USER MANUAL (Version 1.08) - flame - Fortschritt
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1. 581 5 MANUAL Version 1 08 L QUANTIZE INSTRUMENT E EN SHORT DESCRIPTION SECURITY ADVICES CONSIGNMENT REAR PANEL FRONT PANEL SCHEME OF THE POTS SWITCHES AND KEY BUTTONS START STOP SYNC INTERN EXTERN B EDIT SHOTS VALUE RESOLUTION OFFBEAT m ECHO TIME DEPTH m LOOP RELEASE VARIATIONS QUANTIZE INSTRUMENT HOLD ECHO SWITCHES DIAL POT KEY m PLAY MODI BAR LOOP Loop Lenght CV GATE OUTPUTS GATE TRIGGER INPUTS VISUALIZATIONS OF FUNCTIONS CHARTS QUANTIZE REAL LOOP QUANTIZE LQ QUANTIZE Q ECHO DEPTH ECHO VELOCITY VALUE E SHOTS RESOLUTION SHOTS MANUALLY VALUES Velocity Value SHOTS AUTOMATIC RANDOM VALUES SHOTS LFO s sawtooth inverted sawtooth SHOTS OFFBEAT Example HiHat LOOP Recording schemata VARIATIONS Examples and normally play modi A SIMPLE EXAMPLE EDIT Adjustment of the parameters GENERALLY INSTRUMENT MIDI CHANNEL UTILITY DUMP SEND DUMP RECEIVE LOW DATA HALF TIME ANALOG OUT SHUFFLE ON OFF B SEND CLOCK ON OFF O O O O N NN NNN 9 12 10 10 11 11 11 12 12 14 16 18 16 16 17 17 18 18 INIT Reset user data MIDI MIDI RECEIVE MIDI SEND MIDI SYNCHRONIZATION B MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART LIST OF SYSEX DATA SAMPLE APPLICATIONS ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS DI2. NT NOTE With the left switch adjusted note A B or C is played A and B are fixed adjusted notes The same is C adjusted in EDIT mode but can be diversified with the DIAL pot C1 C2 Controller 1 or C2 will be played pitch bend or control change HOLD ECHO key button Keybutton switched forward activates HOLD of the track on off red LED permanent on off Keybutton switched backwards acti vates deactivates the echo of the track Litt le red ECHO LED on off HOLD Activating HOLD freezes the LOOP of the track RELEASE becomes effectless Nothing more can be recorded ECHO Only notes can generate an echo controller But the Echo can be notes or con troller or both adjustable EDIT mode DIAL Data Entry The function of the dial controller in the edit mode is changing values and navigating through the menus In the play menu there can be switched bet ween tempo and view entering of notes by pushing the controller Nearer descriptions can be found in the according chapters MODE Here you choose the play mode MUTE the red push buttons mute the accor ding track red HOLD LED is blinking PLAY with the red key buttons several steps can be placed in dependence of the adjustments of the QUANTIZE switch SHOTS as long as the red button is pushed note sequences or controller are generated depending on the adjustments of the SHOT pot BAR LOOP switch Determines the playback time of the s
3. 2 or 4 measures If BAR 1 measure 1 2 3 or 4 of the loop will be chosen and be played 8 measures If BAR 2 of all measures will be chosen two and be repeated 4 times If Barz4 of all measures will be chosen 4 and be repeated 2 times After run off the 8 measures a new sceme will be generated and played The variation can be stopped any time pot OFF or started again pot to the right You should rather use this function when no steps are recorded because you never know which measure of the loop is activated maybe for experi ments QUANTIZE Right switch REAL no Quantize play with Gatetime play in Tick mode Pushing the red push button generates Note On to let loose Note Off As long as the button is pushed before placed notes will be deleted LQ LOOP QUANTIZE Play as with REAL but the LOOP will be quantized belated in the memory depending from the left switch As long as the button is pushed before placed notes will be deleted QUANTIZE play quantized Depending from the left switch the notes will be played at the following raster point Note Off is pla ced automatically in front of the note not via releasing the button With this you can gene rate quantized bounded notes important for drumloop samples Notes will always be added PLEASE NOTE REAL LQ Bass Mode Playing of notes in realtime Quantize with Gatetime Q Drum Mode quantized bounded notes INSTRUMENT Right switch
