9. GLOBAL

GLOBAL

GLOBAL opens on the right of the OSC page when you click GLOBAL at the bottom of SOURCES (below the divider; since 1.6, before it was the GLOBAL page). MIDI MONITOR and CUT GROUP moved to MIDI (chapter 10). GLOBAL holds settings for the whole sound and the tools for making your own waves (import, additive and resynthesis).

PITCH BEND

Control Details
Range Down / Range Up How many semitones pitch bend moves down / up (0-24).

PORTAMENTO

Glides the pitch from one note to the next.

Control Details
Mode Off / Norm, Fix / Norm, Var / Fing, Fix / Fing, Var
Time Glide time (0-10 s).
Curve Shape of the glide.

DRIFT / BURST

Control Details
Drift Slow random pitch drift per oscillator, for analog-style instability.
Burst Adds a short "pop" at the moment of each note-on.
0.1ms Attack (v1.1) When On, an envelope Attack turned fully left rises in 0.1 ms instead of 1 ms, for snappier kicks and plucks. New sounds start On; older songs and presets load Off.

POLYPHONY / MONO

Control Details
Polyphony How many notes can play at once (1-64).
Mono Single-note playing (for bass and leads).
Retrigger In Mono, the next note restarts the envelopes. Off = legato playing continues the envelopes.
Same Note When the same key is played again: Cut = stop the previous note / Overlap = let its tail ring on.
Env Start (v1.1) When a note is retriggered while still sounding: Zero = envelopes restart from zero, and the oscillator phase and Retrig / One Shot LFOs restart too (after a 3 ms fade, so it does not click) / Level = envelopes continue from the current level (as before). New sounds start with Zero; older songs and presets load with Level.

MASTER

Control Details
Transpose Overall transpose (semitones).
Tune Overall fine tuning (cents).

WAVETABLE (quality)

Control Details
Rolloff Slightly softens the very highest harmonics to reduce harshness and aliasing (default 15%).
Quality (Live) Oversampling while playing (Off / ×2 / ×4). The waveforms are already built so the highs do not alias, so Off is usually enough. Higher settings use more CPU (a safety net for extreme sound design).
Quality (Render) Quality when rendering offline (Same as Live / ×2 / ×4). While rendering, the higher of Live and Render is used.
FX Quality (v1.1) How much faster Distortion / Saturator run internally (Off / ×2 / ×4, default ×2). At ×2 and above they also use anti-aliased curves, and Chorus / Flanger use a more accurate interpolation. While rendering, ×2 becomes ×4 automatically. Use ×4 for an even cleaner lead, or Off (the original processing) if things get heavy. Saved with each sound. Older songs and presets also load at ×2 (less grit from Distortion / Saturator, almost no change in level).

If it feels heavy: first try Quality (Live) at Off, then FX Quality at Off if it is still heavy. Rendered audio is set by Quality (Render), so lowering Live does not change your bounces.

IMPORTED WAVEFORMS

Eight slots for single-cycle WAVs (one period of a waveform). Since 1.6 this is a single row: choose a slot (with its name) in the Slot drop-down; the buttons work on that slot. Imported waves are used as User 1-8 on the oscillators.

Button Details
IMPORT... Load a WAV file.
×4 / ×3 / ×2 Extract several cycles from one file into this and the following slots (for Wave A-D morphing).
CLEAR Empty the slot.

ADDITIVE OSCILLATORS

An additive editor where you draw the level and phase of each harmonic (8 slots). Since 1.6 GLOBAL only shows one row (Slot drop-down, name, EDIT...); EDIT... opens the editor in a window (close it with ×, Esc or a click outside). When an oscillator's Wave A is Add 1-8, the EDIT button at the top right of its waveform display opens it too. In the window: The waves are used as Add 1-8 on the oscillators.

Part Details
Slot / Name Slot and name.
PRESET Load a preset harmonic layout.
CLEAR Clear everything.
AMP / PHASE Draw harmonic levels / phases.
Smooth Smooths the drawn harmonics.
ANTI-RING Reduces overshoot (ringing) at the corners of the wave. Turn it off if the sound gets muddy.

The screen shows harmonics 1-128; drag with the mouse to draw.

RESYNTHESIS

Analyses a recording (WAV) into a wavetable with many frames that change over time (6 slots). The results are used as Resynth 1-6 on the oscillators and on NOISE.

Part Details
IMPORT... / CLEAR Load a sound / empty the slot.
Frames Number of frames for the next import or re-analysis.
Phase Aligned = harmonic phases locked to the fundamental (smooth morphing).
Root Original pitch of the sound. Auto = detect.
Pitch → / Level → EXPORT Export the recording's pitch / level movement to a Free ENV (Custom) and connect it in a free Mod Matrix slot.

The screen on the right shows how harmonics 1-64 and the level change over time.

When you use a recording, please make sure you have the right to use it.

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