AudioRealism Bass Line, User Manual

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Page 2: ...n 9 Pattern programming Section 10 Programming patterns 11 Time Mode 11 Slides 11 Accents 11 Ties 11 Midi CC 12 Midi Learn 12 Automation of Controls 12 Configuration 13 Using Pattern Mode 14 Pattern Sequencing 14 Pattern Sequencing without retrigger 14 Using Note Mode 15 Importing Rebirth 338 Patterns 16 Freebee Text pattern format 16 Programs Banks 16 Copying Patterns between Instances 16 Thanks ...

Page 3: ...and playback bass patterns in sync with a host sequencer The voice of the original Bass Line is well known and has become standard studio equipment The AudioRealism Bass Line is a digital recreation of that instrument offering every characteristic of the analog instruments while maintaining all the benefits of digital algorithms More benefits of moving into the digital realm are for example unlimi...

Page 4: ...s a designated note 5 A program consists of synth settings like cutoff freq resonance waveform etc 6 A state contains the modes like Midi and sync of the plug in the step number and configuration information 7 A bank consists of a 16 programs 128 patterns and current state The bank can usually be saved and loaded by the host as an fxb file 8 The configuration file Config ini contains information a...

Page 5: ...rns the knob clockwise or counterclockwise For more precise settings hold down the Shift key while dragging the mouse It is possible to alter the knob mode see Configuration section Buttons Single click buttons Switches Click and drag right or left to slide into the desired position Menus Click the down arrow to reveal the menu Value displays Click the up or down arrows to change value It is also ...

Page 6: ...n 0 zero and the highest note pattern 127 A note on message will start a pattern and a note off message will stop the pattern NOTE Notes are played directly from the Midi notes and the internal sequencer is disabled This allows ABL to be played as normal synthesizer If two notes overlap then a slide will occur between those notes If a note with velocity over 100 default is played then an accent wi...

Page 7: ...Paste Copy Copies the pattern to the copy buffer Paste Pastes the copy buffer over the current pattern Transpose Transpose 12 Transposes the pattern up 12 semitones one octave Transpose 12 Transposes the pattern down 12 semitones one octave Transpose 1 Transposes the pattern up 1 semitone Transpose 1 Transposes the pattern down 1 semitone Note An attempt to transpose out of range will set the note...

Page 8: ...atterns 0 63 Pattern selector Click the arrows to change the pattern in increments or click on the digits and drag the mouse up or down to scroll patterns Tempo Click the arrows to change the tempo in increments or click on the digits and drag mouse the up or down to scroll Note Tempo can only be changed in Internal sync mode see Sync ...

Page 9: ... modulation determines how much movement there should be in the cutoff frequency Envelope modulation is bipolar in ABL thus it modulates the cutoff positively and negatively with the basic cutoff as center point Decay Decay control sets the speed of the envelope Turning the knob clockwise will increase decay time while turning counterclockwise will shorten the decay time Accent The accent control ...

Page 10: ...ent the current mode When auto advance is on entering a pitch from the pitch keyboard will automatically advance to the next step Turning off the auto advance will return step indicator to the first step Time Mode When the diode is lit the note is on else the note is a rest Clicking the button will toggle the time mode Next Step indicator The digits indicate which step being edited Clicking the Ne...

Page 11: ...or the step and raises the cutoff to a degree controlled by the accent control in the synth section Interesting things happens when subsequent accents are programmed into the pattern Since the simulated capacitors haven t discharged completely the accents accumulate in a way driving the cutoff higher and higher Ties There is no way to explicitly specify ties between two notes To simulate a tie cre...

Page 12: ...n ABL s panel and adjust it a bit 3 Turn the Midi controller you want to assign to that control You should see the ABL control on screen moving according to your changes 4 Continue will all controls that you wish to assign 5 Deactivate Midi learn in the Option Menu 6 Optional Save the controller map by selecting Save MidiCC in the Option menu When ABL is closed for instance when removing the plug ...

Page 13: ...er notes are On or Off after a Pattern Clear GUIKnobMode 0 Circular 1 Relative 2 Linear Preferred knob mode on startup Note this may be overridden by the host AccentVelocity 0 127 Midi velocity to trigger accents when using ABL in Note mode Highpass On or Off Sets the highpass filter Firststep 0 or 1 Display the first step as 0 Freebee or 1 Rebirth style in the step indicator Tuning Exact or Nonex...

Page 14: ...sed Since C D and D overlap this note the sequencer will not retrigger and this will play back pattern C steps 1 4 C steps 5 8 D steps 9 12 and D steps 13 16 This opens up possibilities to create new interesting patterns from those in ABL s memory There are two things to keep in mind when using overlapping patterns A retrigger of the sequencer occurs when a note on event is received and no pattern...

Page 15: ...threshold is velocity 100 but can be changed see Configuration AccentVelocity Producing bass lines that sound accurate require use of many staccato notes This can be done by using 32nd grid resolution in the host sequencer and making sure that each note is one half 16th This approximates the standard gate time of ABL which is about 55 of the total note and is needed for accurate 303 emulation If y...

Page 16: ...elimited by white space The pitch is represented in a tracker fashion example c 3 or g 4 and must be three characters wide The gate is 1 one for note on or 0 zero for note off The slide is 1 for slide on or 0 for no slide The accent is 1 for accent or 0 for no accent The number of steps in the pattern is determined by the number of lines so make sure to remove any preceding or trailing empty lines...

Page 17: ... Mike Janney would like to take this opportunity to thank the following people for their support and suggestions no order Ronny Pries Alex Hapted Matthijs Jansen Frank Chotai Fredrik Andersson Crister Ekstrand Izmar Verhage Marc te Vruchte Thomas Sandberg and all of you who have supported Freebee thus making this possible ...

Page 18: ... Accent Slide and transpose up down Time modes 16th and rest Tempo range 25 250 BPM or 1 500 BPM in Host sync mode Synthesizer Tone generator 4 Octaves range Two waveforms Sawtooth and Square wave Filter type Low pass resonant Filter range 0 22kHz resonance frequency Filter slope 18 or 24dB octave Envelope control Modulation Decay and Accent Decay time approx 0 2 3 5 sec Rebirth RB 338 is a regist...