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Welcome

Hello and thanks for buying a 'Stereoping Synth Controller'. We will use 'SSC' as an
abbreviation for 'Stereoping Synth Controller' in this manual. If you purchased a DIY-
assembly kit and are looking for the building instruction ... this is the operation
manual for the finished Controller. To get the building instructions please visit
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This manual does not give a detailed introduction into the world of Midi. To fully
understand the manual, we assume you have at least a basic knowledge about Midi.

If you experience problems using this product, have feature wishes, find things
annoying, are missing an SSC-edition for your favourite synth or just want to tell us
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The manual is divided into the following sections:

1. Overview of the SSC's features
2. Integrating the SSC into your setup
3. Operation
4. The Midi data filter and the Midicontroller change message to SysEx
translator
5. Technical limitations
6. Updating firmware
7. Synth specific addendum
8. Understanding Midi timelags and how to minimize them
9. Troubleshooting
10. Changes to recent versions
11. Imprint

Operation Manual 'Stereoping Synth Controller'

V1.2 - 12.2014

© Stereoping Germany, Hattingen 2014

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Page 1: ...Synth Controller Operation Manual Operation Manual Stereoping Synth Controller V1 2 12 2014 Stereoping Germany Hattingen 2014 ...

Page 2: ...f you experience problems using this product have feature wishes find things annoying are missing an SSC edition for your favourite synth or just want to tell us you LOVE this product go ahead We are looking forward to receiving your Mail support stereoping com The manual is divided into the following sections 1 Overview of the SSC s features 2 Integrating the SSC into your setup 3 Operation 4 The...

Page 3: ...s Protection diode to avoid electronic damage from PSUs with wrong polarity Built in Midi Control Change to SysEx translator for changing and automating your synths parameters with standard Midi Control Change messages Midi bandwith optimization 1 blocks incoming SysEx data realtime data and Midi messages on Midichannels not used Midi bandwith optimization 2 pots altering parameters with few value...

Page 4: ...lpha for Roland Alpha Juno 1 2 and MKS 50 edition K3 for Kawai K3 and K3m edition 8000 for Korg DW 8000 and EX 8000 edition Microwave for Waldorf Microwave 1 Software V 2 0 edition 1006R for Matrix 1000 and Matrix 6 6r Operation Manual Stereoping Synth Controller V1 2 12 2014 Stereoping Germany Hattingen 2014 ...

Page 5: ...hannels into account when being edited by SysEx messages How to set the Midichannel is described in chapter 3 Operation Button Combinations and special modes Midichannel learn mode Technical handling The SSC was built to be used in a comfortable music studio environement You can operate it under free skies of course But please keep in mind it uses electricity for proper operation and therefore is ...

Page 6: ...the PSU should at least offer about 200 mA If it supplies more current e g 500mA this is fine and won t cause problems The SSC gently just takes the current it needs The right picture shows a suitable power supply with the important properties marked by green rectangles Please do NEVER use a powersupply on the SSC which has an AC Output AC means alternate current If you happen to encounter strange...

Page 7: ...Roland JX 8P standing in your bedroom and want to play it together with the SSC Put the SSC on a free space on your keyboard patch a Midicable from the SSC s Midi Out into your synths Midi In Now you can play on the keyboard or if your synth offers one let the arpeggiator fiddle while using the SSC to change the sound You might have to enable SysEx receiving in your synths menu first e g Kawai K3 ...

Page 8: ...is way The SSC merges incoming Midi data like notes velocity unused Midi Control Changes or pitchbend with it s own messages in Midi SysEx format and hands the data to the synth through it s Midi Out jack which therefore in fact can also be considered to be a filtered Midi Through jack Operation Manual Stereoping Synth Controller V1 2 12 2014 Stereoping Germany Hattingen 2014 ...

Page 9: ...iltering if necessary Keep in mind the SysEx message which change the parameters in your synth are quite big and might jam the Midibus Better alternative to example 3 The SSC has a built in data translator to convert Midi Control Change data into the SysEx data which your synths likes to receive for parameter changes For automation of parameter changes we recommend pluging the SSC between sequence...

Page 10: ... move the pots If you find a parameter you want to change next have a look at it s color and change into that color mode with one of the 3 buttons if it is not already selected Front panel parameters printed in neutral colors Some very common parameters according to the adaption you purchsed like Volume or Cutoff might be printed in a neutral color white black or grey These parameters are always u...

