01
Getting Started
Install Phaseburn One as a VST3, CLAP or AU plugin, find your way around the window, and make your first sound in five minutes.
Documentation
Producer-first chapters with every number generated straight from the instrument's own parameter definitions.
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02
Oscillators
The four sound sources — the Phase-Locked Loop voice, VECTOR and its FM, the MORPH oscillator and the sub — how to play each one, sync them and choose where notes start.
03
The Filter
Two identical filters, each with two machines — transistor-ladder and state-variable — the shared filter envelope, and formant color built from filter technique.
04
Modulation
The volume and custom envelopes, transient engine, four LFOs, four step modulators, velocity, note-strength and mod-wheel routing — every mover in the engine, and how to think in sources.
05
Mixer & Patchbay
The Mixer tab: balance the four sources, then rewire the instrument — gain cables between oscillators, filter and effects, feedback inserts, and three patches worth stealing.
06
Effects & Master
The frequency-shifter delay, reverb, chorus, distortion, BitCrusher and freezer — plus the master section: tone, three EQ bands, stereo control, mono bass and the output limiter.
07
The Sequencer
One bar of weighted chances — the probability grid, beat links and ties, strength map, note pool and timing feel that turn dice rolls into lines.
08
Generate
Turn the Figure dial and the bar changes as it plays: 127 rhythmic figures, how busy, how loose, how tied, and a bassline to match, built by explicit rules. No AI involved.
09
Presets & Banks
Browse the factory library, save and organize your own presets, move single sounds or whole banks as files, and send yours in — the best come back to everyone as free banks.
10
MIDI & Your DAW
Map hardware CCs with MIDI learn, choose what played notes do — trigger the sequencer or feed it chords — send every sequenced note out as MIDI, and stay locked to the host timeline.
11
Troubleshooting
The installer will not open, the DAW cannot see the plug-in, an inserted track goes silent, the standalone makes no sound, activation will not take — fixes, commonest first.
12
Reference
Formats, system requirements, engine settings, the full parameter index and research credits.
Offline copy
The manual as a PDF
The same chapters, typeset as one document — built from the exact content on these pages on every release.
Download the manual (PDF, A4) →Quick answers live in the FAQ; the assistant (bottom right) knows every chapter; and humans read everything sent through the contact form.