I’ve been doing some sound design work with Future Audio Workshop Circle Virtual Synthesizer.
While most of the parameters are visible on the main page of the user interface, some are only accessible via tabs along the bottom of the interface. So to search for sounds, access keyboard and arpeggiator controls, global settings, effects, and midi modulation routines use the tabs at the bottom.
For example, if you ant to modulate the filter so that it tracks the keyboard (the higher the note the brighter the sound):
- Click the “Keyboard Tab”
- Drag the grey modulation output dot on the bottom pane marked “keyb1 and…
- Drop it on the modulation input hole for “Filter Frequency”
That’s all there is to it. Note this same modulator is mapped by default to oscillator “Course” tuning. If you remove this modulator from “Course” tuning the pitch for the oscillator will be static and not track with the keyboard.
In my previous post, I talked about the using the Wacom Tablet with Ableton Live. This same posts mentions how to configure Ableton Live to "-_EnsureKeyMessagesForPlugins". You'll need to follow the instructions in this post if you want to enter keyboard data into Circle – such as patch info. It's worth mentioning that the Wacom also works really well with Circle interface and is extremely well suited to the drag-and-drop modulation interface.
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