While left-click is the main method of changing Oddity 3 parameters, there are also other key commands that help when it comes to making highly detailed adjustments.
There are also dedicated key modifiers for stepped VCO tuning (cmd/ctrl+click) and macro amount (right-click) controls. These can be changed to suit your needs in the Settings Window.
<aside> 📚 On MkI and MkII Odyssey versions, an unsprung pitch wheel was used to introduce pitch bend. The concept was simple enough. If you wanted to bend a note upwards you rotated the knob clockwise. If you wanted to bend a note down, you turned the pitch knob anti clockwise.
During production of black and gold MkII versions (on which the original Oddity was modelled) a retrofit for Proportional Pitch Control (PPC) was available from ARP, before being fully implemented on the MkIII model.
PPC consisted of three rubber pads. Pressing the left pad introduced a downward pitch bend and the harder you pressed the more the note decreased in pitch. The right pad bent the note upwards in the same manner.
The middle pad introduced vibrato and, again, the harder you pressed the more vibrato was introduced. The vibrato rate was always at the rate determined by the setting of the single LFO and was a major limitation of the instrument.
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In Oddity3 the outer 2 PPC pads can be controlled by dragging up and down from either pad, or by using the pitch-bend wheel on your MIDI controller.
The amount of pitch bend applied is indicated by two vertical green lines next to the PPC Pads.
Click & Drag to select the amount of semitones that the pitch-bend wheel and PPC Pads works across (between 1 and 48 semitones).
To overcome the Odyssey’s single LFO limitation, Oddity3 has a dedicated PPC LFO. The slider determines the rate at which pitch modulation occurs and, with the default settings, the mod wheel on your controller keyboard changes the depth of modulation. The amount of pitch modulation is indicated by a horizontal green line underneath the PPC controls.
Portamento determines the amount of ‘glide’ between one note and the next played. Oddity3 now has two portamento sliders. This enables users to emulate an oft used feature of the ARP Quadra Lead Synth section, where players such as Tony Banks would set the portamento time of one VCO differently to that of the other.
Determines the amount of ‘glide’ between one note and the next played. Ranges between zero and 3000 milliseconds.