4. Note Repeat Raster ECHO DEPTH Pot LEFT Feedback value reverse RIGHT Feedback value decaying To the steps of the running sequence can be added a midi echo The grid as well as the decay and attack time can be constantly modi fied during the session The movements of the controllers are constantly recorded and after activating MUTE at the according track auto matically played The echo also can be switched on and off at MUTE There are separate recor dings for every track possible LOOP RELEASE Pot Determines the decay of the loop decrea se of Velocity Value CENTER endless Loop no Release CLEAR ALL all played sequence data will be deleted except for Mute Hold CLEAR POS all sequence data at active position will be deleted except for Mute Hold PLEASE NOTE Thenotes and controller of a track can t be deleted seperatly Advice But there is a possibility to delete notes pointedly with played SHOTs at VALUE 0 even screened Equally controller values can be put screened LOOP VARIATIONS Pot You can vary a leveled loop while it is playing CENTER Variations off TO LEFT RIGHT Random on Velocity Value different procedures To the right additionally Random too on Velocity Value and additionally playback variations on off The order of the measures of the 4 measured loops are generated and played by random This sequence is 8 mea sures long and depends on the adjusted length of the loops 1
5. reorded are always 1 and 3 as well 52 If BAR 1 measure 1 2 3 or 4 of the loop will be chosen and be played 8 measures RECORD COPY COPY COPY BAR 2 of all measures will be chosen two and be repeated 4 times BAR 1 BAR 2 BAR 3 BAR 4 2 LOOP RECORD COPY BAR 1 BAR 2 BAR 3 BAR 4 If Bar 4 of all measures will be chosen 4 and be repeated 2 times 2 2 3 4 2 3 2 4 3 12 4 LOOP RECORD BAR 1 BAR 2 BAR 3 BAR 4 OFF BAR BAR2 BAR3 NORMAL MODI variations LOOP 3 2 3 2 4 1 2 13 14 A SIMPLE EXAMPLE With a simple example we would like to demonstrate the functionality of this tool Please let the tool switched off Put the switches and pots into following positions All pots in center position all QUANTIZE and INSTRUMENT switches upwards LOOP BAR swich at 1 LOOP length 1 measu re MODE switch on PLAY green LED is illuminated EDIT switch upwards SYNC switch down wards at INT internal sequencer switch aside on STOP 1 Please connect a sound expander drum module sampler synthesizer e g via MIDI Echometer MIDI out in expander MIDI in 2 Adjust the MIDI channel of the expander at 1 the value changed in the Echometer 3 Switch the tools on 4 nthe display of the Echometer appear one after the other th
6. LE APPLICATIONS With this setup you can create rhytmically filter sweeps synchronized to MIDI Clock The CV outputs of the Echometer control the CV inputs of the filter FILTER CUTOFF FREQUENCE FILTER RESONANCE MIDI TO CV INTERFACE Note numbers 24 83 voltage 0 5Volt 5 Octaves per 1V Oct LOWPASSFILTER ENVELOPE FILTER AMOUNT CUTOFF RESONANCE example MIDI to CV Interface FILTER CUTOFF FREQUENCE MIDI OUT v WAN 170 LOWPASSFILTER ENVELOPE FILTER CUTOFF AUDIO VCA RESONANCE MIDI Sound Drum Expander CONTROL MIDI SOUND DRUM EXPANDER ANALOGUE FILTER m Example for a combination of MIDI Expander control via MIDI and analogue effect control via CV 25 26 ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS DISTRIBUTION EUROPA Schneiders Buero Sales amp Distribution Andreas Schneider Alexanderstraf e 7 10178 Berlin Germany phone 49 0 30 9789 4131 fax 49 0 30 9789 4132 email info daschneidersbuero de web www schneiders buero de USA Analogue Haven Shawn Cleary 1223 Wilshire Blvd 597 Santa Monica CA 90403 USA phone 310 451 7744 email email danaloguehaven com web www analoguehaven com 27 WARRENTY Beginning from the date of purchase a 1 year warranty is guaranteed for this device in case of any manufacturing errors or other functional deficiencies during runtime The warranty does not apply in case of damage caused by misuse mechanical damage arisin
