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CRAZY8 

BEATS

USER’S MANUAL

MARCH 19 2021

Twisted-Electrons.com

Содержание CRAZY8 BEATS

Страница 1: ...CRAZY8 BEATS USER S MANUAL MARCH 19 2021 Twisted Electrons com ...

Страница 2: ...MIDI Clock sent on both ports 16 patterns per track Live recording of patterns with undo Up to 16 steps per pattern Different length rate and direction per track Polyrhythms Patterns can be changed individually per track or all at once Up to 16 patterns can be chained to create a song 4 play modes per track forward reverse ping pong random Copy Paste Clearing of patterns 8 Levels of Swing per trac...

Страница 3: ... tempo incrementally by holding TEMPO and rolling the data wheel Clockwise increases the tempo Counter Clockwise decreases it There are 64 tempo increments displayed on the 64 step LEDs You can also tap the tempo at any time simply by tapping the TEMPO button Change selected Track Roll the encoder to select any track 1 8 The Pads briefly light up to indicate which track is selected Twisted Electro...

Страница 4: ...ow the top row of pads 1 8 will light up to show the enabled tracks Now you can mute or un mute tracks 1 through 8 by pressing the respective top pads Hold shift at the same time to enable disable all tracks at once This information is automatically stored in EEPROM memory and loaded at startup 2 2 Change Patterns Press any of the pads to change the pattern of the selected track Hold shift to chan...

Страница 5: ...n slots are the building blocks for our song playlist The patterns to be played are stored in up to 16 slots that can be individually enabled or disabled To enable or disable a slot hold rec and press any pad When the sequencer is playing and rec is lit the pad corresponding to the slot that is currently being played will flicker This chain slots are automatically stored in EEPROM memory and loade...

Страница 6: ... or disable all steps of the pattern hold shift first then press any pad 3 2 Live Recording Patterns Press rec to arm the recorder Now you can play the tracks using the pads The recording is automatically quantized to the nearest step To clear a recording hold shift and press the pad corresponding to the track you wish to erase To clear all tracks at once hold shift and press rec Twisted Electrons...

Страница 7: ... To set the accent value of a step hold a pad and turn the rotary encoder The top row of step LEDs indicates the coarse value 16 steps To fine tune the accent hold shift while turning the rotary encoder The finer increments are displayed on the second row of step LEDs 3 4 Skip Steps You can shorten patterns by skipping up to 15 steps Hold skip and press any pad to set the step to skip lit pad skip...

Страница 8: ...late our beat 4 1 Enable Toolbar Press the tool button to enable the toolbar It can be enabled in either modes and will override the 16 pads Now that the toolbar is active select a tool by pressing pads 1 through 8 Twisted Electrons com ...

Страница 9: ...to 8 respectively see the next sections for details 4 2 Play Modes Direction Each track can play in 4 directions Press bottom pads 1 through 4 to change modes of the selected track Hold shift to change the mode of all tracks at once Twisted Electrons com ...

Страница 10: ...ad 5 is normal the pattern is unaffected Pads 6 to 8 enable remixing of your patterns As you dial up the crazy the sequencer is more and more likely to play snippets of other patterns at random Press lower pads 1 to 8 to input the crazy amount of the selected track Hold shift to apply that amount to all tracks at once 4 4 Drill Twisted Electrons com ...

Страница 11: ...eeds Press a lower pad to change the speed of the selected track Hold shift to change the rate of all tracks at once 4 6 Swing You can add swing to any track using pads 1 to 8 Hold shift at the same time to apply swing to all tracks at once 4 7 Copy In copy mode press a lower pad to copy its corresponding track to the memory clipboard Hold shift and press the 6th upper pad copy to copy all tracks ...

Страница 12: ...Hold shift and press the 7th upper pad paste to paste all tracks from the memory clipboard at once Tip Accents are pasted too 4 7 Clear In clear mode press a lower pad to clear it Hold shift and press the 8th upper pad clear to clear all tracks at once Tip Accents are cleared too Twisted Electrons com ...

Страница 13: ... You can exit the settings mode by press the encoder again 5 2 Setting MIDI Note of a track Each track outputs the MIDI note of your choice The default notes are the following 36 C2 Kick 38 D2 Snare 43 G2 Lo Tom 50 D3 Hi Tom 42 F 2 Closed Hat 46 A 2 Open Hat 39 D 2 Clap 49 C 3 Crash MIDI notes are defined by playing a note into Crazy8Beats via the MIDI input You can use a MIDI sequencer keyboard o...

Страница 14: ... 3 Enabling Velocity MIDI CC Each track can send variable MIDI velocity or a MIDI CC of your choice both or neither To select the track you wish to configure press a corresponding pad The upper row selects tracks 1 to 8 of MIDI port 1 The lower row selects tracks 1 to 8 of MIDI port 2 The run button enables disables velocity indicated by the LED above the button The rec button enables disables CC ...

Страница 15: ...2 Now turn the rotary encoder to set the MIDI output channel the top row of step LEDs indicates the channel 1 to 16 6 MIDI SYSEX DUMP UPLOAD You can backup and restore entire pattern banks by sending and receiving MIDI SYSEX files to and from a computer via MIDI port 1 To send a MIDI dump hold skip during startup The SYSEX is automatically sent out of MIDI port 1 The skip LED will blink during the...

Страница 16: ...hold shift before pressing the power button to turn the unit on All the LEDs will light up indicating that update mode is active Now send the firmware SYSEX file from your computer For a windows pc we recommend MIDI OX It is a free and very useful app On a mac we recommend SysEx Librarian It is also free During the transfer all LEDs will blink and the unit will boot into the new operating system w...

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