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Low sensitivity attenuverter knobs

Many Sapphire modules include combinations of a large control knob, a small attenuverter knob, and a CV input. These are called control groups. For example, in Sapphire Nucleus, there are 5 control groups labeled SPEED, DECAY, MAGNET, IN, and OUT:

Nucleus

Many times I have found cases where a very small attenuverter knob tweak causes a massive change in the nature of the generated sound. I found it difficult to adjust the attenuverter knobs by a small enough amount. Therefore, I added the ability to right-click on any attenuverter knob and select an option called low sensitivity mode.

In low sensitivity mode, the attenuverter's effect is diminished by a factor of 10. In other words, if you set the attenuverter knob to 10%, but enable low sensitivity, it acts as though you have set it to 1%.

Let's use the MAGNET attenuverter in Sapphire Nucleus as an example

Attenuverter with low sensitivity disabled

To toggle low sensitivity mode, right-click on the attenuverter knob. A menu will appear like this:

Attenuverter context menu

Click on the option "Low sensitivity" to enable it. Now the MAGNET attenuverter knob includes an orange dot to indicate that low sensitivity mode is active.

Attenuverter with low sensitivity enabled

Now the knob setting will operate at 1/10 of its usual sensitivity. You can turn low-sensitivity back off by repeating the procedure with the context menu.

Toggle all knobs

In Elastika, Nucleus, and Polynucleus, in addition to toggling the attenuverter knobs one at a time, you can right-click on the module itself to find an option titled "Toggle sensitivity on all attenuverters".

For example, you can see it in the context menu for Elastika:

Elastika context menu

Every time you click on this menu item, it will either turn all the attenuverters to low-sensitivity mode, or all to normal mode. It decides by letting the existing attenuverters "vote" for their collective opposite: if more than half of the attenuverters are enabled, the menu item will disable them all. Otherwise, all will be enabled.