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Modal Electronics 002

12 voice polyphonic analogue/digital hybrid synthesiser

User Manual

OS Version - 0.09-71

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Important Safety Information

WARNING – AS WITH ALL ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS, care and general precautions must be

observed in order to operate this equipment safely. If you are unsure how to operate this

apparatus in a safe manner, please seek appropriate advice on its safe use.

Please ensure you read this manual and the Modal 002 ‘Quick Start Guide’ before attempting

to operate this apparatus

THIS APPARATUS IS HEAVY (approximately 16.5 Kg) – observe lifting and handling precautions

when moving it. Also ensure that the apparatus is placed on a suitable stand so as to enable

safe operation and prevent toppling.

This apparatus MUST NOT BE OPERATED NEAR WATER or where there is risk of the apparatus

coming into contact with sources of water such as sinks, taps, showers or outdoor water

units, or wet environments such as in the rain. Take care to ensure that no liquids are spilt

onto or come into contact with the apparatus. In the event this should happen remove power

from the unit immediately and seek expert assistance.

Be careful to allow free air movement around the apparatus and do not block any air vents or

exits during operation - this apparatus produces heat.

This apparatus produces sound that could cause permanent damage to hearing. Always

operate the apparatus at safe listening volumes and ensure you take regular breaks from

being exposed to sound levels

THERE ARE NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE THIS APPARATUS. It should only be serviced

by qualiﬁed service personnel, speciﬁcally when:

• The apparatus has been dropped or damaged in any way or anything has fallen on the

apparatus

• The apparatus has been exposed to liquid whether this has entered the apparatus or not

• The power supply cables to the apparatus have been damaged in anyway whatsoever

• The apparatus functions in an abnormal manner or appears to operate differently in any

way whatsoever.

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Index

00. Introduction

01. I just want to play this thing...

Power on

Screen Controls

Patch Screen

Load Patch

Patch storage

02. Connections

03. Synthesis Engine

Oscillators

Mixer

Filter

Envelopes

LFO’s

Modulations

04. Keyboard, Controllers and Quick Recall

Key Modes

Keyboard

Joystick

Mod Wheel

Expression and Sustain Pedal

Quick Recall

05. Sequencer, Animator and Arpeggiator

Sequencer

Animator

Arpeggiator

Modes

Shortcuts

06. Multi-Timbrality

Performance Mode

Performance Edit

Performance Storage

07. Settings

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Introduction

Modal 002 is a 12-voice analogue-digital hybrid synthesizer.

It features two high-resolution NCO oscillators per voice (plus two sub oscillators), Modal-

designed four-pole transistor ladder ﬁlter with real analogue morphing, VCA, two LFOs, 2

modulation matrices and very powerful Sequencer and Arpeggiator.

The hardware has been manufactured with high-quality components: FATAR semi-weighted

ﬁve octave key mechanism with aftertouch, white metal case, aluminum turned encoders and

high quality 4.3” LCD screen.

Among the many connections, Modal 002 features an ethernet port to connect your synth to

your network and enable updates via the internet (no need for MIDI sysex dumps) and also

access to the Modal cloud features and HTML Web User Interface.

Please update your unit immediately

Internet connectivity is a key-point for Modal products: we release updates on a regular

basis, constantly providing new features and bug ﬁxes.

Please read ‘Settings’ (chap.7) for a more detailed description of the update procedure.

Please do not power cycle the unit quickly

Always leave 60 seconds between powering off and on

When switching off your 002, the internal computer needs some time to properly shut

down: if you do not wait at least 60 seconds before powering back on, you may encounter

some strange behaviours on your 002, including the OS not booting and incorrect voice

parameter values.

The power cycling guide must be followed in order to ensure correct behaviour of your

002.

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I just want to play

this thing...

Power on

Connect the power lead to your 002 then connect the output of the 002 to your mixer, or if

you prefer connect your headphones.

Also connect an ethernet cable from your router to the 002.

In order to maintain a high Signal to Noise Ratio the voices are alternatively split left and right

(eg. 12 voices are split 6 voices on the left and 6 on the right), so we recommend panning the

two channels slightly off centre on your mixer or audio interface.

