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 Phase Shaping, the MORPH oscillator and the sub — and how to play each one.
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 envelope, transient engine, four LFOs, four step modulators, velocity, aftertouch and note-strength 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, strength map, note pool, style phrases and timing feel that turn dice rolls into lines.
08
Generate
One press writes a working groove — built by explicit music-theory rules, with guaranteed anchors, varying figures and ornaments. 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 for the factory bank.
10
MIDI & Your DAW
Map hardware CCs with MIDI learn, choose what played notes do — trigger the sequencer, feed it chords, or play the voice — 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, the standalone makes no sound, activation will not take — fixes for what actually goes wrong, 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.