User Manual - Analogue Haven
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1. ZOOM a 2 a D z o 5 a o lt E a z e B A z 2 PRESET DIN B F g a gt a C Zoom view HiHats example The standard 8 step pattern is on the first column and you can add additional between notes with the buttons on the right of the leftmost column Add a couple of triggers after some of the 8 Steps to hear what they sound like 17 PRIMARY 5 TRIGGERS 4 SUB 55 GROUP MUTE LOOP ON OFF ZOOM a o lt e 2 5 5 z PRESET DIN B F Zoom view HiHats example with Sub Steps A little music math behind the Zoom resolution might be useful here the 6 SubSteps increase the resolution from the standard 16th notes to a 96th note In terms of Parts Per Quarter Note PPQN 16th notes are 4 PPQN 1 4 the duration of a quarter note while Zoom is 24 PPQN 4 PPQN 6 which is a popular resolution for a number of reasons First it is used by MIDI as the timing of the Beat Clock making it a standard and second it makes creating many useful note lengths easy See the details in Section 2 of the manual covering Zoom for a chart of common notes and how to enter them For a musical example create an 8th note triplet by entering a trigger on the first Step then count 8 substeps to the 3rd substep on the second row to enter the next triplet and finally count anoth2. Hold Swing down until the Channel LEDs change back to only one Green LED to exit Swing Editing 39 LOOPING The CR can build loops at both Preset and Group levels Each group can have its own loop consisting of any of the 8 presets A loop of any of the 8 groups can be made as well Preset Loops To create a loop of presets inside a group of any of the presets 1 Enter Vertical View Press the Vertical button on the bottom of the far right column 2 Press the Set Loop button at the top of control 2 column The Set Loop button will turn Green 3 Press any of the Preset buttons in the Preset column to select the presets you wish to activate in the loop A Preset button will turn green when active and turn off when excluded For example pressing Presets 1 4 and 5 will loop Preset 1 then 4 then 5 then back to 1 Any combination of Presets is possible By default state all Presets in a Group are included in the loop 4 Turn the Preset loop on using the Preset Loop On Off button at the top of control 3 column The Loop On Off will turn from red to green The loop will run from top to bottom order of the selected presets The currently playing preset will be Red in this view 5 To exit loop programming mode press Loop Edit twice The LED will turn off Group Loops To create a loop of groups 1 Enter Vertical View Press the Vertical button on the bottom of the far right column 2 Press the Set Loop button at the top of the Control 2 colu
3. ipto Audio CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS User Manual www tiotopaudio com Circadian Rhythms CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS GROUP SET PRESET GROUP PRESET STEPS CHANNEL MUTE LOOPON OFF LOOP LOOPON OFF PASTE CLEAR SWING ERARIO TAP TEMPO RESET AJ 6 C FILL SYNC BOSS GLOBAL TRIG1 TRIG2 TRIG3 INDEX Introduction p 02 Section 1 Quick Start Tutorials p 03 1 Vertical View Basics p 03 2 Other Views 2 2 2 p 07 3 Groups and Presets Plus Copy Paste and Save p 09 4 Looping Presets and Groups for More Complex Patterns p 11 Advanced Tutorials p 13 1 Zoom Programming p 17 2 Fills and Programming Triggers p 20 3 Programming Gates p 22 4 Syncing to Your DAW p 24 CR Tips and Programming Ideas p 31 Section 2 Functions in Detail p 32 VIEWS BMC p 33 Vertical View 8x8 View 4x16 View 2X32 View 1x64 View Zoom View Clock In M M p 37 SyncBus and Channel Expansion p 38 SUID circa p 39 LOOPING stem UR p 40 Preset Loops Group Loops Editing While Looping Programming Triggers and Gates p 41 Channel
4. CR s functions and describes them in detail The functional details include some additional functional and technical details that are not covered in the quickstart tutorials above We suggest using this as a reference after walking through the quickstart tutorials View a view is the UI display mode for the step data Views include Vertical full editing of all steps plus other functions Zoom editing a Preset Channel Step sequence at high 24 PPQ resolution 8x8 8 Steps of all 8 Channels displayed horizontally 4x16 16 Steps of 4 Channels simultaneously displayed horizontally 2x32 32 Steps of 2 Channels simultaneously displayed horizontally 1x64 64 Steps of one Channel displayed horizontally Group the CR has 8 Groups which each hold 8 Presets Groups can be chained in loops to make longer structures Preset A Preset contains 8 Steps at 16th note resolution Presets can be chained in loops Step A Step contains one 16th note event Sub step A sub step is a single event at up to 64th triplet 24 PPQ resolution Sub steps can be edited in Zoom view Trigger a short pulse of one internal clock tick about 5ms at 120 BPM Gate a pulse longer than a single trigger Gates can be up to 64 steps in length Parts Per Quarter Note The subdivision of a musical 1 4 note for timing A 16th note is 4 PPQ MIDI and DIN Sync use 24 PPQ and the CR internally runs at 96 PPQ Higher numbers indi cate more prec
5. Step Editing p 41 Trigger Buttons p 42 Fills Trigger Recording Startup and Utility Functions p 43 Updating Firmware Clearing Internal Memory Checking Firmware Version Specifications p 44 Credits m p 44 Circadian Rhythms Features Hardware 8 trigger gate outputs Highly Accurate Internal Clock and Reset output External Clock and Reset input Rhythmic Functions Up to 512 step sequences 8x8x8 storage in memory 16th note main grid resolution 24ppq resolution in Zoom view for deep dive detailed sequence editing Trigger delay per step e Swing with 8th or 16th notes Gate width outputs gates up to 64 steps long Introduction Thank you for purchasing the Circadian Rhythms The CR as we ll refer to it henceforth is a uni que rhythm sequencer for the Eurorack format that takes the original idea behind the XOX step se quencer and transforms it into a more flexible performance tool that encourages improvisation and experimentation We recommend placing the CR in front of your modular in a desktop rack like the Happy Ending Kit or other skiff case for easy access to the buttons The CR was designed to be the master controller of your modular it will supply clock and reset signals for sync to all other sequencers clock dividers and such in your system trigger the enve
6. be used in performance to add accents or for whenever else you d want to add a drum fill The Fill that is generated in the CR is simply a set of consecutive triggers of varying note length 1 4 1 8 1 16 1 32 and 1 64 either straight as triplets or dotted notes As an example let s say we are playing our standard techno house pattern and we have added another output on Channel 4 in this case Tiptop s 808 Cowbell module We want to use the Cowbell for fills To fire our fill we press the Fill button from the 1st function column Fill is now green When you want to trigger your fill press the Trig4 button for Channel output 4 and you ll hear your cowbell fill at 16th notes until you stop holding down the Trig4 button If wanted to fire a fill on Channel 3 our Tiptop Snare module from previous examples you would press down Trig3 Each Trig button is associated with the same numbered output Channel ROUP STEPS CHANNEL MUTE LOOP ON OFF DAW COPY RND CHAOS VERTICAL 20 Please note your fills recorded in your Step sequences Fills are designed for live perfor mance Let s have some fun and have a fill with 1 32 triplets Press the Fill button again to select options for your fill The Preset column has divisions from top to bottom of triplet notes of 1 4 1 8 1 16 1 32 duration Select the 4th button down Now press Fill twice to return to an active Fill Press down the Trig4 butt
