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Mono/Fury

VST™ Software Synthesizer

Version 2.1

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Mono/Fury Manual Page 2
Table of Contents
Introduction.......................................3
What's New With Version 2?.................3
A Warning to the Potential User.............3
Architecture.......................................4
Key Assignment Modes........................4
Trigger Mode and Auto Damp..................5
Programming the Chord Memory.............5
Tweaks..............................................6
Patches.............................................8
Program and File Menu........................8
The monofury.ini Configuration File.......9
MIDI Control Change Messages...............9
MIDI Learn...........................................9
Parameters......................................10
Global................................................10
Keyboard Assignment Modes................10
Wheels Section...................................10
VCO 1................................................11
VCO 2................................................11
VCO 3................................................11
VCO 4................................................11
All VCOs............................................12
Noise.................................................12
VCF...................................................12
VCF EG..............................................12
VCA EG..............................................12
MG 1.................................................13
MG 2.................................................13
Effects Section....................................13
Arpeggiator........................................13
Tweaks..............................................14
Frequently Asked Questions................15

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Introduction

The Mono/Fury is a software synthesizer plug-in for Microsoft Windows (VST) and

Apple macOS (VST/AU) simulating the classic KORG Mono/Poly analog synthesizer of

the early 1980's. It is written in native C++ code for high performance even on

“lighter” systems. The main features are

●Close emulation of behavior and all controls

●Monophonic/quadrophonic keyboard action

●Four band-limited oscillators

●Four-pole lowpass filter with self-oscillation

●“Effects” section including Cross modulation and hard sync

●Arpeggiator with sync-to-host option

●Additional tweak section

●Plug-in supports Windows and macOS (32 bit and 64 bit)

What's New With Version 2?

Version 2 of the Mono/Fury is fully compatible with previous versions; it should be

safe to replace the old plug-in with the new one.

●Fresh and bigger UI

●MIDI Learn for parameters to be controlled by MIDI controllers

●New tweak parameters VCF and VCA can be controlled by Velocity

●User-defined Startup VST bank (FXB)

●Many internal fixes, optimizations, and improvements

A Warnin to the Potential User

1. The Mono/Fury does not sound like it's famous analo archetype.

I own the Mono/Poly since 1984 and I am aware that there is a difference – however,

I think the aura is captured pretty well. While testing and recording some songs with

the Mono/Fury I immediately felt home.

2. The Mono/Fury is no extended polyphonic oversized buzz-and-bells has-

nothin -to-do-with-the-ori inal recreation.

Why that? Because the Mono/Fury is a simulation – I wanted to do something close to

the original, not something more or less. The layout of the Mono/Poly offers some

unique features but also has some limitations. To me this combination was and is a

source of creative inspiration.

3. Hey, but neither “real” Polyphony nor Panorama control!?

Yes. Because the Mono/Poly has only one voice and a single mono output. Be grateful,

I do spare you the five to ten minutes warm-up time until all four VCOs would be in

tune. And I'm pretty sure you will find a pan in your favorite host – or in the kitchen.

4. Damn, why should I ever download or even use this crap?

Damn, you're right. Better go and download the real thing.

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Architecture

The Mono/Fury features four band-limited oscillators (VCO1), each with four selectable

waveforms (triangle, sawtooth, pulse with modulated and fixed width), four octave

ranges (16' to 2'), individual tuning and volume controls. The VCOs and an optional

white noise generator feed a classic four-pole low-pass filter (VCF) with resonance up

to self-oscillation. Two envelope generators (EG) control the contour of the filter cutoff

and the amplifier (VCA) respectively.

In the Effects section, the VCOs can be Cross-modulated and/or hard-synchronized as

well as frequency-modulated by the VCF EG or the first modulation generator (MG1).

MG1 features four waveforms (triangle, falling and rising sawtooth, square) and is also

capable of modulating the overall pitch, the pulse width of the VCOs, and the VCF

cutoff frequency.

Modulation generator 2 (MG2) produces a triangle waveform used to modulate the

VCOs' pulse width. Additionally, it is used to control the speed of the built-in

arpeggiator. The latter offers three modes (up, down, and up & down), three key

ranges (1, 2 or 4 octaves), and can be latched.

Key Assi nment Modes

Although the Mono/Fury is a monophonic instrument, it offers two “polyphonic”

keyboard modes where the VCOs can be played individually (resulting in a four-voice

“pseudo-polyphony”; mind that there still is only one VCF and only one VCA!).

Furthermore, the C ord Memory mode allows to play a chord of up to four notes (one

per VCO) by a single key. This function compensates the lack of a dedicated control

for interval-tuning of the VCOs.

1 VCO = Voltage Controlled Oscillator. Of course the modules of the Mono/Fury are not

voltage-controlled in the same way as in analog synthesizers, but I will stick to this neat

old-fashioned acronyms.

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The following key assignment modes are available

Unison Monophonic keyboard action

The VCOs are stacked and play the same key.