Before powering up ensure the volume control is at minimum, analogue electronics during

ﬁrst power on create a ‘pop’ and this may cause damage to your speakers and the sound

guy’s ear drums.

Then power on.

You will see a progress bar on the screen. When the synth has loaded it will change to show

the main patch page.

Press down a key and slowly turn up the volume to a comfortable level.

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Screen controls

You can select and change the value of most of the synth parameters directly with the

dedicated rotary encoders: the Modal 002 interface is designed to be extremely intuitive and

easy to use, so that all the most important parameters are easily accessible and tweakable. The

‘screen controls’ represent a useful alternative to encoders and switches, and they can also be

used to edit parameters not accessible through the front panel controls.

Modal 002’s LCD screen is context sensitive (provided that PageSwitch option is On - ‘Global

Settings’): as soon as you turn an encoder, the related screen page is immediately displayed,

with the selected parameter highlighted in red.

Keypad

Hover mode

You can use the keypad to

select a speciﬁc parameter box

on the screen - you can see the

subscript numbers shown in the

bottom left of every box in every

screen page (except for the patch

loading page).

Edit mode

You can use the keypad to type

the value of that parameter.

Key 0

In hover mode on every page

key 0 is assigned to the ‘X’ exit

button. In edit mode typing 0

before entering other values

allows for minus numbers to be

entered. For example typing 0, 2, 4 would make -24.

TIP: A clever usage of the 002 interface is to select a parameter by touching the related

encoder, then type the exact value with the keypad. This is very useful for either putting many

values to zero quickly or generally being more precise with the edit.

PATCH PERFORMANCE SEQUENCER ANIMATOR PARAMETER RECALL

A B C

Hover mode

Grey cursor and text.

Turning datawheel and +/- navigates

around the screen to different parameters.

Keypad can be used to shortcut to speciﬁc

parameters and enter edit mode.

Push datawheel or press select to switch to

edit mode.

Select button

Alternative to pushing

datawheel, up to user’s

preference. Select is mainly

used for switching between

hover / edit mode. So you

navigate to a parameter

in hover mode then press

select to edit the value. It is

also used to load patches.

+ / - buttons

Alternative to turning

datawheel. Pushing once

increments one step.

Pressing and holding

repeats increments.

Menu buttons

6 buttons below the screen to navigate

quickly to different sections.

Some are dual function, where pressing

twice will bring up other pages.

Links up to bottom menu of the screen

Datawheel

Large rotary encoder for data selection and entry. Turning clockwise increments, anti-clockwise

decrements and pushing selects. Same functionality as the Select and + / - buttons.

Edit mode

Red cursor and white text.

Turning datawheel and +/- changes values

of currently selected parameter.

Keypad can be used to type parameter

values. 0 followed by a number is a minus.

Push datawheel or press select to switch to

hover mode.

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A B C D E F

CLOUD SNAPSHOT SETTINGS

D E F

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Patch screen

After power on you will be shown the Patch screen. This screen shows you the currently

selected patch, as well as some useful details about the current patch.

1. Patch Number - is always shown as 4 digits (0000), the ﬁrst two digits represent the

bank number (00xx - 99xx) and the last two the patch number (xx00 - xx99) within the

bank. There are 100 banks of 100 patches in total (0000 - 9999). If the patch number is

highlighted in red then it is the currently loaded patch number.

2. Patch Name - Patch names can be up to 32 characters long.

3. Keyboard Transpose - the keyboard section shows the current octave and transpose

settings for the current patch. The numbers on the keys show the midi note value for

each octave, so in the example above C2 to C7. We use C4 as middle C (MIDI note

60) but the red value on the right shows the current note on middle C with octave and

transpose applied.

4. Midi Channel - the current midi channel 002 recieves and sends on. This can be changed

in the Settings > MIDI menu (chap. 8).

5. Key Mode - Polyphonic, Monophonic, Unison or Stack. Within the graph each line

represents a voice, each different height the number of notes that can be played at once

and the gap between the lines the detune amount (only used on Unison and Stack).

