using temps_utile
mxmxmx edited this page Jan 29, 2019
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- select the channel (
#1
-#6
) you want to edit by turning the left encoder. - mode parameters are selected and edited with the right encoder; click to edit. click again to exit edit-mode.
- the first parameter is the main clock mode. it defaults to the basic
MULT
, though themult/div
,pulsewidth
, andphase %
parameters are available across modes. most other parameters are mode-specific. channel#4
has an additional mode:DAC
- pushing the left encoder once will re-sync the channels.
- long-pressing the left encoder AND the up button simultaneously will reset all channels to
MULT
/ default settings, and clear all CV mappings. (NB: this won't permanently reset the module, you'd also have to save the (cleared) settings to do so. see below)
- long-pressing the right encoder will take you to a menu page saying
Load
,Save
,Apps
,Conf
.- to save the channel parameters, navigate to
Save
using the left encoder and select one of the four available 'preset' slots (the currently active slot, if any, is indicated by a little dot). once you've selected a slot, long-press the right encoder again to save the current state; the cursor should flash a couple of times, then return you to the clock app. - to load a previously saved preset, do much the same: navigate to
Load
, select the preset (#1-#4) and long-press the right encoder. the cursor will flash while the preset is being loaded, then return you to the clock app. - if you just want to leave the save/load menu, either navigate to
Apps
and click the right encoder or, alternatively, load the currently active setting. - to reset the module/EEPROM (settings sans calibration data), hold down both the up and down buttons during start-up.
- to save the channel parameters, navigate to
- long press the right encoder, then choose
Conf
.-
TR1 global div
: sets a global clock divider value (for TR1 only). available options are:24PPQ
,48PPQ
, and96PPQ
. -
TR1 master
: chooseyes
to sync all channels to a/the 'master' channel, this will help keeping the channels in sync (which are normally independent and may diverge, if/when clock divisions are manipulated). said 'master' channel is dynamic in that channels will try to sync to the channel with the largest divisor (which can be subject to change, notably when manipulating the mult/div settings with a control voltage). the global resync behaviour will thus depend on that value. again, this works only for channels slaved to TR1.
-
- push the
down
button, that'll take you to the CV page; assign CV channel # by selecting the destination (right encoder), then click to edit / select the source (CV1
-CV4
) - basically any parameter can be assigned to a CV input, except
reset/mute
and a very few others. - values with just 0/1 states (notably
clock source
) are toggled, if the CV input goes above ~ 1.2V - assignments are cleared either by specifically selecting destination
-
(ie none), or by long-pressing thedown
button (when on the CV page) -> that'll clear all CV mappings in that particular channel)
- push the
up
button, that'll take you to the screensaver preview; now long-press theup
button to slave all channels to the internal clock. aBPM
setting will appear, which allows you to adjust the tempo of the internal timer. the default tempo (=-
) is quarter notes, which can then be further divided down or multiplied via the individual channel settings. - alternatively, you can assign individual channels to either
TR1
,TR2
, orINT
(the internal timer) by adjusting the channel parameterclock source
. - long pressing the
down
button while theBPM
page is active will reset all channels toTR1
. -
reset/mute
: when applicable, this assigns a reset source (basically:MULT
,EUCLID
,SEQ
); it typically doesn't make sense, of course, to chooseRST1
when theclock source
isTR1
, and v.v. Alternatively, choose=LO2
or=HI2
to mute a/the channel wheneverTR2
goes low, respectively high. - the
latency
setting (at the bottom of the CV menu), allows to increase the trigger-to-processing latency by a few microseconds up to 4 milliseconds. this can be useful for timing gate/CV manipulations, ie if/when control voltages lag behind the main trigger.
available parameters | range/values | note |
---|---|---|
pulse-width |
echo , 1ms , 2ms , ..., 254ms , 50%
|
echo : pulse-width = pulse-width of external clock, 50% = 50% duty cycle |
phase % |
0 - 99
|
phase offset (in % of period) |
mult/div |
/64 , /48 , /32 , /24 , /16 , /12 , .... x48 , x64
|
select channel division/multiplication factor |
clock source |
TR1 , TR2 , INT , -
|
select channel clock source |
reset/mute |
RST1 , RST2 , - , =HI2 , =LO2
|
reset: reset source for divider, sequencer, or euclidian generator; mute: mute outputs when TR2 goes high (or low) |
- NB: these basic settings are available across all modes (when applicable).
