A tour of the panel

1. The screen shows the preset name and category, and names whatever you touch. The Preset knob beside it browses sounds; Save stores them; Utility opens the settings menu.
2. The Matrix is a grid of 35 lights: five modulation sources by seven destinations. It is how one control moves another. The white knob beside it moves around and edits it.
3. The four knobs together are the oscillator section. Type picks one of the digital engines, and Wave, Timbre and Shape change the sound of whichever one it picked.
4. Next, the analog filter: Cutoff and Resonance, and a button that steps through low-pass, band-pass and high-pass.
5. The cycling envelope is a second envelope that can also repeat like an LFO. Its button picks Env, Run or Loop; Rise, Fall, Hold and Amount shape it.
6. The envelope on the bottom row shapes each note: Attack, Decay/Release and Sustain, plus Filter Amt for how much it opens the filter. Amp Mod decides whether it also shapes the volume.
7. The LFO has a shape button and a Rate knob. The arpeggiator and sequencer share a button and a Rate knob too, with Oct | Mod beside them.
8. Just above the keys are eight touch icons (Hold, four arp modes, Spice, Dice, Bend) and a touch strip. Shift, on the bottom row, gives many controls a second job printed in blue. In these lessons Shift + X means hold Shift while you use X. On the model, tap Shift once to keep it on (tap again to let go), or hold your computer's Shift key.

That is the main layout. The Beginner lessons now take each one in turn and have you use it.

The whole signal path on the real synth is a digital oscillator into a 12 dB per octave analog filter into an analog amplifier, with a single mono output. The sound-shaping knobs are endless encoders, so a knob's position does not have to match the sound after a preset loads.