7. MIDI Clock Data entry ruler push button Q SHOTS Value ruler velocity control change value LOOP ruler release ruler loop release time ECHO ruler depth echo depth reverse forward LOOP ruler variations random LED s beat output tracks D D Switches select quantize D Switches select instrument LED HOLD MUTE 3x for tracks 1 3 D Key switches HOLD on off ECHO on off D LED s MODE Mute Play Shots PLAY buttons red for tracks 1 3 21 Switch MODE 22 Switch Bar LOOP 23 LED s ECHO yellow Beat red Track echo on off ECHO Time ruler echo time 25 SHOTS switch Offbeat pulse offbeat SHOTS Resolution ruler pulse time Switch EDIT 3 5mm 1 8th inch SCHEME OF THE POTS SWITCHES AND KEY BUTTONS START STOP Starts or stops the internal sequencer with adjusted tempo sync switch aside must be in position INT EDIT off m SYNC INT EXT Sequencer gets started internal INT or external EXT via Midi Clock EDIT Activates the EDIT mode to adjust para meters and to record them sequencer must be stopped SHOTS VALUE Pot Adjustment of Velocity Value LEFT fixed value 0 127 RIGHT RND Random value DOWN LFO sawtooth from 4 values UP LFO inverted sawtooth from 4 values OFFBEAT switch Raster displaced per half SHOTS RESOLUTION Pot Adjustment of the Note Repeat Raster ECHO TIME Pot Adjustment of the
8. RESOLUTION of 4 does not mean a quarter note anymore but a half note 17 ANALOG OUT You can switch into the ANALOG OUT menu as follows EDIT switch on EDIT gt at blinking menu LED by turning the dial controller switch to ANALOG OUT in case of permanent blinking LED push the dial controller before gt in case of selected ANALOG OUT menu blinking ANALOG OUT LED push the dial controller to get to the menu Selecting of the output jack with the red push buttons of the track double pushing switches between jack up down green LED shines at jack down With the dial pot you adjust the value gt The ECHO push buttons turn the analogue echo on off ECHO LED displays the condition Valuation All all values without gate GAt Gate nt Note number VEL Velocity CC1 CC1 value CC2 CC2 value SHUFFLE You can switch into the SHUFFLE menu as follows EDIT switch on EDIT gt at blinking menu LED by turning the dial controller switch to SHUFFLE in case of permanent blinking LED push the dial controller before gt in case of selected SHUFFLE menu blinking SHUFFLE LED push the dial controller to get to the menu gt Switch ON OFF with the dial pot turn the pot The rhythm only can be modulated on SHUFFLE globally ON or OFF It is not variable With activated SHUFFLE all RESOLUTION TIME values are adapted to the SHUFFLE don t accord always with the scale values because the shuffle is based on s
9. STRIBUTION WARRENTY TERMS OF PRODUCTIONS DISPOSAL SUPPORT ACKNOWLEDGMENT 25 26 27 28 27 28 28 28 28 SHORT DESCRIPTIONS The echometer is a midi sequencer looper where you can record and playback midi notes and or controller values from three independent tracks over up to four bars length in realtime or quantized if you want Over implemented buttons external Midipads or keys you can just record the timing of the events up to Midi You can also trigger them analogwise over the gate input switch per track The echometer is mainly designed to create play and edit drums and percussion beats on the fly Still you can edit basslines or melodies to be given out in addition or as it Over up to six voltage control outputs for 0 to 5 volts you can also control and manage analo gue components such as filters analogue synthesizers or such stuff in a modular system The enormous possibilities in combination with the midi are uncountable opposite to a classical step sequencer the echometer always sets the real step directly to the beat sceme quantized or not more as a looper does To set record steps there are several ways SHOTS generate a note repeat quantized between 96th ticks over triolic scemes down to just quarter notes The choice can me changed at any time on the fly Alternatively you can also set single notes quantized or not In realtime recording there will be also held the gate time what is needed fo
