Pro – 800 Program sound design

PERF
Perf pressed twice – once perf light is on steady, you’re operating in pure physical synth mode,
what you see on the knobs is what you get as far as the main synth controls, and no presets are
selected – in this mode pressing numbers on the numeric keypad takes you immediately to the
function list described below
Perf pressed once while Preset light is on – if both perf and preset lights are flashing, you can
enter the sound design sub menus in the program select section simply by pressing the
corresponding buttons, you press the corresponding button multiple times to cycle through the
lettered items below and press a new number to that numbered item. Once you’re at a lettered
item, the value knob changes between the actual values for that item. All changes here are saved
when you save the preset.
The functions of this mode are as follows when pressing the numerical keypad.
1. LFO – Controls settings for the on-panel LFO in the following ways:
a) LFO shape – as per the LFO switch on controls, you move through column 1,2,3
and the switch controls the lower or higher option such as pulse/triangle,
sin/random, saw/noise
b) LFO Target (changes the target of the LFO settings and amount on the main
painel – A (Osc A), B (Osc B), AB (Both oscs at same time), VCA (Tremolo effect)
c) LFO Speed – Fast or Slow

2. Vibrato – This is a second LFO only for pitch, (Note if the mod wheel target is
vibrato, amount is zero unless mod wheel is up and the setting affects mod wheel
amount, if mod wheel target is LFO. Amount works right away as per setting)
a) Amount – strength of vibrato
b) Speed – speed of vibrato

3. Mod wheel – Controls mod wheel routing

a) Amount – Controls how “full” mod wheel effect is, from light effect-fine control,
to very heavy -coarse control
b) Mod wheel target – LFO/ Vibrato – if mod wheel is at vibrato, vibrato will have
no effect unless mod wheel is up and then goes up to a blend of its max amount x
the mod wheel amount setting. If mod wheel is at LFO, the LFO starts at its initial
amount on the panel, and then goes up a further amount depending on the a)
amount setting for the mod wheel.
c) Modulation Delay - Creates a fade in effect for the mod wheel strength as
decided by the selected time.

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4. Envelope Shapes
a) VCA Env – SLin (Slow linear), FLin (Fast Linear), FEXP (Fast Exponential)
SEXP (Slow Exponential)
b) VCF Env – SLin (Slow linear), FLin (Fast Linear), FEXP (Fast Exponential)
SEXP (Slow Exponential)
5. Pitchbend Target – Pitchbend controls VCO (pitch), VCF (filter), VOL (volume),
OFF – no effect
6. Oscillator Pitch Functions
a) Osc A Frequency Pot Node – controls function of Osc A frequency knob – Semi
(semitones), Oct (octaves), Fixd (no keyboard tracking full range fixed oscillator),
Free (an open tuning standard for totally flexible pitch control)
b) Osc B Frequency Pot Node – controls function of Osc A frequency knob – Semi
(semitones), Oct (octaves), Fixd (no keyboard tracking full range fixed oscillator),
Free (an open tuning standard for totally flexible pitch control)
c) Keyboard Tracking – This affects the filter keyboard tracking mode as far as
which octave it counts as its “center”, lower or higher.
7. Velocity settings
a) VCA Velocity – Controls the amount the velocity of each key press affects the
volume of a note
b) VCF Velocity - Controls the amount the velocity of each key press affects the
filter/brightness of each note – note that on this synth this affects the filter
envelope amount as the way which it works.
8. Aftertouch settings – useful if you have a keyboard with aftertouch function
a) VCA AT Amount – Controls the degree to which the aftertouch affects the volume
b) VCF AT Amount – Controls the degree to which the aftertouch affects the filter
cutoff
c) LFO AT Amount - Controls the degree to which the aftertouch affects the LFO
amount strength - affecting whatever the LFO is routed to
9. Unison and Voice Spread Settings
NOTE Unison Modes – Unison is controlled via the unison track switch on the
main panel
 When you hold no key and turn unison track on you get a full monophonic
unison glide mode – all 8 voices are active monophonically
 When you hold a single note and turn unison track on while holding the note
you get a single voice mono-synth mode, no unison, just turns the synthesizer
into a MiniMoog style mono synth, great for basslines, leads, etc
 When you hold a chord up to 8 notes and turn on unison track while holding
the chord, the unison gets spread into a chord transposed by each key press
chromatically – great for retro techno and house chord stabs for example.
a) Unison Detune – Controls the detuning voice spread of the unison mode from a
narrow thin detune effect to a very wide spread and noisy detune effect
b) Voice Spread – NOTE: This control specifically acts when NO unison mode is
activated. What it does is apply your unison-detune amount setting to playing

