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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.   MENU NAVIGATION

2   MEMORY MANAGEMENT

2.1.   SD Card

2.2.   Kits

3   VOICES

3.1.   Snare voice (voice 4)

3.2.   Cymbal/Clap (voice 5)

3.3.   Hihat voice (6)

3.4.   Voice parameter menu sections

 

Oscillator Page (OSC)

 

Amplitude Envelope Page (AEG)

 

Modulation Page (MOD)

 

Frequency Modulation Page (FM)

 

Transient Generator Page (Click)

 

Filter Page (FIL)

 

Mixer Page (Mix)

4   OPERATION MODES

4.1.   EDIT mode

4.2.   Performance Mode

 

Basic performance menu

 Morph

4.3.   Modulation Menu

 

Mod Matrix)

 LFO

4.4.   FX Mode

 

Menu location

 Drive
 Ringmodulator
 Compressor
 Delay

4.5.   Loading and saving

 

Display description

 

Menu navigation

4.6.   Global settings menu

 

Menu location

 

Menu options

 Screensaver

5   SYNTH MODULES

5.1.   Oscillator

5.2.   Filter

 Frequency
 Resonance
 Drive
 

Filter types

5.3. Envelopes

 

Attack/Decay times

 Slope
 Repeat

5.4.   Transient generator

Snappy mode
Offset mode
Sample mode
Parameters

5.5.   Sample Rate Reduction

5.6.   Distortion

5.7.   Accent modulation

5.8.   Output Routing

6   FIRMWARE UPDATE

6.1.   Update procedure

6.2.   Bootloader error messages 

7   INTRODUCTION TO DRUM SYNTHESIS

7.1.   Kicks

7.2.   Snare

7.3. Clap

7.4.   Hihat

7.5.   Cymbal ride

7.6.   Bells

 

Realistic bells

 

808 style cowbell

7.7.   More info about drum sound design

8   TECHNICAL INFORMATION

8.1.   Factory kits are designed by Leoš Hort aka hrtl

8.2.   Electrical Specification

8.3.   Hardware

8.4.   Physical Specification

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Summary of Contents for SONIC POTIONS LXR EURORACK

Page 1: ...E U R O R A C K O W N E R S M A N U A L Julian Schmidt...

Page 2: ...5 1 Oscillator 5 2 Filter Frequency Resonance Drive Filter types 5 3 Envelopes Attack Decay times Slope Repeat 5 4 Transient generator Snappy mode Offset mode Sample mode Parameters 5 5 Sample Rate Re...

Page 3: ...n produce a wide variety of sounds ranging from classic analogue emulations to crunchy digital mayhem IO JACKS In the first row we have 7 trigger in jacks 5V to trigger the voices and 4 assignable aud...

Page 4: ...the knob control is too coarse By pushing the encoder again you return to the normal menu mode Filter Resonance 120 The LXR offers 6 voices They are optimized for different kinds of drum sounds The t...

Page 5: ...EG OSCILLATOR AMP DISTORTION SAMPLERATE REDUCER TRANSIENT GENERATOR FILTER NOISE 3 1 SNARE VOICE VOICE 4 This voice is good for snare drum and clap sounds A noise source and a pitched oscillator can b...

Page 6: ...on Rise time of the envelope att Amplitude envelope attack Envelope fall time for the hihats D1 D2 Closed Open hihat decay time Variable slope from exp to lin to log slp Amplitude envelope slope Snare...

Page 7: ...ignal controls the voice volume vol Velocity to volume modulation Description Frequency of the first modulation oscillator Frequency of the second modulation oscillator Gain of the first modulation os...

Page 8: ...te Soft clipping amount drv Drive Selects the hardware audio out for this voice The voice can either be routed to one of the 2 stereo channels or use the 4 outputs as individual mono channels or the F...

Page 9: ...l sound and the morph target mrp Morph amount Select the kit number of the morph target mtg Morph target A global sample rate reduction effect sr Global samplerate Displayed name Name Description Ther...

Page 10: ...ve Ringmodulator Compressor and Delay You can use the FX processor by setting the output routing on the mixer page to FX So the voice will be routed to the FX bus before going to the output So you can...

Page 11: ...volume of the distortion vol Volume The feedback parameter of the Clip processor will generate a tone when no input is present This is the normal behavior as the effect is quite similar to the feedbac...

Page 12: ...ai Makeup Gain Displayed name Name Description Delay typ FX Type Selects the Audio output the FX signal is mixed to out Output routing Mixing ratio between the original and the FX signal d w Dry Wet r...

Page 13: ...ming scheme To speed up the name entry on the save page you can also use the knobs below the display If the cursor is in the name area the knobs have the following functions The first knob selects the...

Page 14: ...rms realized using bandlimited wavetable oscillators 5 2 FILTER The filter is a 2 pole 12dB state variable filter SVF It s used to shape the harmonic content of the sound For example a hihat sound con...

Page 15: ...only affect the resonance peaks higher settings will distort the whole signal Since the soft clipper is scaling down excessive peaks in the signal the audible resonance is reduced with higher drive se...

Page 16: ...dB 18 dB 18 dB 12 dB 6 dB 0 dB 6 dB 12 dB 18 dB Bandpass The bandpass filter removes frequencies above and below the set cutoff frequency Unit gain bandpass The unit gain bandpass is a scaled version...

Page 17: ...ecay parameter ATTACK DECAY TIMES These 2 parameters control the duration of the attack and decay stage of the envelope A higher value equals longer time If the attack time is set to zero the envelope...

Page 18: ...the sound They are short 50ms 8 bit ROM samples that are played as a one shot whenever the sound is triggered Different samples can be selected PARAMETERS The parameters of the transient generator inc...

Page 19: ...snare sample Tom Tom A tom sample sort of Sp2 Snap A finger snap Transient Samples 5 5 SAMPLE RATE REDUCTION The sample rate reducer can gradually reduce the sample rate from 44kHz to zero Reducing t...

Page 20: ...the LXR can be updated using the memory card 6 1 UPDATE PROCEDURE Copy the latest LXRE_V2_xxx img to the root of the SD card Delete any old firmware img files from the SD card Push and hold the encode...

Page 21: ...ay slope and modulation amount have a great impact on the sound of the kick Click The attack sound is an important part of a kick There is no general rule here Try different transient generator settin...

Page 22: ...Since the timing differences for the clap are very small a short repeat time has to be chosen An attack value below 10 is good Now you will have a short burst in the beginning of the sound For the dec...

Page 23: ...bit over time 7 6 BELLS REALISTIC BELLS Realistic bells are best achieved using FM oscillators As long as you have a complex noisy metallic spectrum you just need to add an exponential decay amplitude...

Page 24: ...to find both documents 8 1 FACTORY KITS ARE DESIGNED BY LEO HORT AKA HRTL 8 2 ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATION Main outs level 10Vpp Output impedance 100 unbalanced Power 12v 88mA peak 160mA 12v 10mA peak 12m...

Page 25: ...ne session from my now sold 909 24 bit 44 1 kHz Feel free to use the samples for whatever you like If you use any of the included patterns please send me an mp3 of the whole song or a physical copy co...

Page 26: ...perature for an hour before plugging it in Transport the instrument carefully Never let it drop or fall over The Warranty does not apply to instruments with visual damage LXR eurorack module must be s...

Page 27: ...Riga Latvia LV 1048 You will find the Erica Synths terms of warranty at www ericasynths lv Items for return exchange and or warranty repair should be sent us according to the guidelines on SUPPORT se...

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