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Grain generation

Lat

ched

Latched grain generation is enabled by holding the SEED

button

[C]

for four seconds, or by pressing the FREEZE

but-

ton

[B]

while the SEED

button

[C]

is being held. This is also

the default setting when the module is powered on.
The SEED button remains illuminated, and its brightness is

slowly modulated to indicate that latching is enabled.

Summary of Contents for Beads

Page 1: ...Beads Texture synthesizer...

Page 2: ...V power supply 2x5 pin connec tor The red stripe of the ribbon cable 12V side must be oriented on the same side as the Red stripe marking on the module and on your power distribution board The module...

Page 3: ...ead positions itself along the tape If this replay head doesn t move the audio will be played back at the original pitch and speed but if it moves closer to or further away from the record head the si...

Page 4: ...Hz 16 bit 8s 4s Cold digital 32 kHz 12 bit 16s 8s Sunny tape 24 kHz 12 bit 20s 10s Scorched cassette 24 kHz 8 bit 32s 16s The Cold digital setting most accurately reproduces the sonic character of the...

Page 5: ...ng and holding the audio quality selector button A for one second Holding this button A while turning the feedback knob allows manual gain adjustments The manually set gain is memorized and applied un...

Page 6: ...tton C for four seconds or by pressing the FREEZE but ton B while the SEED button C is being held This is also the default setting when the module is powered on The SEED button remains illuminated and...

Page 7: ...d and when a signal such as a clock or sequence is patched into the SEED input 4 the DENSITY knob D is repurposed as a divider or probability control At 12 o clock no grains are generated Turn CW to i...

Page 8: ...their respective modulations are read once whenever a grain starts and remain unchanged throughout the duration of the grain If a parameter then changes it will only impact the next grain For example...

Page 9: ...ls the duration and playback direction of the grain At the 11 o clock position a very short 30ms grain is played Turn CW to increase grain duration up to 4s Turn CCW to play a reversed grain lasting u...

Page 10: ...eases the amount of CV controlled randomization With no CV patched into an input the attenurandomizer con trols the amount of randomization from an independent in ternal random source with a peaky 12...

Page 11: ...input tracks V O when the attenurandom izer is turned fully CW one can sequence a melody of grains or even play them from a keyboard Patch a fast arpeggiated sequence into the PITCH CV input to creat...

Page 12: ...J K L M 8 7 Mixing and audio output Beads signal flow is as follows grains feedback dry wet crossfade IN OUT reverb...

Page 13: ...o which of these 3 destina tions the CV input 7 is assigned Or hold this button and turn the knobs J K and L to individually adjust the amount of CV modulation 8 Audio output While the recording buffe...

Page 14: ...ng in and out the delay time is freely controlled by the DENSITY knob D and CV input 5 At 12 o clock the base delay time corresponds to the full buffer duration Turn the knob further away to shorten t...

Page 15: ...knob E selects the actual delay time as a multiple of the base delay time set by DENSITY and or by the external clock or taps When FREEZE B is engaged a slice from the recording buffer is continuously...

Page 16: ...K adjusts the balance between the continuous oscillator signal and the granularized signal The FREEZE button B halts the envelope of the grains and stops the generation of new grains The audio qualit...