User manual FXPANSION GURU

[. . . ] GURU User Manual: table of contents INTRODUCTION. . . A word from Devine Machine Credits Installation Windows Installation 8 MacOSX Installation 9 6 6 7 8 Authorization 10 Instant gratification. . . GURU: Fundamental Philosophy 11 1:1 Engines, Pads, Patterns and Graphs 11 1:2 SmartSlice: GURU's enlightened approach to drumloop-slicing 13 1:3 Overview of the GURU interface 14 1:4 Control conventions and keyboard shortcuts 16 CHAPTER 2. . . Starting to use Guru: the Browser 17 2:1 Operating the Browser 17 Favourites Browsing and Preview tools Auto mode Preview tools 18 18 18 18 Using Auto mode 19 Slicing/Mapping tools 20 Score button 20 Slice mode context menu 20 Using Auto mode 21 Using component slices 22 Operating without Auto mode 22 More about the Score mode 22 Using REX files with GURU 23 Loading Patterns and Pattern Sets 24 Saving Patterns and Pattern Sets 25 2:2 Hit tab 19 2:3 Loops tab 20 2:4 Patterns tab 24 2:5 Kits tab 25 1 CHAPTER 3. . . [. . . ] The Graphs view in fact contains 2 views which appear in the GURU LCD: the Graphs Select view (the default Graphs view) and the Graphs Edit view. Pad select indicator Graphs Select view Draw/Select mode buttons Nodes containing events Compressed Pattern view Graph selector matrix The Graphs Select view is actually an extension of the Pattern view. You can edit the Pattern as normal (including being able to use draw and select modes, as well as change the mode, pages and steps values), but the area normally covered by the Pattern view is compressed horizontally to make room for the Graph selector matrix. Each node on the matrix represents one of 4 Graph types ­ Level, Pitch, Filter or Repeat ­ on each Pad lane of the Pattern. Clicking on a node toggles between the Graphs Select Pad select indicator 47 and Graphs Edit views for the corresponding Graph type and Pad lane. The node will be highlighted to indicate that it is being edited. The matrix also serves as a convenient overview to indicate which Pad lanes have active Graphs, as each matrix node is permanently highlighted when any events exist within any subGraph in its respective Graph type. You can click the Pad select indicator arrow to return to the Pattern view. Graphs Edit view Pattern overview tabbed sub-Graph selector Graph edit area The choice of tabs available in the tabbed sub-Graph selector varies according to the Graph type. These tabs allow you to select a sub-Graph of the Graph type for editing. The Pattern overview lets you edit notes in a Pattern as you would in the Pattern and Graphs Select view, but only in Draw mode: Select mode is not available. The Mode, Pages and Steps values can be edited. You can exit back to the Graphs Select view by clicking the large OK button, or by clicking the same matrix node again. Clicking any other matrix node jumps to the respective Graph type/Pad. Clicking the Pad select indicator arrow takes you back to the Pattern view. Editing events in a sub-Graph You will notice that the Graph editor area follows the stepbased approach of the Pattern view. Instead of notes, however, Graphs show parameters represented as bar graphs. The Background of the Graph will reflect the colour associated with the Pad type ­ blue (kick), red (snare), yellow (hihat) or green (perc). OK to exit back to Graphs select view 48 · Clicking in the Graph edit area will cause the relevant step's value to jump to the mouse cursor. You can then drag up and down in order to further adjust the value. Clicking and dragging left/right will result in the mouse `painting' values across multiple steps. · [CTRL]-clicking returns the step in the Graph to the default value. You can [CTRL]-click and drag left/right in order to do this to multiple steps. · [SHIFT]-clicking `fixes' the mouse's vertical position, so you can paint the same value across multiple steps by clicking and dragging while holding down [SHIFT]. · Holding down the [ALT] key while clicking and dragging allows you to shift the Graph's events vertically and horizontally. [. . . ] This involves saving all Engine, Pattern and Pad settings, with references to the samples used. Load/Save a Bundle file GURU can save the entire contents of the Engine to a GURU Bundle (. GRU files) with the use of the Save button on the toolbar. This is effectively like saving your host project, except all samples are saved inside the file. These Bundles are recalled by using the Load button on the toolbar. This makes it easy to share GURU setups and songs. Load/Save Kits The Browser allows you to save Kits (. KIT files) ­ the entire content of an Engine, minus the Patterns: · the Pads (including their Pad Edit settings, effects and Aux sends) · the Engine's Aux FX · the Engine insert effect as deployed in the Mix view Please refer to section 2:5 for more details. Load/Save Pattern/Pattern Set The Browser also allows you to save the current Pattern (a . G01 file), or a group of all the current Engine's Patterns into a Pattern Set (a . G24 file). [. . . ]