MondoMod User Manual
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1. and rotation The tempo section of MondoMod lets you control the rate of oscillation Traditional low frequency ranges are provided but you can also use higher oscillation rates using the x factor control on MondoMod these higher rates are actually in the audible range above 20Hz and produce very complex signals due to the creation of sidebands What is AM AM stands for Amplitude modulation AM alters the amplitude volume of signals according to a rate set by a Low frequency oscillator In simpler terms AM raises and lowers the volume of your signal at a set rate What is rotation Rotation is the stereo equivalent of panning It moves your stereo image left or right without changing the width In mono or mono to stereo components the rotation is exactly like panning since the mono image is point source and has no width Audio is distributed to the left and right channels according to the LFO s rate You can adjust the center and amount of rotation using MondoMod s Center and Range controls What is FM FM stands for frequency modulation The frequency of audio signals is raised shifting pitch upwards and lowered shifting pitch downwards according to the rate of MondoMod s LFO Why are there five waveforms MondoMod s LFO can produce waves with five different forms Each waveform has its own sound when applied to the modulating parameters A sine waveform alters the audio gradually during each cycle A square waveform ab2. and these are variants of their presets Takes a bit of tweaking to make sure that a voice is still understandable Whatnote Silly little pitch shifter See live alien Ever stop at a road side attraction to see some poor captive wildlife Maybe this is what it might be like if interplanetary Stuckey s knockoffs captured some aliens and had no Prime Directive Seasick Strong FM modulation and Rotation shifting makes for a bit of a rollercoaster effect and if you listen to very nice classical music through this preset you may become ill With some mild adjustments this is a 16 MondoMod Manual MondoMod Tempo Sync in V5 0 MondoMod version 5 0 can now lock to the host application s tempo and tie the relevant controls to that externally controlled tempo As a result MondoMod now modulates to the groove Tempo 4 A new control labeled Sync has been added at the left top of the tempo section The Sync control has two modes Auto and Manual When the Sync button is in Auto mode MondoMod will be synced to the host s tempo Any changes made to the host s tempo will affect the plug in s modulation rate in real time When the Sync button is in Manual mode the plug in will not be in sync with the host s tempo and will perform as it did in V4 with all of its parameters controlled internally In Auto mode the Hz and BPM controls are disabled and their values are locked to the tempo of the host appli
3. of doubling can be subtle or insane Whereisit B An intentionally extreme effect that moves the sound in full 360 of Rotation For stereo inputs this will also cause channel reversals and more Stereoette Small stereoizer to take a mono input and produce a relatively gentle stereo effect Good for instrument tracks Full rotor Rotating speaker emulation 45rpm offcenter Ever take a 45rpm record with the large hole and not be able to find the adaptor MondoMod Manual IG 33 1 3 offcenter Cheap vinyl records that have an offcenter hole would have this type of wow Unfortunately we can t get precisely 33 1 3 but it s close enough for emulation work Sweeper Large rotation settings for basic panning effects Pulsing gate By using a nearly complete AM modulation this pulsing gate can be used for great musical effects to chop keyboard pads or other parts and for sends on such instruments to effect devices Perfectly Awful Really there s not much else to say High frequency modulation produces a great deal of sideband informa tion and is quite irritating Fried metal A variant of Perfectly Awful Gentle Chorus Medium Chorus Xtreme Chorus MondoMod can produce very nice chorusing effects by judicious use of the Mix control and carefully adjusted Depths as in this setup Underwater Underwater 2 Some of our beta testers do some film work and had to create an underwater processing for an animated feature
4. MondoMod Table of Contents Chapter L Introduction 2 Chapter 2 Quick Star t 3 Chapter 3 More About M odulation 8 Chapter 4 Controls amp Displays 10 Tempo section 10 Waveform section l 1 AM section 1 Rotation section 12 FM section 13 Output section 13 Chapter 5 asa Factory P resets 14 Chapter 6 Tempo Sync in V5 0 15 MondoMod Manual E Chapter 1 Introduction Thanks for buying Waves processors MondoMod is software plug in for pro audio processing applications It includes AM tremolo FM vibra to and Rotation panning effects for creating entirely new modulated sounds The following pages explain how to use MondoMod Waveform on off Phase ze MondoMod MondoMod Graphic Interface 2 MondoMod Manual Chapter 2 Quick Start We are assuming that you have followed the installation procedures and read the WaveSystem manual or are familiar with the p oints therein Open MondoMod from the plug in menu of your application MondoMod has three primary sections When you launch MondoMod these three sections are all on by default The three main sections are AM Rotation a type of panning eFM In this case the input sound is dispersed into all three sections so if you press play or preview the audi