Unison/Share Polyphonic keyboard action

The pressed keys s are the VCOs, i.e. if one key is pressed

all VCOs will play the same note; if two keys are pressed

each note will be played by two VCOs. If more than two keys

are pressed each note will be played by one VCO.

Poly Polyphonic keyboard action

Each key is played by one VCO. If the arpeggiator is

activated each note will be played by one VCO while the next

note will be played by the next VCO in row.

Chord Memory Monophonic keyboard action

The VCOs are stacked and play the relative notes defined by

the Chord Memory function.

Round Robin Tweak mode – see section Tweaks!

Monophonic keyboard action

The pressed key is played by one VCO while the next key is

played by the next VCO in row (similar to Poly when the

arpeggiator is activated).

Tri er Mode and Auto Damp

Since there is only one filter and one amplifier the parameters Trigger and Auto Damp

are of special interest when playing one of the two polyphonic modes (Unison/S are

or Poly).

On key press, Single Trigger will restart the envelopes only when no other key is

pressed (legato) while Multiple Trigger will restart them always.

If Auto Damp is set to Off the VCOs will play until all keys have been released (even if

their assigned keys are already released). If set to On a VCO will be muted as soon as

its assigned key is released.

Pro rammin the Chord Memory

Of course this has to be done as with the Mono/Poly! Play a chord on the keyboard

and click the C ord Memory button at the same time. Or activate the Hold button,

play the desired keys one for one, and then click the C ord Memory button. Or set the

relative chord notes directly via the hosts' built-in plug-in parameter dialog (if

available).

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Tweaks

At some places I decided to insert some minor additions or tweaks to the Mono/Fury

which are not part of the original design. The purist will cry out loud but I think these

tweaks are quite useful. Some tweaks are obvious You can save a plug-in program,

you have an integrated MIDI interface, it does not take minutes until the VCOs have

warmed-up, the plug-in weights just some hundered kilobytes and not kilograms... ;-)

Here, I'm talking about some new controls. These tweak controls will be shown when

the “Danger / High Voltage” symbol at bottom left of the panel is clicked.

Mod Wheel

Override

The amount of modulation by MG 1 is controlled by the

modulation wheel. However, the position of the mod

wheel cannot be stored with the plug-in's programs. This

tweak parameter fixes this issue by emulating an initial

position of the mod wheel.

Arpe iator

Tri er Source

The arpeggiator is usually triggered by MG 2 while the

Mono/Poly provided a clock input jack for external

triggering. This tweak parameter can be used to

synchronize the arpeggiator to the host tempo.

Arpe iator

Tempo

If the arpeggiator is synchronized to the host, this tweak

parameter is used to set the tempo in note lengths.

Key Assi n Mode

Reset By Effects

Button

When you activate the Effects section, the key

assignment mode will be reset to Unison. On the

Mono/Poly it was possible to avoid this behavior by

setting a specific jumper on one of the circuit boards.

Here, you just set this tweak parameter to Off.

Round Robin This is an additional monophonic key assignment mode

not to be found on the Mono/Poly (see section Key

Assignment Modes). Round Robin schedules only one

VCO to a key; however, when the next key is pressed it

will be scheduled to the next VCO in row (similar to the

Poly mode when the arpeggiator is activated).

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Frequency Shift of

Slave VCOs

by X-Mod

Actually this consists of two tweak parameters for the

Single and Double Effects modes respectively and needs

a bit more explanation.

The Effects section provides Cross modulation which is

equivalent to amplitude modulation of one or more slave

VCOs by a master VCO; the modulation intensity is

controlled by the X-Mod parameter (for maximum X-Mod

the Cross becomes Ring modulation).

However, when I compared the sound of the Mono/Fury

to the original, it turned out that on the Mono/Poly the

X-Mod parameter does not only control the Cross mod

intensity but also causes a pitc s ift of the slave VCOs,

i.e. the higher X-Mod the higher the pitch2, and the

amount is different for Single and Double mode.

This may not happen on every model of the Mono/Poly,

thus I decided not to hard-code the pitch shift amount

into the Cross mod algorithm but to add these two little

tweak parameters.

Velocity to VCF/VCA The original Mono/Poly does not react to Velocity – the

Mono/Fury v2.0 can!

2 A quite similar effect will occur if one pushes the panel of the Mono/Poly close to the X-Mod

control. This is obviously no feature but related to the analog circuit board mounted directly

under the panel. Anyway, I decided not to emulate this behavior.

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Patches

The Mono/Poly does not have any preset or patch memory to store and recall sounds

by a few clicks (thanks to advances in quantum physics, the Mono/Fury does have this

capability). Instead, the manufactures often provided patc s eets for their products –

small diagrams on real paper with parameter settings of “factory presets”.

