The modulation router—or router—spans the center of the ES2 interface. Click the Router button to view the modulation router in place of the Vector Envelope. You can hide or show the router/Vector Envelope by clicking the disclosure triangle at the lower left of the section. If you are new to synthesizer modulation routings, see Modulation overview.
Any modulation source can be connected to any modulation target, much like an old-fashioned telephone exchange or a studio patch bay.
The modulation intensity—how strongly the target is influenced by the source—is set with the vertical slider to the right of the modulation routing.
The intensity of the modulation can itself be modulated: the via parameter defines a further modulation source, which is used to control the modulation intensity. When via is active, you can specify upper and lower limits for the modulation intensity.
Ten such modulation routings of source, via, and target can take place simultaneously. It doesn’t matter which of the ten modulation routings you use. You can even select the same target in several parallel modulation routings. You can also use the same sources and the same via controllers in multiple modulation routings.
Choose the Target parameter you want to modulate.
Choose the Source parameter you want to use for modulation of the target.
Drag the Intensity slider to set a fixed modulation value. When via is active, this slider sets the minimum modulation intensity.
Click the Bypass (b/p) button at the top right of each modulation routing.
Enable or disable individual modulation routings, without losing settings.
You can copy the entire set of router channels and can paste these into another preset.
Control-click the Router button, then choose Copy Matrix from the pop-up menu.
Choose a new preset from the plug-in header menu.
Control-click the Router button, then choose Paste Matrix from the pop-up menu.
Control-click the Router button, then choose Clear Matrix from the pop-up menu.
All router channels are initialized and turned off.