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Summary of Contents for Quintet

Page 1: ...Quintet Vocal Harmony Reverb U US SE ER R S S M MA AN NU UA AL L ...

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Page 3: ...es not operate normally or has been dropped This equipment should be installed near the socket outlet and disconnection of the device should be easily accessible Do not install in a confined space Do not open the unit risk of electric shock inside Caution You are cautioned that any change or modifications not expressly approved in this manual could void your authority to operate this equipment Ser...

Page 4: ... a Class B Digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in residential installations This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee ...

Page 5: ...ers 15 FOOTSWITCH CONTROL Alternate Settings 16 HARMONY AND TUNING Harmony 17 Harmony Modes 17 Notes Mode 17 Shift Mode 17 Chord Chordal Mode 17 Scale Scalic Mode 18 Diatonic and Chromatic 19 Just Tuning 20 MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Parameters Accessible via MIDI 21 MIDI Implementation Chart 21 SPECIFICATIONS Technical Specifications 23 TEXT CONVENTIONS Names of front panel controls and keys are written...

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Page 7: ...aimed TC Electronic Reverb We hope you will enjoy using the Quintet as much as we enjoyed designing it Features HybridShift TM harmony generation for smooth natural sound Five distinct harmony Modes Scalic Chordal Shift Thicken and MIDI Notes Humanization of harmony voices Selectable Equal Temperament or Just Tuning for harmonies High Quality Mic Preamp MIDI CC control MIDI CC echo of front panel ...

Page 8: ...possibly causing digital distortion Reduce the input level to correct this condition OUTPUT CLIP LED Indicates an internal DSP overflow Reduce the overall level of the harmony voices and vocal effects to correct this condition MIDI IN LED Indicates valid incoming MIDI information LCD TEXT DISPLAY Displays top level preset information preset recall mode detailed preset information edit menus system...

Page 9: ...mode to recall a preset overwriting the current preset when the current preset has been edited or when previewing a different preset STORE Press STORE to enter store mode Pressing store when in store mode will store the current preset to the displayed location The STORE key LED blinks when the current preset has been edited DATA WHEEL Edits the value of the current parameter from any menu or mode ...

Page 10: ... The 1 4 analog Input and Output connectors on the Quintet are balanced 1 4 jacks Optimal connection to balanced equipment is achieved using balanced cables However if your equipment is NOT balanced you will generally have no problems using standard mono to mono cables as illustrated below Balanced Jack Analog Input Mono 1 4 Cable GND TIP TIP GND TIP RING GND GND RING TIP TRS Tip Ring Sleave 1 4 b...

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Page 12: ... outputs to a stereo channel or two mono channels on your mixer For mono operation use either of the Quintet outputs and set the unit to mono operation with the OUTPUT parameter under the setup menu Live Setup with Guitar Connect a microphone to the XLR mic input on the Quintet and enable MIC input from the front panel Plug the Switch 3 footswitch into the Quintet Pedal In jack This allows foot co...

Page 13: ... the MIDI out from the computer to the MIDI in on the Quintet Connect the right and left outputs of the Quintet to your mixer and monitor in real time what the Quintet is doing without dealing with the time delay associated with routing the signal in and out of the computer Connect the computer stereo audio outputs to your mixer The Quintet s pristine 128dB EIN Equivalent Input Noise mic preamp an...

Page 14: ...LOBAL REVERB or GLOBAL MIX parameters are set to On all parameters except Reverb and mix settings will be stored to that preset RECALL Recalling a preset means loading activating a stored preset The stored preset data is copied into the current preset Press RECALL to enter recall mode Use the DATA WHEEL to preview presets Blinking preset number information indicates a previewed preset Previewing m...

Page 15: ... harmonies In chord mode presets the harmony voices are always notes in the chord For example the ABOVE key produces a har mony voice the next note above the note of the input voice in the chord If the Chord was C Major and the input note was an E the ABOVE key would produce a G harmony voice just above the input E The voicing options for chordal mode presets are shown below Shift Mode Presets In ...

