the noise and oscillator envelope now have techniques to prevent clicking

when retriggering with slow attack settings. This improves the sound of the noise
envelope compared to version 1.0, especially with high q settings.

• If a host reports that output b is not connected, all the drum patches routed to

output b will go to a.

• Better compatibility with certain hosts

(no names)

by implementing yet some more

"safety measures". Amongst other things we now prevent a problem were

Micro-

tonic

would actually get unregistered spontaneously.

(I know it sounds weird, but it

is true.)

• File names and directories can contain unicode characters. They may not be dis-

played properly, but they should work. Previously you would get errors if you used
unicode characters in names.

•

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skin has undergone slight cosmetic surgery and now looks and feels

clearer with sharper contrasts and a new drum patch display / selector amongst
other improvements.

And lets not forget the numerous new presets and patches contributed by Elmodic,
Rory Dows and others.

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