Modal Electronics 002R, User Manual

Page 1: ...1 Machines for Musicians Modal Electronics 002R 8 or 12 voice polyphonic analogue digital hybrid synthesiser User Manual OS Version 1 01 00...

Page 2: ...e to ensure that no liquids are spilt onto or come into contact with the apparatus In the event this should happen remove power from the unit immediately and seek expert assistance Be careful to allow...

Page 3: ...pes LFO s Modulations 04 Keyboard and Quick Recall Key Modes Keyboard Mod Wheel Quick Recall 05 Sequencer Animator and Arpeggiator Sequencer Animator Arpeggiator Modes 06 Multi Timbrality Performance...

Page 4: ...and high quality 4 3 LCD screen Among the many connections Modal 002R features an ethernet port to connect your synth to your network and enable updates via the internet no need for MIDI sysex dumps a...

Page 5: ...re split 6 voices on the left and 6 on the right so we recommend panning the two channels slightly off centre on your mixer or audio interface Before powering up ensure the volume control is at minimu...

Page 6: ...RFORMANCE SEQUENCER ANIMATOR PARAMETER RECALL A B C Hover mode Grey cursor and text Turning datawheel and navigates around the screen to different parameters Keypad can be used to shortcut to specific...

Page 7: ...nd Stack 6 Arpeggiator Status whether arpeggiator is currently on or off 7 Animator Status whether animator is currently on or off Load patch If you want to load another patch Scroll through the patch...

Page 8: ...the datawheel or the buttons Once you found the right slot press Select to confirm Now the LCD shows the QWERTY keyboard where you can type a new name for the preset Using the datawheel which can also...

Page 9: ...ard grounded IEC power cord It operates over a range of 90 to 260 volts and 50 to 60 Hz Connect the cord included with your 002R then press the power switch on the front panel to turn the synth on MID...

Page 10: ...18 19 03 Synthesis engine In this section we are going to have an in depth look at every section related to the sound engine of the 002R 0 8 7 4 1 2 3 5 6 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12...

Page 11: ...ave 4 Detune This parameter controls the fine tuning of the oscillators with the maximum value of 127 corresponding to about a semitone 5 DeRez When this option is On a down sampling algorithm is acti...

Page 12: ...ways equal to 0 if you do not need it In Patch Mode If Ext In is greater than 0 then only 4 voices will be available no matter what your KeyMode and Size settings are see Keyboard paragraph in ch 4 4...

Page 13: ...aining a rich high end texture For a good light pad sound try a value of 90 with a high Cutoff Try values other than 0 63 and 127 for interesting unique timbres 4 EG This parameter controls the amount...

Page 14: ...Off message until the sound reaches silence 5 Shape This parameter varies the shape of certain stage of the envelope You can choose between Linear mode where all the stages have linear shape or Expon...

Page 15: ...initial phase 5 Note This parameter controls the amount of the keytracking modulation on the LFO speed at positive values the higher the note you press the faster the LFO runs 6 Sngl This button swit...

Page 16: ...directly control each oscillators pitch However modulation sources AfterTouch ModWheel and Velocity enables a vibrato effect on each oscillator specifically it assigns LFO2 to the oscillators pitch w...

Page 17: ...lay just one note at time using just one voice Unison standard unison mode where you can play just one note at time mono keyboard but you can use up to 8 or 12 notes simultaneously depending on your 0...

Page 18: ...he bottom of the keyboard A Transpose lock mode is also available you can double click the transpose button instead of holding it to enable the keyboard to be used to transpose playing arps and sequen...

Page 19: ...t at the time of saving To access a slot to edit or load via the screen navigate to the corresponding slot number and press Select Quick Recall Slot The Quick Recall Slot page shows what is currently...

Page 20: ...page there are some key parameters to edit and control each feature the Tempo parameter expressed in BPM controls the speed of the Sequencer Animator and Arpeggiator This parameter is located in the t...

Page 21: ...the step sequencer can have 32 steps only 8 steps can be shown and edited at a time Underneath the first row you can find A set of 4 direction buttons on the left hand side for changing the rows Up Do...

Page 22: ...if Legato is on the parameter will slew to the next step value allowing you to create a smooth transition between steps Sequencer setup The Setup sub menu page contains the following options 1 Mode al...

Page 23: ...xactly the same as the Sequencer s one with the additon of a Relative Absolute mode Once enabled the Animator will take relative control of the assigned parameters by default This means that the curre...

Page 24: ...release phase of the envelopes actually starts at half of the step length value Modes In this section we are going to explain the different modes available for the Sequencer the Animator and the Arpeg...

Page 25: ...show a confirmation page if you press Yes first menu button again the synth will switch to Performance Mode after a momentary wait message if you press No second menu button you will stay in Patch Mo...

