User manual ELECTRIX WARPFACTORY

[. . . ] THE ULTIMATE VOCODER English v1. 1 CAUTION RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN A T T E N T I O N : RISQUE DE CHOC ELECTRIQUE - NE PAS OUVRIR W A R N I N G : TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT EXPOSE THIS EQUIPMENT TO RAIN OR MOISTURE The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated ìdangerous voltageî within the productís enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. The exclamation point within a equilateral triangle is intended to alert the uset to the presence of importat operating and maintenance (sevicing) instruction in the literature accomanying the product. INSTRUCTIONS PERTAINING TO A RISK OF FIRE, ELECTRIC SHOCK, OR INJURY TO PERSON IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS READ AND SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS WARNING - When using electric products, basic precautions should always be followed, including the following: 1. Do not use this product near water - for example near a bathtub, washbowl, kitchen sink, in a wet basement, or near a swimming pool, or the like. This product should be used only with a cart or stand that is recommended by the manufacturer. [. . . ] This is useful for driving the Formant input with signals other than voice. " Gender control: The Gender control moves the harmonic content of the formant up or down without affecting the fundamental pitch of the musical source. When using the microphone formant input, the Gender control will make the formants deeper (left) or thinner (right). Q control: This controls the width of the Warp filters. Lower settings will smooth the effect out so much that it may not be audible. A higher Q setting will give a much more pronounced "tubular" effect. A good place to start is with this control in the far left position. " " Order: This sets the resolution of the filter algorithm. Lower Order settings will give a more "granular" Warp effect, especially when combined with higher settings of the Q control. The maximum position (24) offers the highest resolution, (or intelligibility) when speaking into the microphone. Robot Pitch: We have included an oscillator to make it easy to get a Vocoder effect without having to supply a synthesizer into the source input. To use this feature, talk into your microphone while having the Mic or Line input selected. Set the Robot pitch to the desired frequency and talk away. " Noise: This introduces White Noise. (And you put all that effort into making your music sound cleaner. . . ). Try adding a small amount of noise while vocoding to make spoken words sound cleaner. Channel Select This selects the channel for both MIDI input and output. Effect Output RCA -stereo. Note: connecting both RCA and 1/4" inch jacks to the inputs at the same time causes the level of the 1/4" input to drop. Make sure that when using the 1/4" inputs that nothing is connected to the RCA inputs. " Source Input This is the sound to be shaped. · Phono/Line Switch - this swiches the RCA inputs to accept phono or line level. · RCA -stereo - when the Phono/Line switch is in the Line position, this input is optimized for a +4 dBu input signal. When the Phono/Line switch is set to Phono, thie RIAA phono pre-amp will accept a range of cartridge output levels. Note: when using a turntable connected to the RCA input, the output should still be connected to a line input on the mixer. · 1/4" -stereo TRS Balanced This input is optimized for +4 dBu input signal. When using the 1/4" inputs be sure to use the 1/4" outputs also to ensure there is no signal loss. Formant Input This is the signal input to shape or "Warp" the sound. This sets WarpFactorys input level sensitivity to either of these nominal levels. [. . . ] Any performance will show up in the sequencer as MIDI CC's (Control Change Messages). Note that a press and hold of the bypass button will dump the present state of the controls. Setting the MIDI channel: On the back of the WarpFactory is a small rotary switch labeled MIDI channel. Use it to set the Transmit / Receive channel of WarpFactory. 4. 2 MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART Transmitted Recognized Remarks 1-16 1-16 X Mode 3 X X Note Number X X Velocity Note ON X X Note Off X X After Touch X X Pitch Bender X X Control Change 102 0 0 Gender 4-124 (64 = no gender) 103 0 0 Q 0 - 127 104 0 0 Order 2-24 105 0 0 Noise Level 0-127 0 0 Waveform Pitch 0-125 (0 = off) 1061 107 0 0 Freeze ( 0-63 off 64-127 = on) 108 0 0 Warp Band (0-63 low 64-127 - high) 2 0 0 Source Kill 0-90 110 111 0 0 Effect Mix 0-127 0 0 Bypass (0-63 off 64-127 on) 1123 4 0 0 Ess On/Off 0-3 113 0 0 Formant input select 0-2 1155 116 0 0 Dump request Program Change X X System Exclusive X X System Common Song Position X X Song Select X X Tune Request X X System Real Time Clock X X Commands X X Aux Messages Local On/Off X X All notes Off X X Active Sensing X X System Reset X X Notes 1. [. . . ]