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Credits and thanks

All Program Code:

Jon Hodgson

Jon wrote his first commercial software program at the age of 14 and later,

after graduating from Brunel University with a degree in Micro-Electronics

Engineering, he went on to assist in the development of 3D sound for stereo

equipment for EMI offshoot Sensaura. Aside from being used on several

albums such as Frank Sinatra’s ‘Duets’, this technology went on to become

one of the main players in the 3D sound-for-games market including X-Box.

An accomplished engineer, guitarist and keyboard player, Jon has also

worked in a variety of musical instrument industry jobs including, high-end

studio design and installation, synthesiser repair as well as having the

dubious pleasure of working for someone who will forever be known as the

‘Clockwork Chicken’.

A special thanks to Laurent de Soras at Ohm Force for his contributions to

the fft code routines.

Installers: 

Ohm Force

Artwork: 

Ian Legge

Without whom dept:

Chris Huggett, Paul Wiffen, Laurent De Soras, Jerome Noel, Raphaël Dingé
and all at Ohm Force, Angus Hewlett, Uwe Bauer, Tim Dorney, 
Bruce Satinover, Billy Currie, Rick Smith, Putte, Karl Hyde, Malcolm Corbett, 
Lee Groves., Clemens Homburg, Shane Meehan, Darren Price, Orren Merton,
Matt Hooper, Andy Abernathy, Martin Hodgson, Flemming Bloch, 
David Motion, Paul Wishart, Nikolaus Gertis, Sascha Kujawa, Mark Moore,
Risto Sampola and all on the beta testing team.

And a very special thanks to Jon Hodgson for services way beyond the call
of duty and also to his mum for having him!

Sounds by:

David Spiers, Paul Wiffen, Matt Hooper, Billy Currie, Rick Smith,

Chris Macleod, Mark Moore, Tim Dorney and Lee Groves.

Summary of Contents for impOSCar

Page 1: ...Manual THIS MANUAL IS COPYRIGHT GMEDIA Music 2003 2005 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED NO PART MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION ALL TRADEMARKS ACKNOWLEDGED Programmable Music Synthesiser...

Page 2: ...o electronic sound exploration Of course in order to bring a synth in at approximately half the price of any competitor certain compromises had to be made the most noticeable one being a toy like touc...

Page 3: ...me ago Dave Spiers was asked by Underworld to find a back up for their instrument This he did but was so taken by its character that he was unwilling to sell it on having to find another for the band...

Page 4: ...rshown 4 Loading Sounds Cubase impOSCar sounds are loaded and saved as Banks To load a Bank simply click on File Load Bank navigate to the impOSCar folder and select the desired Bank Once a Bank has l...

Page 5: ...pOSCar interface or your master keyboard has on the impOSCar sound You can select any amount between 0 off and 24 semitones two octaves Mod Pitch Amount Knob Here it s possible to choose the amount of...

Page 6: ...24dB filtering The filtering modes were LPF BPF and HPF with a no track option We have removed the no track option as it possible to achieve the same using the KEYB TRACK knob However the impOSCar has...

Page 7: ...etriggered each time a note is played without waiting for the envelope cycle to finish first Unlike Single trigger when playing legato lines all notes will retrigger the envelope contour 3 Rpt 1 Used...

Page 8: ...he Env2 Peak knob allows you to set the degree of responsiveness note on velocity has over the Filter Envelope Filter Drive and Volume Knobs On the original instrument there was a single knob to perfo...

Page 9: ...ettings are stored as part of an impOSCar patch Chorus Depth Knob Sets the depth of the chorus effect Chorus Rate Knob Sets the speed of the chorus effect Chorus Level Knob Controls the amount of chor...

Page 10: ...c content of the sound remains the same Using the Arpeggiator The impOSCar arpeggiator can be used in monophonic duophonic and polyphonic modes and although at first glance it looks fairly basic but t...

Page 11: ...ntrol message MIDI CC s as shown opposite Additionally the impOSCar responds to the following MIDI CC s CC Pedal Function 64 Sustain damper holds all notes played when the pedal is pressed and whilst...

Page 12: ...116 Wave1 20th Harmonic W1 Hr 20 117 Wave1 21st Harmonic W1 Hr 21 118 Wave1 22nd Harmonic W1 Hr 22 119 Wave1 23rd Harmonic W1 Hr 23 120 Wave1 24th Harmonic W1 Hr 24 121 none Empty 5 122 none Empty 6...

Page 13: ...g the dubious pleasure of working for someone who will forever be known as the Clockwork Chicken A special thanks to Laurent de Soras at Ohm Force for his contributions to the fft code routines Instal...

Page 14: ...dual Patch and to create your own bank follow the procedure below 1 Click on the Store button this puts your sound into temporary memory 2 Click on Logic s patch loading icon and select and load the b...

Page 15: ...e GUI when you first open it up Parameter Effects Panel Values closed open Purpose Sets the default state of the effects panel when you first open the GUI Parameter Damper Scale Values Number between...

Page 16: ...file the hrm file is a standard text file and it can be shared with other impOSCar users Patch banks and individual Patches All the impOSCar sounds are provided in various formats upon the impOSCar M...

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