Nota Monolith
Nota Monolith is a monophonic synth laid out like the Minimoog Model D — Nota’s own DSP, faithful to how that instrument plays. Three oscillators, a mixer you can overdrive, a 24 dB ladder filter and two contour generators: fat basses, singing leads, brass.
Signal flow: Osc 1 + Osc 2 + Osc 3 + noise (+ feedback) → mixer → ladder low-pass → VCA. Osc 3 or noise can modulate the oscillators or the filter through the mod wheel.
The wheels (pitch bend, mod wheel) are always on the left.
Controllers · Osc Bank
Section titled “Controllers · Osc Bank”| Section | Controls |
|---|---|
| Controllers | Master Tune, Glide (on / off and time), Mod Mix (Osc 3 ↔ noise as the modulation source), Osc mod and Filter mod switches |
| Osc 1 / 2 / 3 | Range (LO, 32’ … 2’), Wave (triangle, shark-tooth, saw, square, wide and narrow pulse — Osc 3 has reverse saw instead of shark-tooth), Tune ±7 semitones on Osc 2 and 3 |
| Osc 3 kbd | Off turns Osc 3 into a free-running LFO |
Modifiers
Section titled “Modifiers”
| Section | Controls |
|---|---|
| Filter | Cutoff, Emphasis (resonance — the ladder self-oscillates), Contour amount, keyboard tracking (⅓, ⅔) |
| Filter contour | Attack, Decay, Sustain |
| Loudness contour | Attack, Decay, Sustain |
| Decay | One switch for both contours: release follows decay, as on the original |
Level and on / off for each oscillator, Noise (white or pink) and Ext — the Feedback path that overdrives the mixer for growl.
Output
Section titled “Output”Volume, Priority (low, high or last note), Legato (single trigger), Bend range (±2 … ±12), Unison voices with detune, Drift (gentle analog instability), Bass compensation, velocity to amp and filter, and an A-440 tone for tuning.
Presets
Section titled “Presets”20 factory presets: basses (Taurus Bass, Fat Bass, Reese Bass, Funk Square, Rubber Bass, Sub Boom, Growl Overload), leads (Classic Lead, Hollow Lead, Screaming Lead, Portamento, Bright Lead, Soft Flute, Whistle), and more (Pulse Pad, Brass Section, Fifths Stack, Detune Unison, Sci-Fi Mod, Random Bleeps).
- Classic lead: Osc 2 and 3 a few cents apart from Osc 1, Emphasis halfway, a short filter contour, Glide on.
- Growl: raise the mixer Feedback until the ladder starts to bite.