Xpand!2 Mod Wheel Controls

Mod Wheel Shape

Click the Shape button (the upper Mod Wheel button) to select the waveform shape for the modulation from the pop-up menu—an LFO waveform used to modulate the selected destination. For most waveforms there is a choice of a freely adjustable and a tempo-synchronized setting (Sync), except for “Const” and “Random.” If the pop-up is set to Const the movements of the modulation wheel will directly modulate the destination without a time varying waveform.

 

Mod Wheel Shape button

Mod Wheel Destination

Click the Destination button (the lower Mod Wheel button) to select a destination for the modulation from the pop-up menu.

 

Mod Wheel Destination button

The following destinations for mod wheel action are provided:

 

Mod Wheel Destination	Description
Pitch	Affects the Part’s pitch.
Wave	Changes the sound in different ways, depending on the selected Part. For example, shaping waveforms, FM modulation depth, sample start point offset, detuning.
Filter	Affects the Part’s filter cutoff frequency.
Volume	Affects the Part’s volume level.
Pan	Affects the Part’s position in the stereo field.

Rate

Move this knob to set the speed or rate of the modulation wheel’s modulation. When using a synchronized shape (such as Saw Sync), the Rate control sets the speed in fixed, tempo synchronized steps. When using other shapes (such as Sine, Tri, and Saw), the LFO speed is freely adjustable.

 

Mod Wheel Rate knob

Depth

This knob sets the strength or amount of how much the signal is affected by the modulation. Depth is a bipolar control, which means that it can be set to positive or negative values.

 

Mod Wheel Depth knob

 

For example, with the modulation wheel’s shape set to Const and destination to Pan, moving the mod wheel up makes the signal go to the left (negative Depth value) or to the right (positive Depth value).