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. Read all the instructions before using the product. 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. [. . . ] With `Ess on', WarpFactory will preserve speech intelligibility even over the most complex of music signals. This is the normal operation of WarpFactory. Ess off turns that feature off and disregards sibilance. 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. THe Noise is affected by the various Warp settings. This will give things a dirtier, more harsh sound. (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. See the MIDI Applications section for more detail. Channel Select This selects the channel for both MIDI input and output. Effect Output RCA -stereo. This output produces a balanced +4 dBu signal. 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. [. . . ] Values 1 to 125 increase pitch in 0. 25 semitone steps from FO - C3. The front panel Source Kill switch toggles between values of 20 and 90. CC edit allows fine threshold control between 0 and 90. When bypass is held for 2 seconds, it will send CC values for all controls. [. . . ]