The energyXT2 Synthesizer uses phase modulation synthesis, and also has a built-in sampler. Synth sounds and samples can be layered and split across the MIDI keyboard.
Toolbar
VU Meter
Program selector
M.Ch
Sets the receiving MIDI channel. “All” is omni mode, in which the Synthesizer will respond to all channels.
“Edit all” button
When on, editing some values (Sound section, Amp and Filter envelopes, Mod tab, MIDI tab) will apply to all sounds in the current program.
Tabs
Main
Program list
Effects
Master
Reverb
Delay
Edit
Sound
Choose a sound/layer, turn it on or off, and adjust various properties. This section is available on the Edit, Mod, FX, and MIDI tabs.
Controls:
- Power Button
- Turn this sound on or off
- Sound selector
- Choose a sound to edit
- Volume
- Overall volume of the sound
- Pan
- Pan position of the sound
- Filter
- Filter type: Low pass, Band pass, or High pass
- Cutoff
- Filter cutoff
- Q
- Filter Q/resonance
- Distortion
- For synth sounds only, turns filter distortion on or off
- Mode
- Polyphony: Poly or Mono
- Coarse
- Overall pitch in semitones (±48)
- Fine
- Fine adjustment of overall pitch, in cents (±100)
- Glide
- Glide time in milliseconds (0-500)
Synth sounds
Modulator
- Coarse
- Sets the pitch of the Modulator oscillation by up to ±48 semitones, relative to the main oscillator pitch (set in the Sound section)
- Offset
- Not exactly sure what this does. Only applied at the start of a note.
- Feedback
- At 0, the oscillator is a sine wave. At higher values, the shape approaches a sawtooth.
- RingMod
- Multiplies the oscillator by itself with this scaling percentage. For example, with RingMod at 100%, a sine becomes sin2.
Phase Mod
The combination of the first box (0-100) and the second box (1x-32x) determines the amount by which the modulator will modulate the phase of the main oscillator.
Oscillator
- Feedback
- At 0, the oscillator is a sine wave. At higher values, the shape approaches a sawtooth.
- RingMod
- Multiplies the oscillator by itself with this scaling percentage. For example, with RingMod at 100%, a sine becomes sin2. Note that this process adds an inherent DC offset.
- Detune
- Detune amount
- Phase
- Phase offset of the detuned oscillator. Only applied at the start of a note.
- Width
- Stereo width of the detuned oscillators.
- Invert
- Inverts the polarity of the detuned oscillator.
Sampler sounds
- Org.key
- Base MIDI note for the sample, where it will be transposed from.
- Loop
- Looping mode: Off or Forward.
Waveform View
Shows the complete waveform, the name of the source wav file, and the Start, End, and Loop points.
- S
- Start point - Playback of the sample starts from here.
- E
- End point - When playback reaches this point, the sound will either stop (Loop “Off”) or start again from the Loop point (Loop “Forward”).
- L
- Loop point - Only visible when Loop is not set to “Off.” Playback starts over from here after reaching the End point, when looping is on. When loading a wav file with embedded loop points, the start of the embedded loop will be used.
Amp Envelope
Modulates the sound's amplitude, relative to the “Volume” value set in the Sound section.
- I
- Initial amplitude
- A
- Attack - time to increase from “I” value to full amplitude (“Volume”).
- D
- Decay - time to decrease from “Volume” to “S” value.
- S
- Sustain - amplitude of the sustained waveform between Decay and Release phases.
- R
- Release - time to decrease from “S” value to silence.
Filter Envelope
Modulates the filter cutoff, relative to the “Cutoff” value set in the Sound section.
- I
- Initial value
- A
- Attack - time to increase from “I” value to “Cutoff” value
- D
- Decay - time to decrease from “Cutoff” to “S” value
- S
- Sustain - cutoff value between Decay and Release phases
- R
- Release - time to decrease from “S” value to zero
Mod
LFOs
Envelopes
FX
Send levels
Phaser
Chorus
MIDI
CCs
Pitch Bend
Velocity
Zone
Set the MIDI note and velocity range where each sound will be played. You can also add or delete sounds from here, and set the Org.key for sample sounds.
- < Key >
- MIDI note range for selected sound.
- < Velocity >
- Velocity range for selected sound.
- Org.key
- For samples only. Sets the original note for the sample, from which it will be transposed to fill the rest of the range.
- Group
- Choke group. Only one sound from each group will be played simultaneously. There are 16 groups available. Setting this to “All” means that this sound will not affect other grouped sounds.
Keyboard
Use this as a quick way to preview sounds. Roll the mouse wheel over the keyboard to move up and down octaves.