NOVATION V-STATION
Quick Start

Getting Started Notes about loading / saving generally
There are generally three ways to load and save items within your sequencer. At the top level, you can save your song. This will not only save the music but it will also save the current settings of the V-Station. When you subsequently load that song, the V-Station�s sound(s) will also be recalled. Even if you have edited a sound, the edited version will be recalled when the song is opened again. At the next level, you can save (or �write�) individual sounds to the V-Station�s �internal� memory. Thus, whenever you use the V-Station in any song, the sounds you have edited / created can be used. However, once you start building up lots of sounds of your own creation, you can save these as a bank (or whatever your sequencer calls them) and these can be loaded into the V-Station quite separately from the song. To illustrate this, you could be working on a song but can�t find the right sound. You can load a different bank of sounds into the V-Station where you have access to 400 different sounds. Don�t be confused by all of this, however - most of the time, you will simply insert instances of the V-Station into your song, select sounds as required (maybe even tweak them to suit the song) and then you�ll just save the song�s sequence file. When you load that song again, the instances of the V-Station will be recalled along with the sounds you selected / edited. The WRITE and SAVE BANK options are more for building up a library of your own sounds.

Editing sounds on the V-Station
The V-Station�s panel(s) can be edited much like the K-Station�s real panel. Simply move your mouse over the control you want to change - the selected parameter and its value is shown on the LCD:

Click on the control and move the mouse up or down. As the control is moved, the value changes in the display. Switches can be enabled / disabled simply by clicking on them. Also, some selections such as Oscillator and LFO waveforms, Oscillator octave, Filter slope etc., are selected by clicking on their LEDs directly. Other parameters such as those shown below are set by selecting an item from a drop down menu.

Click and hold on these and make your selection by dragging down the drop down list and releasing the mouse on the value you want to set.

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Main Panel Controls