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H9 Harmonizer

User Guide

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Page 1: ...H9 Harmonizer User Guide ...

Page 2: ... comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of FCC rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation This information applies to software V5 2 and later Complete UG Part 159035 Contents Part 141221 C...

Page 3: ...signed to connect specifically to iPod iPhone or iPad respectively and has been certified by the developer to meet Apple performance standards Apple is not responsible for the operation of this device or its compliance with safety and regulatory standards Please note that the use of this accessory with iPod iPhone or iPad may affect wireless performance Bluetooth and the Bluetooth logo are registe...

Page 4: ...t Footswitch to Tap Tempo or Parameter Values 10 TUNER 10 H9 POWER UP 10 CAN TWO PRESETS BE USED SIMULTANEOUSLY 10 CONNECTIONS 11 MONO STEREO 12 TYPICAL SETUPS 12 Guitar H9 Amp Mono In Mono Out 12 Guitar H9 Amp 1 Amp2 Mono or Stereo In Stereo Out 12 Guitar Amp Effects Send H9 Amp Effects Return 12 Mixer Effects Send H9 Mixer Effects Return 12 SETTING LEVELS 13 SETTING OUTPUT LEVEL 13 SETTING INPUT...

Page 5: ... ORGANIZING YOUR PRESETS 19 ACTIVE PRESETS 19 ALGORITHMS THEIR PARAMETERS 20 PARAMETERS EXPERT TWEAKER MODE 20 GLOBAL MIX 20 TEMPO 21 TEMPO ON OFF 21 TAP TEMPO 21 FINE TUNING TEMPO 21 GLOBAL TEMPO 21 TUNER 22 HOTKNOB 23 CREATING A HOTKNOB PATCH 23 Exit HOTKNOB Patch Mode 23 SAVE HOTKNOB PATCH 24 CLEAR A HOTKNOB PATCH 24 VIEW HOTKNOB PATCH DESTINATIONS 24 EXPRESSION PEDAL 25 AUXILIARY SWITCHES 26 M...

Page 6: ...ous Control 37 RCV MAP Create a MIDI Program Change Receive Map 39 XMT MAP Create a MIDI Program Change Transmit Map 39 CTL XMT MIDI Continuous Controller Transmit Enable ON OFF 40 PGM XMT MIDI Program Change Transmit Enable ON OFF 40 SYS ID MIDI SysEx ID ID 1 ID 16 40 OUTPUT MIDI Transmit Thru Select XMT THRU THRU C MERGE 41 DUMP Dump Select ALL ACTIVE PRESET SYSTEM 41 CLK IN MIDI Input Clock Ena...

Page 7: ...18dB 43 PDLCAL Expression Pedal Calibrate ON OFF 43 EXPTIP Select function of Auxiliary Switch Tip SWITCH PEDAL 44 SER Serial Number H9 xxxxx 44 SW VER Software Version 44 RESTORING FACTORY SETTINGS SOFTWARE UPDATES 45 RESTORING FACTORY SYSTEM SETTINGS 45 RESTORING FACTORY PRESETS AND SYSTEM SETTINGS 45 SOFTWARE UPDATES 45 DIAGNOSTICS 45 MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART 46 SPECIFICATIONS 47 LIMITED WARRA...

Page 8: ...u re eager to get going and hope that you ll read this User Guide However if you read nothing else please read The Basics Key Features Large library of Eventide audio effects available Full complement of unique algorithms included in Standard Edition 99 Presets External Expression Pedal or Aux Switch for additional control Bright easy to read 6 Character Alphanumeric LED Display Extensive MIDI fun...

Page 9: ...ily done Just reach down and simultaneously press the X Y and Z buttons Bluetooth turns off Press the three keys again to turn Blue tooth back on You must first pair your H9 with an iOS device to use H9 Control a feature rich remote control app On your iOS device go to the Bluetooth menu in Settings and turn Bluetooth on and enable Discovery Your H9 s name H9 xxxx should be listed xxxx last 4 digi...