- NB: when multiplying (
x2
,x3
, ...), the pulse-width gets halved, too; in those cases, the displayed number is no longer reflecting the actual pulse-width, but will be a fraction of that value. rather, say, 60ms is 30ms when multiplying2x
, 20ms whenx3
, etc.
available parameters | range/values | note |
---|---|---|
LFSR length |
4 -31
|
sets length of shift register |
LFSR p(x) |
0 ... 128 ... 255
|
probability of the least significant bit flipping (0 = 0%, 128 = 50%, 255 = 0%) |
LFSR tap1 |
0 - LFSR length
|
tap #1 in LFSR (which bit to XOR with LSB when updating the shift-register) |
LFSR tap2 |
0 - LFSR length
|
tap #2 in LFSR (ditto) |
available parameters | range/values | note |
---|---|---|
rand > n |
0 - 31
|
output goes high if random number > n, larger values of n --> less frequent triggers |
available parameters | range/values | note |
---|---|---|
euclid: N |
3 - 31
|
# slots in pattern |
euclid: K |
1 - N
|
fills |
euclid: OFFSET |
0 - N
|
offset |
available parameters | range/values | note |
---|---|---|
density |
1 - 31 |
# of pulses per burst |
f (initial) |
2% - 200%
|
% of burst 'speed' (fine-tune) |
damping |
*0.25 - *1.75
|
determines the decay (> 1.0) resp. 'growth' (< 1.0) behaviour of the burst |
burst src |
TR1 , TR2
|
burst trigger input (when using BPM clock) |
- NB: the burst frequency or 'speed' is determined, in the first instance, by either the internal BPM clock (when choosing
clock src = INT
) or by a/the external clock (when choosingclock src = TR1
orclock src = TR2
) plus whatever multiplier/divisor settings are applied.f (initial)
is a percentage of this frequency. - you can use either TR1 or TR2 to actually trigger a burst: when
clock src = TR1
,TR1
determines the frequency andTR2
triggers the burst, and vice versa. whenclock src = INT
, you can choose which trigger input to use (ieburst src = TR1
orburst src = TR2
). - note that an incoming trigger will choke an ongoing burst, even if phase-delayed. (that's not, exactly, a bug, more like an artefact of the implementation as is).
available parameters | range/values | note |
---|---|---|
logic type |
AND , OR , XOR , NAND , XNOR , NOR
|
logic operation to perform |
op1 |
ch#1 - ch#6
|
channel used as operand #1 |
op2 |
ch#1 - ch#6
|
channel used as operand #2 |
track --> |
P_W , state
|
what to operate on: pulse-width, or on/off states |
- NB: since the channels are processed sequentially, rather than in some quantum-entangled fashion, the result of the logic operation may not reflect the current output-state of the operand channels; it may lag behind by one clock or be lost in time in some way or another (notably, when logic operations are performed on channels performing logic operations).
- 'tracking'
P_W
differs from tracking on/offstate
(beats) in the way the operands enter the equation, which tends to result in different output patterns. Thus, a pulse with, say, 10% duty cycle will be treated (as far as the logic operation is concerned) as "true" only 10% of the duty cycle, and as "false" 90% of the duty cycle (in terms ofP_W
); in terms ofstate
, it'll count as "true" for the entire duty-cycle. A skipped beat will simply be "false", either way, of course.
available parameters | range/values | note |
---|---|---|
sequence # |
USER1 - USER4
|
select trigger pattern #1-4 |
--> edit |
length: 2 - 16 , on/off |
edit trigger pattern |
playmode |
- , SEQ+1 , SEQ+2 , SEQ+3 , TR2+1 , TR2+2 , TR2+3 , SH-1 , SH-2 , SH-3 , SH-4
|
concatenate patterns, up to 64 steps; or CV-address (SH ) |
- click on
--> edit
(right encoder) to open the edit window:
editor UI | note |
---|---|
up button | go to next sequence ('edit offline') |
down button | go to previous sequence ('edit offline') |
up button (long press) | copy sequence |
down button (long press) | paste sequence |
left encoder (rotate) | select step |
left encoder (click) | mute/unmute step |
right encoder (rotate) | rotate pattern; adjust pattern length (see below) |
left encoder (push) + right encoder (rotate) | clear pattern while expanding (see below) |
right encoder (click) | close editor |
- edit with left encoder: select slot, click to activate/de-activate slot.
