USER MANUAL
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1. connected devices can run synchronously via the MIDI clock The tempo is controlled by he TEMPO control The control range extends from tempo 20 to 220 In the centre posi ion the approximate tempo is 115 Please note that not all tempi can be set by the con rol due to the limited resolution To use the sequencer as a slave the SYNC switch must be set to EXT external MIDI clock Now the sequencer can be controlled by a external sequencer via the MIDI clock START STOP CLOCK Please note The device does not understand CONTINUE The TEMPO control has no effect on the tempo played It continues to send as a MIDI con roller and can be used for other tasks as well Please note When the sequencer is running with the external clock you can switch to NT during normal operation and leave it running with the current tempo setting out of time right switch must be on START If you want to switch back to EXT it runs in sync with the external MIDI clock as it continues to register the external clock Rhythmic variations can be tried this way during normal operation The red LED signals the first beat of a bar the yellow one the quarter note The MIDI sequencer INT and EXT always sends the MIDI clock data via MIDI OUT It does not send NOTE ON OFF data Attention Should problems with the timing arise with the external synchronisation it should be checked if the device receives more than just MIDI clock data Additional data such as Pr2. 46 and 47 or 47 or 47 or 47 or 47 or 48 zero 48 plastic 48 guitar 48 dream 48 O K 49 one 49 electronic 49 synthesizer 49 sunshine 49 yes 50 two 50 laser 50 drums 50 flower 50 no 51 three 51 wire 51 sticks 51 water 51 down 52 four 52 computer 52 bass 52 rain 52 up 53 five 53 radio 53 strings 53 ocean 53 left 54 six 54 transmission 54 play 54 clouds 54 right 55 seven 55 robot 55 stop 55 sky 55 turn 56 eight 56 gasoline 56 music 56 world 56 on 57 nine 57 car 57 rock nroll 57 wonderfull 57 off 58 ten 58 machine 58 punkmusic 58 girl 58 under 59 eleven 59 system 59 tekkno 59 woman 59 in 60 twelve 60 atom 60 dancemusic 60 lady 60 here 61 hundert 61 neutrons 61 concert 61 boy 61 wrong 62 million 62 orbit 62 t shirt 62 man 62 nice 63 time 63 satelit 63 fans 63 gay 63 cool 64 second 64 rocket 64 show 64 sister 64 giant 65 minute 65 beam 65 comic 65 brother 65 free 66 hour 66 fly 66 manga 66 muther 66 old 67 day 67 moon 67 drugs 67 futher 67 talk about 68 week 68 universe 68 sex 68 lips 68 please 69 months 69 galaxy 69 mystery 69 eyes 69 hurry 70 year 70 black hole 70 power 70 hair 70 attention 71 age 71 lift off 71 error 71 body 71 thank you 72 127 sounds one 72 127 sounds two 72 127 sounds three 72 127 sounds four 72 127 sounds five Patch 6 Phoneme Allophone Patch 7 Sound Effects Note Sound Sample Words Note Sound Sample Words 0 36 IY See Even Feed 72 OWWW Go Hello Snow 37 IH Sit Fix Pin 73 JH Dodge
3. Computer 71 AYWW Our Ouch Owl 107 128 PO Paw Copy Note Sound 0 36 Robot 01 37 45 Robot 02 10 46 55 Alarm 01 10 56 65 Beeps 01 10 66 75 Biological 01 10 76 85 DTMF 0 9 86 DTMF 87 DTMF 88 Sonar Ping 89 Pistol Shot 90 127 Wow
4. when the data value of a controller changes new data is sent Beginning from the date of purchase a 2 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 arising 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 LIST OF MIDI CONTROLLER NUMBERS APPENDIX SOUNDS SEQUENCER MODE MIX control change 7 volume No Talk A Talk B Synth A Synth B RANDOM control change 1 modulation 1 Babble01 Babble0 1 Robot01 Robot01 SPEED control change 71 harmonic 2 Babble02 Babble02 Beeps01 Beeps01 TEMPO control change 72 release time 3 Babbled3 Babble03 Biological01 Biological01 JOY TALK x control change 91 effect depht 4 Babbleo4 Babble04 Alarms01 Alarms01 JOY TALK y control change 92 effect depht 5 Babble05 Babble05 TouchTone01 TouchTone01 JOY NOTE x control change 93 effect depht 6 Babbled6 Babble06 Alarms01 TouchTone01 JOY NOTE y control change 94 effect depht 7 BabbleO7 Babble07 TouchTone01 Biologi
