Novation Ultranova, User Manual

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ScrollIng through
patcheS
Your UltraNova comes pre-loaded with a set of factory patches, which may be auditioned
from the opening Patch Menu. The opening Patch Menu can always be accessed by press-
ing the
SYNTH button [25]. The patches are arranged as 4 banks (A to D), each with 127
patches (000 to 126). Rotate RE1 to scroll through the patches. The new sound is loaded
as soon as the patch data shows in the display. Alternatively, the PATCH/BANK knob [24]
can be used to dial through the whole set; in this case, rotate the PATCH/BANK knob to
select the patch and push and rotate the knob select the bank. Note that the name of the
patch is also displayed.
SearchIng through
categorIeS
Apart from being arranged in 4 banks, the patches are also categorised for you according
to the type of sound; this makes inding suitable sounds much easier. Each patch belongs
to both a Genre and a Category; the Genre broadly indicates the musical area for which
the patch might be suitable, the Category further subdivides the set by sonic characteris-
tics. Press the
PATCH BROWSE button [23], and the display below appears:
The display shows the location and name of the currently-selected patch. The default is for
all patches to be available, because the Genre and Category search criteria are both set
to ‘All’. RE8 and RE7 let you reduce the number of available patches by iltering only those
which belong to a selected Genre and/or Category respectively.
Once the ilter criteria have been set, the reduced patch set can be browsed either in loca-
tion order (the default), or by name, alphanumerically. This choice is set by RE5, which sets
the ‘Find By’ parameter to either ‘A000-D127’ (location order) or ‘A-Z’ (alpha sort).
If there are no matches for the Genre/Category combination selected you will not
be able to change the patch – try a different combination!
The Genres and Categories are listed below:
CATEGORY DISPLAY SHOWS:
Bass
Bass
Bell
Bell
Classic
Classic
Drum
Drum
Keyboard
Keyboard
Lead
Lead
Movement
Movement
Pad
Pad
Poly
Poly
SFX
SFX
String
String
External Input
ExtInput
Vocoder
Vocoder
GENRE DISPLAY SHOWS:
Classic
Classic
Drum ‘n’ Bass/ Breaks
D&B/Brks
House
House
Industrial
Industri
Jazz
Jazz
R ‘n’ B/Hip Hop
R&B/HHop
Rock and Pop
Rock/Pop
Techno
Techno
Dubstep
Dubstep
comparIng patcheS
When editing stored patches to create new sounds it may be useful to compare the edited
version with the original stored patch. This is achieved by using the
COMPARE [23]
button. Press the COMPARE button and play a key, and you will hear the original stored
patch. Release the COMPARE button play the key again and you will hear the patch in its
currently edited state. If you press the COMPARE button while in any of the menu pages
(except the Write menu), the stored patch parameters will be displayed.
You can compare the currently edited patch with any preset stored in the UltraNova. This
is useful when selecting a new location for the patch to be saved to. To do this, press the
WRITE [23] button twice to access page 2 of the Write menu. Using RE2 (Bank) and
RE3 (Patch) select the stored patch that you want to compare. Pressing and holding the
COMPARE button and a key will enable the stored patch to sound.
Note: If the WRITE button is pressed again (while in page 2 of the Write menu), the cur-
rently edited patch will be saved in the location selected by RE2 and RE3 . To avoid saving
the edited patch press any other synth button to exit the Write menu (e.g., SYNTH [25]).
StorIng a patch
It is possible to store or write your own patches directly into the UltraNova without using
the UltraNova Librarian software application. The Write menu consists of two pages and
both can be accessed by pressing the
WRITE [23] button. A third press of the WRITE
button will store the preset. It is also possible to move between the pages using the PAGE
BACK and NEXT buttons [4].
Entering patch name (Page 1)
RE1: Not used.
RE2: Cursor Position
This moves the cursor position up and down the text string for the purpose of editing
characters.
RE3: Character select
Turning RE3 scrolls through the entire character set (A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and special characters).
The location of the character being edited is determined by RE2.
