MONK-1

• MONK-1 plays MonkSynth, a formant vocal synthesizer, with twelve singers from Jerry the monk to Peppo the pizza.
• PRESETS turns through the singers, each with its own voice, drawing and stage, its mouth moving with the vowel.
• The keys play one voice at a time: the newest key held sounds, and moving between held keys glides.
• Velocity sets each note's level and aftertouch moves the vowel towards "ee", bends the pitch up, or does both.
• HOME, EDIT, LFO, FX, ENV and GLO each bring up four knobs, and ALGORITHM turns the vowel from any page.
• PLAY holds a note after you let go, and OCT/OCT+ shift the keys two octaves either way.
• MONK-1 saves by itself a few seconds after you stop, and SAVE stores every singer's voice at once.
• Over USB it appears as a MIDI device, sending notes with velocity and polyphonic aftertouch and singing what it receives.

Its modes

Sing

Set the vowel, head size, breath and glide for the singer you are playing.

Choir

Stack up to ten voices and set their detune, head spread and level.

Vibrato

Set vibrato depth and rate, and tune the whole voice up or down.

Echo

Set the amount and time of the stereo echo after the voice.

Envelope

Shape attack, decay, sustain and release for the singer.

Touch

Decide where aftertouch goes and how strongly velocity and pressure respond, shared across all singers.