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MP-201 Multi-Pedal Manual

Firmware v2.0 Addendum

Changes to Channel Mode GATE:

Previously the most simple of MP-201 Channel Modes, the humble 

GATE

 could be either On or Off, Momentary 

or Latching. Now 

GATE

 Mode is perhaps the most powerful and richly-featured Channel Mode of them all.

The first change you will notice is the 

GATE SOURCE

 selection. Options are 

FOOT SWITCH

MIDI NOTES

, or 

PEDAL CV

.

FOOT SWITCH

 preserves the functionality of GATE Mode in firmware v1: You can set 

FS MODE

 to Latching or 

Momentary, to control how the channel toggles On/Off in response to the foot switch, and you can set 

INITIALSTATE

 to control whether the gate is On or Off when the preset is loaded. 

For Momentary Gates, 

INITIALSTATE

 sets whether the gate is Normally-Off (Momentary-On) or Normally-On 

(Momentary-Off).

If 

GATE SOURCE

 is set to 

MIDI NOTES

, then the channel behaves as a Normally-Off, Momentary-On Gate 

which turns on in response to MIDI notes on the selected MIDI channel.  

VELO TRIGGER

 allows you to set a MIDI Velocity (1-127) below which the Gate will not turn on. 

 

TRIGGER MODE

 - controls how the Gate behaves in response to multiple MIDI notes at a time.  

LEGATO:

 In this Trigger Mode, the Gate will turn on in response to the first MIDI NoteOn message, and will 

remain On continuously for as long as any notes remain held.  When the last NoteOff message is received and 
there are no notes on the note stack, then the Gate will turn Off. 

RETRIGGER:

 The Gate will turn momentarily Off and then On again for each new MIDI note.  If the Gate is 

controlling an Envelope, this will cause the Envelope Generator to fire with each new note played, even if other 
notes are still held. These Trigger Modes are designed to behave similarly to the Gate functions of most 
monophonic analog synthesizers.

The final 

GATE SOURCE

 option is 

PEDAL CV

.  This mode reads the scaled voltage coming from the MP-201 

Foot Pedal, and allows you to set a 

THRESHOLD

 above which the Gate will turn on, and below which it will turn 

off.  

You can set 

HEEL VALUE 

and 

TOE VALUE

 parameters to adjust exactly the point at which the Gate will act, 

including setting 

TOE VALUE

 less than 

HEEL VALUE

 in order to reverse the Off and On directions (e.g. to have 

a Gate that is On when the pedal is in the Heel position and Off when the pedal is moved to the Toe position).

When Gate Source is set to MIDI Notes or Pedal CV, the Channel On/Off footswitch does not turn the Gate on 
and off (as it does when Gate Source = Foot Switch); instead, the Channel On/Off footswitch disables or enables 
triggering of the gate by the selected Gate Source.  That is to say, that the footswitch toggles whether or not the 
Gate will respond to MIDI Notes or to Pedal movements.  When Gate response is disabled, this is indicated by 
"---" shown on the LCD where the Channel Mode (

GATE

,

 EG

) would normally be displayed.  

The 

GATE / EG

 parameter allows you to select 

GATE

 or 

ENVELOPE

 

CV

 output for this channel.  Envelope 

Generation is a major new feature for the MP-201.  Envelopes appear as CV Output only; the MIDI output for 
Gate channels is the same regardless of 

GATE / EG

 setting.

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Specifications subject to change without notice

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Summary of Contents for MP-201 Multi-Pedal

Page 1: ...MP 201 Multi Pedal Manual Firmware v2 0 Addendum ...

Page 2: ...Foot Pedal movement with no lag This way if you record MIDI while sweeping the foot pedal and then play back the MIDI to the MP 201 the channel CV Output will respond exactly as it did the first time when the pedal movement was recorded Note that CV LAG also serves the function of MIDI CC to CV smoothing if enabled Changes to Channel Mode LFO NOISE has been removed from the list of LFO waveforms a...

Page 3: ...hen On again for each new MIDI note If the Gate is controlling an Envelope this will cause the Envelope Generator to fire with each new note played even if other notes are still held These Trigger Modes are designed to behave similarly to the Gate functions of most monophonic analog synthesizers The final GATE SOURCE option is PEDAL CV This mode reads the scaled voltage coming from the MP 201 Foot...

Page 4: ...4095 The duration parameters Hold Attack Decay Release all have a range of roughly 1 millisecond to four seconds while the Sustain level is adjustable between 0V and 5V The HOLD stage begins the moment the Gate is triggered If Hold is enabled the CV output is held at 0V for an adjustable duration between 1 millisecond and 4 seconds before the start of the Attack stage ATTACK sets the duration for ...