7. buttons are no longer lit 42 Startup functions Updating the CR Firmware From time to time Tiptop releases firmware updates to some of its modules including the CR The se firmware updates include changes to the hardware that fix bugs as well as add new features or improve current features Firmware updates are applied to the CR via a USB flash drive memory stick connected to the USB port on the module back The CR features a USB type A port that hosts USB 1 0 and 2 0 devices Any flash memory device can be used but the CR only recognizes a drive formatted in the MS DOS FAT32 format This is the default format of most USB flash drives and SD cards out of the box so no need to reformat unless the drive was formatted to something like the Mac HFS or Windows NTFS format Note the power draw of an external IDE SATA drive is too much for the CR to support so don t plug in an external USB hard drive of this type To load the firmware on to your USB device Download the firmware file from the Tiptop site Copy the file onto the root level of your USB drive The downloaded firmware file is called image hex and the CR will only recognize files with this name Follow these remaining steps to update your CR Power down the CR and unscrew from rack Insert the USB flash drive into USB port on the back side of the CR Hold down the Vertical button on the lower right e While continuing to hold down the Vertical button power on
8. has five main views from top to bottom 1x64 etc all in the lower righthand corner For the moment we re going to explore the vertical view First let s set our BPM to 120 Rotate the Clock knob You ll notice that the button matrix displays in the BPM by lighting up the buttons Pretty slick right CIRCADIAN RHYTHM GROUP SET PRESET GROUP PRESET STEPS CHANNEL MUTE LOOPON OFF LOOP LOOPON OFF ZOOM COPY PASTE CLEAR RND CHAOS CLKIN EXT SWING RESET FILL SYNC BOSS GLOBAL CLOCK OUT TRIG1 TRIG2 TRIG3 z m f n a 2 HOLD ON POWER UP TO LOAD USB CLOCK 120 BPM The button in the lower righthand corner of the CR is called Vertical make sure it is illuminated in Blue Think of Vertical as your home button and primary view Vertical displays most of the fun ctionality that you ll be using to program rhythms Further all of the labels that appear above the buttons in the primary eight columns are meaningful only in the Vertical view For this tutorial in the Vertical view we re going to focus on the third and fourth columns called Steps and Channels The Channel column refers to the button that is selected in each row So if the channel button for row 1 is green it means that we are currently viewing Channel 1 which will output to trigger gate 1 on the right side of the CR the BD in our example 03 99
9. on each SyncBus device The LED will turn Green Select one of the devices to be Boss by pressing its Sync Boss button again The LED will turn Red This module now controls the other connected devices Press the Sync Boss on any other device to change the Boss The other modules will auto matically change to follow the new Boss 38 Swing The CR can add swing on both 8th and 16th notes To enable swing enter vertical view and press the swing button The first press will turn the button green indicating 8th note swing pressing again turns the button red for 16th note swing Pressing the button again disables swing and the led is off Swing amount is set by the swing knob The even numbered 8th or 16th notes are delayed in incre ments of a single internal clock tick 96 PPQ and the amount of delay ranges from no delay to the next 16th note step By default all channels are swung by the swing value you set However the CR also lets you apply swing on a per channel basis For example you can apply swing only to your hi hat and toms chan nels but not swing any of the other six channels Here s how you edit the channels included in the swing operation Change to Vertical View Hold the Swing button down until all of the Channel LEDs turn on indicating Swing Edit Mode Green LEDs indicate that swing is on for that channel swing is off when the LEDs are Red Press the Channel buttons to turn swing on and off for that Channel
10. out example Finally let s add the snare Since we have connected a cable from the CR s output 3 to our snare trigger gate input select Channel 3 The Steps for Channel 3 are blank now Press in the fifth colu mn button on the Snare row Now you ve got the classic house techno rhythm pattern If you press Channel 2 again you can see your selected triggers for your hihats coming from CR s output 2 likewise for the BD for Channel 1 The Mute button immediately in the column to the right of a Channel is associated with that Channel e g the Channel in row 3 is associated with the Mute button in row 3 When the Channel is actively generating steps the Mute button lights up green to let you know when that channel is firing Press the Mute button for the Channel you wish to mute The muted Channel will no longer fire triggers gates Press the Mute button again to unmute the channel 05 OUT VERTICAL O00 00 0 Of om Snare out example QST 1 Review CR has multiple views The Vertical view is the primary view for editing and utility functions The CR s outputs correspond to Channels Steps are a collection of eight steps Steps output to Channels Channels have their associated Mute button on the same row in the column immediately to the right of the Channel When unmuted Mute shows you when a Channel is triggering Press the associated Mute to mute a Channel 06 Quickstart Tutorial
11. own internal clock Now we have two options for sync from our DAW either 16th note sync or DAW sync Both are re liable but DAW mode has a higher level of timing fidelity because the sync signal is triggering more frequently To set up 16th Note sync using SW Sync simply set the PPQN value to 4 as shown below PPQN is pulses per quarter note 4 pulses per quarter note x 4 for a four beat measure 16th notes silent way 2 4 1 HEUTE Output Click Low Cick High Trigg ype 1 1 Divisor Multiplier t Delay EE T Divisor NECEM o Output 20 0 0008 1 00005 0000 Run M Off Ome ving Swing Offset Run Output Run Low Run High ength Type Beat Mode 1 5 Silent Way Sync Set for 16th Note Sync 26 set DAW sync using SW Sync simply set the PPQN value to 24 as shown below 24 pulses per quarter note x 4 for a four beat measure 96th notes silent way 2 4 1 a Ty Divisor PPQN Multiplier MEE Eo 0 M ME NATUR NI EL ving Swing Offset Run Output Run Low Run High Length Type Mode Silent Way Sync Set for DAW Sync One last step set the right sync on the CR In Vertical mode hold down the Global button until the normal Vertical mode disappears This is Global mode In the upper righthand corner you should se lect the sync mode that you set up in SW Sync If you went with 16th note sync select 16TH If you chose DAW mode
12. pulse to the reset out If looping is activated the reset will go to the first preset in the first group in the loop Global Switches the UI to the global view where general settings such as clock format and reset type can be changed 34 Trigger 3 6 See trigger 1 4 7 above Start Stop Starts and stops playback When you press Stop all current data is written to the internal memory this can take up to 2 seconds to complete The button will turn red when the save is com plete Once saved your data will be available after powered down and powering up the CR NOTE For all clock modes and both internal and external clock sources the only way to save data to the is to press STOP Stopping the clock on an external clock source device will not save to the data Control 4 Column Zoom Displays Zoom view In zoom view sub steps are displayed at a higher resolution and can be edited up to dotted 64th notes 24 ppq Further you can create delays to any Step or substep by holding the substep and turning the swig knob The led turns red when there is a delay Up For NxN views Up moves the view of Channels up Down For NxN views Down scrolls down the view of Channels 8x8 view 8x8 displays the 8 steps of all 8 channels in a given preset The step data is in rows with the first step on the left and step 8 on the right Channel 1 is the top row and channel 8 the bottom row Control 4 is the far right column and can be used to swi
