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MANUAL

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Summary of Contents for PatchMate LOOP 8

Page 1: ...ay be covered by one or more of the following U S Patents 4538297 4647876 4696044 4745309 4881047 4893099 5124657 5263091 5268527 5319713 5333201 5402498 and 5493617 Other patents pending Foreign patents pending ...

Page 2: ...this possibility always use good shielded cables for all audio input and output connections This will help insure compliance with the Directive s Copyright 2008 GHS Corporation All rights reserved Active Input Impedance Active Output Impedeance Input Jacks Send Jacks Return Jacks Output Jacks Power requirements Dimensions MIDI In Thru Out Phantom power Presets MIDI program change Midi control Rela...

Page 3: ...cturer Insure that the case stand tripod bracket etc is properly adjusted and setup follow all instructions Extra care and caution should be taken to avoid tip over and injury Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unused during long periods of time Refer all service to qualiﬁed service personnel Servicing is required when the apparatus has been damaged in any way such as power supp...

Page 4: ...ws the user to use any MIDI Continuous Control ler number without any other programming effort The PatchMate LOOP 8 has buffered ACTIVE and PASSIVE inputs with PASSIVE ACTIVE and AC TIVE outputs on the back The PatchMate LOOP 8 may be set to any MIDI channel and is programma ble from the front panel It may also be conﬁgured for use on any of 16 banks of controllers via the front panel switches and...

Page 5: ...UT back panel 3 PASSIVE Input Jack Plug your guitar into this jack if you would like to bypass the buffered input allowing your guitar signal to feed thru wire to wire This feed thru signal is present on the PAS ACT OUT PUT on the back panel of the PatchMate PASSIVE INPUT front panel PAS ACT OUTPUT back panel Note When the PASSIVE Input is NOT being used the ACTIVE buffered OUTPUT will be present ...

Page 6: ...3 on the front panel of the PatchMate LOOP 8 4 LOOP Section Number 4 These jacks are used to connect your fourth device in the signal chain These jacks correspond to the LOOP Button Number 4 on the front panel of the PatchMate LOOP 8 5 LOOP Section Number 5 These jacks are used to connect your ﬁfth device in the signal chain These jacks correspond to the LOOP Button Number 5 on the front panel of ...

Page 7: ... jack to plug in your MIDI controller This jack is a 7 Pin MIDI Jack however a stan dard 5 Pin MIDI Cable can be used If plugging into a Rocktron MIDI controller such as the All Access MIDI Mate or MIDI Xchange we recommend using the Rocktron RMM900 7 Pin MIDI Cable sold separately Pins 6 and 7 supply phantom power to the Rocktron MIDI controller when using the RMM900 13 POWER Jack Plug the includ...

Page 8: ...nter the LOOP through this jack 2 SEND N C Jack This jack is used to send the signal to the desired audio device 3 RETURN Jack This jack is used to receive the returned signal from the desired audio device 4 OUT N O Jack This jack is then used to send the signal to the next LOOP or next device in the signal chain ...

Page 9: ...9 This connection diagram shows one way to use the LOOPs in the PatchMate Although only two con nections are shown here you can follow a similar progression of connects using LOOPs 3 8 Connections ...

Page 10: ...ntinued This connection diagram shows one way to use the LOOPs in the PatchMate to connect stompboxes pedals Although only two connections are shown here you can follow a similar progression of con nects using LOOPs 3 8 ...

Page 11: ...11 This connection diagram shows one way to use the LOOPs in the PatchMate to connect to multiple ef fects processors Connections continued ...

Page 12: ...12 1 OUT N O RETURN SEND N C IN PReamp 1 PReamp 2 Connections continued This connection diagram shows one way to use the LOOPs in the PatchMate to connect to two different preamp ...

Page 13: ...13 This connection diagram shows one way to use the LOOPs in the PatchMate to connect two ampliﬁers and select between the two Connections continued ...

Page 14: ...14 Connections continued This connection diagram shows one way to use the PatchMate s buffered connection ...

Page 15: ...15 Connections continued This connection diagram shows one way to use the PatchMates buffered connection to connect to two different preamps ...

Page 16: ...16 Connections continued This connection diagram shows one way to connect the PatchMate to MUTE an effects processor where parallel effect routings are being implemented ...

Page 17: ...minating the need to have a power adatper plugged directly into the MIDI Controller The power provide is 9VAC To use this feature you will need a Rocktron RMM900 MIDI Cable sold separately See the Rocktron website www rocktron com for more information The PHANTOM POWER feature is provided exclusive to support all ROCKTRON MIDI CONTROL LER products Please refer to your owners manual before attempti...

Page 18: ...FIGURATION PROGRAMMING MODE 2 The Front panel will be displaying the current MIDI CHANNEL conﬁguration information To modify the MIDI CHANNEL information press the desired button combination Once you have made your selections PRESS and RELEASE the STORE BUTTON You may PRESS CANCEL 6 ON then PRESS STORE and release if no changes are needed MIDI CONFIGURATION PROGRAMMING DEFAULT ...

Page 19: ...19 MIDI Channel Select ...

Page 20: ...ng displayed 4 You may now make your selections or you may PRESS CANCEL 6 ON then PRESS and RE LEASE the STORE BUTTON 5 When you are ready to store the information simply PRESS and RELEASE the STORE BUTTON The STORE BUTTON will blink slowly followed by the recall of preset 1 Programming is now completed MIDI CONTROLLER PROGRAMMING DEFAULT MIDI Controller Setup ...

Page 21: ...n PRESS and RELEASE the STORE BUTTON to CANCEL the PROGRAM MING MODE Note If CANCEL is executed any modiﬁed information will not be retained STEREO LINK When selected BUTTONS 1 4 will become the control over the linked pairs 1 to 5 2 to 6 3 to 7 4 to 8 ...

Page 22: ...G MODE 2 PRESS SWITCH 5 TO ILLUMINATE IT PRESET DUMP 3 PRESS and RELEASE the STORE BUTTON to execute a dump of all user preset data via MIDI The STORE BUTTON will blink rapidly during this process After the PatchMate LOOP 8 has ﬁnished the Midi Preset Dump process the PROGRAMMING MODE will be canceled and the PatchMate LOOP 8 will return to the current PRESET ...

Page 23: ...es ROCKTRON s exclusive Smart Controller Technology which allows the PatchMate LOOP 8 to receive Latching or Momentary controller messages then applying user pro grammed release delay times This feature provides the user the ability to control Ampliﬁers that use momentary pulses to switch channels using latching or momentary midi continuous controller messages with a pre determined delay applied t...

Page 24: ...delay release timer Note When this feature is being used any transmitted value of 0 will be ignored as the delay will handle the off state execution Therefore Momentary ampliﬁer switching may be attained without the need to provide a momentary controller message Setting the PatchMate using MIDI Program Changes continued ...

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