Page 16: ...y will cycle through the following parameters HARMONY MODE Select the harmony mode Available parame ters Scale Scalic presets Chord Chordal presets Shift Thicken and Notes Shift Thicken and Notes presets See the Harmony and Tuning section of the manual for a full description of each harmony mode ROOT Sets the scale root in Scale Mode presets sets the chord root in Chord Mode presets SCALE CHORD Se...

Page 17: ...oices in notes mode The value corresponds to octaves This is useful when used in conjunction with Keyboard Zone REVERB Global Preset This parameter allows you to select whether the reverb type is different per preset or global for all presets MIX Global Preset This parameter allows you to select whether the mix levels is different per preset or global for all presets DRY LEAD On Off Setting this p...

Page 18: ...ate settings allow you to store different voicings Scale Type and Scale root To set alternate settings for a Scale Preset do the following 1 Power up the Quintet with a Switch 3 footswitch plugged in 2 Select a Scale Preset 3 Press BUTTON 1 of the Switch 3 footswitch Notice that there is now an a following the preset number 4 You can now change which voices are enabled from the front panel for the...

Page 19: ...e more depth about harmonies We ve tried to keep it practical focusing on what Quintet can do for you Harmony Modes Quintet has five different harmony modes which give five unique methods of creating harmony Once we get into describing the more complex harmony modes we ll be show ing you examples based on the C major scale If you are unfamiliar with this scale we ve shown C major here Notes Mode I...

Page 20: ...yourself The Quintet has five preprogrammed harmony scales three major three minor and one cus tom per preset Setting the scale can also take a bit of practice for songs centered around the third or root of the scale it might not sound like there s any noticeable differences between the three major or three minor scales This is because your song doesn t hit any of the scale s altered notes A melod...

Page 21: ...ead note where the chromatic harmony would stay exactly 4 semitones a major 3rd above each note To recap we have three different harmony modes that use chromatic or diatonic scales Shifting which uses the chromatic 12 semi tone scale changes the input pitch by a fixed number of semitones Chordal which uses the root third fifth and sometimes seventh of the many diatonic scales pitches the harmony v...

Page 22: ...old you this your expensive grand piano and the last great keyboard synthesizer you bought are both out of tune Well to be fair we can say instead that they are all tuned using Equal temperament Harmony is the result of the interaction between differing audible frequencies in ratios that sound musical to the human ear A more exact ratio leads to a nicer sounding harmony Most instruments like the p...

Page 23: ... to get 95 of what you need as quickly as possible If you need to dive in a little further we ve made additional parameters available through MIDI In order to be able to use these parameters effectively a few concepts must be understood The Quintet has 4 voices of Harmonies The voices that are enabled via the VOICE KEYS are numbered 1 to 4 based on the Lit keys from left to right If only two voice...

Page 24: ... 41 0 127 Tuning Mode 42 0 2 Harmony Notes Attack 44 0 127 Harmony Notes Release 45 0 127 Harmony Latch 95 0 63 Off 64 127 On Harmony Bypass 110 0 63 Off 64 127 On Reverb Level 91 0 127 Reverb Type 59 0 13 Lead Level 13 0 127 Lead Pan 73 0 127 Notes 4 channel 74 0 63 Off 64 127 On Mix Global 86 0 127 Setup Output Level 87 0 127 Reverb Global 88 0 63 OFF 64 127 ON Bypass All 114 0 63 Bypassed 64 12...

Page 25: ... S PDIF 24 bit 44 1 kHz 48 kHz 0 1 ms DC to 22 23 9 kHz 0 01 dB 44 1 48 kHz Mic XLR Line phone jack Mic 3 6 1 8 kOhm Line 21 13 kOhm 24 dBu to 0 dBu 12 dBu to 12 dBu 13 dBu 7 dBu to 53 dBu 33 dBu 25 dBu 5 dBu to 65 dBu 45 dBu 92 dB 20 Hz 20 kHz 2 dB 127 4 dBu 100 dB 0 001 1 kHz 0 0 1 dB 20 Hz to 20 kHz 1 5 dB 40 Hz 0 0 1 dB 200 Hz to 20 kHz 85 dB 20 Hz to 20 kHz 24 bit 128 x oversampling bitstream...

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