- rotate the pattern by turning the right encoder
- pattern length is set by moving the cursor to the right-most slot (the one with a dot), then expand or contract the pattern by turning the right encoder. by default, the pattern will be preserved when contracting, then expanding again a pattern. in contrast, pushing the left encoder down while expanding the pattern will fill up the pattern will empty slots.
- by default, the editor 'opens' the selected sequence (ie
USER1
-USER4
); in the absence of modulation etc, that'll be the active sequence, ie the one that's being played. you can edit the remaining sequences 'offline', so to speak, by pushing theup
anddown
buttons to cycle through the four patterns. a litte arrow will appear next to the sequence id, e.g.--> #2
, indicating that the sequence being edited is not the one currently active/selected by thesequence #
parameter. that's mainly useful when modulating thesequence #
parameter or when chaining patterns. - the
playmode
parameter allows to play the sequences in sequence; ieSEQ+1
alternates between the selected pattern x and x+1;SEQ+2
plays the patterns x, x+1, x+2, x, x+1, etc. the counter wraps aroundUSER4
.TR2+1
,TR2+2
, andTR2+3
increment in the same way, wheneverTR2
goes high. -
SH-1
,SH-2
,SH-3
,SH-4
: CV address steps via sample+hold (using CV1, CV2, CV3, or CV4, respectively). - when the editor is active, long-pressing the
up
button will copy the selected pattern; long-pressing thedown
button will paste it (to another sequence slot). copying works across channels. -
reset/mute
: chooseRST2
(orRST1
) to reset the sequence to the first step, whenTR2
(orTR1
) goes high. muting works much like in the other modes; in this case, it pauses the sequence at whichever step it's at, from where it will resume whenTR2
(orTR1
) goes low again. - in contrast, when assigning a CV input to
sequence #
, the step-counter isn't reset. modulation ofsequence #
literally just swaps the sequence, and continues from the currently active step (unless, of course, the sequence replacing the previous one is shorter than the active step count).
available parameters | range/values | note |
---|---|---|
DAC: mode |
BIN , RAND , T_M , LGTC , SEQ
|
binary, random, 'turing machine', logistic map, sequencer |
DAC: range |
1 - 255
|
DAC output range (centred at 0V) |
DAC: offset |
-3 - +3
|
DAC voltage offset (~ 1 volt/octave (ish)) |
- the four modes come with a set of additional, mode-specific parameters:
- primitive sequencer, where the channel on/off states determine the output value:
- clock channel #1 = MSB, clock channel #6 = LSB (channel #4, being the DAC, isn't counted, hence 5-bit)
- the sequencer can either track
P_W
(pulsewidth) or on/offstate
. (for details seeLOGIC
above)
- random values, with weighted history (basically, this averages over the last 1-8 output states (=
depth
) according to some weight factor (=weight
))
- emulation, sort of, of the popular 'turing machine'; ie some kind of shift register based output. the parameters (
LFSR length
,LFSR p(x)
) work as above (seeLFSR
mode).
- provides chaotic rather than random output, with one parameter:
LGST(R)
, the r coefficient of the equation.
- editing works much like the trigger sequencer (see above), except there's only one 16 step track and you cannot mute steps (because there's no corresponding trigger output).
- use the right encoder adjust the pitch value (coarse); to fine-tune, hold down the left encoder while turning the right encoder.
-
playmode
: choose from the typical set of directions (fwd
,rev
,pendulum
,random
resp.up
,down
,up/down
andrandom
). - when
playmode
=ARP
, steps can be muted: muting a note removes it from the arpeggiation pattern. the ARP mask can also be rotated (-> mask CV).