Rossum ASSIMIL8OR, Operation Manual

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Copying Zones
If you’ve
previously
programmed
a zone (either
in the current
channel or
in another
channel in your
preset) that you
would like copy
into a zone in
the currently
selected channel, highlight the destination
zone’s sample (or the
++ field for a new
zone) and long press the encoder switch.
This will bring up the
Copy Zone
field. Scroll
to the zone that you’d like to copy into the
selected zone and click the encoder.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The sample assigned
to Zone 1 will also appear in the sample
name field for the selected channel on the
Channels page. If you replace that sample on
the Channels page, it will, as you might expect,
replace the sample in
Zone 1.
If you delete that
sample on the Channels page, it will indeed
delete Zone 1. (See Deleting Zones below
for details on how that affects the remaining
zones.)
Selecting Zones
When on the Zones screen, you can select a
zone simply by highlighting its sample name.
You can also select a zone from any screen
by pressing and holding the
Zones/Select
button and pressing the channel button
whose number corresponds to the zone you
want to select (e.g., to select
Zone 4,
press
the Channel 4 button). While that’s not too
useful while on the Zones screen (it’s typically
easier to use the encoder), it comes in really
handy when you’re editing the other zones-
dependent parameters: Pitch, Level, Sample
Start/End, and Loop Start End/Length. Using
that technique, you can select various zones
and edit them in sequence without having to
leave the parameter screen.
Voltage Selection Ranges
Each time you add a new zone, the default
voltage selection range for that zone is half
of what was the voltage range for the zone
above it.
“Huh?” you might well be thinking. If so, let’s
look at how the default ranges work:
With one zone, the default range is -5V to
+5V (i.e., the entire voltage range).
When you add a second zone, the default
ranges are now:
Zone 1:
+5V to 0V
Zone 2 : 0V to -5V
Now add a third zone and it becomes:
Zone 1: +5V to 0V
Zone 2: 0V to -2.5V
Zone 3: -2.5V to -5V
I.e, Zone 3 has split what was Zone 2’s range
in half, leaving
Zone 1
unaffected.
Add another and you get:
Zone 1:
+5V to 0V
Zone 2:
0V to -2.5V
Zone 3: -2.5V to -3.75V
Zone 4: -3.75V to -5V
Now Zone 4 has split what was Zone 3’s
range in half, leaving Zone 1 and Zone 2
unaffected.
This process continues until you’ve added all
the zones you want.
At that point, you’ll probably want to adjust
the various voltage ranges for your particular
needs. There are two ways to do that:
Automatic Equalization This one’s easy.
If you want all of the zones to have an
equally sized voltage range, just highlight
any voltage field (it doesn’t matter which
one) and long-press the encoder. The
ranges will be automatically adjusted to
that each zone’s range is of equal size.