The Mask1 unleashes its true power
To celebrate the first anniversary of the Mask1, we cooked some new features for you, improving its sound, versatility and ease of use.
Twin Filters
Each voice of the Mask1 is now made of two filters. The new filter, also two-pole resonant, can be connected in series to the first one to build a characterful 24dB filter, or set to fixed frequencies in low pass or high pass modes (LP1-7, HP1-7) for some interesting sound shaping options.
512 Masks to Explore
Now there are 512 different masks available instead of 256. Masks ranging from 256 to 512 are very crisp and pulse-like. They produce unusual overtones that you will not find in any other synthesizer.
CC 46 to 49 were added to allow full control over the new mask range.
Loopable Delta Envelopes
Delta envelopes are what makes mask evolve over time. Until now, they were only triggered on key press and ran until they reach their target value. Now they can be looped in normal or bidirectional ("ping-pong") mode. This expands what you can do with timbral shifts inside a sound, and frees up an LFO for another purpose.
UI Improvements
- LFO buttons do light up to show LFO activity. You can quickly see what LFOs are doing without having to press a button
- Navigate faster within the voice list by keeping the VOICE button pressed while you scroll (+10/-10 steps)
- Multitimbral use : keep the VOICE button pressed and press OCTAVE+/- to change the voice on parts 2-4. Release the VOICE button to return to part 1. Voices for all parts are kept into memory after power off.
- 600 memory slots instead of 400 for your custom sounds
Noise Control
The NOISE section was the only single-parameter section of the Mask1. We decided to spice it up by adding a keyboard tracking parameter, dynamically changing the sample-and-hold frequency of the noise as you walk up or down the keyboard.
The Kodamo Team
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