Page 10: ... Instructions on saving Presets are found later in this User Guide Refer to the Preset Guide for details on the factory installed Presets The Knob the LightRing the Buttons The H9 has one big Knob Encoder encircled by a LightRing and five radio buttons HOTKNOB X Y Z and Preset The LightRing is used to indicate parameter settings and values The Knob is used to 1 Select and load Presets 2 Adjust Pre...

Page 11: ...ss to multiple parameters HOTKNOB button HOTKNOB is a custom top level parameter patch that allows the Knob to control any combination of the parameters simultaneously When the HOTKNOB button is pressed the Knob becomes in effect an on board Expression Pedal The HOTKNOB and Expression Pedal are used by all of the factory supplied Presets Programming the HOTKNOB is described later in this User Guid...

Page 12: ...h the Tap LED OFF press the Right Footswitch to step up increment or step down decrement through the Presets The direction is changed by pressing the Knob The display will show the Preset Number and the first 4 characters of the Preset Name XXXX When a Preset is cued the Preset number flashes Pressing the Left Footswitch loads the cued Preset and makes it Active TIP When the tap LED is off pressin...

Page 13: ...g and with the display indicating BPM or parameter value you can use the Knob for fine tuning Tuner Press both footswitches to enable the tuner The LightRing indicates flat sharp with twelve o clock indicating in tune The display shows the note Press either footswitch to exit H9 Power Up When the H9 turns on it remembers what it was last doing and powers up in the same mode running the same Preset...

Page 14: ... The H9 can be connected directly to your guitar in series with one or more pedals in your Amp s effects loop or to your mixer s send return or insert Given the variety of guitars effects pedals amps and mixers we can t describe a best setup The setup should be driven by you and the sound that you re going for No matter what your setup though adjusting levels are important for best performance see...

Page 15: ...the output of the last pedal If the peak LED lights solidly reduce the H9 s input level Guitar H9 Amp 1 Amp2 Mono or Stereo In Stereo Out Connect your guitar cable to the H9 s Input 1 and a cable from the H9 s Output 1 to one amp and a second cable from the H9 s Output 2 to the other amp Input and Output Levels should be adjusted for best performance See Setting Levels If you are using other stomp...

Page 16: ...onds the display will show OUT 0 default value Continue holding the Left Footswitch while turning the Knob to adjust output level from 12 dB OUT 12 to 12 dB OUT 12 in 1 dB increments Release the Footswitch the Preset will return to its previous Active or Bypassed state Note Preset output levels must be saved even if there are no other changes to the preset or the output level will revert to its pr...

Page 17: ...l not be available Note that in Pre Post and Wet Dry Routing modes Swell only affects the Wet channel Input and Output Swell are not active when the unit is Bypassed The Swell values are reset to maximum when a new preset is loaded Enabling disabling Input Swell Press and hold the Left Footswitch as described above The display will show the Output Level Press the HOTKNOB once The display will show...

Page 18: ...mpedance typically 10k ohm and will load the guitar output and change its tone DSP Bypass allows the H9 to act as a buffer providing a low impedance output 500 ohm capable of driving any device input or cable length DSP FX Bypass When DSP FX is selected Bypass sends the audio at the DSP s inputs directly to the outputs with the decaying tail of the current effect mixed in Selecting Bypass Type The...

Page 19: ...ect Note that when Killdry is enabled Bypassing will mute the Effect rather than Bypass it when DSP Bypass is selected Killdry s factory default is disabled It can be enabled in the BYPASS menu of the System Mode Here s how 1 Press and hold the HOTKNOB button and Right Footswitch simultaneously for a few seconds to enter System Mode 2 Turn the Knob until BYPASS is displayed 3 Momentarily press the...

Page 20: ...d by using the Footswitches or by turning the Knob When a Preset is loaded the full Preset Name will scroll once across the display Select Cue Load To select a Preset using the Footswitches press the Right Footswitch to increment or decrement through the presets until the desired Preset is cued To change the direction up down press the Knob Press the Left Footswitch to load the Preset When a Prese...

