# Super Gemini, some functions not working as expected? **URL:** \ **Category:** Super Gemini\ **Tags:** issue\ **Created:** [31 March 2024 14:28 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/super-gemini-some-functions-not-working-as-expected/2454 "2024-03-31T14:28:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unclewayback](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.udo-audio.com/unclewayback/32/1096_2.png) [@unclewayback](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/unclewayback)\ **Post date:** [31 March 2024 14:28 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/super-gemini-some-functions-not-working-as-expected/2454/1 "2024-03-31T14:28:01Z")
First to say I really love my Gemini, and will say more about how I’m using it and share some patches and such in good time. Here I have a few questions about functions I have either misunderstood or are perhaps not working, I thought I’d start a thread before preparing an email to support in case any of my fellow forum-goers manage to help me resolve or clarify anything (for instance whether it’s just me or not!) … 1. I cannot get LFO 1 to function in Direct Parameter Mapping. The manual states: “To increase the potential of LFO 1, this method applies to the button labelled LFO 1” - this leads me to believe I should be able to hold it, move one of the sliders corresponding to an available modulation destination, and then have LFO 1 acting as a modulation source. Doesn’t work for me. 2. Modulation of DDS 2 Pulse Width. I am led to believe this should also be possible. What I find is that, while I can create a direct parameter mapping using the above method, in practise this only effects the DDS 1 Detune parameter. 3. Playing over the Sequencer. The manual states I should be able to use remaining voices to play along with the sequence while SEQ REC is flashing. I can only do so by activating another layer, I was under the impression - although it isn’t precisely clear - this referred to being able to play over the sequence with the available remaining voices on the same layer? 4. Wave Morphing algorithm. Curious what’s going on here - sounds quite close to crossfading. Don’t know if anything more “interesting” is possible there? Still sounds great just somehow a bit more “vanilla” than I was expecting. Perhaps it is just the static nature of the waves, and I have distorted expectations based on wavescanning? That’s all I can think of just at the minute, although another question I have concerns interoperability of Gemini & Super 6 patches (although obviously not Gemini performances). I tried loading some Super 6 patches, once as they were and once just by changing the .s6 suffix to .usg, to no avail. Do I remember reading of a converter somewhere? That would be really cool! (Obviously not all patches would transfer with 100% fidelity, but still a nice option to have.) Lastly just to say that it sounds really great, and goes to some quite interesting experimental places. I’m really enjoying exploring! ---
**Author:** ![MonsterGemini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MonsterGemini](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/MonsterGemini)\ **Post date:** [5 April 2024 06:23 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/super-gemini-some-functions-not-working-as-expected/2454/2 "2024-04-05T06:23:40Z")
Hi, the answer to 1. is to find here [https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/udo-super-gemini-questions/1887/81?u=monstergemini](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/udo-super-gemini-questions/1887/81) ---
**Author:** ![MonsterGemini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MonsterGemini](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/MonsterGemini)\ **Post date:** [5 April 2024 06:39 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/super-gemini-some-functions-not-working-as-expected/2454/3 "2024-04-05T06:39:39Z")
I have a question regarding „hold“ while Keyboard is in „single mode“: If i play a note or an arpeggio and activate „hold“ in the upper layer, „hold“ gets turned off when i switch to the lower layer (and vice versa)! I don‘t think it‘s an error in my SG (but i may be wrong). In „split mode“ everything with „hold“ works as excpected, „hold“ can work simultanuosly on both layers. So it shouldn‘t be a problem with processing power. Does someone know why it is this way or how to use „hold“ in keyboard „single mode“ on both layers? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![unclewayback](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.udo-audio.com/unclewayback/32/1096_2.png) [@unclewayback](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/unclewayback)\ **Post date:** [5 April 2024 15:45 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/super-gemini-some-functions-not-working-as-expected/2454/4 "2024-04-05T15:45:24Z")
Thanks for the link, @MonsterGemini - so it seems the passage regarding LFO 1 as modulation source was left over from an early draft of the manual, but we can hope that UDO may implement it at some point in the future - would add a few possibilities, especially in combination with “battwave” (the ability to use the additional waveforms also as LFO shapes, as seen in the Super 6). Regarding the hold function, I would guess the problem is that in single mode only one of the layers is active at any one time. ---
**Author:** ![MonsterGemini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MonsterGemini](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/MonsterGemini)\ **Post date:** [8 April 2024 09:03 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/super-gemini-some-functions-not-working-as-expected/2454/5 "2024-04-08T09:03:53Z")
Glad i could help @unclewayback You may be right with the hold function. But i find the “split mode” limiting (you just don’t have the whole keyboard to play for each layer and you basicly have to use the lower layer for low frequency/bass sounds and the upper layer for higher frequency sounds/leads, because they are assigned that way on the keyboard). For a “performance instrument” i was hoping not to be limited like this! ---
**Author:** ![Jonah](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.udo-audio.com/jonah/32/735_2.png) [@Jonah](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/Jonah)\ **Post date:** [9 April 2024 07:42 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/super-gemini-some-functions-not-working-as-expected/2454/6 "2024-04-09T07:42:11Z")
You could file this as a feature request or an option to be implemented in new firmware. ---
**Author:** ![MonsterGemini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MonsterGemini](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/MonsterGemini)\ **Post date:** [9 April 2024 10:40 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/super-gemini-some-functions-not-working-as-expected/2454/7 "2024-04-09T10:40:01Z")
@Jonah thanks for the hint! I’ll try to write it down in a less complaining way 🤪 and post it in the Feature Wishlist corner. ---
**Author:** ![Jonah](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.udo-audio.com/jonah/32/735_2.png) [@Jonah](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/Jonah)\ **Post date:** [9 April 2024 13:42 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/super-gemini-some-functions-not-working-as-expected/2454/8 "2024-04-09T13:42:17Z")
You’re not complaining! ---
**Author:** ![unclewayback](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.udo-audio.com/unclewayback/32/1096_2.png) [@unclewayback](https://forum.udo-audio.com/u/unclewayback)\ **Post date:** [10 May 2024 14:16 UTC](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/super-gemini-some-functions-not-working-as-expected/2454/9 "2024-05-10T14:16:50Z")
I had a helpful response from support (a while ago now!) and they answered my questions. 1. As mentioned, LFO 1 assignable via direct parameter mapping was planned but is as yet unimplemented. 2. DDS 2 Pulse Width is modulated via the dedicated controls and not the modulation matrix. 3. Inability to play over the sequencer is a known bug that should be fixed in the next firmware update. 4. Wave morphing more or less corresponds to crossfading. I seem to remember stumbling across something a little more interesting (definitely more morph than fade) when looking into phase modulation but I’ll get back to them on this. In other news, unfortunately I think I have the same problem as that described in this thread: [Gemini makes random notes / crackling noises / blinking buttons after few minutes after start and freezes](https://forum.udo-audio.com/t/gemini-makes-random-notes-crackling-noises-blinking-buttons-after-few-minutes-after-start-and-freezes/2507) which the author states is a hardware issue, but I am confident in U.D.O. being able to sort this out. The sound of this thing makes me believe we can sort out anything, sometimes 🙂