Page 26: ...ent part on or off 3 Keyrange controls lower upper these two controls allow you to select the set of keys on the keyboard that can play this part in order to create keyboard splits One control is on t...

Page 27: ...diting a part not a performance in Performance Mode However if you are in the main Performance page and you press the 4th menu button D it will automatically detect that you are working on an entire P...

Page 28: ...sound When Snapshot is enabled or disabled the user is kept on the current page A useful example of this functionality is when a user has changed some filter settings on the VCF page but wants to kno...

Page 29: ...t provides a stereo input from a DAW pre filter stage on the 002 allowing external audio to be processed by the 002 analogue VCF and VCA again at either 48 96 or 192KHz 24 bits The I O Card also featu...

Page 30: ...S RETURN RIGHT FX REVERB LEVEL ECHO RETURN LEFT ECHO RETURN RIGHT REVERB RETURN LEFT REVERB RETURN RIGHT DRY LEVEL RIGHT CHORUS ECHO LEFT CHORUS ECHO RIGHT ECHO SEND RIGHT PERFORMANCE PART GAIN OUTPUT...

Page 31: ...ndows If using the Digital I O Card for USB audio on a Windows system Modal recommends using the ASIO4ALL universal ASIO driver Please download and install ASIO4ALL from http www asio4all com then plu...

Page 32: ...ng the Patch An FX preset contains all the individual FX settings as well as three Return controls but not Sends and Dry Wet see below 2 Dry Wet each Patch has standard FX Dry Wet parameter 0 fully dr...

Page 33: ...CHO DELAY Cross Level amount of left input sent to the right delay line and viceversa Left Time delay time on the left channel Left Feedback amount of feedback on the left channel which determines the...

Page 34: ...are going to have a look at the settings page of the Modal 002R You can access this page by pressing the sixth menu button F You can access the six available sub menus by pressing the corresponding nu...

Page 35: ...rent step of the update DO NOT TURN THE SYNTH OFF NOW You may cause serious damage to the internal structure of the OS and lose your data After a successful update the synth will automatically reboot...

Page 36: ...note that you need the external source to keep sending clock messages otherwise the Sequencer and the Animator will not work 4 Midi In this option takes you to the MIDI Input Settings sub menu includi...

Page 37: ...Note On Note Off and Velocity 2 Control this option enables disables processing MIDI Control Change messages 3 Patch this option enables disables processing MIDI Bank and Program Change messages 4 Aft...

Page 38: ...s of the playing state of the sequencer 5 AutoLoad This parameter enables Patches Sequences Animations after a short pause to be loaded without needing to press Select to confirm 6 OscTune This page a...

Page 39: ...orithm to prevent digital clipping Please bear in mind that the sum of the 12 002R s analogue voices outputs can be very hot and this can cause problems in the input stage of the Digital Card s DSP th...

Page 40: ...havior on your 002R see Troubleshooting section you can reset parts of the operating system with the 3 options in this page 1 Network this option resets all Network settings and it is very useful anyt...

Page 41: ...29 28 OFF 0 ON 127 OSC SubWav 11 30 29 OFF 0 ON 127 OSC DeRez 12 28 27 OFF 0 ON 127 MIX Drive 13 25 31 30 0 127 MIX Osc1 14 26 32 31 0 127 MIX Sub1 15 28 33 32 0 127 MIX Osc2 16 27 34 33 0 127 MIX Su...

Page 42: ...52 54 53 OFF 0 ON 127 LFO2 Wave 1 53 55 54 OFF 0 ON 127 LFO2 Wave 2 54 56 55 OFF 0 ON 127 Function CC Joystick Sequence Animator Values LFO2 Slope 55 57 56 OFF 0 ON 127 LFO2 Resonance 56 58 57 OFF 0 O...

Page 43: ...FF 0 ON 127 VCF Slope 94 9 8 7 0 127 ARP Mode 95 0 11 ARP Note Length 96 33 0 96 97 98 99 KEYB Mode 100 0 3 KEYB Size 101 0 12 ANIM Status 102 0 1 OSC2 Wave 103 11 10 9 0 55 0 63 in PW LFO1 Wave 104 4...

Page 44: ...86 87 B Appendix Oscillator Waveforms 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19...

Page 45: ...88 89 Oscillator Waveforms 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 20 21 22 23 24 Oscillator Waveforms 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 Noise PW...

Page 46: ...ear the sound changing However all the screen controls i e keypad 6 menu buttons Select and DataWheel should still be functioning If that is the case then try to simply switch to the Settings page by...

Page 47: ...se press 5 to re Apply you might need more than a couple of attempts before getting a result If this doesn t help try to disconnect and re connect the Ethernet cable to the 002R socket then go to Sett...