Page 21: ...tive character for editing is always flashing Repeated pressing of the Right or Left Footswitch will traverse through the name one character at a time flashing the selected character Press and hold Left Footswitch to DELETE the currently flashing character 5 Press and hold the Right Footswitch to INSERT a character before the currently flashing character 6 To save the Preset press and hold the PRE...

Page 22: ...While only active Presets can be loaded Presets can always be saved to disabled Preset Numbers Inactive Presets are not erased but can be overwritten and can be made active at any time Active Presets are limited to a range The default is for all 99 Presets active You can limit the number of active Presets by setting the active range in System Mode For example if you set the lower limit to 5 and th...

Page 23: ...ss and hold the X button until DLYMIX is displayed Repeatedly pressing X will step through the complete set of Vintage Delay s parameters In this way you have the ability to adjust the value of all the parameters of every algorithm and create a wide variety of effects and of course to save them as new Presets The most recently selected parameter sticks so if DLY A was last adjusted using the X but...

Page 24: ... Tempo ON or the parameter Tempo OFF While tapping and with the tempo value displayed the Knob can be turned to adjust the Tempo or parameter value While adjusting the display shows the updated Tempo or delay value Global Tempo Tempo is always saved with each Preset Often however it can be useful to make the tempo uniform for all of the Presets that you re using To do this use the System GLOBAL TE...

Page 25: ... twelve o clock you re in tune Press either Footswitch to exit When the Tuner is enabled the H9 s audio output is normally muted this is the default setting If instead you prefer you can set the H9 to BYPASS directly connecting the H9 s input to its output Note that the default reference frequency for the Tuner is A 440 Hz Instructions for adjusting the reference frequency and for selecting Mute B...

Page 26: ...b the display will revert to MINVAL and alternately flash between MINVAL parameter name and the current MINVAL parameter value Press the HOTKNOB button again to set the maximum value MAXVAL Turning the Knob will update the display with the parameter value to be assigned as the MAXVAL for this parameter s HOTKNOB patch When you stop turning the Knob the display will revert back to MAXVAL and altern...

Page 27: ...ESS PRESETS then release all keys Pressing the PRESETS button again will then clear the patch pressing any other button exits this mode leaving the patch intact If multiple parameters are patched to the HOTKNOB you have the option of un patching one parameter at a time To do so set the parameter s MINVAL and MAXVAL to the same value View HOTKNOB Patch Destinations To view the list of parameters as...

Page 28: ...d its value is displayed when the Expression Pedal is moved If the Expression Pedal has been set up to control multiple parameters the display is simply a range from 0 99 To indicate which X Y Z parameters are controlled by the Expression Pedal Press and Hold HOTKNOB and an X Y or Z button and turn the Knob The HOTKNOB Expression Pedal settings are not saved automatically If you want to be able to...

Page 29: ...umber of functions and they make it easy to connect a dedicated Tap Tempo switch or Performance Switch Infinite Repeat Flex Fast Slow Learn or Preset Decrement Switch etc Some users may want to have all switch functions immediately available the H9 s two footswitches and three from the AUX Switch A suggested set up would be using the H9 s Active and Tap footswitches and the AUX Switch assigned as ...

Page 30: ...pression Pedal and Auxiliary Switches connected to the H9 to control other MIDI devices 8 Dump Backup Load Restore Presets and or system settings to from a computer 9 Control BYPASS ACTIVE status using MIDI program change H9 automatically selects either USB or DIN5 as MIDI Inputs and Outputs If USB is connected DIN5 MIDI activity including MIDI thru is ignored MIDI setup is described in System Mod...

Page 31: ...r SYSTEM 7 Press the HOTKNOB to start the SysEx dump 8 Wait until dump is complete 9 Press and hold the HOTKNOB button and Right Footswitch simultaneously for a few seconds to exit System Mode Note If ACTIVE is selected only the currently loaded Preset is dumped If PRSET is selected all Presets are dumped With ALL selected Presets and System settings are dumped If SYSTEM is selected only System se...

