Playing and using Monotone

Loading and saving patches

Loading and saving patches is done in the same way as with any other internal Reason device, see “Loading patches” and “Saving patches” for details.

Global output controls

Master Volume

This is the main stereo output volume control.

Global performance and “play” controls

Portamento

Portamento makes the note pitch glide from the previous note to the new one, at the time set with the Portamento knob.

•	When On, the pitch will always glide between consecutive notes.

•	In Auto mode, the pitch will glide between consecutive notes only when you play legato.

If you release the previous key before hitting the new key, there will be no portamento effect.

Retrig

Click the Retrig button if you want to play Monotone and always retrigger the envelopes as soon as you play a new note.

When Off, the envelopes will retrigger only if you have released the previous note before playing the new note.

Range

Set the desired Pitch Bend range for the “Pitch” wheel with the up/down buttons, or by click-holding on the display and dragging up/down.

Range: +/-24 semitones (+/-2 octaves) in steps of +/-1 semitone.

Pitch

The Pitch bend wheel can be used for bending note pitches up and down. Monotone also responds to Pitch Bend MIDI data from a connected MIDI master keyboard. You set the desired Pitch bend Range with the “Range” control above the Pitch bend wheel.

Mod

The Mod wheel can be used for controlling the Filter Frequency and LFO intensity in Monotone.

Raise the FILT knob above the Mod wheel to set the Filter Frequency modulation amount.

Raise the LFO knob above the Mod wheel to set the LFO intensity modulation amount.

Note that for the LFO modulation to work you need to already have some LFO modulation set in the Oscillator (see “LFO”) and/or Filter (see “LFO”) sections.