13. remove each step of the Gate individually Gates can be edited for length or broken into several shorter gates by pressing but not holding any step The step pressed will turn off and two new Gates will appear The first step of the second half becomes the start of the Gate and holding it will remove the entire Gate Asingle press of the last step of a Gate will shorten the Gate by one step This is useful for trimming the duration in small increments Channel Step Editing One way to speed up the process of programming a base pattern for all Presets without using copy and paste or change is to use Channel Step Editing Channel Step Editing lets you edit multiple presets simultaneously even with looping on or off Holding down the Channel button for the desired channel will apply any entered step to every Preset included in the Preset Loop To use Channel Step Editing Use the Preset Loop editing function to include the desired Presets in the Loop Note that by default all Presets are included Select the Channel button to apply the steps to for all Presets Hold the same Channel button down and wait 3 seconds before editing All steps entered while holding the Channel button applies them to every Preset in the Preset Loop Release the Channel button to exit 41 Trigger buttons In Vertical view each trigger channel has a dedicated button for triggering single pulses fills or ma nually recording steps With fill and reco
14. the signal is already a square wave oscilloscope comes in handy for diagnosing problems with sync pulses A dual input model allows the monitoring of latency between input and output as well musical note for 24 PPQN is a 1 96th note or 1 64th note triplet Setting the DAW Timeline resolution to one of these will help in aligning sync 25 Applications Expert Sleepers Silent Way Expert Sleepers have a set of VST AU plugins called Silent Way which provide a range of utility functions from CV pitch control to Envelope and LFO generation to Synchronization In this section a standard audio interface will be used for signals and not the hardware made by Expert Sleepers for Eurorack After you have Silent Way installed load an instance of the SW Sync in a channel in your DAW For our example we will say that we are using channel 1 on our audio interface to output the Clock Sync signal Set SW Sync Clck Output to output to channel 1 Connect the analog output of Channel 1 of the audio interface to the Clock In input on the CR a 14 to mini adapter is likely needed Also connect channel 2 to Reset In on the CR and set the Run Output to Channel 2 Use the most ap propriate channels for your audio interface if 1 and 2 are not available To activate an external clock as the clock source on the CR in Vertical mode press CLK IN EXT CLK IN EXT should turn red when this button is green the CR is using its
15. 0900 401916 00 010 OIOHOIO 909000006 4 O 000000 eo 0069 O0 OO Oa OO O QOO 2 0 pm 5 t ae ptep VERTICAL ST STOP HOLD ON POWER UP TO LOAD USB GLOBAL SWING LOOP ON OFF ZOOM SYNC BOSS TRIG8 OPY a 9 a E amp RND CHAOS CLK IN EXT FILL LOOP ON OFF c MUTE I Channel column and output CIRCADIAN steps and output 1 04 Steps is where you program your triggers gates that will generate rhythm In Vertical view the Steps will appear vertically Steps are a collection of eight steps It s always a collection of eight steps not six or three just eight Ok so we re viewing Channel 1 s first set of Steps Let s fill in some beats Press the first and the fifth button on the Steps column They will illuminate in green You should now hear a BD kick on the one and the five making the familiar four on the floor kick Let s add another Channel Select Channel 2 the second button in the Channel column will now be green The Steps are now blank because we haven t programmed any Steps for this Channel yet In fact if you selected Channel 1 again you ll see the 1 and the 5 in green For Channel 2 press the third and the seventh buttons on the column which will output triggers to the HiHats in our example OUT VERTICAL Q 6 O 00 OX 99999999 HiHats
16. 2 Other Views Don t reset the classic house techno rhythm pattern we programmed in the previous tutorial Let s explore the other four views besides Vertical As stated earlier Vertical is the primary view for programming rhythms However the CR s views can be used in performance to program and or view your Steps on the fly For example let s select 8x8 the button right above Vertical Switching to this view you ll notice immediately that the lights switch from moving vertically to horizontally the 8x8 view displays all the current Steps for each of the eight Channels all outputting triggers gates to their corresponding numbered outputs on the right Your 8x8 should look like this GROUP SET PRESET GROUP PRESET STEPS CHANNEL MUTE LOOPON OFF LOOP LOOP ON OFF OUT 5 CLEAR HIHATS Q RND CHAOS CLKIN EXT SWING SNARE 8x8 8x8 View of Pattern 07 You edit your step patterns here in the 8x8 view also Some users prefer to start program ming rhythms here in this view The other three non Vertical views besides the 8x8 view are similar except that they show patterns larger than eight steps in length Patterns larger than eight steps in length are created by looping presets which will explore in Quickstart Tutorial 4 Just to fill in our knowledge let s look at how the 2x32 View appears In this view you have visible access to two rows of 32 steps each The vi
17. CLKIN EXT SWING 999 Simple House Techno pattern variation for Group 1 Preset 2 Switch back to Vertical View for the Loop programming To Loop these two presets and create a longer pattern we need to press the Set Loop button Looking at the Presets column this shows us which presets are currently part of our Preset loop By default all of the Presets will be activated For our loop we only want Presets 1 and 2 Press the Preset buttons for Presets 3 through 8 This will deactivate all the presets in the loop Now press Preset Loop On Off Your two Preset loop should now be playing cycling through Pre sets 1 and 2 The currently active Preset in the loop is red 14 GROUP SET PRESET GROUP PRESET STEPS CHANNEL MUTE LOOPON OFF LOOP LOOP ON OFF COPY PASTE CLEAR RND CHAOS CLKIN EXT SWING BEAT TAP TEMPO RESET FILL SYNC BOSS GLOBA TRIG5 TRIG6 FOE 00 00 TRIG7 TRIG8 F H a R OROA TF O AIS HO Preset Looping active Group 1 Preset 2 for Channel 3 Snare shown Here s what is really cool Switch to the 4x16 View You have a 16 Step Loop pattern of 2 Presets and you can now view and edit the Steps in this View or any of the other nXn Views If you want to add additional Presets to your loop press the Preset Loop On Off button For exam ple if you want to add Preset 3 press the Preset Loop On Off button and press Preset 3 and it will turn green This preset is pro
18. R s reset input from other modules can create non regular patterns that ge nerate complex rhythms and poly or cross rhythms When paired with a Tiptop Trigger Riot using probability mode a clock divider or a random trigger generating module triggering the CR s reset input can create non deterministic unpredictable rhythms and polyrhythms Swing is your friend Swing can make your patterns sound not only less mechanical not that there s anything wrong with mechanical if that s what you re going for but groovier When used with restraint swing paired with Zoom programming can generate off kilter and unusual patterns or silky grooves Channels don t have to be used simply for triggers out to trigger sounds They can also be used for accents If you have modules with accent inputs for example Tiptop s 808 and 909 drum modules use a Channel to output an accent in addition to triggering the sound Accents can become performative when you trigger them live as Fills Using Gates in addition to Triggers can create more interesting patterns and rhythmic mo vement especially when paired with an envelope particular one that responds to Gates of varying lengths like the Tiptop Z4000 with its Sustain set high Gates can also control the direction of any of the 10 sequencers on the Z8000 The sequence will reverse when the Gate is on 31 Circadian Rhythm Functions in Detail This section walks through each of the