10. according position In the display you can see the value which changes by revolving the dial pot Echos of the Tracks With the HOLD ECHO push buttons you can change to the adjustments of echo The echo LED of the selected track is illuminated Switch the right INSTRUMENT switch to NT note and turn ON or OFF echo note on or off Switch on C1 or C2 If the echo shall be a control ler choose the controllernumber at pitchbend Pb If no controller shall be sendet OFF Range Notes 0 127 2 68 Controller off Pb pitch bend 0 119 Control change numbers 16 MIDI CHANNEL You can switch into the CHANNEL menu as follows EDIT switch on EDIT gt at blinking menu LED by turning the dial controller switch to CHANNEL in case of permanent blinking LED push the dial controller before gt in case of selected CHANNEL menu blinking CHANNEL LED push the dial controller to get to the menu The red push buttons select the track With the dial pot you adjust the MIDI channel 1 16 UTILITY You can switch into the UTILITY menu as follows EDIT switch on EDIT gt at blinking menu LED by turning the dial controller switch to UTILITY in case of permanent blinking LED push the dial controller before gt in case of selected UTILITY menu blinking UTILITY LED push the dial controller to get to the menu gt In these menus the functions values are activated with the red push button of track 1 4 UTILITY me
11. adjust Create manually continuous controller value waves or velocity waves with Tick resolution SHOTS OFFBEAT push pull shifting Example of OFFBEAT two shifted HiHats in off beat open HiHat SHOTS automatically random values Create randomized values velocity or controller values with 8th resolution closed HiHat SHOTS 290 Resolution 64 48 2 32 2T 12 0 2 RND N A VALUE 11 12 LOOP Recording steps with different lenght of the loop LOOP VARIATIONS To arrange LOOPS faster at position 1 or 2 the according steps of the not played mea You can vary a leveled loop while it is playing The order of the measures of the 4 mea sures are recorded too sured loops are generated and played by random This sequence 15 8 measures long and depends on the adjusted length of the loops 1 2 or 4 measures After run off the 8 measures a new sceme will be generated and played The variation can be stopped any time pot OFF or started again pot to the right You should rather use this function when no steps are recorded because you never know which measure of the loop Is acti vated maybe for experiments That means if BAR is at 1 all other measures are recorded with the same played steps So the sequence goes on looping even if you switch to BAR 4 because all measures are the same Because of this you can play the measures only separately when BAR 4 If BAR is 22 the sceme is always 2 measured and
12. ch bend Echo of the track Notes on off Controller off Pb pitch bend control change number CHANNEL the MIDI channel of the tracks 1 16 UTILITY Midi Dump send receive Datareduction on off L LowData limit RESOLUTION TIME to max 32th Sequencer in Half Time on off H Halftime ANALOGUE OUT the routing for the analouge outputs All Gate Note Velo CC1 CC2 SHUFFLE global Shuffle on off fix 8th shuffle SEND CLOCK Sends MIDI realtime data START STOP CLOCK at external Sync on off Edit of parameters 1 Switch the EDIT pot in stopped sequence mode to EDIT downwards 2 Oneofthe EDIT mode LEDs shines permanently or blinks Pushing the dial pot you can switch between the EDIT menu selection LED blinks and the menu itself LED shines permanently 3 While blinking LED you can choose the menu by dialing the dial pot and you change into menu by pushing the dial pot LED shines permanently 4 The menus are edited differently INSTRUMENT You can switch into the INSTRUMENT menu as follows EDIT switch on EDIT gt at blinking menu LED by turning the dial controller switch to INSTRUMENT in case of permanent blinking LED push the dial controller before gt in case of selected INSTRUMENT menu blinking INSTRUMENT LED push the dial controller to get to the menu Note numbers A B C Controller C1 C2 The red push buttons select the track Turn the push button you want to edit into