The Mono/Poly was delivered with a booklet of such Setting C arts, and I have

integrated those 24 presets into the program memory of the Mono/Fury. They are

identified by the prefix “Chart ” in the patch name followed by the original English

preset name as given in the booklet (except on the patch “Elektronengewehr” where I

used the German preset name).

In some cases I had to tweak the patches a little bit since the original charts missed

one or more parameter values (for example “Synthetic Guitar” or “Elektronen-

gewehr”); I hope I have captured the original sound designer's intention here.

Pro ram and File Menu

When clicking on the File button (disk symbol in the Program section), a context menu

opens with the following options

Copy Pro ram Copy current program to internal clipboard

Paste Pro ram Paste internal clipboard to current program

Load Pro ram Load a VST program file containing a patch to the

Mono/Fury's current program

Save Pro ram Save the Mono/Fury's current program to a VST

program file

Load Bank Load a VST bank file containing 64 Mono/Fury patches

Save Bank Save the Mono/Fury's 64 patches to a VST bank file

Init Pro ram Initialize the current program

Reload Confi uration Reload the Mono/Fury's configuration file (see section

T e monofury.ini Configuration File)

Save Confi uration Save the Mono/Fury's configuration file (see section

T e monofury.ini Configuration File)

Select Startup Bank Select the VST bank file that should always be loaded

when the Mono/Fury is started

Load Startup Bank Load the Startup VST bank file; can also be used to

check what the current Startup bank is

Unselect Startup Bank Unselect the current Startup bank

Check Online for

Update

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check if a newer version of the Mono/Fury is available

at fullbucket.de

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The monofury.ini Confi uration File

The Mono/Fury is able to read some settings from a configuration file (monofury.ini)

located in the same directory as the Mono/Fury VST DLL (monofury.dll or

monofury64.dll) itself. After you have edited this INI file in a text editor, you have to

reload it using the Reload Configuration command from the File menu (see section

Program and File Menu).

MIDI Control Chan e Messa es

All parameters of the Mono/Fury can be controlled by MIDI controllers, or more

precise Each MIDI controller (except Modulation W eel and Sustain Pedal) can control

one of Mono/Fury's parameters. The mapping is defined in the monofury.ini for

example like this

[MIDI Control]

# trying to follow GM2 definitions here ;-)

CC7 = 8 # Vol me

CC70 = 38 # Effects X-Mod

CC71 = 44 # VCF Resonance

CC72 = 57 # VCA Release

CC73 = 54 # VCA Attack

CC74 = 43 # VCF C toff

CC75 = 55 # VCA Decay

CC76 = 48 # MG 1 Rate

CC77 = 39 # Effects FM

CC84 = 13 # Portamento

CC94 = 12 # Det ne

...

The syntax is straight forward

CC<controllernumber> = <parameterID>

Given the above example, controller 7 directly controls the overall Volume parameter,

controller 74 the VCF Cutoff etc. As you can see, comments are introduced by the

Pound sign (#); they are here just for description purposes and completely optional.

The parameter ID of one of the Mono/Fury's parameters is given in the section

Parameters below. Note that the controller number can run from 0 to 110, with the

exception of 1 (Modulation W eel) and 64 (Sustain Pedal); the latter two are simply

ignored.

MIDI Learn

The easiest way to assign MIDI controllers to Mono/Fury parameters is to use the

MIDI Learn function. To activate MIDI Learn, click on the respective button and wiggle

both the MIDI controller and the Mono/Fury’s parameter that you want to link. If you

want to unlearn the assignment, right-click the MIDI Learn button (the label now

reads “UNLEARN”) and activate it. Now wiggle the MIDI controller or the parameter

that you want to unlearn.

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Parameters

Global

parameter ID description

Volume 8 the overall volume

Range 9Off (no output), Low and Hig

Master Tune 11 overall tuning of the VCOs

Detune 12 detunes VCO2 in negative and VCO4 in positive

direction

Portamento 13 portamento time (0 to 5 seconds)

Keyboard Assi nment Modes

parameter ID description

Key Assign Mode 0 five modes are available Unison, Unison/S are, Poly,

C ord Memory, and Round Robin (tweak mode)

Hold 3 if set to On the pressed keys will be held until Hold is

set to Off

Trigger 1 two trigger modes are available Single and Multiple

Auto Damp 2 switches Auto Damp mode on or off

C ord Memory 1 4

relative pitch of the respective notes of the Chord

Memory; a CC value of 127 switches the note off

C ord Memory 2 5

C ord Memory 3 6

C ord Memory 4 7

Wheels Section

parameter ID description

Bend Intensity 15 intensity of pitch bend modulation (source is the pitch

bend wheel)

Bend Destination 14 destination of pitch bend modulation VCO 1 or Slave

VCOs (depending on effects On/Off state), Pitc , or

VCF

MG1 Intensity 17 intensity of modulation by MG1 (controlled by the mod

wheel)

MG1 Destination 16 destination of modulation by MG1 VCO 1 or Slave

VCOs (depending on effects On/Off state), Pitc , or

VCF

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