19. a clock or fire a BD808 The main diffe rence between the two is the length of each and how they are used A trigger is typically a standard short duration 5ms signal and is used trigger hence the name a drum module ping a LPG or ad vance a Clock A gate is the same signal as a trigger only the duration of the signal is variable A gate is used to activate modules such as an envelope generator where the duration of the output varies On Off Signal Duration Used with Envelope generators Gate 5v 0v Variable g some sequencers As an example let s set gate in a pattern in Vertical mode for the first five beats of an 8 beat Pattern In this case instead of connecting the Output to a drum trigger input connect it to an envelope gene rator such as the the Tiptop Z4000 Connect the envelope generator to a VCA so that the envelope is activating the VCA set the Sustain knob on the Z4000 to maximum Plug in a oscillator Such as the Tiptop Z3000 to the VCA input to have a sound source To activate the gate in the CR for example hold down the first button Step in the Pattern and the fifth button Step in the pattern until the first buttons turn to red That s it There s your gate To change the length of the gate to seven Steps you hold down the seventh Step and the intermediary steps will be activated Step 6 and 7 To deactivate the gate either hold down the first and the last step in your gate u
20. ally to DAWs and other electronic music hardware This is a potentially confusing topic with many variables so please read carefully and have patience when setting things up In most recording studios the advent of digital audio workstations DAWs such as Apple Logic Ableton Live Pro Tools and Cuckoos Reaper have replaced most analog recording methods Now the DAW is the centerpiece of control and the primary clock in the digital studio so it makes sense to understand how to sync the CR to it In the digital audio realm the audio sample is the basic building block and the standard unit by which all digital audio is measured today The clock which drives audio interfaces and thus DAWS is the most accurate available to most people and also the best source for common synchronization of devices The clock inputs and outputs of the CR use analog voltage pulses where the rising edge of the pulse indicates the time to execute the next event A DAW can generate and record these pulses just like audio No additional software or hardware is needed to do this Here s the important concept to grasp the DAW can treat clock control pulses just like any other audio signal Unlike MIDI which runs separate timing audio clock pulses are locked to the same precise clock as the rest of the audio generated by your DAW To give you an idea of how fine grai ned control of timing digital audio can be the CR can be triggered by a single clock a pulse at any sp
21. bably empty unless you have been filling up your preset banks so we can select the 2x32 view to edit our entire 24 Step Loop pattern or just edit Preset 3 in Vertical view Just because we chose consecutive Presets for this example doesn t mean you have to also If you want to loop say Presets 2 6 7 there s nothing stopping you as far as the CR is concerned Your selected Presets will all be treated as the same looping block of Steps internally and also if you switch views to a nXn view Looping Groups is the same as looping Presets except that you have a much larger range of Steps to choose among One thing to remember about looping Groups you need to select the Presets in the Group you want to loop Say we want to loop Group 1 Presets 1 3 and Group 2 Presets 1 2 You ll need to select those Presets within the Group and the Groups to loop 15 From our Presets example Group 1 to Group 2 For Presets 1 2 Group 2 add addi tional Snare hit and add some variations to your HiHat pattern To Loop Groups 1 and 2 and Presets 1 and 2 from each Group we need to press the Set Loop button and the Group Loop On Off Looking at the Groups column this shows us which Groups are currently part of our Group loop By default all of the Groups will be activated Your two Group loop should now be playing cycling through all the Groups The currently active Group in the loop is red For our loop we only want to lo
22. ct the Group by holding until the button turns Red and release the button 3 Select the Preset by holding a Preset button until it holds the step data in the UI Note holding a Preset button before selecting the group will hold the current group which might not be the one you want 4 Edit the Steps in the Preset 5 Release the hold and return to regular Ul updates of the loop progress 40 Programming triggers and gates As described in Advanced Tutorial 3 Triggers and Gates only differ in their duration Triggers are short pulses Gates are longer sustained pulses Triggers are great for triggering short sounds like drum sounds however Gates are needed for playing the sustained notes of a synth sound for example using the Z4000 envelope generator with the Sustain knob set high To enter a Trigger on a step press the desired step in the given view to place a trigger there The step button will illuminate green Press the same step button again to remove the trigger and the led will turn off Programming Gates requires holding the first and last step buttons down for a short period All of the steps between the first and last being held will turn red Gates place information throughout the entire length of the timeline they occupy which allows editing of the Gate To remove a Gate hold the first step button in the Gate until all of the steps in the Gate are cleared This makes removing Gates a single button operation instead of having to
23. e en means there is data in the buffer that can be copied Now press Paste and Press Group 2 Your presets of Channels and Steps for Group 1 should now be copied and pasted into Group 2 Press and hold down the Start Stop button to the left of Vertical This stops the CR clock and simul taneously saves all of your Groups Presets and Channels of Steps Press Start Stop to start the CR clock running again QST 3 Review Groups and Presets are containers of eight that serve as organizational blocks for your rhyth mic patterns of Steps A Group contains eight Presets A Preset contains eight Channels of Steps Copy paste and clear all work on Groups Presets and Channels of Steps To use them you press the action button and then where you want it to happen Start Stop stops and starts the CR s clock Holding it down also saves to non volatile memory the data so the saved settings loads on next power up in all your Groups Presets and Chan nels of Steps 11 An Aside Ladder of Being The Ladder of Being is an old concept used to describe a hierarchical set of containers that fit insi de one another The CR s groupings are structured like the Ladder of Being For more info http en wikipedia org wiki Great_chain_of_being Going down the ladder A Group has eight Presets A Preset has eight sets of Steps and Channels A set eight Channels has eight Steps each Up the ladder Channels and Steps are intimately t