Page 5: ...ill play all MIDI notes below this will also cause the CV output to be zero Volts If the MP 201 CV Scale is set to BIPOLAR output voltage range 5V to 5V then the Root Note sits in the middle of the Pitch CV range and MIDI notes below the Root Note will cause a negative voltage output down to 5V minimum The default Root Note is MIDI Note 48 or C3 You can transpose by semitones the pitch of the CV o...

Page 6: ...T sets the amplitude of the Noise signal while Noise Offset sets the DC voltage about which the Noise signal is centered FPEDAL MODE allows you to control either Noise Amount or Noise Offset from the Foot Pedal Heel and Toe Value set the Foot Pedal response range as usual OFF MODE determines what the channel output will be when the channel is turned Off INITIAL sets the output to a preset voltage ...

Page 7: ... to Program Change and Channel Toggle CC messages on the selected Base Channel 6 PGM CHANGE Tx Rx Control sending and receiving MIDI Program Change messages Send Receive Receive Only Send Only or OFF 7 MULTI PGM CHANGE Send All At Once sends Program Change messages for all channels of an MP 201 preset at once and only sends them when the preset is first loaded Send Per Channel sends each MP 201 ch...

Page 8: ... on this new menu 1 SEND ALL PRESETS Send a bank of 100 MP 201 user presets as one SysEx file 2 SEND PRESET Send the currently active preset as a 310 byte SysEx file 3 SEND BULK DUMP Send one large file which contains all 100 User presets and all Global settings 4 SEND FACTORY Send the 40 Factory presets as a SysEx file If you send this file to the MP 201 it will load into the Factory preset memor...

Page 9: ...FS MODE MOMENTARY LATCH if MIDI NOTES VELO TRIGGER OFF 1 127 TRIGGER MODE LEGATO RETRIGGER if PEDAL CV THRESHOLD 0 4095 HEEL VALUE 0 4095 TOE VALUE 0 4095 GATE EG GATE ENVELOPE if ENVELOPE ENV SHAPE LIN LOG EXP COMPLEX if COMPLEX ATTACK SHAPE LIN LOG EXP DECAY SHAPE LIN LOG EXP REL SHAPE LIN LOG EXP HOLD TIME OFF 1 4095 ATTACK RATE 0 4095 DECAY RATE 0 4095 SUSTAIN LVL 0 4095 RELEASE RATE 0 4095 EG...

Page 10: ...LL TIME RISE TIME 1 4095 CHAN OUTPUT CV AND MIDI CV ONLY MIDI ONLY MIDI CC OFF 0 127 MIDI TO CV ROOT NOTE 0V 0 127 CV SCALE 0 667 1 333 PITCH BEND OFF 1 12 Semitones 24 Semitones GLIDE MODE OFF ON LEGATO ON GLIDE RATE 0 4095 GLIDE TYPE CONST TIME LOG EXP CONST RATE NOISE NOISE AMOUNT 0 4095 NOISE OFFSET 0 4095 FPEDAL MODE NOISE AMOUNT NOISE OFFSET HEEL VALUE 0 4095 TOE VALUE 0 4095 OFF MODE INITIA...

Page 11: ...hannel modes CHAN NAME 8 characters INITIALSTATE OFF ON CHANNEL MODE EXPRESSION GATE LFO MIDI TO CV NOISE MIDI CHANNEL OFF 1 16 if MIDI Channel not OFF PGM CHANGE OFF 0 127 BANK CHANGE LSB 0 127 MSB 0 127 Page 11 Specifications subject to change without notice moogmusic com ...

Page 12: ...P CHANNEL 4 EXP 19 MF104LFO FEEDBACK LFO TIME LFO MIX LFO CHANNEL 4 LFO 20 MuRFEXP1 RATE EXP MIX EXP ENVELOPE EXP LFOSWEEP EXP 21 MuRFEXP2 TAP STEP LFO MIX EXP ENVELOPE EXP LFOSWEEP EXP 22 MuRF LFO RATE LFO MIX LFO ENVELOPE LFO LFOSWEEP LFO 23 MF107EXP FREQ EXP WAVE EXP FM AMT EXP MIX EXP 24 MF107LFO FREQ LFO WAVE LFO FM AMT LFO MIX LFO 25 CP251EXP LFO RATE EXP SNH IN EXP MIXER IN EXP MULT1 IN EXP...

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