User manual AEG-ELECTROLUX GIBSON ECHO PLEX PLUS

[. . . ] EchoplexDi gital Pro Plus User 's Manual CREDITS MANUAL WRITTEN BY KIM FLINT AND WARREN SIROTA LAYOUT & DESIGN BY WS DESIGNS ECHOPLEX DIGITAL PRO PLUS LOOPIV SOFTWARE LOOP® IS A PRODUCT OF GIBSON GUITAR CORPORATION IS A PRODUCT OF AURISIS RESEARCH, LLC AURISIS RESEARCH, LLC IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF ECHOPLEX DIGITAL PRO PLUS AND LOOPIV SOFTWARE DESIGNED BY: AURISIS RESEARCH, LLC ­ MATTHIAS GROB, KIM FLINT, ERIC OBERMÜHLNER WITH MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM: ANDY EWEN, CLAUDE VOIT, ANDY BUTLER, MARK LEAS, KEITH MCMILLEN, TIM CANNING, ANDRE LAFOSSE, DAVID TORN, CHRIS MUIR, WILLY STREHLER, LJUBO MAJSTOROVIC, EBERHARD WEBER, DAVID KIRKDORFFER SPECIAL THANKS TESTERS, AND TO THE STAFF OF GIBSON GUITAR CORPORATION, ECHOPLEX. 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COM HTTP WARNINGS CAUTION RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN i-4 Echoplex Digital Pro Plus User's Manual EchoplexDi U S E R gital Pro Plus N U A L ' S M A Contents Introduction Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i-2 Contact Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i-3 Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii-1 About This Manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii-1 Typeface Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii-1 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii-2 Section I ­ User Guide User Guide Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I-i Chapter 1 Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Instant Gratification and Depth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Before Powering Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Level Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Start Looping!Function and Operation names are shown in a plain typeface. Buttons generally either represent parameters or initiate actions, which we usually call functions or operations. [. . . ] You can continue playing without any interruption, and have what you play split into the two loops. This is especially useful for filling the loops with the various parts of a song while playing continuously. You just keep pressing Next as you play!This is a great way to record a verse loop and chorus loop in one pass, as you play them live. If you continue to press NextLoop at the end of each part, you can use this method to record into all of the loops you have set up. Similarly, if LoopCopy=Sound or LoopCopy=Time, you can continuously copy the audio or the time base into new loops as you record them in one pass. When MoreLoops=1, ending Record by pressing NextLoop stops recording and begins playing the loop, just as if the recording had been ended with another press of Record. Note however, that when MoreLoops = 1, NextLoop becomes a retrigger button, so Record-toNextLoop can be an interesting way to immediately go into stutters of your loop. THE LONG PRESS Pressing and holding down the Record button erases the entire current loop. This is also called a Long Press Record. The loop will then be in Reset, and ready for a new recording. Reference - Functions 5-49 Record Continued THE EFFECT OF RECORDMODE When RecordMode=Toggle, the Record button works as described above. However, when RecordMode=Sustain, you can only record sounds while you hold down the button--as soon as you release it, the recording stops. When RecordMode=Sustain, you lose the ability to reset a loop, normally accomplished by a long press of the Record button. This may not be a great loss for you, since a short press of Record while you play nothing will create a short loop with no contents. However, there are two consequences of this approach: s A loop that is pseudo-cleared this way will not go into AutoRecord if you enter it with NextLoop. There is no way to reset all loops in this situation, except to enter a loop (with AutoRecord=Off) that has not been recorded since power-up. The orange light under the Multiply button, signifying that a long press of that button will reset all loops, does not go on unless the current loop is completely empty. s USING AN AUDIO THRESHOLD When a non-zero value for the Threshold parameter is set, the Record function waits until a large enough audio signal appears at the Input jack before it actually starts recording. When Threshold=0, this waiting is disabled and Recording begins immediately. 5-50 Echoplex Digital Pro Plus User's Manual Record Continued SYNCHRONIZED RECORDING When a sync signal is being received by the Echoplex, and Sync=In, the Echoplex will Record loops in sync with the external device's tempo. Sync signals can be in the form of MIDI Clock, BrotherSync from another Echoplex, or pulses at the BeatSync input. During Reset, the Overdub LED turns yellow to indicate that a Sync has arrived. When the second Sync point arrives to define the Cycle length, the LoopTime Display shows the resulting Cycle time. This cycle time is determined by the 8ths/cycle setting and the tempo of the incoming clock. Whenever the Overdub LED is yellow like this, the next Record press will be Synchronized. [. . . ] $0F number of loops AutoRecord (1 bit): $00 Off $01 On Next LoopCopy (2 bits): $00 Off $01 Timing $02 Sound $03 NA SwitchQuant (3 bits): $00 Off $01 Confirm $02 CycleQuantize $03 ConfirmCycle $04 LoopQuant $05 ConfirmLoop Velocity (1 bit): $00 $01 Off On SamplerStyle (2 bits): 00 Run 01 Once 10 Start 11 Attack Tempo (7 bits): $00 $01 $02 $03 $04 $05 value of tempo " " " " " Reference - MIDI SysEx 11-7 MIDI SysEx Detailed Reference Continued . . . 278 MIDI SysEx " 3. 1. 2. 1) COMMAND: GLOBAL_PARAM_REQUEST = $10 = 16 ---------------------------------------------------Reads a range of global param values and returns them as a GLOBAL_PARAM_DATA command. F0 00 01 30 0B dev vers 10 from length pset F7 240 00 01 48 11 dev vers 16 from length pset 247 _____________________________________________________________ |byte# | bits | description |_______|______|______________________________________________ |0 |7 | from | param index range start |1 |7 | length | param index range end |2 |7 | pset | param set (for future use, so far 127) |_______|______|_____________________________________________ 3. 1. 2. 2) COMMAND: GLOBAL_PARAM_DATA = $11 = 17 -------------------------------------------------Sets a range of global param values to new values. F0 00 01 30 0B dev vers 11 from length pset val_1 . . [. . . ]