Gotharman Little deFormer 3, User Manual

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Introduction
Thank you very much for purchasing/consider to purchase a Gotharman’s Little deformer 3.
Little deformer 3 (sometimes shortened to LD3) are a multi-timbral and polyphonic granular
workstation with 16 parts. The granular functions in it includes oscillator/sampler granular
modulators and special granular effects.
Each of the 16 parts has a stereo oscillator/sampler, 2 filters with 16 different filter types, a stereo
VCA, 3 envelopes, 4 random generators and 2 granular modulators, a random one and a
sequenced one. Additional modulation sources includes 16 global LFO’s, 32 sequencer controller
tracks, 8 audio bus envelope followers, touch screen keyboard Y position and MIDI keyboard,
velocity, aftertouch, pitch bend and CC’s.
The samplers can hold up to 193 minutes of samplings/ maximum 8.192 samplings. Samplings can
be chopped by level peaks, wave zero points, or in equally sized slices. Up to 64 chop points are
possible for each sampling. Samples are stored in FLASH memory, and played back directly from
this, so: No loading times!
Each part can be send to up to two of 8 audio busses at the same time. Pan modulation can
control the send level to each of the 2 busses.
On the audio busses up to 8 insert effects and 4 analog filters can be placed, for processing the
sounds from the parts and from its audio inputs. Up to 4 audio inputs are available (2 of them
optional).
The output from the audio busses can be sent to any of up to 4 audio outputs (2 of them optional)
and 2 output effect processors.
The 16 parts can be sequenced from a build-in sequencer, that has 16 note tracks, with up to 64
steps each, and 32 controller tracks, with up to 128 steps each. Each note track has a position
track, that makes it possible to alter the position of each step, making polyphonic step sequencing
and various direction modes possible. A sub position track is also available for micro timing.
Realtime, step time and xox style recording are possible. Knob movements and MIDI CC’s can be
recorded, both in realtime and step time on the controller tracks.
Both the note tracks and the controller tracks can also control external MIDI devices, with up to
128 notes of polyphony.
Audio tracks can be recorded on the note tracks. These can be instantly chopped for true
deforming manipulation.