Programming the AN1x is is easy. So easy, I frequently don't bother to save my patches. I just program different sounds for each song I write.
There are almost too many options. Sometimes it's easier to keep it simple.
AN1X tutorial:
Find a patch you don't mind writing over, then punch in 130 (voice initialize). The screen will then prompt you to say yes or no to the initialize. Say yes. It'll ask you what kind, say 1.
Beside the led display are a bunch of buttons. Push VCO 1.
Set VCO 1 to a saw wave. Tune it to -12.
Push the button for VCF
Set the attack around 4 (to avoid a click) decay and sustain around 90, release around 25
Push the button for VCA
same attack, decay, sustain release=4.
You now have the rudiments of a single osc bass patch. Single osc=fits in the mix. Now, go to VCO 1 and play with the Edge parameter and try different waves, fine tune.
Go to VCF
Play with the filter cutoff and resonance and filter envelope amount. Long attack, high resonance=filter sweep. (headphones off)
Go to the mix/vcf. Try 18 db low pass 24 db low pass and 12 db low pass. OOH, there's a knob that can increase the volume for VCO 2. You can have a 2 osc bass patch, should you choose. (actually, you can have a 4 osc bass patch with osc sync, fm and all sorts of other craziness) What is this ring mod? Try it.
VCA has a knob for feedback. Fun. Take the headphones off first. Can get loud.
Push the button to turn on portamento. Go to the PEG/LFO and set the portamento (glide) what's this? a pitch envelope? cool.
Exciting matrix modulation. 1: scene tune amount: 24 source: key random--a little oscillator drift./ 2: VCO 1 PMOD depth (vibrato) source mod wheel, amount 9.
Do you want to play chords? Legato? Arpeggio?
Jimmy