AN1x

Each AN1x voice has two Scene memories which let you store "snapshots" of specific control knob settings, to effectively give you two distinct sounds -each of which are available at the touch of a Scene switch. What's more, you can activate the "Scene Control" feature, which lets you use the Modulation Wheel (or a Foot Controller, or any other assignable continuous controller) to morph, or cross-fade between Scenes in realtime as you play. If there's a particular sound during the morph that you want to keep, you can easily store it to one of the Scene switches for the selected voice. You can even load Scene data from another voice to the current voice.

The AN1x features a powerful pattern generator incorporating an Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer which literally lets you create instant bass lines, backdrop phrases and trance-riffs at the simple press of a key! The pattern note, gate time, control change and other event data can be output via MIDI to trigger an external tone generator, or be recorded by an external sequencer. You can also control the tempo from an external MIDI clock signal. Since Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer settings are stored as voice parameters, each voice can have its own customized patterns which you can turn on and off at will with the ARPEGGIO/SEQ switch. The Arpeggiator features 10 timing subdivisions plus 30 preset arpeggiated patterns to choose from, including Up, Down, Up&Down, and special patterns like Techno, House, Random, and much more. The arpeggiated pattern can be played across the full keyboard or to the left of a variable split point.The Step Sequencer lets you design your own intricate 2-bar pattern loops over 16 "steps" (beats) which can be triggered from the keyboard. Here's how it works: In Step Event Edit mode, each of the 8 control knobs represents a specific beat (steps 1-8 and 9-16, respectively), and can select specific note, velocity, gate time, or control change event values.You can create 256 sequence patterns and trigger them from the keyboard in a variety of ways. For example, you can configure a voice to play various patterns to the left side of the variable split point while shifting the pitch of the carrent pattern with keys to the right.

There are 128 voices preprogrammed and ready to go which showcase the power and range of the VCO, VCF and VCA -and Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer -each of which can be overwritten to store 128 of your own. Six types of layers to choose from for each voice give you detailed control over how the two voice Scenes are configured to play in relation to each other, including Dual (both Scenes layered), Split (one Scene assigned to each side of a variable split point), and Unison, which lets you achieve those incredibly thick sounds of legendary analog synths.

The AN1x basically always operates in Voice Play/ Edit mode, which means that you can edit the sound as you play by turning the 8 control knobs to do things like open a filter, tweak the resonance, adjust the ring modulator, reshape the envelope, and much more. Each knob gives you quick and easy access to one of many tone generator parameters. You can even assign a specific parameter to each knob for customized control over detailed aspects of your sound during performance. Each knob can also send Control Change messages to control specific parameters of external MIDI instruments.

You can enhance the stereo dimension of each voice with programmable Reverb (8 types) and Delay effects (5 types -including Tempo Delay, which matches the delay time to the current tempo), as well as a 3-band stereo EQ. There are 14 Variation Effects too, including Chorus, Phaser, Auto Pan, Compressor, Pitch Change, Distortion, and more. Effect settings are stored as voice parameters, so each voice can have its own customized effect assignments. The Delay and Reverb can be configured in a serial or parallel connection, and an Effect Bypass lets you turn off specific effects at will, which is especially handy when editing a voice.

As its name implies, the AN1x Control Synthesizer is designed for maximum realtime control flexibility -not only with its full complement of onboard assignable control knobs and other controllers, but with external Foot Controller and other MIDI controllers as well.In addition to the control knobs and Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheel, the AN1x features an X-Z Ribbon Controller with horizontal slide (X) and pressure (Z) control of filter, resonance, modulation, and much more. An easy-assign "Control Matrix" function permits quick assignment of 16 sets of source controllers (MW, FC, Key Touch, etc.) to destination parameters (Filter, Modulation, LFO, etc.) -for each voice.

Although the AN1x features plenty of simple and intuitive realtime control features, a "Free EG" function is provided for those times when you wish you had a couple of extra pairs of hands.The Free EG records realtime knob movements of up to four parameters in each voice -one parameter per track -to let you "hand draw" filter, resonance, LFO and others over a determined length of time, between 1/2-bar and 8 bars (determined by tempo), or in "absolute" time between 1 and 16 seconds.The parameter changes associated with the Free EG sequence will automatically play back as recorded when you subsequently play the voice from the keyboard - with one of several loop variations.