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SPECTRALIS
2. Introduction
We first would like to thank you for purchasing the Spectralis. You have purchased a
modern music instrument, which not only sounds great, but also doubles as a powerful
”music-machine”, which will provide new impulses for your future LIVE-performances
as well as production activities. This manual is intended to help you to utilize as much of
the Spectralis’ potential right from the get-go. It should accompany you through the basic
exploration period and introduce you to a number of its special features. One thing this
quick guide is not however – a reference manual. It is more of a practical users
guide and workshop handbook, which can provide you with a pretty extensive
overview of the Spectralis’ potential. The emphasis is on practical, repetitive and
repeatable lessons. The Spectralis comes with an integrated help system which
works a little bit like an on board reference manual. If you need further information
about the meaning of an displayed parameter name just press the shift button and
touch the encoder button of the assigned rotary encoder.
2.1 What is the Spectralis?
The Spectralis is a performance-oriented music instrument with multiple sequencer-sections
optimized for LIVE-operation. In addition it is also an extravagant and powerful
sound-design tool. The Spectralis also doubles as a workstation and can handle
complete music production jobs - due to its sampling engine which comes with
digital multimode-filters.
What the Spectralis has to offer:
– A pattern-based 17-track sequencer with unique performance-possibilities,
drum-grid, „Step by Step“- and realtime programming/editing
– A complex, subtractive synthesizer with 4 digital oscillators and analog filters
– Sample/DSP based sound-engine with 32 stereo-voices, sound processing
with 128 MB RAM, 64 MB internal flash rom as well as two Smart Media
Card slots for data storaging.
– A 32 track analog-style step-sequencer, which not only plays notes, but can
also modulate all of the sound-parameters of the Spectralis.
– A filterbank with ten bands (8 bandpass-, plus one high- and one lowpass
filter), controllable with the help of the step sequencer.
– A DSP based effect section and an internal audiomixer with various In- and
Outputs.
– 2 Smart media card slots for storage of sounds, patterns, songs and samples.
As you spend more time with your Spectralis you’re sure to realize and master its full
potential. Hopefully this manual will prove to be a valuable companion on your path to
enlightenment! In case you do come across questions not sufficiently addressed in this
guide it is probably something we overlooked. In any such case we invite you to visit the
spectralis user forum at our Spectralis website:
http://www.spectralis.de/phpBB2/
We will be posting additional tips and tricks, FAQ-entries and example patterns regularly,
in the beginning probably quite frequently.
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