Press the
menu
three times to leave this menu
and cycle back to the main screen. Please note
that the parameter assigned to CV is indicated
by a small
cv
label next to its value.
MENU: CHAIN SETTINGS
Zadar offers several settings for complex behav-
ior of individual channels as well as chaining
and looping multiple envelopes across channels.
It is possible to combine up to four envelopes
into a chain, and furthermore, to define the cycle
behavior within a chain. Quite sophisticated en-
velopes and modulation waveform patterns can
be obtained this way.
note:
even when chained,
each envelope appears only on its dedicated
output. In this menu, each knob corresponds
to a separate channel. Push a knob to select the
desired parameter and turn it to edit the value.
The selection of a
chain
algorithm is per-
formed by operating the red knob (associated
with channel
A
). There are 16 available al-
gorithms (fig. 7) defining various two-channel
chain splits, chains of three or four channels,
and looped derivatives of these.
note:
enve-
lopes chained to some other previous channel
have their
trig
inputs inactive. Any unchained
envelopes can still be used independently.
As long as the envelope remains unchained, the
phase
parameter simply defines trigger delay.
The value displayed is a percentage of the entire
cycle length and therefore depends on cycle dura-
tion—longer envelopes allow for longer delays.
Within the looped chain algorithms, the com-
mon behavior is for each envelope to start after
the previous one ends. However, by adjusting
the
phase
parameter, you can shift the next en-
velope so that it starts at any point within the
cycle of the previous one. Therefore, it is pos-
sible to initiate all four envelopes at the same
time (
phase
set to 0%) or make them start one
after another (
phase
on channels
B
,
C
,
D
set to 100%. To loop the entire chain, also set
channel
A
phase
to 100%). In other words,
within a chain, the
phase
parameter defines
the phase shift with respect to the previous
envelope in the chain. For example, if
phase
is
set to 50%, the chained envelope will be trig-
gered exactly at the halfway point of the pre-
ceding envelope. For more variations, you can
experiment with setting a different number of
repeats for each channel within a chain.
The
repeat
parameter defines how many times
the current envelope will be repeated after com-
pleting the first cycle. As long as the envelope
remains unchained, the
repeat
parameter sets
the number of cycles from 0 to 100 or to infinity
(∞). The last value yields an oscillator-like be
-
havior. Repeating is also possible for envelopes
that are parts of a chain, however, infinite cycles
is then disabled.
chaining
the envelopes
6
fig. 5:
chain menu
fig. 6:
preset management menu