24. e current preset When the trigger button is held down a fill is output but not recorded if Fill is on Control 2 Column Loop Edit Selects Presets Green and group Red for loop editing Paste If copied data is present see Copy above in the memory buffer the content of the copied buffer is pasted into a channel preset or group The buffer can be pasted infinitely after a copy fills the buffer Clock in ext Selects internal or external clock source The format of the clock is set in global view see Global View below Tap Tap tempo button Tap the button twice to set the tempo The difference between the duration of the two most recent taps calculates the tempo Sync Boss Press to enter syncbus as the clock format Hold until the led turns red to become boss Trigger 2 5 8 See trigger 1 4 7 under Control 1 above Control 3 Column Group Loop Activates the UI for selecting groups to loop on and off When activated the button will be red if group looping is not running and green if groups are being looped See the Group Loop section or Quickstart Tutorial 4 for more details Clear Pressing clear arms the clear function Once armed the next channel preset or group pres sed will be cleared of step data Swing Turns swing on and off There are two rates for swing 8th notes and 16th notes The amount of swing is set using the swing knob Reset Pressing the reset button will reset the internal counters and send a reset
25. ecific sample in your DAW s timeline Further the DAW can also record the clock pulses from the CR and these recorded clocks can trigger the CR for sync between subsequent overdubs This method is probably the easiest and most modular centric sync between the DAW and Eurorack hardware You can now focus on the the tactile performance of the modular and use the DAW as a fancy tape recorder where everything runs in sync In addition to recording audio pulses from the CR third party plugins exist for generating a sync pulse from the DAW to the CR we use Expert Sleepers Silent Way as an example below If your tastes run more to the algorithmic side of composition Audio programming environments like Max MSP Pd or SuperCollider can produce proper sync pulses as well although the use of these runs outside of the scope of this manual 24 Before starting the application section a few technical notes rising edge of the pulse triggers the clock Many audio interfaces have AC coupling which may invert the rising edge of the pulse The clock input of the CR is designed with this in mind so AC coupled audio interfaces should work fine with the CR Align the beginning of the pulse to the sample or bar beat to advance the CR s clock n order to trigger reliably the level of the pulse signal from your DAW may need to exceed few volts The peak will likely be close to or at dBFS in your DAW Don t worry about the signal clipping
26. er 8 substeps to the 5th substep on the third row for the final triplet Consult the Zoom View section in the second part of the manual for more details on entering other triplet and dotted values 18 GROUP SET PRESET GROUP PRESET STEPS CHANNEL MUTE LOOPON OFF LOOP LOOP ON OFF ZOOM COPY PASTE CLEAR RND CHAOS CLKIN EXT SWING Zoom view HiHats example with Sub Steps Note you can only edit Zoom steps in Zoom view You ll need to switch to Zoom mode from Vertical or one of the NxN views if you want to make changes to your current pattern that contains Zoomed sub steps For clarity the above diagrams leave out two very important columns in Zoom view that allow chan ging the Channel and Preset without leaving the view The seventh column changes the Preset in the current Group Note to change Group return to Vertical View The eighth column changes the Channel The currently selected Preset and Channel are the Green LEDs The Red LEDs differentiate these two rows from the Sub Step section of Zoom view Zoom is great for adding density to your patterns It can also be used to create off kilter or broken be at rhythmic patterns especially when used in conjunction with the swing function Consult the Zoom section on page 36 of the manual for further details 18 Advanced Tutorial 2 Fills and Programming Triggers Fills A Fill in the CR is a user triggered drum fill that is designed to
27. ews of each Channel break down by this division so you can see 2 channels of 32 step patterns simultaneously likewise 4x16 shows 4 channels of 16 steps each This means that the top four rows show the 32 step output to channel 1 the BD and the the top four rows show the 32 step output to channel 2 the HiHat GROUP SET PRESET GROUP PRESET STEPS CHANNEL MUTE LOOPON OFF LOOP LOOP ON OFF COPY PASTE CLEAR BD RND CHAOS CLKIN EXT SWING TAPTEMPO RESET HIHATS 2x32 View of Pattern If we want to see the other channels in the 2x32 we navigate up and down using the up and down buttons immediately below the Zoom button If you want to see channel 3 the snare output press the down button Press the up button to see the programmed steps for channels 1 and 2 QST 2 Review Multiple views let us view step programs at the same time and edit on the fly formula for each view is number of viewable channels x number of steps e g 4x16 me ans 4 simultaneously viewable channels of 16 steps each We can view other channel outputs in views larger than 8x8 by navigating up and down with the up and down buttons 08 Quickstart Tutorial 3 Groups and Presets Plus Paste Clear and Save So far we ve made a pretty simple rhythmic pattern seen it in different views in the CR and had the opportunity to edit in those views Now we re going dive into groups and presets which will pave the way for mo
28. gs of the DAW The following example uses Ableton Live but this manual cannot cover every recording application so please consult the DAW documentation for how to enter the same settings 28 The above image shows audio pulse the Ableton Clip window sent by Silent Way through the audio output and recorded back into a track in Ableton Notice the silence at the start of the region this is the delay Ableton has not automatically compensated internally Measuring the exact number of samples of silence is the best method for compensation Unfortunately Ableton lacks the ability to use samples as a unit so this clip was sent to an external editor Adobe Audition to measure In this case the number of samples measured 446 The following image shows the Ableton Live Preferences with the sample delay applied The audio window below shows a new recording after applying the delay value no more delay In some cases the DAW might not have these settings or they might not be applied properly Audio will have to be manually moved in the timeline for sync in such circumstance 29 30 Preferences CR Tips Performance and Programming Ideas isn t just for programming drums and beats For example you can use it to drive the clock for melodic sequencers creating melodies that have more interesting rhythms reset input can be used to create fascinating complexity out of a few simple ingredients Triggering the C
29. ied together Each Channel has eight Steps Each Preset has eight set of Channels and Steps Each Group has eight set of Presets that belong to it This is the order of the CR universe A SINGLE GROUP CAN HAVE UP TO 64 STEPS STEP Ladder of Being 12 Quickstart Tutorial 4 Looping Presets and Groups for More Complex Patterns Yes you are saying groups and presets are interesting and all but our patterns are still only 8 steps in length How can make patterns that are 16 32 64 or even 256 steps in length Enter looping Looping as a function in the CR allows you to loop through a set of selected presets or groups You can also think of looping as combining or really concatenating a set of presents or groups but that would make the concept less flexible than it is truly is Let s create an example Let s choose Group 1 Preset 1 in Vertical View and enter in our standard house technopattern Switch to 8x8 view to program the pattern GROUP SET PRESET GROUP PRESET STEPS CHANNEL MUTE LOOPON OFF LOOP LOOP ON OFF OUT COPY PASTE CLEAR RND CHAOS CLKIN EXT SWING 009 8x8 Simple House Techno pattern for Group 1 Preset 1 In Group 1 Preset 2 let s add a little variation to the HiHat and BD Enter this pattern 13 GROUP SET PRESET GROUP PRESET STEPS CHANNEL MUTE LOOPON OFF LOOP LOOP ON OFF OUT COPY PASTE CLEAR RND CHAOS
