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3. Overview
Let's take a quick look on the user interface first. Details to the different modes and buttons are following behind
– if necessary at all..
The 45 turn dials are – you guess it already – for direct changing of the parameters of the Pulse.
The 4 endless encoders are for finetuning values, the mod matrix or other features tweaked best with a display.
There are 4 lines, each starting on an encoder and ending in a corner of the display. This should help finding the
right encoder of the parameter you want to change.
The 7 buttons change main modes, switch the Arpeggiator between OFF/ON/HOLD or change the octave of the
whole pulse or individual oscillators. The 4 buttons above the display sometimes have a secondary function:
Function keys
In modes like ARPEGGIATOR SETUP, MODULATION, SYNC & E-PATCH the 4 buttons above the display act as
function keys to activate different menu functions. A button acting as function key has it's LED lighted and shows
a command printed in capitals in the 1st line of the display.
PLAY Mode
After powerup you are directly in
PLAY MODE
. This is the main mode you will spend most time in: here you
change the parameters of the Pulse with the knobs. Details to PLAY Mode follow in
Chapter 4. Play Mode
Button 'MOD'
MODULATION MODE
offers comfortable access to the modulation possibilities of the Pulse. Press MOD again to
leave this mode and head back to PLAY Mode. More on this in
Chapter 5. Modulation Mode
Button 'SYNC' / [Prefs]
Here you enter
SYNC
Mode to sync the Pulse with the Programmer. On pressing the function key REQ, the
Programmer requests the parameter data of the selected program number. More on synching in
Chapter 6. Sync
Mode
Note: Programmer and Pulse can also be synched outside the Sync Mode by 'dumping' the currently selected Pulse
program manually from the Pulse: press the Pulse buttons SHIFT & MODE/DUMP, the Pulse's display shows 'PrG', simply
press SHIFT&DUMP again. The Programmer's display responds with 'RQ Success / Patch #52'.
Below the SYNC button you see the word [Prefs] in brackets. This means you can enter the Programmer's
preferences by holding the button for 2 seconds. The Prefs allow to change the Programmer's midichannel and
the number of cascaded pulses.
Buttons Octave
The buttons labeled OCTAVE allow to quickly change tuning of the whole Pulse or individual oscillators UP and
DOWN by octaves. The last touched knob is important here: if you just dialed a knob on one of the 3 oscillators
(Semitone, Tune, Shape, Level) the OCTAVE buttons have impact on just this single oscillator. After having
changed any of the knobs not related to the oscillators (e.g. Lfo1 Speed), OCTAVE changes all 3 oscillators
together. If any of the 3 does not allow another octave up or down the display shows '
Octaving refused – Border
reached'
.
After powering up the Programmer and not having synched with the Pulse yet, the OCTAVE buttons refuse to
work saying
'Octaving refused – No patch data'.
Button 'E-Patch'
Your Synth Programmer offers saving another 25 Pulse Programs, even with Program names. This mode is for
loading and saving these 'E-Patches' (for EEPROM-Patches). Details follow in
Chapter 7. E-Patch Mode
Synth Programmer for Waldorf Pulse – Operation manual V 1.0 – 01/2018
© Stereoping Germany, Meschede 2018
