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1. MIDI OUT MIDI IN AUDIO OUT HEADPHONE AC ADAPTOR MIDI KEYBOARD OR SOUND MODULE CV OUTIIN GATE OUTIIN WARNING SELECT CVIGATE INIOUT DIRECTION IN GLOBAL MENU BEFORE CONNECTION SPEAKER OR MIXER Connecting AC Power Before making any power connections make sure the Xenophone s power switch is turned off 1 Plug the AC Adaptor into a power outlet 2 Plug the female end of the adaptor cable into the Xenophone s power socket Making Audio Connections Stereo Connect two cables from the Xenophone s left and right outputs to two inputs of an active speaker amp or mixer e Headphones Plug a set of headphones into the headphone jack on the rear panel Turning On the Power Before turning on the Xenophone s power consider these two questions e Are all peripheral devices connected correctly e Have the volume controls of the Xenophone and all connected audio devices been turned to their lowest settings Turn on the POWER switch located on the rear panel of the Xenophone Turn on the power for any connected amplifiers or speakers 3 Wait for the Xenophone to start up When it has started up normally The home page will appear next page 4 Set the volume for your connected amplifier and speakers While playing the Xenophone preview keys or external keyboard gradually raise the Xenophone s main volume in the rear panel to the desired listening level XENOPHONE QUI2. On Off disables this feature Freq Enc Ratio 0 92 42 6 Default 1 0 Determines how many rotations the filter frequency encoder needs to perform a full sweep over the frequency range 0 4096 A setting of 1 0 means if you rotate frequency encoder a full turn it will change the frequency value from to 4095 Higher settings means you need to rotate the encoder more times in order to get a full sweep however it will provide more resolution in this case Semi Enc Accuracy On Default On Determines the accuracy of semitone 1 2 3 encoders A setting of On provides more preciseness in editing the values Enc Response Fast Normal Slow Slower Default Normal Determines how encoders response to movement Fast means it captures quickest move in real time however in this case it may also capture unwanted data due to contacts bounce Noise Normal is system managed setting which makes a balance between Response to Move and Noise Rejection Slow and Slower increase noise rejection strength while decrease response to fast movement Enc response affects all encoders Panel TX MIDI Off On A setting of on means Xenophone transmits MIDI messages CC NRPN when you tweak a knob or button on the front panel Every parameter has a dedicated CC or NRPN number According to the settings Preview keys also transmit Note on off or Stop Start Continue messages Arp Seq TX MIDI Off On A setting of on will enable the A
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4. knob you can control the parameter that has been written on its label When you turna knob the screen automatically jumps to the related edit page If the Jump function is not suitable for you it can be disabled in Global menu For example 1 Turn the filter frequency knob 2 The following Edit page will be displayed that also shows the values for envelope depth resonance and keytrack The indicator LED switches from home to edit 1 GLOBAL d 3 If you want to get back Home page press Exit once Remember In every edit page you may find some parameters that do not have dedicated knob on the Xenophone panel You must use E1 E4 to change these parameters In this edit page E4 is linked to Ktrk Using Compare Mode When you select a new Program it is placed in a temporary workspace known as an edit buffer This allows you to edit the Programs without affecting the original stored version of the item If at any time you want to compare the edits you have made to the original Program press the compare button When you press the compare button its LED will light to return to the edited version press the compare button again Its LED will turn off and your edits will be restored While in Compare mode you will be unable to make any edits to the Program If you change to a different Program using Data dial the edit buffer will be cleared and you will lose your patch so be careful to store your patch befo
