While left-click is the main method of changing Axxess parameters, there are also other key commands that help when it comes to making highly detailed adjustments.
<aside> 📚 On an ARP Axxe, 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 Axxess 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.
To overcome the Axxes’s single LFO limitation, Axxess has a dedicated PPC LFO Rate. 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.
This icon activates the PPC LFO Sync mode. The PPC LFO times are synchronised to host DAW’s tempo and given in beats when the Sync icon is illuminated. In standalone mode, the tempo is set in the tempo window.
When off, the PPC LFO rate is not synchronised and is given in seconds.
Click & Drag to select the amount of semitones that the pitch-bend wheel and PPC Pads works across (between 1 and 24 semitones).
Clicking the padlock will prevent bend range changes when changing patches. This is especially useful for people using MPE hardware controllers, or for people who want to audition sounds with an already recorded MIDI performance.