Gotharman Gotharman's Little deFormer, Manual

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Page 2: ...dded These can morph between triangle sawtooth square pulse and unlinear high speed waveforms They can be key trigged or free running looped or one shot and rate waveform and output levels can be modulated The LFO s appears as sources in the MODULATION section and can modulate almost any parameter 2 LFO s are reserved for the effects section and 8 for the sampling section 16 sample trigged Random ...

Page 3: ...ons The presets you link can be completely different with for instant different Time and Pitch effects so this can really get odd Song mode added It is now possible to chain patterns presets together for automatic playback in up to 120 steps For each step you can select the preset number and how many times the preset should play back until it goes on to the next step Little deFormer can hold 512 s...

Page 4: ...king better granulating more when tuning up Sample trigger point can now be modulated For Neil Baldwin AnaX It is now possible to output LFO3 to 10 and Random Generator 1 to 16 via the CV outputs AnaX Sequencer reset can now be selected as a trigger input or output For Dan Delete all sampling function added If you are tired of all your samplings or Gotharman s preset samplings that he btw used ver...

Page 5: ...steps Fine 64 to 63 Fine tunes the the pitch of the oscillator Gain 128 to 127 Adjusts how loud the oscillator will go in to the filter Positive values will create overdive Dec 0 to 255 Oscillator VCA envelope decay Adjusts how long time it will take for the oscillator to fade out Besides controlling the output VCA level this envelope can also control the filter cutoff and mix and the pitch of the...

Page 6: ...ged by Trig Bus 1 to 4 Selects the audio bus the output of the oscillator should be routed to Levl 0 to 255 Adjusts the output level of an oscillator voice after the filter Cut Same function as when a sampling is selected Reso Same function as when a sampling is selected Type Same function as when a sampling is selected fEnv Same function as when a sampling is selected fMix Same function as when a...

Page 7: ...oup you will find the following parameters Rat1 to 10 0 to 255 Adjusts the rate or speed of the LFO s From very slow to very fast Wav1 to 2 tri to saw to squ to puls to rndm Selects the LFO waveform The numbers inbetween the waveform names indicates that the LFO is morphing between two waveforms Wav3 to 10 tri to saw to squ to puls to Utri to Usaw to Usqu to rndm Selects the LFO waveform The numbe...

Page 8: ...sampling or and oscillator is trigged it causes the random generator connected to it to change to a new random value All 16 random generators appears as sources in the MODULATION section as Rn1 to 9 and R10 to 16 and can modulate almost any parameter ...

Page 9: ...tion The sample Envelope can now modulate the the pitch of a sampling oscillator A new parameter for this is added in the SAMPLER section pEnv 127 to 128 Adjusts how much the sample oscillator VCA envelope should affect the pitch ...

Page 10: ...e velocity values received for each of the 16 samplings oscillators either from MIDI in or from the Note Randomizer does now appear as sources in the MODULATION section as Vl1 to 9 and V10 to 16 and can modulate almost any parameter ...

Page 11: ...More MIDI controllers MIDI CC 12 to 17 does now appear as sources in the MODULATION section as C12 to 17 and can modulate almost any parameter ...

Page 12: ... filter parameters when FilterBank is on The filter parameters of sample oscillator 1 to 4 Sm1 to 4 in the MODULATION destination section is used for this Modulating the filter parameters of sample oscillator 5 to 16 will have no effect when FilterBank is On ...

Page 13: ...e than the overall Last the track will reset when it reaches that step If Rst for a track is higher than Last it will have no effect and the track will reset when it reaches the Last step Parameters added to the SEQUENCER section Rst Independent for each track 32 to 1 Selects a step for the track on which it will reset to step 1 and start over RsC1 to 4 32 to 1 Selects a step for the controller tr...

Page 14: ... now have their own time signature setting which is completely independent from the note tracks time signature setting Parameters added to the SEQUENCER section ScC1 to 4 1 32 1 24 1 16 1 12 1 8 1 4 1 2 1 1 Selects the time signature scaling for each controller track ...

Page 15: ... will take up TWO preset locations The preset you link to can be completely different with for instant different Time and Pitch effects so this can really get odd Parameters added to the SEQUENCER section Link On Off Switches the link function on or off This 1 to 64 Adjusts how many times it should play back the currently selected preset until it shifts to the next preset If the tracks of this pre...

Page 16: ...hold dec to change While on this page push and hold the Dec button for around one second and that text will change to SONG hold dec to change You are now in song mode Perform the same operation to change back to pattern mode In song mode the preset select screen changes to song select screen It is possible to select any of 512 songs exactly the same way as you select a preset except you don t have...

Page 17: ...of the preset you would like to play back on the selected step or if you would like to end or loop your song you can select End or Loop here Ptrn 1 to 64 Here you select the number of the preset you would like to play back on the selected step X 1 to 64 Here you select how many times you want the selected preset to play back until it shifts to the next step If the tracks of a preset has different ...

Page 18: ...d If a location reads this out No song has previously been saved on this location If you choose a song that already has a name this will be overwritten by the new song Push the Edit button to proceed This screen will appear Use edit knob 1 8 to select the first 8 letters of the name in your song Push the Inc button to proceed Use edit knob 1 4 to select the last 4 letters of the name in your song ...

Page 19: ... buttons When exit ing the sequencer edit pages and trigger a sampling oscillator this will now also select the sequencer track to be edited when you return to the sequencer pages again You can of course also still use edit knob one to select a track ...

Page 20: ... are leaved unchanged If you regret having cleared a pattern you can always exit to the preset select screen select another preset and select this preset again Data in memory are not changed until you save the preset Copy By using this function you can copy the sequencer data from any other preset Use edit knob 1 and 2 to select the bank and number of the preset you want to copy from and push the ...

Page 21: ...ion The Time Pitch effect functions are Copy By using this function you can copy the Time Pitch effect from any other preset Use edit knob 1 and 2 to select the bank and number of the preset you want to copy from and push the Edit button The parameter settings of the common filter will also be copied since it is sometimes a part of the effect Rndm Randomizes the Time Pitch effect parameters Effect...

Page 22: ...screen under the SAMPLER section When the audio signal to be sampled reaches the level adjusted by this parameter sample recording starts automaticly When auditioning pre recording the sample VU meter the stepLED s will not react at all when the input signal is below the Auto level ...

Page 23: ...arameter snap mode Added as Snap in the COMMON section when this is on and you tweak a parameter the parameter values on the edit pages will not change until you reach the position where it initially was ...

Page 24: ...he preset select screen Enter the FLASH section The first function in this section is now Send Preset Push the Edit button and Little deFormer will transmit all the parameters from the selected preset Receive preset Connect the MIDI in of your Little deFormer to MIDI out of a computer your second Little deFormer or any other device that can transmit MIDI sysex syx files Select the preset location ...

Page 25: ...SamplePitc effect improved a bit It is now working better granulating more when tuning up ...

Page 26: ...Sample trigger point can now be modulated It is added as a destination in the MODULATION destination section under sm1 to sm16 ...

Page 27: ...AnaX It is now possible to output LFO3 to 10 and Random Generator 1 to 16 via the CV outputs Using the Cv01 and 2 parameters in the ANALOG EXPANSION section ...

Page 28: ...AnaX Sequencer reset can now be selected as a trigger input or output Using the Trigger 1 to 8 parameters in the ANALOG EXPANSION section ...

Page 29: ...Delete all samplings function added As the last parameter in the FLASH section ...

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