5. the clock status Display MIDI Clock Setting Internal MIDI Clock is neither sent nor received Ext Sync MIDI Clock is received MIDI Clock is sent Display Mode Jump Fixed Locked A setting of Jump means the Xenophone will respond immediately when you turn a knob and put that parameter s page on the display A setting of Fixed means the Xenophone will not update the display when you turn a knob In Fixed mode you should select the submenu gt gt edit page manually A setting of Locked will disable all the knobs it can be used in live performance to prevent changing presets parameters by accidentally touching encoders LED Mode On Off PWM A setting of PWM enables brightness control for some LEDs Every parameter is linked to a specified LED and brightness amount shows the related rotary encoder position This feature is only implemented for the parameters that are listed below Linked Parameter LED Group Oscillator 1 Level Oscillator 1 Waveform Oscillator 1 Sub Level Sub 1 Type Oscillator 2 Level Oscillator 2 Waveform Oscillator 2 Sub Level Sub 2 Type Filter Frequency Filter Slope QUICK START 2 05 dese odes bee teehee HYPERSYNTH Note If the oscillator s waveform is set to OFF all the LEDs in waveform group will be turned off and you will no longer see the effect of brightness control for oscillator level the same for sub type and sub level A setting of
6. CK START HYPERSYNTH Home Page The following picture shows the home page format Selecting the programs and banks is only available in this menu 1 Program number 2 Program name 16 character 3 Bank number 4 CC 1 Mod wheel 5 Aftertouch Channel pressure Selecting Programs and Playing Sounds 1 Make sure the Home page is displayed If the Home Page is not displayed press EXIT once or twice until the Home page appears and the Home LED lights up 2 Press the preview buttons to hear what the selected patch sounds like 3 change to a different patch turn the Data dial P GLOBAL EXIT DATA E1 MOD 2 E3 PRG 10 E4 BANK 4 change different Bank turn the E4 Bank knob Remember E1 E2 E3 and E4 are multi purpose knobs In every screen they function differently When you tweak one of these knobs it usually changes the parameter in the screen that is located on the top of the tweaked knob In Home page E1 acts like Mod wheel E2 like Aftertouch E3 increases decreases program number 10 steps and E4 changes bank number In most of the factory sounds Mod wheel and Aftertouch are linked to parameters that add color variations and vibrato to the sound So do not forget to tweak them XENOPHONE QUICK START eee eee eee HYPERSYNTH Using Knobs to Modify the Sound By turning each
7. XMENOPHONE GLOBAL STORE exit SYSEX DATA ENTER compare WAVEFORM 1 moD E2 A TOUCH E3 PRG 10 E4 BANK FX 2s ar Home uent room O Oda Gia om ruter warsH O DIST TYPE O moo O massive cateo DRY WET TARCAN ATTACK DECAY SUSTAIN RELEASE oetav nevers FILTER _ PINGPONGDELAY 1 4 TET 4 if o Om SEMITONE Lever O 2 1 ENVDEPTH eee N O NO WAVEFORM 12dB 18dB 24dB N lt N pan O ar 00 18 an t rare O SELECT SELECT O O O teLmsnp FILTER type 8 12tP gt 6HP 1 O rrea O TUNE sup LEVEL DETUNE osce O Pw O res O vor ARPS camer sanoa an O wer sori Osora O slota Hoe oam Onm Onor Ono porta RINGLEVEL EX FEEDBACK osca noise LEVEL O remo 7 Monophonic ents Hypersynth M Analog Synthesizer enophone WWW HYPERSYNTH COM XENOPHONE QUICK START HYPERSYNTH Connection Diagram ONIOFF POWER usB MIDI IN MIDI OUT IN OUT AUDIO IN RIGHT OUT LEFT OUT HEADPHONE MAIN VOLUME oom PRES ES i
8. al to the left until the rename menu is displayed 1 selects the character position E2 inserts space selects the character from the list and E4 jumps from uppercase letters to lowercase and vise versa Press Exit to return to homepage Storing Programs For storing a program Press Store button Use E2 3 knobs to change the program number and E4 knob to change the bank number of the destination E1 knob also calls the prg bank number of the source preset Press Enter to save the program or Exit to cancel Sending SYSEX Dump Xenophone has the ability to send out its patches in sysex format via MIDI for storing in your computer Before sending a sysex dump the receiver device or software must wait for receive a sysex packet For sending a program dump First select your program in home page Press Store button turn Data dial one step to the right to show up the next page Press Enter to send the program or Exit to cancel For sending a bank dump Press Store button turn Data dial two steps to the right to show up the next pages Use E4 knob to change the bank number part then Press Enter to send or Exit to cancel Xenophone has 7 banks each bank contains 128 programs The sysex bank format contains 64 programs so for sending a bank you must first send the part A program 1 64 and then send the part B program 65 128 If you encounter any problems or you have suggestions for future revisions
