Zeppelin Design Labs ALTURA, Руководство пользователя

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your hand steady and flat; move it steadily in and out from the Altura MkII until you learn where
the beam is pointing. There is much more information in the Reference Manual.
7. WAVE YOUR LEFT HAND
The left sensor sends Control Change data to your synth to influence
the sound in a variety of ways. It is presently in Function 1: Pitch Bend mode. Play a steady note
with your right hand, and also wave your left hand. The display will show a cute spinny-graphic
that represents Bend Up and Bend Down – try it!
8. LOAD A PRESET
Touch the Increment and Decrement buttons to cycle through the presets 0-20.
Touch the Read / Save button briefly to read the selected preset. The display will show “
RD
”.
Check out some of the presets from 0 - 10. Make a few changes. Press and hold the Read /
Save button for several seconds until “
SAV
” is displayed. You have just overwritten a preset!
9. CHANGE THE FUNCTION
Turn the FUNCTION knob to select functions
1 - 8
. The functions are
listed in the table below, and on a label on the bottom of your Altura. After the table there’s a
brief description of each function, with much more to learn in the Reference Manual.
FUNCTION
NUMBER NAME
CONTROLLER
NUMBER DATA FAR DATA NEAR
1 Pitch Bend 1 Adjust size of neutral zone
Max. pitch bend range
(Macchiato only)
2 Modulation 2 Modulation maximum and minimum values
3
Note-On
velocity
n/a velocity maximum and minimum values
4
Channel
volume
5 volume maximum and minimum values
5
Portamento
Time
7 Portamento Time maximum and minimum values
6 X-Y Mode User Defined
The DATA and OCTAvE knobs set the max and min
values transmitted by left and right sensors. KEY and
SCALE set the left and right CC#.
7
Send Channel
Select
n/a DATA FAR sets the MIDI Send channel (default 1)
8 Arpeggiator n/a n/a; see text below
• Function 1: Pitch Bend
Wave your hand in front of the left sensor. The display shows a cute spinny-thing to
represent Pitch Bend Up and Down. As you move your hand, the display spins and the
pitch bends. When you lock into the fully-bent pitch, either up or down, this symbol
appears: “
0.
” Remove your hand to snap back to the “Neutral”, or “No Bend” position,
indicated with “
f
”.
"NEUTRAL” OR
NO BEND
FULL BEND
UP
FULL BEND
DOWN