Page 11: ... has the unwanted side effect the dial position of a pot often won t correspond to the appropriate parameter value Moving such a pot will cause the synth parameter to immediately jump to the new value causing a sometimes unpleasant sonic experiance Example on a Korg DW 8000 the synths delay level is at 0 and you want to increase the delay level softly but after switching into the blue color mode y...

Page 12: ... send an All Notes Off event to your synth shortly press the button combination printed on the frontpanel In most editions the combination consists of the upper 2 buttons Hopefully all your synths voices should be quiet then Midi Channel Learn Mode The SSC has in most editions a Midi Channel Learn Mode Once engaged the SSC waits for an incoming Midi note on it s Midi In jack The wiring should look...

Page 13: ...family and Blofeld distinguishes between incoming note and pitchbend Sending a note sets the SSC as a programmer for the Q microQ and extracts the Midichannel from the note Sending a pitch bend sets the SSC as a programmer for the Blofeld and extracts the Midichannel from the pitchbend message The mode Q or Blofeld is besides the channel of course also stored permanently in memory Bypass Mode This...

Page 14: ...dard That means there are nearly 100 different characters to choose from some synthesizers from japan even offer additional hiragana or kanji characters To enhance precision for hitting the desired letter we clamped the span of a pot dial to the first 64 letters omiting the small characters at the end of the ASCII table So keep in mind if you want to use small letters in your patchname you have to...

Page 15: ...ng Data on Midi In Treatment inside SSC Data sent to Midi Out System Realtime Filtered out Nothing SysEx Data Filtered out Nothing Mididata of unused Midichannel Filtered out Nothing Mididata on used Midichannel excluding CC messages for numbers 11 63 Passed Same as incoming data CC messages for numbers 11 to 63 on used Midichannel Translation into sound changing SysEx message SysEx message for ch...

Page 16: ...meters value You will have realized the little Midicontroller numbers start with 11 Simple reason CCs 1 to 10 are commonly used to set modulation Ctr 1 volume Ctr7 paning Ctr 10 or other things and are therefore passed through the SSC unfiltered By the way the controllers above 63 are also passed through Example you own the K3 edition for your beloved Kawai K3 and want to automate the Lfo speed to...

Page 17: ...lem of sluggish delayed notes due to the small Mididata bandwidth Although CC messages are using much fewer bandwith than SysEx they are just used on the way from the DAW to the SSC for remoting knobdials The heavy SysEx data to be sent from the SSC into your synth to perform parameter changes can not be avoided Operation Manual Stereoping Synth Controller V1 2 12 2014 Stereoping Germany Hattingen...

Page 18: ...ues in your synth Dialing one of these pots lets the appropriate parameter jump immediately onto it s new value which might result in unpleasant sound changes This is normal operation and due to the concept of the SSC To overcome this issue we would have needed much more complex and expensive hardware for example by using endless encoders But we implemented a handy shortcut feature which helps in ...

Page 19: ... than 10 000 synth adaptions you can safely try them all multiple times If you decide to swap to another adaption permanently you can even get a sticker from us to change your editions frontpanel Although it might not be very funny nor easy to get the old sticker off the case Now on to the technical stuff Your computer should be able to send the firmware from it s Midi Output to the SSC s Midi Inp...

Page 20: ... either corrupt or the SSC could nt write fast enough The first is quite unlikely You can of course try to grab the firmware again from our homepage and start over More likely is the SysEx packages were sent to fast from your computer into the SSC The SSC needs some time to save an incoming datapacket into it s memory before it can receive the next packet Your SysEx dump software should offer a se...

Page 21: ...a looong time until the synth is capable playing notes in time again In addition it is very annoying having changed the wavetable unintended particularly if you can not remember which wavetable was set before the change Therefore we intentionally left out changing wavetables by Midi Control change message Issue using Letter Dial Mode The Waldorf Microwave does not update it s display after receivi...

Page 22: ...trix We intentionally have chosen Midi Control Change messages and not the fixed multi instruments parameters like Paning or Transpose The latter would have demanded using large SysEx messages instead of the smaller Midi Control change messages Another benefit of using Midicontroller Numbers is they can be freely patched in the Microwaves modulation matrix and make this mode therefore far more fle...

