Intellijel Tete, User Manual

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Tête + Tetrapad Manual
A Crossfader sends a pair of related voltages to the pad’s two associated outputs, with the voltages
changing proportionally to your finger’s vertical position.
By default, the pad works as a ​ linear crossfader
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: touching the bottom of a pad sends +5V to the pad’s
left jack and 0V to the right jack. As your finger slides up the pad, the voltage sent to the left jack
decreases, while the voltage sent to the right jack increases. At the midpoint, 2.5V is sent out each of
the two jacks. Sliding your finger toward the top results in more voltage at the right jack than the left
until, at the very top, 0V is sent out the left jack and +5V is sent out the right.
Other crossfade shapes are possible, including constant power, fade, and DJ cut. You can latch a
crossfader, nudge it, slew it, and scale the pad’s output from +5V down to +1V in single volt
increments.
Assigning Crossfader Functionality To A Pad
To assign crossfader functionality to one of Tetrapad’s four pads:
1. Put Tête into Combo Mode, as described in ​ Entering Combo Mode ​ , earlier.
2. Press the white EDIT button on Tetrapad to enable pad assignment.
Tête’s screen will invert, and the Level LEDs embedded beneath each pad will play an
animation, indicating the function currently assigned to each pad.
3. Decide which of the four pads you want to make a crossfader, and rotate its encoder until the
crossfader graphic is displayed.
On Tête, the graphic for a crossfader looks like this:
On Tetrapad, the pad animation for a crossfader looks like this:
4. Press Tetrapad’s white EDIT button to exit pad assignment, and the assigned pad now works
as a crossfader.
The four center LEDs are lit on the assigned pad (the middle two being dimmed) to indicate
that it will now function as a crossfader.
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