13. ck data Running with external clock the sending of clock data can be switched on or off in EDIT mode SENDCLOCK ON OFF 22 Date Nov 04 2008 Modell Flame Echometer Midi Implementation Chart Version 1 08 Basic Default 1 16 1 16 memorized T 16 T 16 Channel Changed Default i 127 7 127 z o 9nh v 1 127 o 9nh v 1 127 Altered x 9nh v 0 o 9nh v 0 a o 3 7 bit resolution Note Number Velocity True Voice Note ON Note OFF After Key s Touch Ch s Pitch Bender Control Change 0 119 Eo do System Exclusive Dump User Data Prog Change True System Song Pos Song Sel Common Tune X X E X X System Clock Qtek don t transmit Real Time Commands CONTINUE Aux Local ON OFF X All Notes OFF X Messages Active Sensing x X Reset recognized WIDE Transmitted Channel MIDI to CV fix Note Range 24 83 5 Octaves only in Edit Mode can be set ON OFF for extern Sync Slave in Edit Mode recognized CONTINUE transmit START reset Position MODE 2 OMNI ON MONO MODE 4 OMNI OFF MONO Mode 1 OMNI ON POLY Mode 3 OMNI OFF POLY Yes x No MIDI SYSEX BULK DUMP sysex data FORMAT HEADER HEX F0 7D 09 01 06 description begin sysex data device Flame Echometer p veson 106 command all data DATA 140 bytes 70 bytes user data cut into low nibble and high nibble 140 by
14. e version number message about loading of the user data Err or Yes and at least the adjusted tempo With the dial pot you can adjust the tempo revolving the pot By pushing on the dial pot you switch between notes controller display and the tempo display The sequencer is stopped Nevertheless you can actuate notes with the red push buttons Push the red button of track 1 Now the note A from track 1 must be hearable with velocity 127 velocity adjustable with SHOT value pot Please note that the expander sound volume depends on velocity 9 f you cannot hear anything check the MIDI channel or the audio output of the expander How to change the MIDI channel in the Echometer see beneath EDIT mode 10 Now you can start the sequencer switch top right at START 11 A one measured loop is running now By pushing releasing the red push button from track 1 you can play a rhythm The rhythm will be recorded in realtime raster ticks and be played endlessly RELEASE pot in center position 12 If you want Delete the sequence completely by revolving shortly the RELEASE pot to CLEAR ALL or delete only several notes by revolving shortly to CLEAR POS 13 Turn the RELEASE pot at a value between 1 and 6 Now the loop accordingly sounds slow or fast out Everytime you can put new steps 14 Delete the sequence and switch the right QUANTIZE pot on LQ LOOP QUANTIZE 15 Play again steps and then listen to the result At the beginning the notes
15. equence It can be 1 2 or 4 measures To arrange LOOPs faster at position 1 or 2 the according steps of the not played measures are recorded too That means if BAR is at 1 all other measures are recor ded with the same played steps So the sequence goes on looping even if you switch to BAR 4 because all measures the same Because of this you can play the measures only separately when BAR 4 If BAR is 2 the sceme is always 2 measu red and recorded are always 1 and 3 as well as 2 and 4 CV GATE OUTPUTS Analogue CV output of tracks 0 5V Can be configured differently gate of the note note number velocity value controller 1 value controller 2 or all together accordingly value from ECHO on off GATE INPUTS Analogue 5V Trigger as external possibi lity to play the track the same as with the red push buttons VISUALIZATIONS OF FUNCTIONS CHARTS m ECHO different effects of DEPTH Loop Loop Echo QUANTIZE FUNCTIONS REAL LOOPQUANTIZE LQ and QUANTIZE 0 REAL KU 8 LQ 4 L QUANTIZE Loop Loop Echo ECHO VELOCITY VALUE Note lenght different effects of DOWN and REVERSE Key on Key off SHOTS SHOTS LFO s different effects of RESOLUTION Pulses Sawtooth and inverted sawtooth with different resolutions The LFO s have ever 3 values and the zero point per time interval Eg Note lenght i Key on Key off SHOTS manually
