Eclipse User Manual
Release 4.0.1
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Eclipse User Manual
Press the
PROGRAM
key again to jump “up” a level.
see page 28 for more
information
Press the
<
>
and
<
>
keys until the left side of the screen reads
Programs-Guitar
. Now you can access programs that were designed to
process guitars. Use the knob to select the program
FuzzADSRPreamp
.
Load the program by pressing the conspicuously labeled
<LOAD>
soft
key. You’re whisked away to the
HOT KEYS
area…
Too much distortion? Select the
(FUZZ)
soft key and use the knob to
select
out
.
Press the
HOT KEYS
key again to access more soft keys. Need more
funk? Select
(SENS)
and use the knob to tune in the “good stuff”!
OK, let’s load a different program that has an LFO so we can check out
the Eclipse’s tempo feature. Go back to the
PROGRAM
area and press the
<
>
soft key until the left side of the display reads
Programs-All
.
Use the knob to select
Dual Modfilter
and then
<LOAD>
it.
To insure that your tempo is behaving in a way that makes what follows
comprehensible, set
SETUP
TEMPO
(TAP SRC)
to
Internal
. You can
experiment with other settings (such as the all-important
Midiclock
) on your own time!
As an important aside, selecting
Off
would disable the tempo feature.
Return to the
HOT KEYS
area, play some music and tap the
TAP
key in
time. You’ll notice that the tempo is displayed (with less precision than
it truly possesses) and that the program’s modulating filters get all cozy
and synchronized with the music.
Select
HOT KEYS
(T_RATE)
and play around with different values, such
as
whole note
or
1/8 note
. Not bad…
Notice that if you alter
(T_RATE)
, the associated parameter
(RATE)
is
affected. It works like this: you select the source of the tempo as
described above. The tempo then “informs” all the
T_DELAY
,
T_RATE
,
and
T_xxxxx
parameters in the program that is loaded. They “filter” the
tempo information based on the rhythmic value you choose and
“inform” the actual
(DELAY)
or
(RATE)
parameters in the program in
their “native language” (e.g., milliseconds or Hertz).
The “unadorned”
(DELAY)
and
(RATE)
parameters are thus slaves to the
tempo and their associated
(T_xxxxx)
parameters. To relinquish control
back to the “unadorned” parameters, either turn off the tempo system as
described above, or turn off a given
(T_xxxxx)
parameter to
off
(just
keep spinning the knob to the right; you’ll get there!). Doing either ef-
fectively breaks one of the arrows shown to the right.
see pages 15 and 35 for more information
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