9. in order to modulate other parameters Write Protect Off On When set to on it won t be possible to overwrite programs in the memory BLED Brightness 0 96 Sets the brightness amount of the three blue LEDs which are dedicated to LFOs Rates and Arp Tempo MIDI A Touch On Off When on Xenophone receives MIDI after touch When off it ignores the incoming after touch data Calibrate VCF If the filter sounds strange or out of tune you must run calibration routine It is not necessary to run the calibration routine on a regular basis as the VCF is calibrated at the factory You should only run it if you are experiencing problems in filter section Before doing calibration you must load the default program mute all oscillators change filter slope to 24dB and put the filter in self oscillation Then wait 10 minutes for internal circuits warm up After 10 minutes rotate E1 knob in this menu and the calibration routine will be started Calibration takes several minutes DO NOT turn off your device during this time Note Oscillators Ring Modulator and VCAs are calibrated at the factory because they will not drift in any circumstances there is no option for user to calibrate them Factory Reset Rotate E1 to reset the global parameters to their factory defaults XENOPHONE QUICK START ere ee eee eee HYPERSYNTH Renaming Programs Enter the submenu Homepage gt Press Enter Turn Data di
10. re changing preset XENOPHONE QUICK START HYPERSYNTH User Interface Global Home Submenu and Edit are the four basic screen types Using Enter Exit and Data dial you can browse between these screens GLOBAL EXIT LY y GLOBAL EXIT ENTER GLOBAL DATA EXIT Page 1 2 lt Page 12 gt ENTER GLOBAL EXIT Page 1 2 Pressing Exit always makes a jump to Home page Pressing Enter in Home page will show up the Submenu in a Submenu show up the related Edit page Turing Data dial in Home page increases or decreases program number and in other screens Global Submenu Edit it will show the next or previous page Submenu Submenus consist of 18 pages which include Rename menu and 17 parts of the synth engine QUICK START dese odes bee teehee HYPERSYNTH Global Menu Global parameters affect all programs globally like MIDI channel and transpose Since they are universal Global parameters are not stored with programs To edit the Global parameters press Global Exit while you are in home page E1 or E3 knobs change the global values and Data dial show up the next page Fine Master Fine Tune control Steps in cents 50 50 0 centered Trans Master Transpose control Steps in semitones 36 36 0 centered MIDI Channel Selects which MIDI channel to send and receive data 1 to 16 Clock see table Sets
11. rpeggiator and Sequencer to send the generated notes to an external device other synthesizers Preview Keys 3Notes StrtStp A setting of 3Notes means the preview keys act like C3 C4 and C5 keys of a MIDI keyboard A setting of StrStp means preview keys acts like Stop Play and Continue button of a standard sequencer MIDI Over USB Off On A setting of on means you can transmit receive MIDI messages via Xenophone USB port A specific driver software must be run on your PC in order to use these feature While MIDI over USB is set to on hardware MIDI ports will be disabled QUICK START peste e ees HYPERSYNTH Determines the CV Gate connector signal direction Note that before connecting any device to this connector you must select the proper function of it CV GATE Setting CV Direction CV Range Gate Direction Gate Range OUT OUTPUT 0 10V Disabled Grounded OUT OUT VTRG OUTPUT 0 10V OUTPUT 0 5 V OUT OUT STRG OUTPUT 0 10V OUTPUT 5 0 V IN INPUT 5 5 Disabled Grounded IN IN VTRG INPUT 5 5 INPUT 0 12 V IN IN STRG INPUT 5 45V INPUT 12 0 V CV Type defines the desired CV OUT mode e Linear CV Out must be modulated by a modulator in MOD matrix e V OCT OSCx selects 1 Volt per Octave exponential scale in this mode CV follows OSCx pitch CV OUT supports both formats linear and Exp While CV IN is only linear CV In must be set as modulation source in Mod Matrix
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