30. ise timing resolution 32 Views Vertical view Vertical view displays access to most of the functions of the CR It is arranged in vertical columns instead of in horizontal rows like the other views The columns are from left to right Group Selects the Group for display and editing The current Group is shown with a green LED Preset Selects a Preset to edit The selected Preset is green Other LEDs may light when editing loops etc Step Entry of triggers or gates in the selected preset on the currently selected Channel Green LEDs indicate a trigger and red LEDs indicate gates The currently playing step flashes Channel Selects one of the 8 output Channels to edit The currently selected channel is shown with a green LED Mute Mutes or enables any of the 8 Channels output Muted Channels are lit with a red LED Also displays the output activity with the green LED Control 1 loop on off copy random beat fill trigger buttons 1 4 7 Control 2 preset loop paste clock in ext tap sync boss trigger 2 5 8 Control 3 group loop clear swing reset global trigger 3 6 start stop Control 4 zoom up down 1x64 2x32 4x16 8x8 vertical Control 1 Column Preset Loop On Off Turns looping on or off The button is green when looping is running and red when off Copy Copies all step gate data from a Channel Preset or Group into an internal memory buffer There is a separate buffer for channel preset and group On b
31. lopes of your patched synth sounds and all your drum sounds The CR gives you eight sequencer channels for multi voice musical composition entirely on the modular Additional channels can be added with additional CRs and or Trigger Riots using Tiptop SyncBus connectors located at the back of the module which keeps them all in perfect sync as if they were one big sequencer This manual has two sections 1 Quickstart and Advanced tutorials for step by step instructions on a specific task These examples will give you enough knowledge of the CR s structure and functionality to start using it 2 Detailed function descriptions that form the Reference part of the document including Specifica tions Just FYI before we get started this manual Columns refer to vertical lines of buttons Rows refer to horizontal lines The CR has nine columns and eight rows Terms that refer to labels on the CR are capitalized NxN View to a concept or action that is applicable to any of the horizontal grid views 1x64 2x32 4x16 8x8 02 Quickstart Tutorial 1 Vertical View Basics For the purposes of this exercise we ll use the Tiptop 808 BD Hihats and Snares but you can use any module that takes a gate or a trigger for an input to make a sound for example this could be an envelope generator triggering a VCA or a lo pass gate Now connect trigger outputs 1 2 and 3 to the BD Hihats and Snares trigger gate inputs respectively CR
32. mn until button lights up Red indica ting the groups can be edited 3 Press any of the buttons in the Group column to select which Groups are in the loop Included Groups are shown green and excluded are not lit 4 Press the Group Loop On Off button at the top of Control 1 column to start the group loop The Group Loop On Off button will turn green to indicate Group looping is running The group loop plays from top to bottom and plays all of the preset loops in each group If no presets are selected in a group the loop skips to the next selected group 5 Turn the Group Loop off by pressing Group Loop On Off The loop will continue to loop the Presets in the current Group The Group Loop On Off button will turn Red to indicate group loo ping is off 6 To exit Group loop programming press Loop Edit again Editing While Looping While loops are running the Vertical View UI will display the current Preset and Group data as the loop progresses While running especially depending on your tempo editing can become challen ging so here are some recommendations for editing Presets while the loop is playing You can even create new Presets to add to loops on the fly First and most important Holding down a Preset or Group button down while Looping is On will keep that Preset or Group actively displayed in the UI To edit a Preset while Looping 1 Set the loop and activate it using Loop On Off which turns Green when the loop is running 2 Sele
33. ntil the buttons are no longer red or press each button in the gate pattern individually Pressing Step in an active gate also allows you to edit your activated gate to create multiple gates in a Pattern 22 CIRCADIAN RHYTHM GROUP PRESET 16 DIN PON OFF ZOOM ou m v zm m a lt m m C z z x gt C 0 tz a CLOCK OUT Q OQ Q 2 e 2 zi E e 4 2 w c m 2 uo n 2 gt 4 2 C 4 4 4 a 4 lt E n 2 r OQO 0 0 00 99900999 Q Q Q HOLD POWER UP TO LOAD USB Gate Example in Vertical View Gates can run or be created in any view not only Vertical as in our example Gates can be looped and manipulated for example copied and pasted just like triggers 23 Advanced Tutorial 4 Syncing the Circadian Rhythm to Your DAW or Any Clock Because a true standard for synchronization has never been established multiple methods for analog and digital clock synchronization have been developed for different electronic music devices and their manufacturers We are hopeful this section can resolve some of the confusion that has emerged over the years due to the absence of standardization Below we will cover both theory and application of sync as it applies gener
34. on to fire your fill with 1 32 triplets For further information on programming fills of different note values see the section on Fills in the Circadian Rhythm Functions in Detail section Triggers Simply put triggers allow you to record steps to your patterns live and on the fly Some folks feel more comfortable with this approach to building up rhythmic patterns or sometimes when you have a good pattern going it s great to be able to add beats in real time Regardless CR has you covered To activate Trigger programming hold down the Fill button The Fill button will turn green and the Trig1 Trig8 buttons will turn red The red Trig buttons indicate that they are armed for recording While the CR is playing to record a step in your current Preset press the Trig for the Channel you wish to record a step For example if you want to record a step on Channel 5 press Trig5 Your step will be record in the appropriate Channel s Preset quantized to the nearest 16th note Apart from inputting Steps in realtime there s nothing special about Steps that have been recorded using the Trigger function You can edit them the same as you would for any other Step 2 Advanced Tutorial 3 Programming Gates The CR doesn t generate only triggers It can also generate gates in Patterns As a review triggers and gates are both on off voltage signals used to activate another module for example to start an envelope generator advance
35. oot the buffers are empty Once a buffer is filled the data in it remains until overwritten by newly copied data The copy button turns green when new data is written into it and then cleared after the next paste is performed See copy paste section for more details Random Pressing random turns the button green and arms the randomize functions the next chan nel preset or group pressed will be filled with random step values Note that only 16th step values are filled The button LED turns off after the randomize is complete and must be pressed again to arm it Beat Selects between Beat Continue and Beat Sync mode The button lights red for beat continue and green for beat sync 33 In Beat Continue mode groups presets switched immediately and the step is not reset In Beat Sync mode Groups or Presets are only switched at the end of each preset Fill Pressing the Fill button activates the Fill for the trigger buttons on and off While Fill is active press the Fill button a second time switches to Fill UI to select the fill rate The Preset column selects even notes 8th 16th 32nd etc the Step column selects triplet and the Channel column selects dotted values Holding down the Fill button will toggle the state of trigger recording Trigger 1 4 7 Trigger buttons allow for direct output of a step using the corresponding trigger for the output When trigger record is active entered steps are quantized to 16th notes in th