16. g from careless treatment dropping vigorous shaking mishandling etc damage caused by liquids penetrating the device heat damage caused by overexposure to sunlight or heating electric damage caused by improper connecting wrong power supply jacks MIDI connections voltage problems If you have any complaints please contact your dealer or send an e mail to service dflame fortschritt musik de TERMS OF PRODUCTION conformity CE RoHS UL DISPOSAL The device is produced with RoHS conformity subject to the regulations of the European Union and is free of hazardous substances like mercury plumb cadmium and hexavalent chrome But electronical scrap is hazardous waste Please don t add this to consumer waste For a environment friendly disposal of waste please contact your distributor or specialist dealer SUPPORT Actually and additional informations updates downloads and more http flame fortschritt musik de ACKNOWLEDGMENT For help and accistance a big thanks to Thomas Wagner Anne Kathrin Metzler Lena B nger Paul Schultz Robert Junge Schneiders B ro Berlin and Shawn Cleary Analogue haven Los Angeles 28
17. hifted triplets SEND CLOCK You can switch into the SEND CLOCK menu as follows EDIT switch on EDIT gt at blinking menu LED by turning the dial controller switch to SEND CLOCK case of permanent blinking LED push the dial controller before gt in case of selected SEND CLOCK menu blinking SEND CLOCK LED push the dial controller to get to the menu gt Switch ON OFF with the dial pot turn the pot See below in chapter MIDI SYNCHRONIZATION ADVICE Outside of EDIT the conditions of SHUFFLE SEND CLOCK and halftime are signali sed by shining EDIT LED at halftime utility LED You can leave the EDIT mode out of any position by switching the EDIT switch Only now the data will be stored permanently in the internal EEPROM signalised by YES on the display If you turn off the echometer while edi ting the at least changed data will get lost 18 INIT Reset user data Turning on the machine the internal data can be back uped to the factory settings For this purpose push all three red push buttons while turning on as long as in the display appears INI Let the buttons off in that case gt then YES appears shortly as affirmation and the visu al display returns into the according mode Now the data is reseted Attention Consider the deletion of all prior USER data in the internal memory If necessary if Should be saved first via MIDI Dump MIDI HOW TO RECEIVE MIDI DATA This modus can be used as a MIDI to CV I
18. i channel can be choosen free for every track Two additional Control Voltage outputs from 0 to 5V per Track can be set in different combinations Many additonal configuration settings can be choosen over the edit menu individually All settings are stored in the unit and can not be lost by turning it off They can be saved in addition externally over Midi Dump SECURITY ADVICES don t use the tool in humid environment don t install close to heating places radiators stoves open fire direct sun radiation please pay attention to use the correct power supply adapter don t let the tool fall down even if it is quiet robust B don t put external voltage at the output jacks B for cleaning don t use chemical cleanser or solvent but only dry cloths CONSIGNMENT We deliver following accessories with the tool Power supply adapter AC AC 230VAC induced 14VAC 300mA Quickstart manual optionally additional informations Step up Plug in Voltage Converter 45W Convert 110V to 230V for USA MIDI IN connector MIDI OUT connector AC IN jack max 12 14VAC min 500mA Power switch off site on VARIATIONS C PA Q 4 L QUANTIZE INSTRUMENT m OUTPUTS CV gate 0 5V 3 5mm mono jack LED s INPUTs gate 3 5mm mono jack LED s LED yellow extern receive MIDI data LED red start stop LED yellow beat Switch start stop sequencer Switch extern intern
