Majella IMPLEXUS, User Manual

Page 1: ...IMPLEXUS USER MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...IM PLEX US Majella Audio Entwined Interwoven Enfolded The IMPLEXUS creates enfolded waveforms that are harmonically rich ...

Page 3: ...d make IMPLEXUS inoperable IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 4 THE IMPLEXUS IS NOT A TOY 4a CHOKING HAZARD The IMPLEXUS contains accessible small parts like screws rings and knobs that may come loose Keep away from small children pets or any individuals who have the tendency to place inedible objects in their mouths 4b FOR PROFESSIONAL USE The IMPLEXUS is meant for professional use which means only in...

Page 4: ...ly connect your IMPLEXUS VIII In Case a FUSE has been blown replace with 500mA 0 5A slow blow In case the FUSE keeps blow ing please contact support majella audio com 7b IN CASE OF AN ACCIDENT Turn off the IMPLEXUS keep the IMPLEXUS unplugged and immediately contact Majella Audio at support majella audio com when the following situations has occurred I Liquid was spilled onto the IMPLEXUS II The I...

Page 5: ...ENVELOPE GENERATORS 28 VELOCITY SENSITIVE 29 VEL AMT 29 MOD EG 29 AMP EG 29 LOW FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS 30 SHAPE 30 RATE 30 OUTPUTS 31 STEREO BALANCED LINE OUTPUT 31 HEADPHONE OUT 31 MIDI 32 SETTING MIDI CHANNEL 32 CONNECTING THE IMPLEXUS VIA MIDI 33 DIN MIDI 33 USB MIDI 34 EXTERNAL INPUTS 35 1V OCT C GLOBAL PITCH CV 36 1V OCT B BASIC GENERATOR PITCH CV 36 GATE 36 VELOCITY 36 CUTOFF 37 FOLD 37 BIAS ...

Page 6: ...to check the content of your puchase carton Be careful not to damage the IMPLEXUS during the unpacking process We recommend saving the IMPLEXUS packaging carton for future travel or shipping Your IMPLEXUS is shipped including the following items 1 IMPLEXUS Synthesizer 2 Printed User s Manual What you will need to hear some sounds 1 Heaphones with a 1 4 plug or two 1 4 TRS balanced cables and speak...

Page 7: ...modulating these parameters at audio rate and controlling it with unique interfaces like touch plates Side note If you want to know more about the historical development of East Coast and West Coast synthesis we recommend watching the documentary I Dream of Wires For a long time the two synthesis movements stayed quite separated but nowadays they are combined more often due to the rise in populari...

Page 8: ... adding odd harmonics which sounds a bit like opening a low pass filter on a square wave Slowly turn the HARMONICS knob fully clockwise You will now hear that you are adding even harmonics which sounds like opening a lowpass filter on a saw wave Now turn the HARMONICS knob back to its center position sine wave This is the part where things get rather interesting Slowly turn the FOLDER knob fully c...

Page 9: ... can be used as a modulation source for the complex generator Some of the parameters that can be controlled are FM FOLD and BIAS That s it for the first exploration of the IMPLEX US sound We have explored the fundamental features of the IMPLEXUS and listened to some in teresting sounds In the next couple of chapters wewillgoin depthoneveryparametersothatyou can get creative with the many possibili...

Page 10: ...tive in clockwise position LFO 1 AMT The LFO 1 AMT LFO1 amount control sets the modula tion amount depth of LFO 1 to the HARMONICS param eter WAVEFOLDER The wavefolder section folds the incoming signal from the HARMONICS section This section offers four fold controls FOLD EG AMT OSC MOD and LFO AMT We will detail them one by one FOLD The FOLDER control folds the signal coming from the HARMONICS se...

Page 11: ...ex generator offers two pitch control knobs RANGE and FINE We will detail them one by one RANGE The RANGE control selects lowest note for the complex generator in steps of exactly one octave FINE The FINE control tunes the complex generator and is continuous so you can fine tune its pitch WAVE SELECT The basic generator offers three selectable waveforms which can be selected using the three way ro...

Page 12: ...te The tuner is not meant for very precise tuning the green LED indicates an A note but the actual tuning of the generator can vary up to 10 cents in lower octaves and up to 25 cents in higher octaves You can use the octave switch to tune over a couple of octaves for more precision GLOBAL PITCH CONTROL The global pitch control section provides three sections that influence the global pitch the pit...

Page 13: ...ypes to filter incoming audio signals from the mixer The filter is an OTA based 12dB octave resonant filter that offers four controls CUTOFF RESONANCE EG AMT and FILTER TYPE hi pass low pass We will detail them one by one CUTOFF The CUTOFF control sets the cutoff frequency Frequencies harmon ics above low pass or below hi pass the cutoff frequency will be attenuated with a curve of 12dB oct RESONA...

Page 14: ...ybitofdelaytimemodulationtoemulateatape delay echo effect The modulation rate differs between the left and right output channel of the delay This creates a stereo widening effect best heard when listening to the delay in a stereo setup CLOCK The IMPLEXUS offers three clock synchronization sourc es for the audio delay and the low frequency oscillators These three sources are Tap Tempo internal cloc...

