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The main or ‘global’ page in Alchemy is divided into six sections, shown above.

1. The Title bar.
2. The Source section.
3. The Filter section.
4. The Master section.
5. The Modulation section.
6. The Perform/Arp/Effects section.

Signal flow in Alchemy

Before you can design new sounds with Alchemy you’ll need to understand how its different parts fit together, and how each of them in turn contributes to what you hear.

At first glance Alchemy may seem complicated, but its layout is relatively simple:

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This diagram represents signal flow in Alchemy, reading from left to right, through the different sound-generating and -processing modules.

There are three basic stages:

1. There are four Sources (A, B, C, and D), each consisting of Additive, Spectral, and Granular elements and a bank of Source Filters.
2. There are two main Filters (1 and 2), which can be operated in parallel or in series.
3. After the individual voices mixed together, they pass through the Effects stage.