Page 32: ...cheme described earlier Pre Post PRE PST PRE POST mode allows you to change where your stompbox sits in your signal chain For example you may want it to at the beginning of your signal chain for a distortion effect PRE but for a reverb you may want it to run at the end POST It can also be used to choose between placing an effect either before the amp or in an effects loop This is set on a preset b...

Page 33: ...ntil the display shows WET1 default WET2 or STEREO Turn the Encoder to set it as desired Release the Footswitch the Preset will return to its previous Active or Bypassed state Remember to save the preset or the change will be lost WET1 Physical Output 1 will be wet Output 2 will be dry When Bypassed if KillDry is set Output 1 will be muted while Output 2 will always be dry WET2 Physical Output 2 w...

Page 34: ...es BLUE BYPASS AUX SW MIDI GLOBAL TUNER and UTILS Press the HOTKNOB button to select one of these choices System Mode Navigation General navigation of the System Mode menus parameters is as follows 1 Push the HOTKNOB button to step down into the menu tree 2 Turn the Knob to scroll thru menu items or parameter selections or values 3 Press the PRESETS button to step up the menu tree to upper level m...

Page 35: ...urning the Knob will change this character Names can have up to 16 characters The available character set is 0 9 A Z 2 Use the Left and Right Footswitches to traverse the display selecting the character to be edited by the Knob The active character for editing is always flashing Repeated pressing of the Right or Left Footswitch will traverse through the name one character at a time flashing the se...

Page 36: ...ress the PRESETS button twice to go to top level System menu AUX SW Program Auxiliary Switches Up to three Auxiliary Switches can be assigned as controls for the Preset parameters and system control The three Aux Switches are connected to the rear panel stereo phone jack labeled EXPression Pedal The H9 detects closures by sensing whether the TIP the RNG ring or both the tip and ring are grounded T...

Page 37: ...ly running KB0 corresponds to the MIX parameter If the H9 is running a Preset based on the Rotary algorithm KB0 corresponds to the INTENSITY parameter When driving KB0 9 from the Aux Switch each press of the switch normally toggles between one of two values As an alternative there are three momentary sources TI P RN G an T R These will give one value when pressed and another when released After yo...

Page 38: ...n to make as many assignments as you wish The default settings for Aux Switch control are as follows BYP TIP PR T R PR RNG Note that the other Control Destinations PSW TAP KB0 KB9 and TUN are unassigned as indicated by When done Press the PRESETS button to go to top level System menu MIDI MIDI Functions After entering System mode turn the Knob to select MIDI and then press the HOTKNOB button to en...

Page 39: ...Tap tempo switch function PSW Toggle or enable the Performance Switch function EXP HOTKNOB or Expression Pedal patch ACT Active Enable Effect unBypass TOG Toggle between Active and Bypass TUN Tuner KB0 KB9 Parameter Control Knobs ISW Input Swell OSW Output Swell The following Looper functions only work with the Looper algorithm REC Record PLY Play STP Stop Play or Record MT Empty erase any current...

Page 40: ...e two ways to select an external control source Manual Select or Learn Mode For Manual Select simply turn the Knob to choose the MIDI Control Source The choices are No patch BND MIDI Pitch Bend C0 C99 MIDI Continuous Controller messages from 0 to 99 To use the Learn Mode to select the external control source Press the Right Footswitch again LEARN is displayed prompting you to send a MIDI message f...

Page 41: ...e Control Source to a Destination Press the Right Footswitch to select the MIDI Continuous Control that will be assigned to the H9 Control Source The choices are OFF Control Source unassigned C0 C99 MIDI Continuous Controller from 0 to 99 Press the Left and Right Footswitches to toggle between Source and Destination to make as many assignments as you wish The default patch is as follows PDL C15 an...

Page 42: ...d indicated by the flashing Right Footswitch LED and turn the Knob to select the Preset To map another Prg No to another Preset press the Left Footswitch again to select the desired Prg No then the Right Footswitch to map it to the desired Preset Default map Prg No 1 99 map to the 99 Presets P01 P99 As well as using MIDI program change to load a preset this message can also be programmed to direct...

