WaveReX WaveR8, Operating Manual

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Page 2: ...leep after the first two pages Whether you read this manual is up to you you can also put it aside However you should know that this manual guides you about the correct use of WaveR8 In addition you w...

Page 3: ...ot be reproduced even in part without per mission Manufacturer SynthastiX Components for electronic sound generators Owner Marco Pawlowski Staatsrat Schwamb Str 89c D 55278 Undenheim Germany WaveReX i...

Page 4: ...erton Tobias Hopp Dirk Stephan Peter Grandl Vain Sacrosanct and all our supporters How to reach us www waverex de www waverex com www shop waverex de www instagram com waverexboard www facebook com Wa...

Page 5: ...12 The Main Window 12 User interface 12 QUICK START 17 Principle 17 Connecting 17 Installing the USB driver 17 Opening the software editor 19 Loading a card 19 Editing a card 20 Deleting an instrumen...

Page 6: ...4 Deactivation of the resonance sample 34 Blending samples 35 Resamplefactor 35 Roland units to Decibel Conversion 36 SPECIFICATIONS 37 TROUBLESHOOTING 37 Glitches 37 My R 8 is frozen 37 My card is no...

Page 7: ...o bend compress or twist WaveR8 Never force WaveR8 into the card slot of your device Do not drop WaveR8 or apply force to the card WaveR8 is an electronic product It contains the state of the art elec...

Page 8: ...ick the contacts Metal objects on the contacts can cause short circuits ATTENTION Never short circuit the contacts This will destroy WaveR8 and can cause you serious physical damage A defective WaveR8...

Page 9: ...d below in its design and construction as well as in the design we put into circulation This declaration loses its validity if the product is modified without our consent The sole responsibility for d...

Page 10: ...wnload it from the download page www waverex de downloads If you are using Windows 8 or higher you do not need any addi tional drivers To create your own cards and load them on your WaveR8 you need th...

Page 11: ...ed by your device as well as by USB depending on which voltage is higher Attention In new condition the connector may still be slightly tight Never insert your USB cable by force as you can destroy th...

Page 12: ...one Open Card Button With this button you can load previously saved compilations into the editor Note that you can only open files with the extension wrr8 Also note that opening a card will permanent...

Page 13: ...8 bytes are basically occupied by the card format Instrument list All instruments listed here are then available as Card Sound in the R 8 Use the Plus button to add a new empty instrument to your list...

Page 14: ...lso find the Send Card button here which you can use to send your compilation to your WaveR8 The progress bar at the bottom informs you about the progress of the transfer Rotary control You can operat...

Page 15: ...The length of your sample can be seen below the waveform display Pre Processing section This part of the processing takes place exclusively in the soft ware i e independently of the R 8 Here you have...

Page 16: ...e length of your sample can be seen below the waveform display Pre Processing section This part of the processing takes place exclusively in the soft ware i e independently of the R 8 Here you have a...

Page 17: ...atter if you use a USB2 or USB3 port WaveR8 will be powered when the green LED is on Your WaveR8 will start in bootloader mode for five seconds You can see this by the double blinking of the blue LED...

Page 18: ...are on the computer Then specify the folder of the USB driver Confirm with Next Windows will then install the driver for Wa veR8 WaveR8 is now displayed in the Device Manager as WinUsb De vice under U...

Page 19: ...displayed here You can also connect more than one WaveR8 In this case you can use the drop down field to select the device you want to use Loading a card Click the Open Card button A dialog box opens...

Page 20: ...the plus button below the list A new initially empty instrument is creat ed Renaming an instrument First select the instrument you want to rename in the instru ment list Now enter the new name for th...

Page 21: ...ing the card name The card name as displayed in your R 8 defaults to WaveR8 However you can change it at any time The Card Name text box is located in the upper left corner of the main window Create a...

Page 22: ...letters without spaces and special characters of the file name Use this method if you want to use ready made samples drum sounds in your R 8 without changing them Alternatively you can drag and drop 2...

Page 23: ...At this point it should be mentioned for those interested that the samples of the R 8 must be provided in a format compressed to 8 Bit A higher bit depth than 16 Bit does not help at all to a higher...

Page 24: ...both directions Alternatively you would only have had a cut or boost of about 6dB Curve is as usual with all Roland cards preset to 2 and thus a very dynamic velocity The Level slider allows you to pr...

Page 25: ...bout this later The parameter is preset to 3 and should be suitable for most applications Please note that the factor a ects the size of the sample on the card and the vol ume of the sample The drop d...

Page 26: ...u can freely select the cuto of the filter between 50Hz and 1000Hz Additionally you can add a resonance of up to 12dB via the Q control Whether this always makes sense you are free to argue Furthermor...

Page 27: ...to the card So much for the pre processing options that only pre process your sample in the software editor Now we come to the parame ters that are interesting for the R 8 and are NOT available on the...

Page 28: ...ume at which the sample is placed on the card Sustain on the other hand is the volume at which the R 8 plays the sample You wonder what this is for Well the level a ects the entire sample the sustain...

Page 29: ...programmer when he cre ated the Decay parameter This is also non linear and even stepwise So up to a value of 10 no these are not Roland units this time each step corresponds to a decay time of 16 2ms...

Page 30: ...section Here you will find a high pass filter as it should be for a high pass filtered sample This has the same parameters as the low pass filter of the resonance sample Since you can use the attack...

Page 31: ...is o Caution Never plug your WaveR8 into your R 8 while it is live especially when the R 8 is powered on This can cause serious damage to your R 8 Insert your WaveR8 into the MEMORY CARD 1 ROM bay of...

Page 32: ...instruments of the card Card Sounds to the pads of the R 8 Note that the card sounds start with the prefix E C are the copy instruments If in wise foresight you have already assigned Card Sounds to th...

Page 33: ...ither design nor function plans or even the software of the R 8 itself at our disposal All the work you have in front of you is reverse engineered by byte by byte sometimes bit by bit That is we had t...

Page 34: ...also load a separate sample for each part for example to create interesting new drum sounds For example you can combine the low frequency part of one sample with the attack of another sample To impor...

Page 35: ...sample rate This reduces the amount of data of the sample not significantly but quite noticeably The sample rate conversion or resampling can only be set in fixed steps and is an integer factor of th...

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Page 37: ...e it can happen from time to time that the R 8 crashes or freezes The firmware of the R 8 seems to have some bug that we have not yet been able to skillfully circumvent We have observed this bug when...

Page 38: ...t support The software editor does not display my WaveR8 Please make sure that your WaveR8 has been installed correctly See Installing the USB Driver If this is not the cause of the error make sure yo...