19. ing notes crea te the according value of the defined contoller or pitchbend command of the track Deep notes create small values and high notes create big values Range Note numbers 24 84 control change values values 0 120 ADVICE The ECHOMETER follows only midi notes no controller or pitchbend commands 21 MIDI OUT Note number Controller value MIDI HOW TO SEND MIDI DATA The echometer can send a noteline with 4 bar length per track and it is possible that each tick can have a different note number max 384 notes Additionally you have 2 con troller tracks on which you can send the data of a controller or of pitch bend All three lines per track 1x note 2x controller always send on the same MIDI channel Further on the notes of the notetrack only these can create an echo which is made of notes with a rising or decaying velocity or made of controller pitch bend with rising or decay ing values MIDI SYNCHRONIZATION The sequencer can be started and synchronisized externally via MIDI CLOCK Please put the switch SYNC 6 on EXT Than it can be started and stopped with a connected sequen zer Now the switch START 5 has no function The velocity now is determined from the external sequencer In the display appears Snc The ECHOMETER follows following instructions START STOP CLOCK CONTINUE but than always starts on One Running with internal clock the echometer sends the according MIDI clo
20. nterface in connection with CV outputs The note numbers are displayed with Moog characteristic 1V per octave on 5 octaves HOW TO PLAY NOTES The range is determined in the following way note numbers from 24 83 correspond voltage from 0 5 Volt With a connected keyboard via MIDI in you can play notes with VELOCITY With a keyboard all notes are availability at the same time therefore with the left instru ment switches 15 you can adjust two different ways of playing example Switch 16 on NT Note and Switch 15 on C MIDI to CV Interface In this common modus the echometer can identify and let run all notes played with the MIDI IN keyboard on the adjusted MIDI channel In this case it doesn t matter which notes are assigned to the switch 15 wether to A B or C Velocity is identified too MIDI OUT MIDI OUT eee 19 20 Switch 16 on NT note and switch 15 on A or B In this mode the echometer can only identify and play the notenumbers according to switch position A B or C in EDIT mode instrument All other notes sended via keybo ard will be ignored With this function it is possible to controll all three tracks on the same MIDI channel with max 9 different notes This might be important for the connection of drumpads e g which all send on the same MIDI channel and differ only note numbers MIDI OUT HOW TO CREATE CONTROLLER When the right instrument switch 16 is on position C1 or C2 the arriv
21. nus exist d S Dump Send sending of the adjusted data via Midi out per SYSEX shortly push on red key 1 sends data via MIDI out d r Dump Receive receiving of SYSEX data shortly push red key 1 gt Echometer wait of incomming Sysex data now send Sysex data from external device to the MIDI Input gt Display receipt the Receiving with OK or Err Dump receive can be stopped with the red push buttons 2 or 3 L Low Data Datareduction H Half Time the internal sequencer runs at adjusted tempo only with half of the tempo LOW DATA Datareductions The data amount sent per a time unit by MIDI is limited but the echometer is able to generate more data already at middle tempo for example permanent sending of ticks on various tracks Therefor the output of the controllers RESOLUTION and TIME can be delimited to a maximum of thirty second notes Short tick cluster mostly won t be a problem Maybe there should be experimented Please consi der the cable connected sound expander could have problems with too lange data amounts beacause the receiving memories input buffer may overflow HALF TIME the internal sequencer runs at adjusted tempo only with half of the tempo At HALF TIME the internal loop runs a half slower Please consider in relation to the MIDI Clock all temporarily indications of the controllers RESOLUTION TIME of course will show twice as fast grids than really played in that case An example A