36. op Groups 1 and 2 so deactivate the others That s it You just looped some Groups Step away Pour yourself a beer Let the compositional and improvisational possibilities sink in Also consult page 40 of the document for further details on Looping QST 4 Review Loops are the way to create step sequences longer than 8 steps You can loop either Presets or Groups loop Presets activate Set Loop and Preset Loop On Off Select which presets you wish to loop in the Preset column Looping Groups operates on the same principles as looping Presets but with two differences you activate Group looping with Group Loop On Off and you must select which Presets in the Group you wish to loop 16 Advanced Tutorial 1 Zoom Programming Zoom is another view but one with a very specific and micro focused purpose Zoom allows you to program your currently 8 step Step sequence at micro resolution If we enter Zoom view we can see our pattern but instead of having only 8 steps we 48 the extra steps are between the standard 8 steps and we refer to them as Sub Steps For example say we have a HiHat pattern and we want a pattern denser than our 16th note 8 step pattern or we want to have sub steps that fall between our strict 16th note quantization Let s edit a HiHat pattern Enter Zoom view and we can see our HiHat pattern look like this PRIMARY HITHATS TRIGGERS c SUBSTEP GROUP MUTE
37. press the DAW button to activate it Press the Vertical button to exit Global mode Start the timeline or clock of your DAW usually this means pressing the Play transport button If your connections working properly you now have rock solid sync Reset can be set many different ways based on the needs of the session When set to Run in Silent Way the output will remain high until playback is stopped Change the Run Type to Start and the Beats setting then sends out Reset pulses based on the Divisor instead of the static Run signal To send a reset every 4 bars set the Beats to 16 and Divisor to 1 4 16 beats 4 beats per bar 4 bars 27 Audio Loop Sync You don t need a special plugin to sync the CR to your DAW In fact the CR will just as easily sync to an audio loop of a sync clock Tiptop has provided some source clock audio files at various BPMs on the Tiptop Audio website To use the audio sync file simply follow the directions above for using SW Sync but substitute the audio sync file Loop the file in your DAW for the duration of your project and you ve got one channel of clock throughout your session These files are simply example templates to demonstrate the technique Making your own audio sync files is just a matter of placing the clock and reset pulses at the correct locations in the DAW timeline NB You ll need an audio sync file that was generated at your desired BPM Most DAW
38. rding off pressing one of the trigger buttons outputs a single short trigger of that channel This can be useful for adding single accents during a performance or for testing purposes These triggers are not recorded into your Preset Fills The CR can insert fills to a running program at various rates This feature is controlled by the Fill button in control column 1 1 Enable fills by pressing the fill button which lights up green when fills are active 2 Hold any trigger button down for a Fill We designed Fills to be used as accents during a performance so Fills are not recorded into the steps in a pattern 3 Press the Fill button again to while Fills are active to enter the Fill Ul view The Group Preset and Step columns are used to set the fill rate Group Preset Step 1 4 1 4 triplet 1 4 dottted 1 8 1 8 triplet 1 8 dotted 1 16 1 16 triplet 1 16 dotted 1 32 1 32 triplet 1 32 dotted 1 64 N A 1 64 dotted 4 To leave the fill Ul press the Vertical view button Trigger recording 1 Trigger recording allows for live drummachine style pad entry of Steps using the trigger but tons 2 Enter Vertical view 3 Hold down the Fill button until the Trigger buttons turn red Trigger recording is now active 4 Press the Trigger button at the point in the pattern you want the trigger to Trigger your Chan nel output Triggers are quantized to 16th note steps 5 To exit Trigger recording hold down the Fill button until the trigger
39. re complex pattern programming Let s select the Vertical view we still have the basic house techno beat running let s clear it and start something different To clear a Channel or Groups and Presets as we ll see shortly press the Clear button in Vertical view Nothing happens until you press the Channel you want to clear In this case press the Channel 1 button Now your kick drum should be cleared To clear the other sounds press Clear and then the Channel you wish to clear Now we ll create a pattern and a variation to demonstrate Keep your same outputs plugged into the CR with BD on Channel 1 HiHat on 2 and Snare on 3 A Preset is a set of 8 Channels and a set of Steps for each Channel For this pattern let s pick something slower Dial your BPM down to 90 and Set up the following pattern GROUP SET PRESET GROUP PRESET STEPS CHANNEL MUTE LOOPON OFF LOOP LOOP ON OFF OUT DAW COPY PASTE CLEAR RND CHAOS CLKIN EXT SWING 2790606 OOOOH LOOO 8x8 Slowed down pattern 8x8 view 09 You should have this pattern Preset 1 which is the first button in Vertical under the Preset column Now press the button for Preset 2 below Preset 1 You should hear no sound being output This pre set is empty because you haven t filled in this preset Press the button for Preset 1 and you should hear your original pattern We re going copy the pattern for Preset 1 and paste it into Preset 2 Cop
40. s include time stretching algorithms to alter the length of audio files to match a sequence s BPM However in our experiments we have found audio loop files altered using time stretching algorithms to match specific BPMs offer inconsistent levels of sync accuracy We recommend using an audio loop sync file created at the BPM you desire This method also works in reverse record the Clock and Reset outputs of the CR into the DAW as the sync track for all additional overdubs A Note About Latency and Sync All digital devices have to delay the signal in order to sample and work efficiently this is commonly called latency because it is often a hidden value The DAW software USB Firewire interface ADC DAC chips all have buffers in place for processing and they need to be measured When setting up sync with devices outside the computer the round trip delay needs to be compensated for and often the setting only works properly when manually set The first step is to measure the round trip delay from the DAW through the audio interface and back into the DAW timeline Send a clock signal from Silent Way or use the audio sync pulse method and record the output onto a separate audio track via the analog inputs and outputs of the interface just like itis hooked up to the CR In the timeline measure the time between the clock pulse being sent out and where the recorded one in samples Once the delay is measured it can be entered into the settin
