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The two biggest tips I can give:

  1. turn off the filter tracking in the assign menu. I almost always turn off the HPF, and usually the LPF (although leaving it on can sometimes be really good with the FM machines). You’ll get a much wider ranger and it won’t sound quite so much like a Sega Genesis.

  2. the arp is excellent, and the “sequencer within a sequencer” is key to getting notes to fall into place around the 64 steps of the grid. It isn’t quite like microtiming, but it helps a lot, and is also really cool for just stirring ideas.

And finally, don’t get too frustrated with it. I think the learning curve of the Mono is pretty steep. Get cozy on the couch with just the Mono and headphones for a few weeks and you’ll soon enough be blown away by it.