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Summary of Contents for mRings SE Series

Page 1: ...esigned by Olivier Gillet of Mutable Instruments mutable instruments net Manufactured by Elecrow in Shenzhen China elecrow com Assembled at Rust Temple in Easthampton MA rusttemple today c b a License...

Page 2: ...Warranty 5 Polyphony Selection 6 Resonator Selection 7 Making Connections 9 Front Panel 11 Calibration 14 Firmware Warnings 15 Firmware Update 16 Serial Programming 17 JTAG Programming 18 Documentatio...

Page 3: ...Rings firmware upgrades and any other alternate firmwares that are compliant with the standard Rings design Included Parts Rings SE includes a standard 16 pin to 10 pin Eurorack power cable and two s...

Page 4: ...t modules rings was designed by Olivier Gillet of Mutable Instruments mutable instruments net about under a CC BY SA 3 0 creativecommons org licenses by sa 3 0 license Rings is available as a 14HP Eur...

Page 5: ...o impact or any aftermarket physical or electrical modifications or repairs This warranty covers either repair or replacement at our sole discretion This repair or replacement is subject to verificati...

Page 6: ...ony of the module LED Color Notes Green 1 Amber 2 Red 4 Enabling four note polyphony doesn t mean that four CV input jacks will magically appear on the module but simply that four notes played in sequ...

Page 7: ...tring strike a drum or blow in a tube the short burst of energy of the blow impact contains many frequencies Some of these fall outside of the modes and are absorbed Some of these excite the modes pro...

Page 8: ...g Red This last method is perhaps the most familiar since it s based on the extended Karplus Strong method the excitation signal is sent to a comb filter with an absorption filter simulating the multi...

Page 9: ...e possible to get these three signals in your setup Rings makes the following assumptions 1 If nothing is patched to the IN audio input the module will synthesize an excitation signal whenever a note...

Page 10: ...You can play Rings perfectly with just one CV output taken from a sequencer or sample hold module The note changes on the CV input will be interpreted as note changes and the module will produce a su...

Page 11: ...requency ratios between all strings with virtual notches at octaves or fifths Finally with the modulated inharmonic string resonator this parameter controls the amount of modulation and detuning of th...

Page 12: ...ts between monophonic duophonic and quadriphonic operation MODE Resonator type Selects between modal sympathetic and string resonators STRUM Strumming trigger input for polyphonic operation Whenever a...

Page 13: ...ven numbered partials with the modal resonator dephased components due to picking position and pickup placement with the string resonators In polyphonic mode the signal is split into odd and even numb...

Page 14: ...librated keyboard interface or MIDI CV converter to the V OCT input jack 3 Connect a patch cable to the FREQ CV input Leave the other end of the cable unplugged 4 Press and hold both the POLY and MODE...

Page 15: ...ckground music etc from your computer will be played during the procedure Make sure that your speakers monitors are muted or not connected to your audio interface the noises emitted during the procedu...

Page 16: ...n is optimal when the MODE LED is green or yellow Try adjusting the FREQ knob to change gain The module will periodically pause to write data to its permanent memory Both LEDs will be amber during the...

Page 17: ...hrouded 6 pin header labeled FTDI H6 on the module s PCB This is a JST XH header that works very well with the 0 1 pitch female connectors that are frequently found on these cables Only pins 1 GND 4 R...

Page 18: ...ps are necessary to prepare the module for programming via this method If you are interested in serial or JTAG programming please explore the Vagrant environment for Mutable Instruments modules hackin...

Page 19: ...of Mutable Instruments and released under the CC BY SA 3 0 license Modifications and additions to this material were created by Tall Dog and released under the compatible CC BY SA 4 0 license For an o...

Page 20: ...the following terms Attribution You must give appropriate credit provide a link to the license and indicate if changes were made You may do so in any reasonable manner but not in any way that suggest...

Page 21: ...c music for over 40 years His music is a creative mix of electronic jazz world and contemporary classical idioms and is available on 9 albums of original work as Michael William Gilbert The music has...

Page 22: ...Rings SE User Manual Revised 2018 11 05 Documentation CC BY SA 4 0...

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