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AVALON - Reference Manual
CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION
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1.1 ABOUT THIS MANUAL
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1.2 ABBREVIATION & CONVENTIONS
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1.2.1 BUTTON NAMES
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1.2.2 BUTTON COMBINATIONS (SIMULTANEOUS)
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1.2.3 STEP BUTTONS
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1.2.4 CHROMATIC KEYBOARD
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1.2.5 PATTERN BUTTONS
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1.2.6 BUTTONS 1-4
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1.2.7 NOTE, TIE, & REST BUTTONS
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1.2.8 NEXT & BACK BUTTONS
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1.2.9 ROTARY KNOBS
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1.2.10 LED INDICATORS
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2 OVERVIEW
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2.1 FRONT PANEL
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2.2 REAR PANEL
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2.3 INITIAL CONNECTIONS
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3 ANALOG SYNTH
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3.1
ZERO
THE SYNTHESIZER
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3.2 OSCILLATOR
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3.3 FILTER
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3.4 FILTER ENVELOPE
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3.5 AMPLIFIER
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3.6 MODULATION ENVELOPE
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3.7 OUTPUT
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4 SEQUENCER OVERVIEW
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4.1 PRIMARY MODES
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4.1.1 CHANGING PRIMARY MODES
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4.1.1.1 BETWEEN PATTERN MODES
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4.1.1.2 BETWEEN TRACK MODES
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4.1.1.3 BETWEEN PATTERN & TRACK MODES
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4.2 WHAT IS A PATTERN?
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4.2.1 THE PATTERN STEP
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4.2.2 PATTERN STEP ATTRIBUTES
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4.2.3 PATTERN MODIFIERS
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4.2.4 PATTERN OVERALL STRUCTURE
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4.3 PATTERN SELECTION
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4.3.1 PATTERN BANK
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4.3.2 PATTERN GROUP
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4.3.3 PATTERN NUMBER
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4.4 PATTERN PLAYBACK
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4.4.1 TEMPO
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4.5 WHAT IS A TRACK?
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4.6 TRACK SELECTION
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4.7 TRACK PLAYBACK
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5 PATTERN WRITE MODE
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5.1 OVERVIEW
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5.2 NORMAL MODE
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5.2.1 PATTERN CLEAR, COPY & PASTE
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5.2.2 PATTERN CHAINING
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5.2.3 PATTERN MODIFIERS
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5.2.3.1 PATTERN LENGTH
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5.2.3.2 LAST STEP
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5.2.3.3 TIME SIGNATURE
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5.2.3.4 SHUFFLE
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5.2.3.5 PATTERN DIRECTION
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5.2.3.6 PATTERN ROTATE
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5.2.3.7 PATTERN RANDOMIZE
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5.2.3.8 PATTERN TRANSPOSE
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5.2.3.9 FILTER B MODE
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5.2.4 PITCH ATTRIBUTES
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5.2.4.1
PITCH
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5.2.4.2 ACCENT & SLIDE
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5.2.4.3 TRANSPOSE
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5.2.4.4 MODULATION ENVELOPE TRIGGERS
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5.2.4.5 SLIDE TIME
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5.2.4.6 FILTER CV OFFSET
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5.2.4.7 GATE LENGTH
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5.2.5 TIME ATTRIBUTES
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5.2.5.1 NOTE EVENTS
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5.2.5.2 NOTE LENGTH, TIES & RESTS
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5.2.5.3 ACTIVE STEPS
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5.3 PITCH & TIME STEP ENTRY MODES
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5.3.1 PITCH STEP ENTRY
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5.3.2 TIME STEP ENTRY
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5.4 RECORD MODE
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5.4.1 ENTER & EXIT RECORD MODE
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5.4.2 RECORDING REALTIME PERFORMANCE
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5.4.2.1 RECORD NOTES
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5.4.2.2 RECORD TRANSPOSE
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5.4.2.3 RECORD ACCENT & SLIDE
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5.4.2.4 RECORD MOD ENV
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5.4.2.5 RECORD SLIDE TIME
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5.4.2.6 RECORD FILTER CV OFFSET
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5.5.1 REALTIME ACCENT & SLIDE
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5.5.2 REALTIME MOD ENV
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5.6 ARPEGGIATOR
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5.6.1 ARP ON/OFF
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5.6.2
NOTE ENTRY
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5.6.2.1 VIA AVALON KEYBOARD
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5.6.2.2 VIA EXTERNAL MIDI
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5.6.3 ARP MODE
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5.6.4 REALTIME ACCENT, SLIDE, & MOD ENV
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5.6.5 ARP RECORD
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5.7 PATTERN SYSEX DUMP
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5.7.1 TRANSMIT
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5.7.2 RECEIVE
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6 PATTERN PLAY MODE
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6.1 OVERVIEW
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6.2 NORMAL MODE
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6.2.1 PATTERN SELECTION
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6.2.2 PATTERN CHAINING
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6.3 REALTIME MODE
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6.3.1 TRANSPOSE
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6.3.2 REALTIME ACCENT & SLIDE
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6.3.3 REALTIME MOD ENV
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6.3.4 REALTIME MUTE
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7 TRACK WRITE MODE
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7.1 OVERVIEW
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7.2 SELECTING TRACKS
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7.3 NORMAL MODE
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7.3.1 TRACK STEP INDICATORS
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7.3.2 LAST TRACK STEP
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7.3.3 TRACK CLEAR, COPY & PASTE
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7.3.4 WRITING A TRACK
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7.3.4.1 SELECT PATTERN
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7.3.4.2 TRANSPOSE
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7.3.4.3 ADD REPEATS
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7.3.4.4 PREVIOUS & NEXT STEP
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7.3.4.5 LAST STEP
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7.3.4.6 INSERT & DELETE
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7.3.4.7 SETTING
D.S.
AND
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7.4 REALTIME MODE
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7.4.1 REALTIME ACCENT & SLIDE
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