5. and right Negative Center settings place more audio to the right channel while positive settings place the audio more towards the left channel For example if you set the Center to 23 degrees it will seem as though the audio is coming from a loca tion towards the right hand side of the speaker set up You can think of the center as being a focus point for the signal and that Rotation will move back and forth around this focal point DM MondoMod Manual Range Use the Range control to set the modulator s sweep range from L to R channels If you want to create a wide sweeping sound moving from one speaker to the next use a large range such as 300 degrees Alternatively if you want the modulator not to sweep from left to right channels at all set the Range to zero _ FM section The FM Depth section allows you to control the amount of effect of MondoMod s frequency modulation To switch FM on click on the On Off button FM Depth on off Phase 0 Luo You can control the amount of effect by adjusting the FM depth percentage its range is from zero to 100 To adjust the depth click on the FM Depth control and either type in a new value or hold and drag your mouse up and down Alternatively click and drag the FM Depth slider up and down Setting the FM depth to 30 means that 30 of the signal is subjected to frequency modulation For a greater effect increase the percentage Zero percent mean NO frequen
6. cation For instance if the host s tempo is 120 BPM then MondoMod s BPM Beats Per Minute control will show the value of 120 and Hz Hertz or cycles per second will be 2 00 When the Sync button is in Auto mode changing the tempo value in the host application will cause the same change to occur in the plug in s BPM parameter The actual rate of the modulation is the value of Hz multiplied by the value set in the x factor control which in effect determines the number of cycles per beat Hz x x factor Modulation cycles per beat The x factor control has been enhanced and can now be moved incrementally between the values 0 25 and 100 to allow better tuning of the modulation rate while in sync mode The new drop down menu has more selectable values for a quick selection of commonly used tempos Create bizarre destructive effects on the beat with the new Waves MondoMod 5 0
7. cy modulation Phase To change the phase click on the Phase to select from 0 90 180 or 270 degrees out of phase _ Output section Gain 12 0 to 12 0dB Mix from zero to 100 50 mix mean the audio is fifty percent wet i e affected by MondoMod and fifty percent dry unaffected by MondoMod MondoMod Manual 13 Chapter 5 Factory Presets Factory Presets Full Mondomod reset Circular Diffuser Flutter Wow Dirt DoppelMoyer Whereis it Sterecette Full rotor 45rpm offcenter 33 1 3 offcenter Sweeper Pulsing gate Perfectly Awful Fried metal Gentle Chorus Medium Chorus Atreme Chorus Underwater Underwater 2 Whatnote See live alien _ Seasick Default Full MondoMod reset A very basic setup that has slow moving modulation in all three areas A simple way to use this preset is on a reverb send simply put a stereo instrument send into the MondoMod assuming youre sending it to a true stereo reverb device that is one that really is stereo to stereo The input to the reverb will be moving a lot but the reverb image will carefully and smoothly shift in the background Circular This is a good illustration of the phase controls in each of the modulator sections You can see that as the signal sweeps in one direction the AM is at the top loudest but on the return sweep the AM is at the low est softest If a signal was indeed traveling in a circle then it would be closer on one sweep and further away on
8. er for more details about the Waveform options iwani about the Output scion Mirand Gain The output Gain can be between 12 0 to 12 0dB In most applications users will leave the Gain on 0dB i e unity gain which leaves the signal level unchanged as long as there is no processing tft The Mix control has a range from zero to 100 A 50 Mix setting means the direct dry and mo dulated wet signals are mixed with equal levels MondoMod Manual 7 Chapter 3 More about modulation What is modulation Modulation is the regular variation of phase frequency or amplitude of an oscillator s waveform Musicians can apply modulation techniques in musical synthesis to produce a whole variety of special effects The familiar term vibrato refers to pitch modulation while tremolo refers to amplitude modulation Both vibrato and tremolo are normally created with sine or triangle waveforms at low frequencies of 3 to 7 Hz However MondoMod s modulator can generate five types of waveform sine triangle saw up positive going saw down negative going and square These additional waveforms provide more synthesizer type modulations that do not fall under the categories of vibrato or tremolo What s an LFO A low frequency oscillator is a device that generates a constant waveform The rate of oscillation can be adjusted as can the type of waveform produced MondoMod relies on an LFO to modulate volume fre quency
