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Страница 2: ... Mimeophon FCC Limited Warranty Installation OUSPEVDUJPO Panel Controls and Inputs Outputs Understanding the Mimeophon Tips and Tricks Patch Corner Appendix Input Gain Level Table of Contents 3 4 5 6 7 9 16 17 19 ...
Страница 3: ...sted and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may c...
Страница 4: ...ill apply During the warranty period any defective products will be repaired or replaced at the option of Make Noise on a return to Make Noise basis with the customer paying the transit cost to Make Noise Make Noise implies and accepts no responsibility for harm to person or apparatus caused through operation of this product Please contact technical makenoisemusic com with any questions Return To ...
Страница 5: ...ular synthesizer system Go to http www makenoisemusic com for examples of Eurorack Systems and Cases To install find 16hp of space in your Eurorack synthesizer case confirm proper installation of included eurorack bus board connector cable on backside of module see picture below plug the bus board connector cable into the Eurorack style bus board minding the polarity so that the RED stripe on the ...
Страница 6: ...ate continuously controls Repeats frequency within Zones Skew lets Rate control Repeats differently for Left and Right channels μRate offers dedicated Doppler Modulation Tempo Sync for Doppler Free modulation of Rate create complex repeat patterns Control number of Repeats up to and beyond Infinite Halo smears Repeats in stereo space Color focuses feedback energy for timbral shifts over time Rate ...
Страница 7: ... as attenuator for that parameter 6 Mix CV input CV input for Mix Range 0 8V Normalled to 8V 7 Repeats Panel Control Sets number of Repeats from 1 to When HOLD is engaged sets Repeats start point 8 Repeats CV Input CV Input for Repeats Range 0 5VDC 9 Rate Panel Control Sets frequency of Repeats in current Zone When Skew is on Rate controls Left and Right Repeat frequency in opposite directions 10 ...
Страница 8: ... FLIP Button LED Press to Flip Repeats so they are heard in reverse Will cause total protonic reversal distortion in Zone 0 23 HOLD Input Expects Gate of 2 5V or greater Toggles HOLD on and off 24 HOLD Button LED Press to HOLD Repeats indefinitely and non destructively When HOLD is engaged Repeats control sets Repeat start point for currently selected Zone 25 RATE Output Trigger output containing ...
Страница 9: ...t channels In this case note that Halo and Ping Pong will both cause some repeats of each Input to make it to the opposite Output The Mix combo pot sets the balance between the input signals and the Repeats that will appear at the outputs When a signal is patched to the Mix CV input the combo pot acts as attenuator for that signal Zones At any given time the Mimeophon is playing back Repeats from ...
Страница 10: ...t Rates are 1 16 the time in Zone 0 this translates to a 4 octave range When the TEMPO input is not in use the Rate ranges for each Zone are as follows rounded to the nearest millisecond for longer Zones and the nearest 1 10 of one millisecond for shorter Zones Zone 0 1 3ms to 20 4ms Zone 1 20 4ms to 81 6ms Zone 2 81 6ms to 326 5ms Zone 3 163 3ms to 653 1ms Zone 4 326 5ms to 1 306s Zone 5 653 1ms ...
Страница 11: ...n add great depth to monaural sounds and further increases the depth when using interestingly panned stereo sound sources Press the SKEW Button again to toggle it OFF The Button is no longer lit and the Rate parameter controls both channels in tandem while maintaining the SKEW as it was at the moment when SKEW was turned OFF Turn SKEW ON and OFF once while Rate is not being modulated to clear the ...
Страница 12: ...nd maintains the same short range across all Zones thus allowing for consistent doppler effects even while TEMPO is patched the Rate parameter is changing without doppler Doppler effects include chorus vibrato and flange This input has a linear response in Zones 1 7 and is affected by Skew Within Zone 0 it has a 1V Octave exponential response making it useful for controlling Karplus Strong tone ge...
Страница 13: ... x1 1 4 1 1 12 30 1 1 4 1 1 3 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 3 4 2 Full CW Multiply or divide any of these by powers of 2 by changing Zones With a Skew in place two multiples or divisions may be heard at once in the Left and Right Ouputs With Ping Pong engaged the channels will also switch places with each new Repeat When combining all this with modulation of Rate and Zone many interlocking rhythmic combinations a...
Страница 14: ...k is so fast that the Rate output will stay HIGH all the time HOLD The HOLD button temporarily stops the Repeats from changing no sound will enter or exit the feedback path Once the button is pressed or a gate received at its input the Mimeophon will ignore the input and continue to Repeat according to the Zone and Rate controls with timbre set by the Color and Halo until the HOLD button is presse...
Страница 15: ...Reversal the distortion of sound which happens when you flip an audio buffer every 70 samples The resulting sounds can then be sculpted using Color Halo and Repeats Audio rate modulation of the Flip gate input in small Zones creates particularly interesting sounds Note Rate modulation with Flip engaged will not result in the same Doppler shifting effects that are heard when Flip and Tempo are not ...
Страница 16: ... Rate Take advantage of this Impulses and noise bursts make great inputs for Zone 0 as do droning oscillators Flip Zone 0 or 1 while sequencing μRate to drop the sequence by an octave and change its harmonic structure With Skew engaged in Zones 1 7 μRate s response is inverted on the right channel which is great for creating stereo chorus Try a lower amplitude LFO of 10Hz or slower to start Repeat...
Страница 17: ...ones creating a rhythmic lattice Stepped random voltage is also a great CV source for Zone Karplus String Patch a triggered MATHS function Rise CCW Fall 10 12 Response 2 00 to the Left input of the Mimeophon Go to Zone 0 Set Rate full CW Repeats to 1 00 Halo full CCW Mix to 1 00 and Color to 12 00 Patch a pitch CV to the Micro Rate input and adjust Repeats control to set the String s decay Each ti...
Страница 18: ... Repeats resonance shimmer Variation Zone 1 or 2 for flange effect Filter Verb Walker Turn Mix fully clockwise and Repeats and Rate fully counterclockwise and enter Zone 0 These settings can be used to access Color and Halo with no apparent Repeats Use Color as a subtle character filter and Halo to generate air Engaging FLIP will create protonic reversal to generate harmonics subharmonics and othe...
Страница 19: ...gnal Hold down the FLIP and HOLD buttons to cycle through four options for input gain level The currently selected option will be displayed via the color of the ZONE Window as follows BLUE 3dB GREEN 0dB Unity ORANGE 3dB RED 6dB Monitor the input signal while selecting input gain level to hear the effect of the selected level Release both buttons to select and exit Note Boosting input gain may resu...
Страница 20: ... following feature Clear all Zones by setting Mix and Repeats fully counterclockwise If your Mimeophon has a serial number of 1000 or higher you do NOT need this update Check the Zone Activity Window for correct colors on power up MP70 Zone Light Pink Red If your Mimeophon already powers up with these colors you do not need this update ...
