Qu-Bit Electronix Nebulae, Manual Manual

Page 1: ...Nebulae 1...

Page 2: ...uble life as an open source DSP platform with an extensive library of off the shelf alternate instruments You can turn the module into a lush reverb spectral delay or tape style looper simply by loadi...

Page 3: ...ontrols 9 1 Speed 9 2 Pitch 10 3 Start 10 4 Size 10 5 Density 10 6 Overlap 11 7 Blend 11 8 Window 11 9 Audio Inputs 12 10 Audio Outputs 12 11 Record 12 12 File 12 13 Source 12 14 Reset 13 15 Freeze 13...

Page 4: ...cord 20 12 File 20 13 Source 20 14 Reset 20 15 Freeze 20 Secondary Controls 20 3 Start 20 4 Size 20 5 Density 20 6 Overlap 20 8 Window 21 11 Record 21 12 File 21 14 Reset 21 15 Freeze 21 Synth Voice 2...

Page 5: ...Controls 26 1 Speed 26 Formatting a New USB Drive 27 Mac OS X 27 Windows 27 Linux 27 Loading Files 27 File Types 28 Sample Rate and Bit Depth 28 Persistence of Memory 28 Addditional Considerations 28...

Page 6: ...volts and negative 12 volts sides of the power distribution lines Plug the connector into the power distribution board of your case keeping in mind that the red band corresponds to negative 12 volts I...

Page 7: ...files or instruments To give useful visual feedback there are a number of different colors used during this animation The white booting animation will start 10 seconds after powering the module Color...

Page 8: ...Marked Diagram 8...

Page 9: ...ackwards to 4x playing forwards The illuminated LED will correspond to the direction in which the file is playing back Left is backward right is forward The LED will illuminate twice as bright when yo...

Page 10: ...of the surrounding octaves Octave Color Side left right 3 White Left 2 Orange Left 1 Yellow Left 0 original pitch Blue Both 1 Green Right 2 Purple Right 3 Start Controls the start position of either t...

Page 11: ...y the granular loop will output Live Source When Source is illuminated this controls the blend of the phase vocoder granular stream and dry input signal When the knob is set to the middle only the dry...

Page 12: ...y moment and record the output back into the buffer replacing the existing material Record your loop backwards with no additional input to have it play backward when set to original speed Once an over...

Page 13: ...button Reload files from a USB drive and restart the currently selected instrument file Buffer Erase Erase the buffer by holding file and pressing reset Upon erasing the buffer the reset LED will bli...

Page 14: ...s When fully clockwise each grain will be panned to a random location between both outputs 5 Density Controls the amount of random time displacement for grains The grains will still be created at the...

Page 15: ...all grains will be muted When set fully clockwise 99 of all grains will be muted 11 Record This enables Circular Recording continuously recording new content to the buffer Creating a buffer and overd...

Page 16: ...ource Holding this button provides temporary access to all of the secondary controls while it is held 15 Freeze Configures a grain trigger out of the source gate input When active the source gate inpu...

Page 17: ...files Clicking the Pitch encoder from this menu will return to the primary control menu without changing instruments The Speed LEDs will indicate whether you re selecting from the factory bank of inst...

Page 18: ...se vocoder audio engine 2 b_oneshot instr A 4 channel one shot sampler with varispeed 3 c_synth instr Synth voice Morphable Waveform Sub and an LPF 4 d_effects instr Multi Effects processor Delay and...

Page 19: ...V input responds to 5V and is added to the pot position 4 Size Varispeed control for Sample 3 CV input responds to 5V and is added to the pot position 5 Density Varispeed control for Sample 2 CV input...

Page 20: ...ll the inputs Holding this accesses the secondary control menu 14 Reset Trigger for sample three 15 Freeze Trigger for sample four Secondary Controls 3 Start Length control of sample one 4 Size Length...

Page 21: ...he amount of downsampling 11 Record Kills only the first channel s sample 12 File Kills only the second channel s sample 14 Reset Kills only the third channel s sample 15 Freeze Kills only the fourth...

Page 22: ...he control is fully counter clockwise the waveform is a square wave When the control is fully clockwise the waveform is a sawtooth wave 8 Window Sub Oscillator Amount Controls the amplitude of a sine...

Page 23: ...Secondary Controls No Secondary Controls have been implemented yet 23...

Page 24: ...dback Amount 5 Density Reverb Time 6 Overlap Reverb Filtering control 7 Blend Dry Wet for the Delay mix 8 Window Amount of post delay signal to send to the reverb bus 9 Audio Inputs Stereo Inputs The...

Page 25: ...13 Source Mutes the audio input Secondary Controls No Secondary Controls have been implemented yet 25...

Page 26: ...d Controls the hardware ADC level for the audio inputs When the Positive Speed LED is green the level is set for modular level input If the Positive Speed LED is illuminated the gain is higher At maxi...

Page 27: ...this process Windows 1 Insert USB Drive into the computer 2 Right click the USB Drive in the computers file browser 3 Select the Format option 4 Choose FAT32 from the formatting options 5 Click Forma...

Page 28: ...ule they will remain there after the USB flash drive has been removed as well as between power cycles They will only be replaced when new files are present on the flash drive when files are loaded It...

Page 29: ...eb_log txt file is added to the USB flash drive after booting up the Nebulae This reports the current firmware version along with a check for mandatory files and other useful information at the time o...

Page 30: ...s a software reboot The LEDs will begin cycling white to indicate the boot sequence and subsequently aqua when it begins to load files Once the module is running we recommend power cycling the module...

Page 31: ...Release Notes 31...