MIDI channel setting is not what you think, starts from 0 so if set to 1 receives and sends on channel 2! This is chiefly because the centrepiece of the hardware isn’t a synth engine but a 4-channel oscilloscope. It becomes a whole other synth or a dozen other synths with multiple forms of synthesis, wave generation, bending, folding, resonating and modulating.

In this series, we’ll be publishing and delving into the source code of these effects; but to start out, I’ll explain how to download these two effects and install them into the NTS-1. We hope that this article series has given an opportunity to as many users as possible to build an interest in understanding how their favorite music and synth apps are designed, while playing around with the NTS-1. If you’re thinking about getting an NTS-1, know that you may need either a stereo DI box or a ground-loop noise isolator. There are seven buttons and three knobs on the front panel, plus a ribbon controller and a four-character LED screen.We’ve placed emphasis on the positioning of this product as an effect, as by using this familiar synth plugin for sidechain input, the vocoder as a carrier opens you up to endless sonic creation possibilities. Continuing to hold the button down the Type knob selects between 10 different arpeggiator modes including Random and Stochastic. Note that the SDK is sometimes updated, so it’s a better idea to use Git if you always want to obtain the latest version of the SDK. The controls are accessed via a special edit menu that you get to by holding the Osc button and moving the Type knob. The thorniest matter to deal with when you consider building an NTS-1 development environment for Windows is “MSYS2.

For example, pressing the osc button makes the Type knob an oscillator selector, then knobs A and B perform different functions depending on that oscillator. For instance, you’ll use the Windows SDK to develop apps for Windows, or the iOS SDK to develop apps for the iPhone. We’ll be making another effect this time, so as the designer of the DSP I’ll be in charge of this part. The Nu:Tekt NTS-1 is an all-digital DIY monosynth with built-in modulation, delay and reverb effects, as well as MIDI control, an arpeggiator, an integrated speaker and an audio input.So in this “for” statement, the value of the variable named “i” increases by one with each loop, as long as the value is less than “frames”. The best thing to do is to use Git software to obtain the latest version of the SDK, but to do that you’ll need to know how to use Git. Using this method on the NTS-1, we separate the audio from the oscillator sound and process them to make our vocoder this time a reality! The reverb is huge on the output of a modular synth, the delay plays beautifully with my MS-101 and the Ensemble is good in any situation.