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Mixer – Dave Smith Instruments MOPHO SE User Manual

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Mixer

The Mixer section balances the levels of the outputs of the Oscillators section

and noise generator, and the Audio In/feedback loop before routing the summed

signals to the low-pass filter.

Mix: 0...127

—Mixes the outputs of oscillators 1 and 2 in varying amounts. A

setting of 0 is equivalent to 100% oscillator 1 and 0% oscillator 2. A setting of

127 is just the opposite. A setting of 64 is a 50/50 mix of both oscillators.

Feedback Level/External Volume Level: 0...127—

Left Out is normalled to

Audio In. (The Voice Architecture diagram on page 8 details Mopho’s signal

routing.) If nothing is plugged in to the Audio In jack, increasing the Feedback

Level causes more and more of the left output signal to be fed back into the

audio path pre-filter. As the level increases, so does the effect of the feedback.

When an audio cable is inserted in Audio In, the feedback loop is broken and the

audio is processed by Mopho’s filter and VCA. In conjunction with the gain

control, Audio In will accept a fairly wide range of signal levels from low-level

sources like guitars to hotter, line-level signals. For more information, see Using

Audio In on page 38.

Feedback Gain/External Input Gain: 0...127

—Feedback Gain boosts the level

of the feedback signal and is interactive with and dependent upon Feedback

Volume. If Feedback Volume is set to 0, then Feedback Gain has no effect.

(There is no feedback signal to boost.) However, Feedback Gain combined with

higher levels of Feedback Volume can result in effects ranging from pleasing

distortion to squirrelly harmonic weirdness.

This control is also used to boost the gain of signals processed via Audio In. For

line-level signals, additional gain is typically unnecessary. For low-level signals,

such as those from passive guitars or basses, External Input Gain boosts the

signal to more useful levels.

Noise: 0...127

—Controls the volume of the white noise generator.