5. Jet Savage 38 EY Hair Gate Beige 74 VV Vest Even 39 EH Met Check Red 75 ZZ Zoo Zap 40 AY Hat Fast Fan 76 ZH Azure Treasure 41 AX Cotten 77 DH There That This 42 UX Luck Up Uncle 78 BE Bear Bird Beed 43 OH Hot Clock Fox 79 BO Bone Book Brown 44 AW Father Fall 80 EB Cab Crib Web 45 OW Comb Over Hold 81 OB Bob Sub Tub 46 UH Book Could 82 DE Deep Date Divide 47 UW Food June 83 DO Do Dust Dog 48 MM Milk Famous 84 EDC ould Bird 49 NE Nip Danger Thin 85 OD Bud Food 50 NO No Snow On 86 GE Get Gate Guest 51 NGE Think Ping 87 GO Got Glue Goo 52 NGO Hung Song 88 EG Peg Wig 53 LE Lake Alarm 89 OG Dog Peg 54 LO Clock Plus Hello 90 CH Church Feature 55 WW Wool Sweat 91 HE Help Hand Hair 56 RR Ray Brain Over 92 HO Hoe Hot Hug 57 IYRR Clear Hear Year 93 WH Who Whale White 58 EYRR Hair Stair Repair 94 FF Food Effort Off 59 AXRR Fir Bird Burn 95 SE See Vest Plus 60 AWRR Part Farm Yarn 96 SO So Sweat 61 OWRR Corn Four Your 97 SH Ship Fiction Leash 62 EYIY Gate Ate Ray 98 TH Thin month 63 OHIY Mice Fight White 99 TT Part Little Sit 64 OWIY Boy Toy Voice 100 TU To Talk Ten 65 OHIH Sky Five 101 TS Parts Costs Robots 66 IYEH Yes Yarn Million 102 KE Can t Clown Key 67 EHLL Saddle Spell 103 KO Comb Quick Fox 68 IYUW Cute Few 104 EK Speak Task 69 AXUW Brown Thousand 105 OK Book Took October 70 IHWW Two New Zoo 106 PE People
6. USER MANUAL http flame fortschritt musik de 3 Basic Operation n SEQ mode sounds can be played manually While the SEQUENCER is stopped upper right switch is set to its lower position STOP the TREMOLOS must be switched off switches A and B in the TREMOLO section are set to their lower positions in order not o interrupt the sound The HOLD and REC switches should be in their upper positions The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH is played by using the joystick TALK Move the joystick out of its centre position to trigger any sounds when the joystick is in the exact centre position no sounds are triggered As the HOLD function is inactive i e HOLD switch is in upper position the joysticks movements are automatically recorded over a period of wo measures When you activate i e toggle down the HOLD switch the current posi ion of the joystick will freeze and any further movements will have no effect Toggle down the REC switch to play back the recorded movements any manual agita ion of the joystick has no effect now The tempo of the play back depends on the inter nal respectively external MIDI tempo The MIDI tempo is signalled by the SCALE LED which flashes at the beginning of each measure Serving as a visual control mechanism or the recording period 4 1 SEQUENCER MODE As outlined above in this mode sounds are played manually and are interrupted by the MIDI clock controlled TREMOLO Sounds can also be pla
7. an be set individually for each Speakjet chips The 8 16 switch enables you to switch the quantization between qua vers and semi quavers The next switch to the right sets up the phase Both settings apply for A and B It is not possible to trigger sounds in the SEQ mode via external MIDI note In the EXP mode the synthesizer works just like a drum expander module Words and sounds are triggered only by received MIDI notes No sequencer tremolo random or scale functions are available in this mode HOLD switch Talk This switch freezes the current position of the joystick Only those sounds are played back Please note No sounds are played while the joystick is in centre position REC switch Talk With this switch the joystick movement is continually recorded over the period of two measures When the switch is toggled down the recorded movements are played back Manual playing is not possible then Please note that the tempo depends on the MIDI tempo The LED flashes for every bar signalling the recording window when sequencer is stopped Recording as well as playing back lasts two bars and is then continually repeated When the sequencer is started the MIDI clock LEDs give a visual control LOOP switch In the lower position LOOP on any chosen sound is repeated continually In the upper position LOOP off the sound elements are only played once This applies for Speakjet Aand B SOUND turn switch 12 p
8. atches are available You can switch between them at runtime There are two sound banks for each patch for each Speakjet which are triggered with the SOUND TALK SYNTH switch SOUNDS TALK SOUNDS SYNTH lists with allophones that can be played tonally lists with effect sounds that cannot be played tonally See appendix for an overview of all patches 4 1 2 NOTE SCALE joystick NOTE Horizontal movements affect the sound by changing the formants male female verti cal movements alter the pitch depending on the setting of the SCALE filter When SCALE is switched off all semitones can be played within a range of 3 octaves When SCALE is switched on the notes of a set scale are played SCALE switch ON OFF activates deactivates the key filter DUR MOLL toggles between major key DUR and harmonic minor key MOLL TURNING SWITCH chooses the key 4 1 3 TREMOLO TREMOLO only works when the sequencer is started with internal external MIDI clock tempo It can be switched on for each Speakjet individually When both are switched on the phase can be shifted with the PHASE switch The 8 16 switch determines the beat Visual control is provided by two LEDs 4 1 5 MIDI SEQUENCER To use the internal sequencer the left switch above the TEMPO control must be set to NT internal MIDI clock Now the sequencer can be started and stopped with the START STOP switch In this modus the device works as a MIDI master and externally
