Minitaur MOD Section Issue

[ARNK]

When I first plug-in the Minitaur, the MOD section is functional.. I can change the LFO Rate, the VCO LFO AMT and the VCF LFO AMT.

As soon as I change the patch though these functions cease to work. I get no modulation whatsoever. The LED lights up even.

I've had problems with the Minitaur since the get go (just got it back from the shop after a month - bought it a few days before I sent it on), I'm hoping it's maybe just something I'm missing but it doesn't seem like it.

Any ideas?

Thank you

[bichuelo]

It sounds like it might be related to the mod wheel. Have you tried using it after the LFO stops working?

[ARNK]

It sounds like it might be related to the mod wheel. Have you tried using it after the LFO stops working?

Hi bichuelo, thanks yes you're right. It's somehow related. If I control the MOD wheel on midi keyboard I can alter the LFO.

But I don't see what or why this would be.

[bichuelo]

This is the expected behavior.

You can change it actually, if you have the latest firmware and the editor you will find an option in the latter one's settings page:
-Load preset Mod Wh On/off

Try changing it to see if it fits your needs. Remember that you can save each preset with a specific mod wheel amount, which might be useful too.

[EMwhite]

It was a feature originally, meant for those that did not have traditional keyboard controllers (e.g. you could pulse the GATE IN with a sequencer or drum pulse and then tweak modulation rate and amount for VCO and/or VCF). But ONLY if you had a mod wheel to set the absolute modulation to an amount; recall that the two pots in the MOD section on Minitaur's panel are relative.

You would need to move the mod stick/wheel up and back on your keyboard to assume 'normal' behavior where normal = how a keyboard and synth module usually work.

But have been issues with LFO stopping or behaving strange in older versions of firmware; not sure how old your Minitaur is but I've read that the latest is pretty good.

And as 'bichuelo' said, there is a feature to have a specific Mod amount saved with a patch; (the Taurus III did this, which is handy because some patches use a specifically dialed in amount of modulation as part of the sound).