RE4: not used
RE5: Uppercase characters
The parameter scrolls through the uppercase character set ‘A’ to ‘Z’. The location of the
character being edited is determined by RE2. Press the lashing button directly below RE5
to enter the character and automatically increment the cursor to its next position.
RE6: Lowercase characters
The parameter scrolls through the lowercase character set ‘a’ to ‘z’. The location of the
character being edited is determined by RE2. Press the lashing button directly below RE6
to enter the character and automatically increment the cursor to its next position.
RE7: Numerical characters
The parameter scrolls through the numerical character set ‘0’ to ‘9’. The location of the
character being edited is determined by RE2. Press the lashing button directly below RE7
to enter the character and automatically increment the cursor to its next position.
RE8: Punctuation and special characters
The parameter scrolls through a set of punctuation and special characters. The location of
the character being edited is determined by RE2. Press the lashing button directly below
RE8 to enter the character and automatically increment the cursor to its next position.
FX - EQ EQ EQBasLvl EQMidLvl EQTrbLvl EQBasFrq EQMidFrq EQTrbFrq
0 0 0 64 64 64
FX - DELAY 1/2 DELAY1 Dly1Time Dly1Sync Dly1Fbck Dly1L/R Dly1Wdth DLy1Slew
64 Off 64 1/1 127 127
FX - CHORUS 1-4CHORUS1 Ch1Type Ch1Rate Ch1Sync Ch1Fbck Ch1Depth Ch1Delay
Chorus 20 Off +10 64 64
FX- GATOR GATOR GtOn/Off GtLatch GtRSync GtKSync GtSlew GtDecay GtL/Rdel
On Off 16th On 16 64 0
GATOR GtMode EditGroup EEEE---- --------
❚❚❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚
Mono16 1 -------- --------
❚ ❚❚❚ ❚❚ ❚❚
SYNTH Patch Name
A000 Init Program
PATCH BROWSE Patch Name Find By Category Genre
A000 Init Program A000-D127 All All
PATCH SAVE PATCHSAVE Posng *------- -------- Upper Lower Number Punctuate
A o Init Program A a 0 space
PATCHSAVE Bank Patch Destination SaveCatg SaveGenre
Dest+C&G A 0 Init Program None None
TWEAK Tweak1 Tweak2 Tweak3 Tweak4 Tweak5 Tweak6 Tweak7 Tweak8
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
TOUCH M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456
0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------
NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
E123456 E123456 E123456 E123456 E123456 E123456 E123456 E123456
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456
0 R----- 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------
FX - EQ EQ EQBasLvl EQMidLvl EQTrbLvl EQBasFrq EQMidFrq EQTrbFrq
0 0 0 64 64 64
FX - DELAY 1/2 DELAY1 Dly1Time Dly1Sync Dly1Fbck Dly1L/R Dly1Wdth DLy1Slew
64 Off 64 1/1 127 127
FX - CHORUS 1-4CHORUS1 Ch1Type Ch1Rate Ch1Sync Ch1Fbck Ch1Depth Ch1Delay
Chorus 20 Off +10 64 64
FX- GATOR GATOR GtOn/Off GtLatch GtRSync GtKSync GtSlew GtDecay GtL/Rdel
On Off 16th On 16 64 0
GATOR GtMode EditGroup EEEE---- --------
❚❚❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚ ❚
Mono16 1 -------- --------
❚ ❚❚❚ ❚❚ ❚❚
SYNTH Patch Name
A000 Init Program
PATCH BROWSE Patch Name Find By Category Genre
A000 Init Program A000-D127 All All
PATCH SAVE PATCHSAVE Posng *------- -------- Upper Lower Number Punctuate
A o Init Program A a 0 space
PATCHSAVE Bank Patch Destination SaveCatg SaveGenre
Dest+C&G A 0 Init Program None None
TWEAK Tweak1 Tweak2 Tweak3 Tweak4 Tweak5 Tweak6 Tweak7 Tweak8
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
TOUCH M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456
0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------
NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods NmbrMods
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
E123456 E123456 E123456 E123456 E123456 E123456 E123456 E123456
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456 M 123456
0 R----- 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------ 0 ------