9. cal02 8 Babble08 Babble08 Noise02 Noise02 Please note 10 abbiev aae Noise Noise a e a e olse olse Kree MIDI ee alles on1 2 11 Babble06 Babble08 Robot01 TouchTone01 VAME TANgES ate DeWeese 12 Babble03 Babble04 Beeps01 Alarms01 SOUNDS EXPANDER MODE Patch Sounds Patch Sounds 1 Words short words numerics times 7 Sound Effects 2 Words short words technics astronautics 8 Words short words numerics times 3 Words short words music pop culture 9 Words short words technics astronautics 4 Words short words nature people 10 Words short words music pop culture 5 Words short words phrases 11 Words short words nature people 6 Phoneme Allophone 12 Words short words phrases PATCHES Patch 1 8 Patch 2 9 Patch 3 10 Patch 4 11 Patch 5 12 numerics times technics astronautics music pop culture nature people phrases Note Words Note Words Note Words Note Words Note Words 0 35 sounds one 0 35 sounds two 0 35 sounds three 0 35 sounds four 0 35 sounds five 36 36 36 l 36 l 36 l 37 l am 37 l am 37 l am 37 l am 37 l am 38 you 38 you 38 you 38 you 38 you 39 you are 39 you are 39 you are 39 you are 39 you are 40 its 40 its 40 its 40 its 40 its 41 too 41 too 41 too 41 too 41 too 42 now 42 now 42 now 42 now 42 now 43 not 43 not 43 not 43 not 43 not 44 don t 44 don t 44 don t 44 don t 44 don t 45 because 45 because 45 because 45 because 45 because 46 and 46 and 46 and 46 and
10. der like a drum module in fact This means that certain sounds and whole words are assigned to different keys and only those can be played on the keyboard The assigned words and sounds are listed in the attachment The device is set on MIDI channel 10 and the setting cannot be changed The sounds also can be changed with the SPEED control and with the joystick NOTE Joystick HOLD can be used as well Turn the SOUND switch to select patches Any other functions are inactive Only the sending of MIDI control data is the same as in the SEQ mode Please note Speakjets A and B generate the same sounds in this mode Attention The MIX control should be in the centre position before switching from SEQ to EXP mode to hear both Speakjets The position of the TREMOLO switch has no effect on the audio output in this modus It is always switched on The red scale LED signals received MIDI notes 4 3 MIDI CONTROLLER All controls send MIDI control change data during runtime Each control sends on both MIDI channels 1 and 2 using the same control change number See the appendix for furt her information on which numbers are assigned to which control Please note In SEQ mode data sending is linked to the tick of the internal or external MIDI clock and therefore depends on the given tempo In the EXP mode data is sent faster as there is no MIDI clock Also two identical data values are never sent in succession in order to reduce the data flow only
11. interface it offers an impressive range of possibilities It contains 72 speech elements allophones 43 sound effects and 12 DTM touch tones The idea was to create sounds patterns and sequences in the 8 bit style of the 80s or other retro sounds for making music instead of just simulating speech Most allophones can be tuned and used tonally The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH contains two Speakjet chips to produce a richer and more complex tonal variety as well as generating a pseudo stereo effect Since the Speakjet has not originally been laid out for the purpose of making music it is actually not fully controllable via MIDI input i e once sounds are triggered they cannot be directly stopped by Note Off messages from a MIDI keyboard or a sequencer Thus a MIDI controlled audio tremolo has been implemented in the FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH vir tually allowing MIDI control and enabling an easier integration into a MIDI setup The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH lets you play back preset words in its EXPANDER mode via an external MIDI keyboard or a sequencer In addition you can use the FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH as a stand alone MIDI controller since all controls and joysticks send MIDI control change data to the MIDI OUT connector 2 Technical Design The internal sound is generated by the two independently controlled Speakjet chips Each of them provides a mono audio output 32 kHz PWM output through a 6 3 mm ste reo socket The righ