41. s running The CR uses delays internally to compensate for the slow processing of the vintage Roland devices be cause of this sync is not as precise as the other clock modes and should only be used with original TR series devices like the 606 808 909 707 DAW This is a 24 PPQ clock pulse with resets sent and received while the clock is running Using this with a computer DAW either with a plugin or recorded pulses provides high accuracy sync Note no delays are used as in DIN making it useful for sync with modern devices that use 24 PPQ and Reset pulses This is also the clock resolution of MIDI Beat Clock so a device that converts the MIDI serial message to an analog clock pulse will sync the CR to MIDI SyncBus A parallel cable connection between Tiptop Audio modules that carries clock reset and preset data The next page has more detail on SyncBus including diagrams for cable connection NOTE The CR always runs at 96 PPQ resolution internally and the 16th DIN and DAW sources run at lower PPQ 16th 4PPQ DIN DAW 24PPQ To make the in between clocks internally the CR times the external pulses and synthesizes the rest based on the measured period Tempo In the case of 16th at 4 PPQ for each external pulse 23 internal pulses are generated meaning the external clock generates about 4 of the needed clock data To select a clock source In vertical view the clock in ext button will switch between internal and ex ternal clock with
42. tch to other views or shift to the next Preset using the Up and Down buttons When the first Preset is shown the up button is red showing that no scrolling is possible using Up Likewise the Down button turns red when preset 8 is shown 4x16 In 4x16 view 16 Steps of 4 Channels are shown for one Preset only The Up and Down buttons indicate if channels 1 4 are shown Up is lit or channels 5 8 Down is lit 2x32 In 2x32 view 32 Steps of 2 Channels are shown for a single Preset Up and Down buttons navigate between the four pairs of Channels out 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and the Up button turns red on channels 1 2 while the Down button turns red for channels 7 8 1x64 In 1x64 view all 64 Steps of a single Channel in a Preset are displayed The Up and Down buttons scroll through the Channels with Up turning red at Channel 1 and down turning red at Channel 8 35 Zoom Zoom view offers editing of an additional 6 sub steps per 16th note and a single Channel in a Preset at a time These additional 6 substeps are 24 PPQ 4 PPQ 16th note 6 substeps resolution and allow for the entry of intervals other than 16ths like triplets and dotted notes This is a chart of some common values and the number of substeps per note 4th Note 24 8th dotted 18 4th Triplet 16 8th Note 12 16th Dotted 9 8th Triplet 8 16th Note 6 16th Triplet 4 32nd 3 32nd Triplet 2 64th Triplet 1 The far left column is the 16th note step from the other views with s
43. tep 1 at the top and step 8 at the bottom just like Vertical View The five sub steps are in the next columns As an example to enter 8th note triplets place the first triplet on either step 1 or 5 in the left column then count 8 steps and place the next note there and count another 8 to place the third note of the triplet Column 7 selects the Preset in the current Group and column 8 the channel being edited The far right column is control 4 which changes the view as in the other views Each substep can also be offset by one internal tick by holding the sub step and turning the swing pot Sub steps with offsets illuminate red instead of green To remove the offset hold the step and turn the swing completely counter clockwise The resolution of the offset delay is based on the quantized resolution of the internal CR clock 96 PPQ thus varies in length based on the tempo At 120 BPM the granularity is about 5ms and 60 BPM the number is just over 10ms 36 The accepts external analog pulses to sync to other sources The following clock formats can be used 16th A pulse every 16th note 4 PPQ typically used by many analog sequencers This is quite common to find as a default for Eurorack modules and it is also the default for the CR DIN The 24 PPQ clock pulse plus Run signal used by the Roland TR series The Run signal tells devices when to start and stop playback so no resets are sent or received while DIN i
44. the CR Firmware update takes about 5 seconds and the Swing LED will light Once the firmware is updated the CR will boot normally Remove USB drive and reinstall the CR into rack It is sometimes recommended to erase the internal memory after firmware upgrade Here is how you do that Clearing the Internal memory The internal memory that holds all data and settings while power is off can be reset if desired Hold the Zoom button down on power up and the memory will be set to default values Checking Firmware Version To display the current firmware version Press the Global button while in Vertical View Once the display changes to Global View press the A button seventh button in the Group Column and the 3 digit firmware version will display for a few seconds 43 Specifications Width 36HP Depth 29 4mm inclusive of USB and cables 12v 200mA 12v 5v Trigger Out 5 volts Clock Out 12 volts with no load approx 5V with load Reset Out 12 volts with no load approx 5V with load Clock In max 12 volts Clock In min 4V Reset In max 12 volts Reset In Min 4V Internal clock jitter lt 50 microseconds Latency External Clock any Trigger Out lt 50 microseconds User Manual by William Selman Chris Clepper Piero Fragola Gur Milstein 44
45. the exception of SyncBus Internal clock is displayed as green and external clock is red To select a clock format e Switch to vertical view Press the global button and the view will change to Global view change the clock format The second row from the top has three options for the clock for mat 16th DIN and DAW The selected format will be lit green Press the vertical view button in the lower right to return to vertical view 37 SyncBus The clock signal is the internal clock rate and effectively replaces the internal clock of the slave de vice This is the most precise method to sync multiple Tiptop Syncbus devices like the CR or Trigger Riot When multiple CR are connected not only is the clock shared but the slave modules will fol low the Boss module s Group and Preset precisely during playback Because the Trigger Riot has no fixed grid it is possible to have different pattern lengths and time signatures between a synced Trigger Riot and the CR Using CYCS and CYCE the user has to fi gure out how to reconcile the CR Group Presets with the Riot As a starting point try CYCS 4 and CYCE 68 to follow a single Preset on the CR Below are the connection diagrams for the SyncBus parallel cable The top diagram shows con necting 3 CR modules using two SyncBus cables The lower diagram shows connecting 2 CR and one Trigger Riot To start SyncBus Switch to vertical view Press the Sync Boss button
46. y and Paste work similarly to Clear First you press the action button and then where you want it to happen In this case press Copy and the Copy button will turn red then press Preset 1 and copy will turn green Green means there is data in the buffer that can be copied Now press Paste and Press Preset 2 Your pattern for Preset 1 should now be copied and pasted into Preset 2 You can test this by pressing back and forth between Presets 1 and 2 COPY PRESET 1 PASTE PRESET 2 COPY THEN SELECT PRESET 1 PASTE THEN SELECT PRESET 2 Copy and paste procedure The principle of copy and paste works for Channels also If you want to copy a set of Steps into another Channel out press Copy and the Copy button will turn red then press for example Channel 2 Now press Paste and Press Channel 4 Practice copying and paste from Presets 1 and 2 and into other Presets Create variations in your rhythmic patterns in different presets 10 Looping Presets and Groups for More Complex Patterns Let s explore Groups Groups are structurally similar to Presets except that Groups contain 8 Pre sets Right now we should be in Group 1 If you Press Group 2 one button down from Group 1 in the Group column Group 2 will illuminate and you will hear no sound Group 2 is empty You can copy and paste among Groups in the same manner and you copied and pasted Presets Press Copy and the Copy button will turn red then press Group 1 and copy will turn green Gr
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