Menu Diving WTF

A Quick Reference for Synths

Your synth has amazing features…hidden behind opaque shift functions and byzantine menus. And its manual is a huge PDF wall of text 😭.

These quick references are hand-crafted as reminders of features your synth has and how to get to them. These aren't manuals—just fast ways to get the sounds you want without breaking you out of your flow paging through a manual.

Synths

Arturia Drumbrute Impact
Arturia Keystep 37
Arturia Microfreak
Create8audio East Beast
Elektron Digitakt
Korg Minilogue XD
Korg Volca Drum
Korg Volca FM2
Roland TR-8
Yamaha Reface CP

These are not intended to be exhaustive, nor are they replacements for the manuals. These are intended to make it easy to remember hidden features and how to access them. They are also based on my own usage, so for many synths, the sequencer sections are ignored, since I don't use the built-in sequencers on many synths.

Some useful hidden functions aren't documented if I don't yet understand how to use them. For example, the modulation options in the Korg Minilogue XD are completely opaque to me.