9. er minute We have included the Tempo settings in cycles per second Hz for technical uses and beats per minute BPM for the more musically inclined applica tions To change the tempo click on the multiplication factor button to toggle it from x1 to x2 You ll hear the effect of this doubled up tempo immediately Click on the Tempo control once more to toggle it to the next multiplication factor on the menu x4 and listen to the result When the frequency of modulation is into the audio range then much more complex sounds are produced as audible sidebands are generated Set the multiplication factor back to x1 in order to listen to the effect of different waveforms Please check out the Control and Displays chapter for more details about the other Waveform options Rotati tion fi tational effect Switch off the AM and FM sections by clicking their on off controls This allows you to hear the rotational effects alone 14 MondoMod Manual The default rotation settings are center 0 rotation 90 degrees The center setting of zero places the location of the sound source in the middle of the stereo field In other words audio will be distributed equally between the left and right channels according to the rate of the LFO Try adjusting four parameters 1 Center Select the Center control and either drag your mouse from side to side or type in a numerical value from 180 to 180 degrees A positive value locates the audio
10. o you ll hear a combination of AM FM and rotation effects Now let s take a look at each section one by one __AM section for tremolo effects Switch off the Rotation and FM sections by clicking on their on off controls Now we can hear the effect of amplitude modulation alone AM Depth on off Phase olea The default AM depth setting is 50 This means that the amplitude of signals will drop to half their origi nal values and return to 0dB i e original input level according to the rate of the LFO Half the value 50 is 6dB The LFO s rate is set by the Tempo section Press preview or play and notice how the volume of the sound changes due to the oscillating amplitude of signals MondoMod Manual 3 For the time being let s leave the AM Phase at 180 degrees You can find out more about this parameter in the Controls and Displays chapter under the AM section heading Try increasing the AM depth to 100 You can adjust the AM depth using the slider click hold and drag it all the way up or by selecting the AM depth control and either typing in the value using your keyboard or by dragging your mouse upwards The dynamic display located next to the slider shows the volume of the signal amplitude when at the top the volume is 100 With Depth set to 100 notice how the volume of the sound now reduces to complete silence and back up again to full volume The default tempo setting is 0 2Hz or 12 beats p
11. odulation select hold and drag the slider upwards Alternatively select the EM depth control and either type in a numerical value or drag your mouse upwards The dynamic display shows the amount and direction of pitch shift When the green indicator is below the mid point of the display the pitch shift is downwards When the green indicator is above the mid point the pitch shift is upwards The default tempo setting is 0 2Hz or 12BPM Try increasing the tempo by entering new values in the Hz or BPM controls or by clicking on the x factor control to toggle through the selection of factors Leave the FM Phase at 180 degrees More information about the FM Phase control can be found in the Controls and Displays chapter under the relevant heading under FM section Try increasing the FM depth to 100 Use the slider click hold and drag it all the way up or select the FM depth control and either type in the new value using your keyboard or click hold and drag your mouse upwards Notice how the frequencies shift according to the tempo and depth setting With faster tempos speed greater pitch shift variations will occur because of the Doppler effect 16 MondoMod Manual Set the multiplication factor back to x1 in order to listen to the effect of different waveforms Click on the Waveform control to toggle it to a square form Using the square wave the audio alternates between two pitches Please check out the Control and Displays chapt
12. ok at the modulation displays you can see that the AM hits its peak when the FM is at its bottom You can use different settings to change the phase between the two The Rotation phase is always at zero If you set AM Phase FM Phase 180 the AM and FM will peak together and the Rotation inverse MondoMod Manual 9 Chapter 4 Controls and Displays __ Tempo section You can set the tempo or rate of the modulator using the Tempo controls Tempo is displayed in cycles per second from 0 01 to 60 0Hz and beats per minute from 0 6 to3600 BPM Changing the tempo setting For fine tuning you can use either the Hz or BPM control they both display the same information except in different units Select either the Hz or the BPM control and either type in a different value numerically or click hold and drag your mouse up and down To dramatically change the tempo use the x factor control x factor The x factor control multiplies whatever Hz or BPM setting you are using by the selected x factor The default reset x factor is x1 which means that the tempo will be exactly the values shown in the Hz and BPM displays To change the x factor either click on the x1 button to toggle the multiplication factor to the next value or click and hold for a pulldown menu of factors By either method select the one you want The multiplication factors available are as follows For example when the multiplication factor is x100 the tem
