Audiothingies DoubleDrummer, User Manual

Page 1: ...Audiothingies DoubleDrummer User manual firmware version 1 0 3...

Page 2: ...tuned to provide a wide range of sounds within a limited set of 6 parameters per instrument for the best possible user experience The sample player engine With 6 instruments and 56 internal drum sound...

Page 3: ...send level The FX s 2 AUX SEND effects are available delay and reverb Each one of the 12 instruments can be setup to use either one or the other A multi FX containing samplerate reduction bitrate red...

Page 4: ...CP CB HH 6 Sample players 56 user samples S1 to S6 INSTRUMENT GENERATOR MASTER BUS Stereo Audio Outputs PLATE REVERB FILTERED DELAY MASTER FX Drive Samplerate reducer Bitcrusher Lowpass Filter INSTRU...

Page 5: ...anel On the front panel you will find 2 x 24 characters LCD screen Black on white 6 encoders with pushbuttons 9 pushbuttons with their associated LEDs 1 volume knob Audiothingies DoubleDrummer user ma...

Page 6: ...use left output when using mono MIDI connectors USB port used for USB MIDI communication with a USB host and firmware updates a SYSEX file sent over USB MIDI 9V DC input socket Center positive polari...

Page 7: ...mm plug PSU 1 Play C1 on MIDI channel 1 you should hear the bass drum playing The other notes triggering the different instruments are listed in the MIDI Map section of this manual 2 Press Load 3 Turn...

Page 8: ...in red under the white round buttons are accessible by simultaneously pressing Home shift another button For example shift FX will take you to the System page The encoders can be pushed to access men...

Page 9: ...ters press and hold FX button encoder en3 en4 en5 en6 assign smp bit cut res Use encoders 3 to 6 to change the displayed parameter Trigger activity Viewer You also have access to a second screen by pr...

Page 10: ...t bnd pitch mod amount tim pitch mod decay time Snare drum SD This instrument is capable of generating snare drum sounds and is very versatile especially thanks to its noise related parameters SD P de...

Page 11: ...ead relative to pan parameter set in mixer page Tom tom in sample mode In sample mode see Instrument setup page tom tom instrument is slightly different than a classic sample instrument as it provides...

Page 12: ...emphasis filter resonance Cowbell CB Generated with 2 detuned triangle waves with their harmonics being filtered with a bandpass filter Can also generate claves or beep sounds CB P off bal dcy hrm em...

Page 13: ...ghtly different than a classic sample instrument as 2 hats samples are used together to provide closed and opened hat sounds each with its own decay time HH P tun cld opd cut res hh1 0 100 127 0 0 HH...

Page 14: ...lot tun tuning offset 1 octave dcy sample decay 1 100 cmp sample compression source dependent more effective on longer sounds cut negative value lowpass filter cutoff frequency positive value hipass f...

Page 15: ...nd to access sample 3 mixer page press shift S3 two times BD M drv bit pan lvl fx on 10 0 0 100 0 BD M instrument status on means mute is off drv drive level bit bit reduction level pan panoramic lvl...

Page 16: ...pecific sample instrument setup page press and hold shift its corresponding button for example to access the sample 6 instrument setup page press and hold shift S6 BD H vel fx syn 64 dly BD H Instrume...

Page 17: ...access the volume level of all 6 sample instruments L BD SD TT CP CB HH 100 127 75 127 70 100 Pan Press encoder 1 twice to access the pan level of all 6 synthesis instruments Press encoder 4 twice to...

Page 18: ...nd type for all 6 sample instruments F BD SD TT CP CB HH dly rev rev dly rev dly Instrument status Mutes Press encoder 3 to access the on off status of all 6 synthesis instruments Press encoder 6 to a...

Page 19: ...DLY tim fbk cut res 64 95 79 70 tim delay time fbk delay feedback cut filter cutoff frequency res filter resonance Reverb A classic mono in stereo out plate reverb REV pre tim dif cut dmp 25 90 100 1...

Page 20: ...amplerate reduction bitrate reduction and a 2 pole lowpass filter MFX drv smp bit cut res 10 15 0 100 80 drv drive level smp samplerate reduction level bit bitrate reduction level cut filter cutoff fr...

Page 21: ...into the edit buffer Press HOME to cancel Tip Loading a sound and then canceling the load action can be used as a compare function Save menu Save In this menu you can save your edited patch to the Dou...

Page 22: ...lay Midi input note assignment layout see following chapter str MIDI input note layout start note default 36 ctr MIDI CC control mode prm parameter mode on 1 MIDI channel mix mixer mode on 1 MIDI chan...

Page 23: ...ktron Octatrack when parameter locking or automating note data and CC data on the same step As the DoubleDrummer is waiting for parameter changes BEFORE the note data this can be used to wait for even...

Page 24: ...ated instrument Standard layout GM ish layout Same as Alt layout see below but with S1 set a semitone below BD if str is 36 then S1 is triggered by note 35 Alt layout Similar as the standard layout bu...

Page 25: ...ter 51 S4 S5 S6 HT MT LT CB S1 S2 S3 OH BD SD CP HH 36 39 Beatstep Pro layout bsp Optimized for Beatstep Pro GoTo Device Settings in Arturia MIDI Control Center and set Drum Map to Chromatic Mode Str...

Page 26: ...arate pdf file Note that ss DoubleDrummer has more parameters than the available number of MIDI CC s 3 different CC maps are available for your convenience depending on what you want to control see Sy...

Page 27: ...l the factory reset menu appears Performing a factory reset will erase all presets settings with the provided factory ones so don t forget to save your custom patches before doing this Firmware update...

Page 28: ...10 Bass drum BD 10 Snare drum SD 10 Tom tom TT 11 Tom tom in sample mode 11 Clap CP 12 Cowbell CB 12 Hi Hats HH 13 Hi Hats in sample mode 13 Sample 1 to sample 6 S1 to S6 14 Instrument Mixer page 15...

Page 29: ...t layout 24 K25 layout 24 Chromatic layout chr 24 Pad layout 25 Beatstep Pro layout bsp 25 MIDI CC map 26 Cheat codes available at startup 27 Factory Reset 27 Firmware update User samples upload 27 Ta...