User manual ENSONIQ FIZMO V1.10

[. . . ] User's Guide Realtime Transwave Synth TM LEADING THE WORLD IN SOUND INNOVATION READ THIS FIRST!WARNING!! CAUTION RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN CAUTION : TO REDUCE THE DANGER OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR BACK) NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL This symbol is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated "dangerous voltage" within the product's enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electronic shock to persons. This symbol is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance. SEE IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS ON BACK COVER! TM User's Guide Version 1. 10 FIZMO User's Guide Written, designed, and illustrated by Robby Berman Copyright © 1998 EMU-ENSONIQ ® Corp 155 Great Valley Parkway Box 3035 Malvern, PA 19355-0735 USA World Wide Web--http://www. ensoniq. com Printed in U. S. A. All Rights Reserved Please record the following information: Your Authorized ENSONIQ Dealer:_________________________________________ Phone:________________________ Your Dealer Sales Representative:_________________________________________________ Serial Number of Unit:___________________________ Date of Purchase:_________________ Your Authorized ENSONIQ Dealer is your primary source for service and support. The above information will be helpful in communicating with your Authorized ENSONIQ Dealer, and provide necessary information should you need to contact ENSONIQ Customer Service. [. . . ] Tip: To negatively apply an envelope--so that it lowers a setting's initial value--to an oscillator's Pitch Tune or Filter Cutoff settings, apply the envelope as a modulator with a negative amount. Programming FIZMO Envelopes Use the controls in FIZMO's front-panel Envelope section to program any of its three envelopes. Press one of the three buttons beneath the "Envelope" label to select the envelope you wish to program. To program: · · Envelope 1, press the Pitch button. · Envelope 2, press the Filter button. Envelope 3, press the Amp (for "Amplitude") button. Envelope Pitch Filter Amp Note: Changes made to an envelope are not heard in notes that have already begun playing. To Set an Envelope's Shape Once you've selected the envelope you want to program, you turn the Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release knobs to set their values to the desired setting for the selected envelope. Attack Decay Sustain Release ENSONIQ FIZMO User's Guide 23 6--Programming Sounds Envelope Modes Each envelope can operate in any of the three modes that determine how and when it will travel through its Attack, Decay and Release stages: Mode: Normal Displayed as: nor fin Finish Repeat rPt When this mode is selected, the envelope: behaves normally. The envelope begins when you play a note, and when you stop playing the note, the setting it's shaping moves from its current value back to its initial value at the speed set with the Release setting. The envelope begins when you play a note, and ignores when you stop playing the note, running through all of its stages as programmed. Finish mode can be especially useful for programming a percussive hit to play all the way through when you play and quickly release a note on the keyboard. moves through all of its stages, over and over. The envelope begins when you press a key on the keyboard, and as you continue to hold down the key, the envelope runs through all of its stages, again and again until you let go of the key. Repeat mode is useful in the creation of trilling notes. To set the currently selected envelope's mode, tap the Envelope Mode button until the desired mode is displayed. Envelopes and Velocity You can make an envelope more "playable" by programming it to respond to velocity. When it does so, the envelope only pushes the setting it's shaping to the maximum programmed value with the hardest of keystrikes on the keyboard. Softer keystrikes will apply the envelope's shape to the setting to lesser degrees. To activate the currently selected envelope's response to velocity, tap the Envelope Velocity button until its LED lights. Mode Velocity LFO and Noise FIZMO provides each oscillator its own LFO and noise generator. These modulators supply two constantly changing forms of modulation: · The LFO--for "Low Frequency Oscillator"--is an oscillator that produces a low-frequency wave that's not heard directly but which can be applied as a regular, repetitive modulator to an oscillator's settings. Waves, by nature, cycle between high and low amplitudes as they play. As the LFO's wave goes up in amplitude, it pushes the value of the setting being modulated higher. As its amplitude decreases, it pushes the setting downward. The LFO is useful for creating vibrato and other repetitive effects. [. . . ] See Home stereo using FIZMO in, 5 Sustain, 23 Sustain knob, 23 SW-10, 6, 14 Swing, 13 SYS1, 34 SYS2, 34 SYS3, 34 SYS4, 34 SysEx dumping. See Dumping SysEx ID, 33, 34 System clock defined, 13 LFO and Noise, 25 setting, 12 System Controller 1-4, 34 System Controllers, 34 System Exclusive. See Dumping Tuning of FIZMO, 34 of oscillators, 27 U Up/down arrow buttons, 19 User's Guide, 1 V Value knob, 12, 13 Variations buttons, 19 Velocity adjusting response, 10 using, 9 Vocoder connecting microphone, 5 introduced, 2 setting input level, 6 using, 19 Volume knob, 5 S Shape button, 25 Signal flow, 21 snd, 11 Sound 1-4 buttons, 15 lit or flashing LED, 15 Sound programming. See Presets Sounds activating, 16 creating splits, 16, 17 defined, 21 dumping via MIDI, 33 in presets, 15 introduced, 2 layering, 16 playing via MIDI, 31 receiving via MIDI, 33 restoring factory sounds, 41 saving, 20 selecting, 17 for programming, 26 selecting via MIDI, 32 Bank Selects & Program Changes, 32, 39 transmitting Bank Selects, 32 W Warnings, 1 Wave defined, 26 list of, 27 modulating, 27 modulating with I knob, 10 overview, 26 selecting, 27 Wave Select knob, 27 Wet defined, 19 Wet/Dry mix overview, 19 White and black buttons, 1 T t, 12 tch, 10, 14, 34 Temperature guidelines, 45 Tempo button, 12 Thirds, 13 Time knob, 28 Tips, 1 Touch, 14, 34 Track, 29 Transwaves defined, 26 modulating, 27 Tune, 34 Tune knob, 27 Y Yes button, 3 Z Z knob using, 10 50 ENSONIQ FIZMO User's Guide "INSTRUCTIONS PERTAINING TO A RISK OF FIRE, ELECTRIC SHOCK, OR INJURY TO PERSONS" IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS WARNING--When using electric products, basic precautions should always be followed, including the following: 1. 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