Nota Synth
Nota Synth is the simplest instrument in Nota: one oscillator, an envelope and a filter. It is the instrument a new track gets by default, and the quickest way to a bass, a pad or a lead that sits in the mix without a fight.
Signal flow: oscillator (with unison) → amp envelope → filter → pan and gain. Up to 16 voices.
Two sizes
Section titled “Two sizes”The S / L switch in the header flips the card. S shows just the filter curve and four knobs — Cutoff, Reso, Attack, Release — for quick tweaks; L has three tabs (Osc, Env, Filter) and a rail with the voice and output controls. Both sizes edit the same sound; a new Synth opens small.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Wave | Saw, Square, Triangle or Sine |
| Pulse W | Pulse width of the square wave |
| Detune | Spread of the unison voices against each other |
| Octave | −2 … +2 octaves |
| Unison | 1, 2, 4 or 7 stacked voices per note, detuned for width |
The amp envelope: Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release — drag the breakpoints on the graph or turn the knobs. Vel → Vol sets how much playing harder makes the note louder.
Filter
Section titled “Filter”
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Type | Off, LP (low-pass), HP (high-pass) or BP (band-pass) |
| Cutoff · Reso | Where the filter cuts and how much it rings there — or drag the curve |
| Env → Cutoff | How far the envelope opens the filter on each note |
The rail
Section titled “The rail”| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Voices | Poly 16, Mono, or Legato (mono, and a note played over a held one slides without retriggering) |
| Glide | Time to slide from one note to the next |
| Spread | Stereo width of the unison voices |
| Volume · Pan | Output level and position |
The strip at the bottom reads the patch back in words — “Saw · unison 4 · detune 12 c”.
Presets
Section titled “Presets”25 factory presets, from Init Saw to pads (Warm Pad, Glass Pad, String Ensemble, Choir Pad), basses (Rubber Bass, Sub Bass, Acid Bass, Growl Bass), leads (Super Saw, Solo Lead, Slide Lead), keys (Electric Piano, Organ Tone, Music Box) and motion (Drone, Air Sweep, Filter Sweep).
- A quick sub bass: Sine, Mono, a short Attack and Release, Octave −1.
- Wide pad from one oscillator: Saw, Unison 7, Detune up, Spread up, a slow Attack and Release, LP filter around the middle.