13. po range is from 0 0 to 6kHz or 60 to 360kBPM ID MondoMod Manual m Square Lime Saw Down al Saw Up Click on the waveform to select from a range of waveforms 1 Square 2 Saw down 3 Saw up 4 Triangle 5 Sine __AM section AM Depth The AM Depth section allows you to control the amount of effect of MondoMod s amplitude modulation To switch AM on click on its on off button AM Dep th on ott Phase 0 Lax MondoMod Manual 11 You can control the amount of effect by adjusting the AM depth percentage its range is from zero to 100 To adjust the AM depth click on the AM depth control and either type in a new value or drag up and down Alternatively click and drag the AM depth slider up and down An AM depth setting of 30 makes the gain of your audio signals reduce by 30 of their original input level at the lowest point of the LFO s oscillation For a more prominent effect increase the percentage Zero percent means NO amplitude modulation Phase To change the phase relationship of the AM Modulation not the audio phase click on the Phase to select from 0 90 180 or 270 degrees out of phase R t t e t e The on off button in the bottom center of the Rotation section switches the effect in and out Center The center control allows you to set the amount of rotation to the left and right channels A setting of zero means that the rotation will disperse the audio equally between left
14. ruptly alters the audio as it oscillates from one end of its cycle to the other More 18 MondoMod Manual information about each waveform can be found in the Controls and Displays chapter under the Waveform heading What does the Tempo section affect Tempo is the frequency of the LFO altering the tempo settings changes the speed of the AM rotation and FM effects How can set the tempo to subdivisions of the beat You can set the BPM to match the track you are editing and then choose the ratio you wish modulate at For example say your song s tempo is 115 BPM Using the x1 and AM would gate the sound on each quar ter note beat using x2 would gate every eighth note and x4 every sixteenth note Conversely if you need to extend the range to a slower value start with x4 setting and divide your quarter note BPM by 4 and enter that number into MondoMod s Tempo control Then if you change the multiplier to x2 the tempo will be half notes and x1 would be whole notes What do the AM and FM phase controls do The AM and FM phase button allow you to change the oscillator s phase on the respective modulations When the phase of the AM and FM are equal the peaks of the AM and FM coincide This means the high pitches will gain and the low pitches attenuate Try using AM Phase 180 FM Phase 0 Their phases are now inverted This means the low pitches will be at their loudest and the high pitches will be at their softest Lo
15. the return sweep Turn the FM off if you don t want the frequency variation 14 MondoMod Manual Diffuser Simple moderately fast modulation of the Rotation of the signal blurring the image into a wider area This is not suitable for all signals as some signals have very strong directional cues and they will sound as if they are vibrating a bit For the right signal the Diffuser will simply broaden the image and make it a bit wider Flutter An emulation of tape flutter which for those of you who do not have personal experience with a tape recorder occurs when the capstan is not perfectly smooth or straight It happens the most in small cassette machines that have damaged capstans or pinch rollers Flutter is defined as rather fast cyclical variations in frequency of a signal usually above 7Hz or so Wow Another form of tape speed deviation similar to flutter but slower than 7Hz or so Wow is usually caused by much more serious degradation of the machine such as an un regulated motor This setup is rather extreme but for most analog tape users this will be a familiar sound Dirt Bad little modulation that puts some scum on the sound Note the use of the fast rate and low depth set tings for a subtle but disturbing effect Useful for emulating various types of distortion including Intermodulation Distortion IM from hum etc DoppelMover A doubler that moves the sound around in the field By using the Mix control this type
16. to the right channel while negative values spread the audio to the left channel Let s say you set the Center s value to 23 degrees the audio will be biased towards the right channel 45 degrees is hard right 45 degrees is hard left 2 Range Select the Range control and either drag your mouse from side to side or type in a numerical value between 0 and 360 degrees Try a 45 degree Range setting Notice how the rotation panning of the audio is narrower by half of the previous the default setting 90 degrees 3 Tempo Trya faster tempo Click the multiplication factor to x2 Notice how the rotation of audio between channels is now twice as fast 4 Waveform Try a square waveform instead of the default sine waveform and notice how the audio sud denly appears only on the left channel and then suddenly all on the right channel In other words the type of waveform changes the way the audio is transferred from left to right whether it is gradual sine or abrupt square For more information about the different other waveforms please see the Controls amp Displays chapter under the Waveforms heading MondoMod Manual 5 _ FM section for vibrato effects Switch off the AM and Rotate sections by clicking on their on off controls Now we can hear the effect of frequency modulation alone The default FM depth setting is 50 The FM depth percentage lets us control how powerful the effect will be To increase the effect of FM m
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