New User Suggestion: Tiny wording tweak to REPRO-1 manual

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Hi @Urs and team.

I have a suggestion for a tiny tweak to the wording in the Modulation Section of the REPRO-1 manual, which may seem very insignificant, but would have made things clearer to me much sooner. As you say in the manual - it's the section most likely to confuse new users.

So, I was trying to follow the vibrato example with no luck. The manual says:
In the TO column, select WH (wheel) as modulation input for OSC A FREQ (the uppermost
switch).
I had somehow formed the erroneous idea that the TO column switches only related to the knobs directly to their left (I guess this has something to do with the design of the lines on the interface, which seem to indicate that there's some kind of grouping of controls). I know there are destination labels under each of the 5 switches, but the whole design of this section didn't click initially, and so I was interpreting 'the uppermost switch' to mean either:
  • the uppermost of the two switches that are directly to the right of the MOD LFO 'Amount' wheel
  • or the upper-most position of the bottom switch
I realise this misunderstanding is my fault, not the fault of the manual, but I have a feeling I'm not the first to have been confused by this, and a tiny little tweak to the wording would have made a lot of things fall into place instantly for me, which is this:
Load the -INIT- preset and turn OSC B down to minimum in the MIXER
section. Turn MOD LFO amount in the modulation section up to about
20% and switch its output to the WHEEL bus. In the TO column, select
WH (wheel) as modulation input for OSC A FREQ (i.e. the uppermost position of the uppermost
switch)
.
And of course in hindsight everything seems easy and the “ 3 sources via 2 paths to 5 destinations ” mantra now makes sense, but I wasn't fully connecting the dots at the time.

My misunderstanding may be viewed as silly, but I know I'm not going to be the only silly user out there so I thought I'd take a moment to make this suggestion. A change to the wording may make things easier for others, down the line.

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