User manual ACCESS ATOMIZER

[. . . ] Once you have switched Atomizer on, you should be able to hear the incoming audio. A good starting point are the Atomizer example patches which come pre-installed and can be accessed through Virus Control. Note: Avoid using more than one instance of Atomizer at the same time. 8 ATOMIZEROPERATIONSMANUAL Automatic tempo detection for the 4th Millenium · About Beat Scanner Atomizer features a sophisticated algorithm which processes the incoming audio stream and adjusts the global tempo parameter of the Virus TI to match it. Scanning the beat can take anything from a couple of beats to a few bars, depending on the material - watch the LFO1 (Desktop, Keyboard and Polar) or BPM (Snow) LEDs while audio is playing, and you will instantly get a better picture of the process. [. . . ] Also, if the tempo of the incoming audio changes significantly (i. e. a new song begins), Beat Scanner will re-awaken by its own accord and take the helm once more. Note: Opening Virus Control disables Beat Scanner and locks the Virus to the sequencer's tempo instead. ABOUTATOMIZER Atomizing audio Press and hold the A1 key on your keyboard (the next `A' up from the tempo key) - you should hear the incoming audio being swapped with a pretty quick loop which, assuming you tapped the tempo in 1/4 notes, will actually be looping every 1/16th note. Let the note go, and you will immediately it switch back to the original incoming audio. Now spend a little time playing any of the keys from E1 and up. You will notice that from C2 and up, the loops are no longer recognisable in the time domain, and are instead perceivable by pitch. The loop lengths have in fact been tuned to the standard note pitches you would expect on a keyboard, which means you can play melodies along with the incoming audio. Action keys KEY C#1 D1 D#1 E1 F1 F#1 G1 G#1 A1 A#1 B1 Action Gate ReverseAudio Gate Loop Loop Loop Loop Loop Loop Loop Loop 1/2 1/4 1/6 1/8 1/12 1/16 1/24 1/32 Length C3 ~ C8 Loop Audio@rate 10 ATOMIZEROPERATIONSMANUAL Reversing Audio Pushing the D1 key plays the buffered audio backwards. Please note that after reversing the audio buffer it might not be in sync with the playback anymore. Gating Audio Atomizer features a sophisticated implementation of a "DJ Kill EQ" - style audio gater effect. Hit C#1 to gate all incoming audio and the modwheel to narrow the range of the gater effect. This way you can limit the gate to for instance the bass frequencies of the playback. If you hit D#2 while holding D#1 you temporarily release the gater key which is fun when performing stutter effects. ABOUTATOMIZER Modwheel The Modwheel behaves as a crossfade mixer controller. If you move it without holding down any of the action keys, it will have no effect on the incoming audio. At Minimum position, you will hear either the dry input, or the loop you are triggering. As you move the modwheel upwards, you will hear the looped signal fade out through a highpass filter as the incoming audio fades back in through a lowpass. . . . . . . . at the central position, you will only hear the incoming audio. . . . . . and as you continue upwards from the central position the looped signal will fade back in through a lowpass filter as the incoming audio fades out through a highpass. Look, just hold down a loop key and sweep the damn thing, OK?;) Pitch Bender Try setting the pitch bender to relatively high and low values, and then play around with it while you hold a loop key. Slow sweeps back to the middle from just above or just below will often yield excellent results. Modifier Keys D1 Reverse - while you are holding down a loop key, holding the D#1 key will cause the loop to play backwards. As soon as you release it, the loop will play forwards again. [. . . ] Rate Reducer, Phaser, Delay, Reverb etc. , will be applied to only the looped or `Atomized' signal, so the incoming audio will always be dry. Try using the Mod Matrix to assign LFOs or continuous controllers such as aftertouch (Chan Pressure), the pitch bender or the soft knobs to control the send or mix levels of any of the effects or modulate parameters such as Chorus Feedback. Using the Amp or Filter envelopes will not work on the FX parameters, but you can use either LFO1 or LFO2 in Env mode instead. Of course, if you are using the LFOs for continuous selecting a clock divider for the LFO Rate mightn't be too daft an idea. Alternative Atomizer modes Now you have got a feel for the Atomizer in its `normal' mode, try some the other settings between 2 and 16. [. . . ]