22. r notes and melodies at least The Loop quantization LQ can also be choosend afterwards The Echometer has several echo or repeat functions A loop with up to 4 bars length can be played either endless once or comparable with a real echo slowly going down with the volume this can be set with the release button New steps can be added or deleted at any time that the loop can vary constantly Echos can be added or deleted from single steps with the echo buttons called time and depth without changing the looped beat in his structure These changes can be recorded over four bars length separately per track to be played back automatically what is a part of the hold function The hold function is freezing the current state of the loops to play them back endless To still get additional variations you can go ahead playing more things with it without chan ging the loop The Echo still can be set on or off all the time With the mute function you can temporary cut one of the tracks The Length of the Loops can be varied between one two or four bars on the fly With the VARIATIONS pot you can add random functions to the running loops and the loop lengths So you can easily rea lize playable arrangements live The Sequencer can run with the internal clock in tempi from 15 til 230 bpm or external ly synced over Midi clock Each of the three tracks can also be a monophonic line of notes sending control changes and pitch bend in addition the mid
23. sound in realti me and then in the repetition quantized as 16th notes 16 Delete the sequence let the RELEASE pot at CLEAR ALL and switch the MODE switch upwards to SHOTS yellow LED is illuminated Keep the red push button pushed and at the same time dial the SHOTS resolution pot Now you will hear automatically genera ted notes in SHOT raster If you want to record the notes turn on the RELEASE pot again 17 Instead of the RESOLUTION pot now you turn the VALUE pot So you can vary the velocity of the played notes Try the effects of RND RANDOM and of the two LFO positions up down 18 Delete the sequence and switch the INSTRUMENT switch from track 1 to C Push the dial pot to reach the note sight Now you can change the note with the dial pot Play SHOTS and revolve the dial pot and then listen to the result Attention the note track is monofon You can always generate only one note per track 19 With help of SHOTS play Ath notes and then activate ECHO ECHO push button shortly down Turn on both ECHO pots to listen to the result The movements of the pots will be recorded always in the back and be played automatically with HOLD each track separately 20 Nevertheless the echo always can be switched on or off 15 EDIT MODE Edit user data In the EDIT mode you fulfill the following adjustments INSTRUMENT Instrument configuration of the push buttons A B C note numbers C1 C2 control change or pit
24. tes example 1 data byte 11110001 Low nibble 0001 high nibble 1111 send 2 bytes low high 00000001 00001111 END OF SYSEX 24 LIST OF SYSEX DATA DATA description gt 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 N Midi channel Track 1 Midi channel Track 2 Midi channel Track 3 Note number A Track1 Note number A Track2 Note number A Track3 Note number B Track1 Note number B Track2 Note number B Track3 Note number C Track1 Note number C Track2 Note number C Track3 Echo controller Track 1 Echo controller Track 2 Echo controller Track 3 Flag Echo Note on off Track 1 Flag Echo Note on off Track 2 Flag Echo Note on off Track 3 Controller number C1 Track 1 Controller number C2 Track 1 Controller number C1 Track 2 Controller number C2 Track 2 Controller number C1 Track 3 Controller number C2 Track 3 Routing analog out jack top Track 1 Routing analog out jack bottom Track 1 Routing analog out jack top Track 2 Routing analog out jack bottom Track 2 Routing analog out jack top Track 3 Routing analog out jack bottom Track 3 Flags analog echo jacks Track 1 Flags analog echo jacks Track 2 Flags analog echo jacks Track 3 Flag shuffle on off Flag send clock on off Edit menus Flag data reduction Flag half clock intern sequencer reserved CONTROL A ANALOGUE LOWPASS FILTER SAMP
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