User Manual

3.3. Hands On
MatrixBrute has more than one of every type of module, but it's only necessary to go
through one of each for this bird's-eye view. So we'll just use one VCO, one VCF, one LFO,
one envelope.
3.3.1. VCO 1
Play the keyboard, and you'll hear a buzzy sound. If you don't, push Preset to toggle to the
initialized sound.
Turn VCO 1 up all the way, everything else all the way down in the mixer. These are all the
waveforms available for processing, and we're only working with VCO 1.
Keep pressing VCO 1's Filter button until it's only routed to the red one, the Steiner filter.
Oscillators must be routed to a filter to be audible.
Now that you're hearing VCO 1 on its own, move the Coarse knob to hear what it sounds like
at different pitches.
There are four different waveforms in this VCO - a Sub oscillator that sounds an octave
below the other three. Each wave generator has a level knob on the bottom row and an
enhancer for it on the top.
Turn all four down, then bring each one in one at a time so you can hear the different
waveforms. Try the enhancers to hear their effects on the waveforms.
For now, leave everything at 12 o'clock. It doesn't matter that this isn't a great sound.
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