12. ogramChange controlChange SysEX or note data should be avoided or fil tered out Warranty SPEED control Playback velocity of the allophones left slow right fast SPEED and TEMPO should not be mixed up The TEMPO control regulates the playback tempo of the internal sequencer with effect on the tremolo while the SPEED control changes the duration of the generated talk synth sounds not MIDI synchronized MIX control MIX control controls the volume for Speakjet A and B In the centre position they have the same volume Please note this control is digital Delays are possible as the data has to be processed in the internal Speakjet buffer FIFO This can affect different SPEED settings 4 1 4 RANDOM A number of random algorithms are implemented in the device that can be triggered by different positions of the RANDOM switch for each Speakjet A and B There is no ran dom effect in the centre position as different algorithms work in the right and in the left position Starting from the centre position various effects can be triggered Moving to the left affects first pitch then speed then volume It is most intense in the very left position Any random variations start from the positions of the NOTE SPEED MIX controls The changes are not always linear and do not cover the whole range of all values so experimenting can have interesting results 4 2 EXPANDER MODE In this mode the device works like a sound expan
13. t audio channel is assigned to chip A the left channel to chip B An insert Y cable splits both channels into two mono audio outputs allowing you to position he channels individually within the stereo sound field with any external mixing device The sound level ratio of both chips can be adjusted with the MIX control An equal sound evel is obtained by turning the MIX control to the centre position All functions are clearly visible on the front panel with the start stop MIDI sync tempo functions on the upper right hand corner sound tremolo scale note pitch and random functions in the midd e The HOLD switches are used to freeze the position of the joysticks The REC switches are used to play back the recorded movements of the joysticks You can switch between the modes SEQUENCER SEQ and EXPANDER EXP with the switch in the middle of the panel The sounds you play depend on their note values position of the joystick scale SCALE switch Moving the joystick vertically alters the pitch within a range of 3 octaves Moving the joystick horizontally changes the formants of the sound male female giving it the typical robot like sound effect Use the HOLD and REC switches to freeze and play back the sounds you play Once the sequencer has been started internally or externally you can interrupt the audio signal with the TREMOLO by toggling up one or both TREMOLO switches The LEDs indicate the rhythm flashing audio on This c
14. yed without sequencer running The sequencer is controlled by the internal or external MIDI clock and sends MIDI TIMING data start stop clock when running 4 1 1 TALK SOUND joystick TALK This is the control that triggers the sound No sound is triggered in the centre position unless the corresponding switch HOLD or REC are in the lower position and generate frozen or recorded joystick data 64 sounds can be played They are arranged in 8 lists each containing 16 sound ele ments Each sound bank contains different lists Above the centre position the sounds of the lists are played individually Below the centre position the sounds of the lists are played in sequence depending on the Joystick s position This way short sequences can be played in loops which consist of up to 16 elements Some of the 12 sound banks contain fewer elements so that it is easier to find the same sounds 1 Introduction The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH is a small sized MIDI controlled sound module based on the analogue Speakjet chip produced by the U S company Magnevation LLC Originally designed for basic artificially generated speech output in American English ton gue it was then refined and further developed as an 8 bit sound module with speech like sounds and synthetic robot voices as well as beeps alarms noise and retro style sci fi sounds Due to the structure of the Speakjet with its complex sound synthesizer preset sounds and serial
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