Gotharman Gotharman's Little deFormer 3, Update Manual

Page 1: ...1 Gotharman s Little deFormer 3 Granular Workstation Update Manual 12 96 ...

Page 2: ...Manual has now been added Chop Mode parameter description Page 17 How to set up stereo samplings Page 18 Bug Fixes In my eager to make everything run as fast as possible I unfortunately managed to create a bug in an earlier update which got the audio inputs sample frequency lowered I sincerely apologize for this but now it is back to 44 1 KHz Thanks a ton to Joakim Gleisner for doing all the neces...

Page 3: ...l cut or boost Q Sets the width of the frequency band that will be cutted boosted Type Sets the EQ characteristics The types available are Band1 Cut boost the frequency range selected by Freq Q Band2 Like Band1 but with a slightly sharper sound Band3 Like Band2 but with an even sharper sound Low Cut boost the frequencies below the frequency selected by Freq High1 Cut boost the frequencies above th...

Page 4: ...4 C B Cut Boost Setting this to a negative value will damp frequencies on the input signal Setting it to a positive value will boost frequencies on the input signal ...

Page 5: ...5 EQ Modulation Freq1 Freq2 Will modulate the EQ frequency Q Will modulate the EQ frequency width C B Will modulate the cut boost parameter ...

Page 6: ... will turn the offset up below middle will turn the offset down SPECIAL NOTE FOR THE POSITION SUB TRACK When adjusting the offset of the step positions on the position sub track the positions will roll over around the selected last step This means that if you are turning the offset up the last steps before the last step will now be placed on the first steps of the track Likewise if you turn the of...

Page 7: ...n on the sequencer note tracks This will do exactly the same as when adjusting the offset of all steps of the position track but it is done by a modulation source On the Note Track Mod page simply select Rota as the modulation destination select the modulation source and turn up the modulation amount ...

Page 8: ... follower VCA This could be done by adding a jack cable from an audio output to an input But now you can save the cable Now you can simply output a bus to another bus internally in LD3 Bus1 can output to Bus2 Bus3 can output to Bus4 Bus5 can output to Bus6 Bus7 can output to Bus8 To do this simply go to the BUS OUT page and select the Bus output to be another Bus instead of an audio output or outp...

Page 9: ...velope OFF position If you would like to just use the Audio Bus Follower as a modulation source without it affecting the output level of the Bus itself this is now possible by setting the Env to OFF on the BUS ENV page ...

Page 10: ...10 Insert Effects Input Gain On the Insert Effects Mo2 page it is now possible to adjust the Insert Effect input gain using the new Gain parameter ...

Page 11: ...11 Audio Track BPM When recording an audio track the BPM of this is now included in the sample name A058_05_120_AUDTR Preset number_Track Number_BPM ...

Page 12: ...nputs Swap If you for some reason would like to swap the audio inputs this is now possible Input 1 and 2 can be swapped and input 3 and 4 can be swapped using the i1 2 and i3 4 parameters on the MOR COMMON2 page ...

Page 13: ... don t need the default functionality of the Edit Knobs the parameters that they are assigned to when they are not used as modulation sources it is now possible to switch them off by using the Qedit parameter on the MOR COMMON2 page ...

Page 14: ...14 Bus Sub Pages Naming Some page names on the BUS pages has been changed to make it look less cryptic I think ...

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Page 17: ...the user manual The following chop modes that determines how LD3 will chop a sampling can be selected Peak It will generate the chop points from peak detection according to the settings of the Sens and Dec parameters Wave It will generate the chop points from zero point detection according to the settings of the Sens and Dec parameters When auditioning chops in this mode the playback will be loope...

Page 18: ...r it will be explained how to set up a sampling for a part and some extra steps that is required for setting the filters and VCA BUS in stereo mode when setting up a stereo sampling From the Preset Select page touch EDIT to enter the Synth main page ...

Page 19: ...19 From the Synth main page touch the box named OSC to enter the oscillator pages ...

Page 20: ...20 Touch the SEL touch button to enter the oscillator mode selection page ...

Page 21: ...21 Set the Mode parameter to Smp Now touch the SMP touch button to enter the sample selection page ...

Page 22: ...samplings that are used is set by the Smp parameter on the SEL page The 4 samples can be selected to play back setting the Chop parameter and by chop select modulation For now just touch the sample name that starts with 1 to open the sample select page for the first sampling ...

Page 23: ...the sampling that are the last one that was added to the bank When you have found the right sampling touch OK to return to the Synth Part Sample Select page Now you have assigned a sampling to the currently selected part You can now play it back by triggering the part from its trigger button a connected MIDI device and from the sequencer If a stereo sampling is selected a few extra steps are requi...

Page 24: ...ereo sampling are Set up the VCA to output to 2 audio busses Set up these audio busses to output to left and right Set the filters in stereo mode This will now be explained in detail Exit the oscillator pages to go back to the Synth main page Touch the box named VCA to enter the VCA pages for the part ...

Page 25: ...25 Set the Bus parameter so that the VCA will output to 2 busses 1 2 3 4 5 6 or 7 8 Now touch the MOD touch button ...

Page 26: ...26 Make sure that Pan is set to Man and pan Amt to 256 Exit the VCA pages to go back to the Synth main page ...

Page 27: ...27 Touch the box named BUS to enter the audio bus pages ...

Page 28: ...28 On this first Bus page set the audio busses that the VCA is outputting to to respectively L and R like Bus 5 and 6 on the picture Exit from this page to the Synth main page ...

Page 29: ...29 Touch the box named FLT to enter the digital filter pages ...

Page 30: ...30 Touch the SET touch button ...

Page 31: ...o On It does not matter if the digital filters are used or not this routing has to be set to stereo in order to get both audio channels of a stereo sampling through Now when you trigger the selected stereo sampling it should play back in stereo ...

Page 32: ...32 Written by Flemming Christensen Gotharman 2020 www gotharman dk ...