Buchla 200e series, User Manual

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Advanced Editing: Copying and pasting ranges
To select a range of cells for copying, press and hold the “cell” encoder while turning it .
After copying a range of selected cells, the paste operation will differ depending on whether you
turned the “cell” knob clockwise or anti-clockwise when you selected the range: the pasted data
will appear either forward from the current cursor, or backwards from it. Performing a few
experiments will make this relationship more clear.
The “red”, “green”, and “blue” buttons can be used as modifiers to apply editing
operations to subsets of cell data
. For example, if you are in the “pulses” display mode, hold
down the “red” button and turn the “cell” encoder to fill cells with red pulses. To clear the red
pulses from the ring, hold the “red” button and “clear” and turn the “cell” encoder to remove only
the red pulse from each cell. The R/G/B buttons can be combined in any manner.
This same technique applies to CVs. In “cv 1-3” mode, holding down the “green” button and
pressing “clear” will remove any CV data for output 2 in the currently selected cell. To clear the
entire ring, hold “clear” and turn the “cell” encoder.
The R/G/B modifier buttons applies as well to the “phase” encoder and “paste” button ,
enabling selective transformations within a display layer.
Advanced Editing: Randomize
An extension of the R/G/B button-as-modifier technique provides a randomize function. In the
“pulses” display mode,
holding down the “blue” button and pressing the “edit” button will fill
the currently selected ring with a random pattern of blue pulses. This function also applies to CV
values and cell subdivide pulses.
Advanced Editing: MIDI Capture to CV
Control voltage values can be captured and entered using MIDI note input received on the internal
MIDI bus. To enable this mode, make sure you are playing notes on the internal bus. Then in cell
edit mode,
press and hold the “CV EDIT” encoder . The display will change to “
in
” and both the
LEDs for CV outputs 1 and 4 will illuminate. In this mode, the CV outputs are considered to be
pitch/velocity pairs (1/4, 2/5, 3/6) and pressing select will cycle through the pairs. A MIDI note
received on any channel will trigger a MIDI to CV value conversion where the note number and
velocity are converted to CV range and stored in the currently selected cell’s selected CV output
pair.
Values can be entered manually by turning the “cell” encoder to select successive cells in the ring
and then sending a MIDI note to capture the data. If you
hold down the “cell” encoder, each
MIDI note on also advances the current cell selection by one, so you can fill an entire ring with
pitches by playing notes in sequence.