REQUANTIZING DIY MIDI SEQUENCER
USER MANUAL
Version 2.05 2019-11-14
written by Hawkeye/Peter Knoblach
www.midiphy.com
Page 1: ...REQUANTIZING DIY MIDI SEQUENCER USER MANUAL Version 2 05 2019 11 14 written by Hawkeye Peter Knoblach www midiphy com...
Page 2: ...s 9 6 1 SETUP Screen 11 6 1 1 Editable Setup Parameter List 11 6 1 2 Defining Named User Instruments 12 6 2 MIDI ROUTER Screen 13 6 3 MIDI MONITOR Screen 14 6 4 DISK Operations Screen 14 6 5 TEMPO Scr...
Page 3: ...atlooping live transposition and real time effects that tap into your creativity If you have a soldering iron and mid level DIY experience it can be built in a few evenings An extensive build video tu...
Page 4: ...sequence runtime identical to the unaltered version Manual sequence scrubbing time scratching with a dedicated knob Dedicated scene progression knob launching six new clips for song progression Data e...
Page 5: ...the sequencer The time cursor starts moving the current track step or 16th note equivalent positions in the lower part of the display are updated 8 While the sequence is running play a few notes try t...
Page 6: ...s to learn more about your LoopA 17 If you are lost somewhere push and hold SHIFT and the HELP key to get context sensitive information 18 Once happy with your jam don t forget to save it on the DISK...
Page 7: ...ne LoopA has six tracks and six scenes and thus stores 36 MIDI clips in memory The scenes are enumerated from A to F and the tracks are enumerated from 1 to 6 which can be concatenated to 1A or simila...
Page 8: ...certain situations to lock the input to useful increments An example is adjusting track transposition in the clip screen where pushing and holding while turning this knob will transpose in octaves ra...
Page 9: ...ly active track is indicated with a blue backlit key Therefore if a track is both active and unmuted this leads to a cyan color mix green and blue see track three in the above picture The lower row of...
Page 10: ...ay context sensitive help screen describing the functionality of the currently active screen Hold SHIFT press LIVE knob resets the currently active live mode parameter to zero E g if you are in live t...
Page 11: ...ne handed navigation utilizing muscle memory shortcuts to access often used screens Navigate to the Clip Settings page by pushing and holding the menu key and pressing the Clip key then release both k...
Page 12: ...e Setup Parameter List Here is a list of editable setup parameters System Font changes the system font from a normal sharp system font type a to a smoother antialiased system font type b Beat LEDs whe...
Page 13: ...o eight characters for the synth or device and the output port and channel Named User Instruments can be assigned to any output port including USB ports Transform these lines by using a computer text...
Page 14: ...hat can be selected with the upper row keys directly below the OLED Select Select currently active route also select routes by turning the SELECT knob IN P Choose the input port of the active route IN...
Page 15: ...e actual transmitted data 6 4 DISK Operations Screen Save and load Sessions to from SD card using the disk operations screen Scroll through the enumerated sessions with the lower left SELECT knob acce...
Page 16: ...UE knob for accelerated speed adjustments The FASTER and SLOWER commands modify the tempo linearly and slowly while the keys are pressed The METRONOME Metron switch activates a midi metronome that pla...
Page 17: ...rack is easily chosen and also visualized by the blue upper row key and also the inverted sequence position display see the screenshot above Press ARM and record any set of notes with a MIDI keyboard...
Page 18: ...s the whole clip Tip when this operation is active press the DATA knob and turn to transpose full octaves This is handy during live performance Key 4 Sr scrolls the track notes forward and backwards w...
Page 19: ...ushing the DATA knb while turning will accelerate inputs for instance to easily move a note longer distances in the sequence Key 2 Note adjust the note itself here D 3 is shown which could be adjusted...
Page 20: ...dicates that no swing is applied and the note should stay at its quantized position Swing values 50 such as 66 in the example above push every second quantized note forward in time up to the next quan...
Page 21: ...of All will recognize any input from any MIDI IN ports including virtual USB ports Use this to filter the incoming MIDI stream Key 5 Fwd enables live forwarding of received MIDI note data on the curre...
Page 22: ...ning Tip Push SHIFT and press the LIVE knob to quickly switch back from a set live transposition value to zero live transposition Push SHIFT and press the LIVE knob again to cycle back to the previous...
Page 23: ...ays available for talks suggestions and who finally proofread and corrected this manual Thanks man Thorsten aka TK who created MIDIbox the hardware and software platform of the LoopA It would have bee...
