The Harvestman Stillson Hammer mkII Operation Manual Download Page 3

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BURST- COUNT:

 

Select this page for the current track by pressing 

the “COUNT” page select key. When selected, the slider 

LEDs will light if an active BURST trigger is programmed 

onto that step. Note that bursts will not repeat unless you 

have programmed a value into the “SPEED” page.

 

The BURST function causes the GATE OUTPUT 

for a track to repeat itself when its step is triggered, also 

known as “retriggering” or “ratcheting". You can choose 

the amount of repetitions, as well as enable the BURST 

from this page.

 

To assign a BURST to a step, move the slider 

upwards. If a slider is at the bottom of its travel, the 

BURST for that step will be inactive. Watch the display 

to see the exact number of repeat events that you are 

programming.

 

For ease of editing, press the encoder button to 

reveal which steps have active GATEs on the slider LEDs.

BURST - SPEED:

 

This page controls the delay before a BURST 

event repeats. If you program this page, its data will only 

be useful for steps with active GATE and BURST.  The 

speed setting will not be updated if a BURST is currently 

running. You must activate a new BURST from the COUNT 

page to change the repeat rate.

 

For ease of editing, press the encoder button to 

reveal which steps have active BURST triggers on the 

slider LEDs.

DELAY:

 

Use the sliders to program the time offset for each 

step’s GATE.  This is expressed as a division of one step 

length. A slider set to the minimum position will give no 

DELAY to the GATE. If the delayed GATE event overruns 

the step’s length, it will be reset at the end of the step 

unless the corresponding GATE length on the original step 

is set to Tie.

 

For ease of editing, press the encoder button to 

reveal which steps have active GATEs on the slider LEDs.

MODIFIER BUTTONS:
INIT

 

The INIT key initializes sequence parameters. You 

must hold it down while pushing other buttons. You may 

do this with any of the PAGE SELECT keys, or you may 

initialize entire tracks by holding it down and pressing any 

of the TRACK SELECT keys.

SHIFT

 

The SHIFT key adds alternate functionality to other 

buttons or sliders.

 

Hold SHIFT and press the CLOCK button to 

disable the operation of the large clock rate knob, for live 

performance convenience.

 

Hold SHIFT + ENCODER buttons while pressing 

a RANGE key to increment or decrement the currently 

playing preset. Unless in Random transport mode, the 

preset will change when the sequence reaches Track 1’s 

reset point.

 

Hold SHIFT + ENCODER buttons while moving 

a slider on any page to set all steps on that page to that 

slider value, as if you were moving all 16 of them at once.

RANDOM

 

Hold RANDOM and press any PAGE key to 

randomize its slider values. The same can be done with a 

TRACK SELECT button to randomize an entire TRACK’s 

basic parameters. When RANDOMizing a track, hold down 

the SHIFT key as well, to cause a deeper randomization 

across all pages (including CV destinations)

 

Hold RANDOM and press the LOAD key to load a 

random sequence from the MEMORY. 

CV A/B  - ASSIGNABLE CONTROLLERS

 

The two external A/B inputs combine with the 

action of the large manual controls to modify selected 

parameters of the sequence. The Stillson Hammer expects 

voltages in the range of 0 to +5V. Voltages outside of this 

range should not damage the unit, but will have no effect 

on the sequence.

 

The two external A/B channels must be 

programmed by holding down either of the two buttons. 

While holding down the buttons, move the sliders to 

program the value for each step. Think of the sliders in 

this mode as “attenuators per step”, where the incoming 

CV (or manual control value) will be multiplied by the slider 

value before being sent out to the selected destinations. 

Each track can have very different CV programs all sharing 

the same two control sources, so a single preset can 

provide hours of performance variation if appropriately 

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