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Connect the CV and Gate outputs of a keyboard or MIDI interface to the SPREAD (5) and CLOCK (6) inputs
respectively.
1.
Hold the external processing mode button [O] for 2 seconds. The LED above the scale selection button [J]
blinks and indicates the active scale. This scale is going to be reprogrammed!
2.
Play a little jam in the scale you want to program. Fifty notes, or more, is the recommended length. 3.
Press the button [O] when done. 4.
The module analyzes your jam to measure how frequently each note occurs. The least frequently played
notes will be the first to be eliminated when
STEPS is turned clockwise from 12 o’clock. The most
frequently played note will be the last one to remain when STEPS is at 5 o’clock.
Note: it is also possible, at step 3, to play the scale in ascending order, instead of a long melody. In this
case, the module will not know the relative importance of each note of the scale, and the gradual scale
“carving” will not be performed: turning the
STEPS button from 12 o’clock to 5’clock will not modify the
scale.
One can take advantage of the way the module counts notes to program several subsets of the same
scale along the course of the
STEPS knob. For example if we play :
C D E F G A B C D F G A C F G C G C
We’ll get, right after 12 o’clock, C D E F G A B ; then C D F G A (least frequent notes E and B are
eliminated) ; then C F G (less frequent notes D and A eliminated) ; then C G (F is the next to be
eliminated) ; then C (which is the most frequent note in the fragment).
Hold the external processing mode button [O] for 2 seconds to enter the scale recording mode. The LED
above the scale selection button [J] blinks and indicates the active scale. This scale is going to be
reprogrammed!
1.
Hold the external processing mode button [O] for 2 seconds. The currently active scale is reprogrammed to
its factory data.
2.
If DEJA VU is past 12 o’clock and the loop length is set to 1, the outputs remain frozen in the same state.
If DEJA VU is around 11 o’clock, the loop will slowly mutate.
The DEJA VU knob has a “virtual notch” at 12 o’clock - even if it is not exactly at 12 o’clock, you will still get a
perfectly non-random loop.
Once a sequence is looping, it is still possible to alter it with
SPREAD/BIAS to map it to a different range of
voltages.
Once a sequence is looping, a rapid double press on the
DEJA VU buttons reseeds it.
When the X section is not externally clocked, X
1
, X
2
and X
3
are rhythmically independent from each other,
each output changing its voltage at its own pace. Setting the loop LENGTH to 3 (for example), will cause
each output to go through a 3-note sequence independently from the other, creating polyrythmic effects.
Self-patching is a rewarding technique with Marbles! In particular, the
Y output provides a useful slow
modulation source for randomizing the other parameters of the module.
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