Page 15: ...on the envelope generator its output can be set individually for each envelope generator using the VEL AMT control VEL AMT The VEL AMT velocity amount control sets the amount of influence the velocity level has on the envelope gener ator When the VEL AMT control is fully counterclockwise velocity does not influence the envelope generator output at all When the VEL AMT control is fully clockwise yo...

Page 16: ...NT NOTE Listening to the IMPLEXUS at high sound volume can damage your hearing and cause temporary or even permanent hearing loss In addition modulations can cause unexpected spikes in frequency and or volume STEREO BALANCED LINE OUTPUT The two 1 4 TRS TIP RING SLEEVE line level output jacks allow you to record mono stereo audio from the IMPLEXUS over long cables without signal loss A TRS jack cab...

Page 17: ...cted the IMPLEXUS will continue its normal start up procedure The MIDI channel is stored in the IMPLEXUS memory so next time you will power on the IMPLEXUS it will listen to the last selected MIDI channel CONNECTING THE IMPLEXUS VIA MIDI The IMPLEXUS can be connected via DIN or USB When the USB cable is connected DIN MIDI will be ignored MIDI THRU will still work though We will detail each MIDI co...

Page 18: ...of a Eurorack mini jack patch bay It is located on the back of the IMPLEXUS You can control the IMPLEXUS via Eurorack but you can also patch an IMPLEXUS output to an IMPLEXUS input One example is patching the LFO 2 output to the VCF cutoff input We will detail the inputs and outputs one by one but first there is an important note to remember when you are connecting external devices to the IMPLEXUS...

Page 19: ... knobs sets the amount of VELOCITY modulation When a cable is inserted to the VELOCITY input the MIDI velocity is ignored TIP Patching an LFO or generator signal into the VELOCITY input creates interesting results If you put the AMP EG in DRONE mode and turn SUSTAIN fully clockwise you are basically controlling the VCA amplitude which allows you to do amplitude modulation CUTOFF The CUTOFF input a...

Page 20: ...e LFO 2 random waveform can be used for random pitch modulation or random modulation of parameters like FILTER CUTOFF and VELOCITY You can also use the random wave output to trigger the GATE at random times by patching LFO 2 output to GATE input using a single patch cable BASIC BASIC outputs the voltage controlled oscillator signal from the BASIC GENERATOR This analog audio signal can be sent to e...

Page 21: ...ghly 1 second between the taps is fine Don t forget to turn on DRONE mode and turn the SUSTAIN control of AMP EG fully clockwise Now set all controls as shown in image on the next page You will hear some rubber like synth sounds with a beating rhythm caused by the difference in LFO divisions The DELAY can be synchronized to the internal TAP TEMPO clock in different clock divisions This will create...

Page 22: ... AMP EG fully clockwise Now set all controls as shown in the image on the right Try to tune the BASIC GENERATOR as close as possible to the COMPLEX GENERATOR Play a bit with the tuning of the BASIC GENERATOR to create some nice beating sounding modulations You could set the delay as shown in the image on the right Turn the MIX control fully clockwise to create a stereo phazing like effect One coul...

Page 23: ...ound design for a horror movie Don t forget to turn on DRONE mode and turn the SUSTAIN control of AMP EG fully clockwise Now set all controls as shown in the image on the right One could try to play with the RANGE control of the COMPLEX GENERATOR and try tapping in some different tempos using the TAP TEMPO button You could also use a MIDI controller to play different notes 45 44 ...

Page 24: ...ct two patch cables as shown in the image below Because the CLOCK output triggers the envelopes via the GATE input we don t need the DRONE mode to be activated to create sound The clock synchronized LFO 2 is set to RANDOM waveform so that it sends random values to the 1V OCT C Global pitch input The TAP TEMPO now controls the speed of the random sequence 47 46 MAJELLA ENGINEERING IMPLEX MADE IN TH...

Page 25: ...onnect the patch cables as shown in the image below The LFO 2 output signal will ouput from random values every 1 16 note Because the LFO 2 output is patched to the GATE input Kick sounds will occur only when the random value of LFO 2 is high enough to trigger the envelope generators MAJELLA ENGINEERING IMPLEX MAJELLA ENGINEERING IMPLEX MADE IN THE NEHTERLANDS 49 48 ...

Page 26: ...les as shown in the image below The LFO 2 output is patched to the VCF CUTOFF input Both LFO 2 and MOD EG can now control the VCF CUTOFF Having MOD EG in LOOP mode causes the MOD EG to behave as an LFO This creates a more complex modulation signal because the LFO 2 and MOD EG signals are adding up MAJELLA ENGINEERING IMPLEX MAJELLA ENGINEERING IMPLEX MADE IN THE NEHTERLANDS 51 50 ...

Page 27: ...lla audio com Step 2 Power on the IMPLEXUS while holding the 1 1 and 3 4 buttons of LFO 1 The IMPLEXUS should now start up without blinking LEDs This indicated the IMPLEXUS is ready to receive messages Step 3 Connect the USB cable or MIDI cable to the device Host sending the SysEx file Step 4 Send the IMPLEXUS firmware via MIDI to the IMPLEXUS The Tap Tempo button will indicate incoming data and t...

Page 28: ...ease check the cable connections and make sure that they are connecting properly If every connection seems to be fine you might want to use a different software and a different cable If the above does not work please contact support majella audio com and we will help you out Music is to be heard and to be experienced Sound design is part of that experience The imperfections of analogue electrical ...

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