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 normal polyphonic chords, creating an extra-detuned effect while playing the
synth in normal polyphonic mode when it is turned “On”
0. Glide Mode – Time – more rhythmic based like a 303, the glide knob on the synth
changes the literal time length of the glide effect, - Speed – to create effects more based
around pitch – with a longer glide on notes further apart and vice versa rather than
stable time.

PRESET/ REC
Preset light stable - A preset is selected, and is not modified in any way
Preset light flashing – The selected preset has been modified, modifications will be lost if
another preset is selected (and changes can be cleared by pressing preset button again),
unless saved using the rec-save process

Preset Saving Procedure:

With Preset Selected – modifying a preset
1. Modify the preset however you want, preset light should be flashing
2. if you don’t want to save the changes and want to keep original preset, just press preset
button again and it will stop flashing and you will immediately re-load the unmodified
original preset sound
3. To save the preset, when its flashing, remember your preset number (eg.21), press REC
(now both REC and PRESET are flashing) , type in your preset number you want to save
it to, to overwrite type your original number you remembered (eg. 21), or type a different
preset to save the modification to a different preset.
4. Once you type in the preset number, click PRESET to finalize the save to that number
5. If you changed your mind on saving, press REC again instead of preset and the save will
cancel and your preset will remain unsaved
In physical control mode (2x PERF – so PERF is glowing solid)
1. Dial in the sound as you want on the synth controls and performance parameters as
mentioned above
2. Make sure you have pre-planned a good preset number to save it to that’s blank or can be
overwritten (eg.23) , you will get no warning overwriting a good preset and there is no
undo
3. Press REC press REC (now REC is flashing) , type in your preset number you want to
save it to (eg. 23), or type a different preset to save the modification to a different preset.
4. Your preset is now saved without having to press the preset button again.
5. You can now press PRESET to scroll presets, or press PERF twice again to go back to
physical editing mode.

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GENERAL PRESET AND BANK MANAGEMENT:

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF OTHER FUNCTIONS:

1. Tune – Tunes your synthesizer, long press is a light calibration good for when its already
up and running for a while just to tune it up a bit, short press is a full re calibration good
for when starting up
2. Settings – Controls various midi and global synth related parameters, these are for global
control and are not saved with any of the presets individually, be aware the settings
“stick” so they will stay even if you turn your synth off and on and across all presets so
be careful what you change.
3. Sync source – Selects what your midi sync source is, anything from the internal BPM
clock to USB from your computer to Midi, to the sync in on the patch panel
4. Sync clock – Determines the tempo of the sync as well as sync divisions like ¼ notes
1/16 notes etc
5. Seq 1 / Seq 2 – Two sequences can be loaded on the internal sequencer, use the manual to
get the precise directions and steps for this, note its all controlled by the sync options set
above when it comes to tempo

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6. Arp Up-Dn – Turns on or off the arpeggiator, holding it with number keys 1-4
determines the direction and arpeggiator type – check the manual
7. Arp Assign - when pressed and held with numbers 1 or 2 clicked at same time it
determines if your arp plays in random order or per the order of your keys pressed
8. Value pot – Scrolls through many values of sub menus

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