6. Arpeggiator Status - whether arpeggiator is currently on or off

7. Animator Status - whether animator is currently on or off

Load patch

If you want to load another patch:

• Scroll through the patches either using the Datawheel, or the ‘-/+’ buttons above, or

directly type the slot patch number with the keypad

• Now you see a different patch name, but no new patch has been loaded yet (the patch

number on the left of the screen is grey). If you want to actually load it, press the Select

button to conﬁrm your selection: the patch is now loaded (the number is red)

• If you don’t want to load a new patch, but just scroll through the patch names, you can

keep turning the Datawheel (or pressing the ‘-/+’ buttons) without any harm (the patch

number will remain grey)

• You can use the ﬁrst ‘menu button’ (A) as an ‘Escape’ button. If you have scrolled past

the current patch, pressing that button returns you to the current patch name (without

re-loading it, so you will not loose your edits). The patch number is now red.

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Patch storage

Now feel free to have some fun with your 002: ﬁnd a patch that you like and tweak some

knobs to modify the sound characteristics.

Then if you would like to save that sound:

• Press the 4th ‘menu button’ (D) - the LCD will display the storage page. You can save

many different types of data (including Performances, Sequences, etc.), but since you are

working on a mono-timbral patch, the screen will automatically select Patch Storage.

• If you want to save the edited sound in the same slot (overwriting the previously saved

patch) just press number ‘3’ on the keypad (or press Select again), which corresponds to

the Update action.

• Alternatively, if you want to save the sound in a different slot, type number ‘1’ on the

keypad: in this way you can select another slot, either by using the datawheel or the ‘-/+’

buttons. Once you found the right slot, press Select to conﬁrm, then press number ‘3’ to

Update.

• Now the LCD shows the QWERTY keyboard, where you can type a new name for the

preset. Using the datawheel (which can also be tapped to conﬁrm selection) is probably

the easiest way to type the name. Once you are done, just scroll down to the ‘Done’ box

and conﬁrm.

• You will need to conﬁrm what you have just typed, so press number ‘2’ on the keypad

(or Select again), which corresponds to the ‘Yes’ box. If you are not sure about the name,

type ‘1’, which corresponds to the ‘No’ box.

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Connections

Audio Out

002’s main audio output, featuring a

stereo ‘combo-socket’ outputs with

balanced XLR or unbalanced TS plugs.

With the standard version of the Modal

002, six voices are hard-wired to the

left, six voices to the right. The option

digital output card will enable internal

mixing and panning.

Audio In

Two mono TS audio inputs, to process

your audio source with 002’s analogue

VCF and VCA.

USB (Audio, MIDI)

This is intended to be used with future

expansions (like the digital output/FX

card) and nothing should be connected

to it at the moment.

Analogue Out

D-Sub connector providing individual

pure analogue output for each of the

12 voices.

Power

AC power inlet, accepting standard

grounded IEC power cord. It operates

over a range of 90 to 260 volts and 50

to 60 Hz. Connect the cord included

with your 002, then press the power

switch to turn the synth on.

MIDI (In, Out, Thru)

To receive/send/pass through MIDI data

from/to other devices.

Headphones

(On the front) A 1/4” stereo jack socket.

We recommend using headphones with

a minimum impedence of 70 ohms.

Control In

Sustain input works with any standard,

normally open momentary foot switch.

Expression input works with any Roland

/ Oberheim standard expression pedal

that has a variable resistor on a TRS

1/4” phone plug.

Connect

Internet connections. Connect an

Ethernet cable directly to your router

to allow updates to the OS and other

internet features.

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Synthesis engine

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In this section we are going to have an in-depth look at every section related to the sound

engine of the 002.

Each section of the synthesiser has a dedicated area on the front panel, deﬁned by printed

grey lines. Almost every feature of the sound engine is directly accessible and controllable with

dedicated knobs and buttons, making the user experience very simple and straight forward:

every time you change a value by touching an encoder or clicking a button, the LCD display

updates showing the related page and changed parameter.

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