Page 43: ...o set MIDI Continuous Controller transmit ON or OFF This setting determines if Parameter transmit MIDI control messages are enabled Press the PRESETS button once to back up one level to MIDI menu Press the PRESETS button twice to go to top level System menu PGM XMT MIDI Program Change Transmit Enable ON OFF Press the HOTKNOB button to select Turn the Knob to set MIDI Program Change transmit ON or ...

Page 44: ... Dump or Dump Request ALL All 99 Presets and System settings are dumped ACTIVE Only the currently loaded Preset is dumped PRESET All 99 Presets are dumped SYSTEM All System Mode settings are dumped Press the PRESETS button once to back up one level to MIDI menu Press the PRESETS button twice to go to top level System menu CLK IN MIDI Input Clock Enable ON OFF Press the HOTKNOB button to select Tur...

Page 45: ...to set Global Input Swell ON or OFF If Global Input Swell is ON Input Swell will always be active whether or not it was enabled in the current preset Press the PRESETS button once to back up one level to UTILITY menu Press the PRESETS button twice to go to top level System menu OSW Enable Global Output Swell ON OFF Press the HOTKNOB button to select Turn the Knob to set Global Output Swell ON or O...

Page 46: ...d the Right Footswitch and turn Knob to set the higher limit The default is 01 99 Only Active Presets can be loaded by Footswitch and PRESETS button and Knob on the stompbox All Presets may still be loaded using MIDI program change Press the PRESETS button once to back up one level to UTILITY menu Press the PRESETS button twice to go to top level System menu SOURCE Select Source Instrument GUITAR ...

Page 47: ...ITY menu Press the PRESETS button twice to go to top level System menu SER Serial Number H9 xxxxx Press the HOTKNOB button to display your H9 s unique serial number The five digit number will scroll by You ll need to know this number to request support and to download software updates Press the PRESETS button once to back up one level to UTILITY menu Press the PRESETS button twice to go to top lev...

Page 48: ... Presets and all System settings power up the H9 while simultaneously pressing the Right Footswitch and the big Knob until INITIA is displayed Software Updates The H9 s software can be upgraded over Bluetooth USB or MIDI To use USB the USB connection to the computer must be in place before powering up or the H9 will default to MIDI Information on software updating can be found at www eventide com ...

Page 49: ...lt Changed 1 16 1 16 1 16 1 16 Mode Default Messages Altered 3 X X 1 X X Note Number True Voice X X After Touch Key s Channels X X X X Pitch Bender O O Control Change 0 127 O O CC0 CC99 Program Change True O O System Exclusive O O ID XXh Bulk Dump Rcv only System Common Song Pos Song Select Tune X X X X X X System Real Time Clock Commands O X O X Aux Messages Local ON OFF All Notes OFF Active Sens...

Page 50: ...o phone jack Output 1 mono inch mono phone jack Output 2 inch mono phone jack Expression Pedal inch stereo phone jack Mini USB Use USB 2 0 cables only DC Adaptor Jack 2 5mm x 5mm center pin MIDI In Five pin DIN Female MIDI Out Thru Five pin DIN Female Power Supply 9 VDC 500 ma center pin Dimensions English 5 25 H x 4 65 W x 1 96 D Metric 133 H x 118 W x 50 D mm Weight 1 53 lbs 0 7 kG Specification...

Page 51: ...ropped bounced crushed soaked or exposed to excessively high temperatures voltages electrostatic or electromagnetic fields If the unit is damaged for these or other causes and the unit is deemed to be economically repairable we will repair it and charge our normal rates The warranty DOES NOT COVER shipping damage either to or from Eventide Who is covered under the warranty The warranty applies to ...

Page 52: ... responsible for all shipping charges including customs brokerage and duties When a unit is shipped to us it must be cleared through United States Customs by an authorized broker You must make arrangements for this to be done Normally your freight forwarder has a branch in the United States which can handle this transaction 2 All shipments will be returned to you collect If this is impossible beca...

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