Page 23: ...d to get most out of the Matrix1000 s presets And it works well together with the Init patch you can send from the SSC into the Matrix In addition the 1006R edition is highly specific optimized to allow a somewhat intuitive and fluent programming of the Matrix 1000 6 family They are commonly known to behave mulish when being edited over midi Unfortunately this is due to the software hardware archi...

Page 24: ...e init patch to the Matrix you can alter cutoff and resonance by ordinary Midicontrollers 1 and 2 without the enoying jittering The most relevant settings of this patch All fixed modulations set to 0 DCO1 Pulse 50 DCO2 Pulse 50 Balance 100 DCO1 Velocity on VCA2 Envelope Cutoff 50 40 Env1 amount on VCF Matrix modulation slot 1 Ctr1 Modwheel Cutoff Matrix modulation slot 2 Ctr 2 Breath Resonance Mat...

Page 25: ...ters seem to cause heavy work inside of the Matrix synths Fiddling the pots with these parameters easily can cause your Matrix to seem dead for over a second We slowed down these parameters in the Synth Controller intentionally by sending it to the synth in larger time delays The advantage is your matrix has less blackouts and responds much better to further changes or incoming notes Of course the...

Page 26: ...en working with the SSC 1 small amount of data per second Midi sends it s digital messages which note to press how hard what wheel was turned how far what synth parameter to change to which value in data packets called bytes one after the other Only 3000 of these bytes can be sent per second from a sender e g sequencer to a receiver e g synth until data jam begins to occur And most of the messages...

Page 27: ...e heading their destiny If more messages try to pass the bus exceeding it s bandwidth the messages waiting for free bandwidth are delayed resulting in effects like delayed notes Well this is not a problem caused by the SSC this is unfortunatly the nature of the Midibus General concepts for optimizing Midi timing As you know by now the SSC makes extensive use of Midi SysEx messages which can cause ...

Page 28: ...s can handle A word on Midi patchbays Midipatchbays can help you avoid permantly pluging Midi cables around in a changing setup They also can be used to plug multiple target devices drumboxes synths onto one sending device DAW to avoid unwanted setups like devices plugged in a chain with their Midi Through jacks Although both purposes are perfectly legit the patchbay can not overcome the limited b...

Page 29: ...feature It will work better to send Midi Control change messages from your sequencer DAW into the SSC and let the SSC translate them than recording the SysEx output of the SSC into your sequencer DAW You not only have better control inside your DAW over generating and editing the Mididata when using Midi Control change messages They also consume fewer bandwith from your Midibus than SysEx And the ...

Page 30: ...re four possible reasons Please check the following a SSC and synth must use the same Midichannel b SSC s out must be connected to the synths Midi input with a working Midi cable c Many synths block SysEx data per default If so you have to dig into your synths menus to allow the receiving of SysEx data Please consult your synths manual d You or someone else flashed the firmware for an edition not ...

Page 31: ...di drumcomputer set to Midi sync does not run when starting the song in my sequencer I plugged the drumbox s Midi In to the Midi Thru of my synth which is controlled by a SSC The SSC if not in Bypass Mode filters out Midi timing information Therefore your drumbox will never see any Start or Clock messages Plug the Midi In of your drumbox on a free Midi Out jack of your sequencer DAW or use a Midi ...

Page 32: ...rets faultly Set the SSC in Matrix 6 mode by sending it a pitchbend message in learning midichannel mode See chapter 3 Button Combinations and special modes Midi Channel Learn mode My Microwave does not respond to CC changes i send into the SSC Most prbably the midichannel saves in the SSC does not correspond to the Microwaves midichannel Although turning knobs on the SSC will work the Microwave d...

Page 33: ...ntroduction of the common shortcut CC message for the term Midi Controller Change Message Changes to manual version 1 0 07 2014 1006R edition now supports Matrix 6 6R various text changes revised version of chapter 7 Synth specific addendum 1006R edition Matrix 6 specific issues added in chapter 9 Troubleshooting Operation Manual Stereoping Synth Controller V1 2 12 2014 Stereoping Germany Hattinge...

Page 34: ...n with or in dependency to any company mentioned in this manual Any text and pictures in this manual are copyrighted and might not be reproduced without the permission of the author Adress Stereoping Gregor Zoll Musikelektronik Waldstrasse 52 45525 Hattingen Germany E Mail hallo stereoping de Homepage http www stereoping com Operation Manual Stereoping Synth Controller V1 2 12 2014 Stereoping Germ...

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