User manual ACCESS ATOMIZER

[. . . ] The incoming audio is sent as a dry signal, straight back to the outputs, but as soon as you hit one of the loop or buffer keys, a sample is taken at that instant, and looped at the rate determined by the key you played. For as long as you hold the key down, you will only hear the looped buffer, and as soon as you release the key, you will hear the dry signal again. The time-flow of the incoming signal is not affected by this, so the song will continue `underneath' the Atomizer. Effectively, what you are doing is replacing portions of the incoming audio with looped slices of itself. Enabling Atomizer Atomizer is located in the Inputs pages of the COMMON EDIT menu. · TI Desktop/Keyboard/Polar Press EDIT, use the Parameter keys to locate the Inputs page, and select Atomizer = On . . 16 (`Normal' mode is `On' - please select this value if it is your first time with Atomizer, for information on the other settings, please refer to the paragraph entitled ALTERNATIVE ATOMIZER MODES. ). [. . . ] To correct this, simply hit the Tap Tempo button once on the first beat of the bar. Virus TI Snow users can see the phase by switching the play mode to "Atomizer" and watch the 8 LEDs in the upper row. · Assisting The Autopilot In case the material you wish to Atomize is devoid of any rhythmic consistency, or you disagree with the tempo that Beat Scanner has settled on, you can easily override its decision at any time by using the Tap Tempo button. Beat Scanner will automatically catch up with your tempo, and lock to the music again. If at any time you realise that Beat Scanner does indeed know best, and you wish to return full control of the tempo to the auspices of its superior wisdom, simply hold the Tap Tempo button for a half a second and all your fingers will be free to glitch the night away. a new song begins), Beat Scanner will re-awaken by its own accord and take the helm once more. Note: Opening Virus Control disables Beat Scanner and locks the Virus to the sequencer's tempo instead. ABOUTATOMIZER Atomizing audio Press and hold the A1 key on your keyboard (the next `A' up from the tempo key) - you should hear the incoming audio being swapped with a pretty quick loop which, assuming you tapped the tempo in 1/4 notes, will actually be looping every 1/16th note. Let the note go, and you will immediately it switch back to the original incoming audio. You will notice that from C2 and up, the loops are no longer recognisable in the time domain, and are instead perceivable by pitch. The loop lengths have in fact been tuned to the standard note pitches you would expect on a keyboard, which means you can play melodies along with the incoming audio. Action keys KEY C#1 D1 D#1 E1 F1 F#1 G1 G#1 A1 A#1 B1 Action Gate ReverseAudio Gate Loop Loop Loop Loop Loop Loop Loop Loop 1/2 1/4 1/6 1/8 1/12 1/16 1/24 1/32 Length C3 ~ C8 Loop Audio@rate 10 ATOMIZEROPERATIONSMANUAL Reversing Audio Pushing the D1 key plays the buffered audio backwards. Please note that after reversing the audio buffer it might not be in sync with the playback anymore. Gating Audio Atomizer features a sophisticated implementation of a "DJ Kill EQ" - style audio gater effect. Hit C#1 to gate all incoming audio and the modwheel to narrow the range of the gater effect. This way you can limit the gate to for instance the bass frequencies of the playback. If you hit D#2 while holding D#1 you temporarily release the gater key which is fun when performing stutter effects. ABOUTATOMIZER Modwheel The Modwheel behaves as a crossfade mixer controller. If you move it without holding down any of the action keys, it will have no effect on the incoming audio. At Minimum position, you will hear either the dry input, or the loop you are triggering. As you move the modwheel upwards, you will hear the looped signal fade out through a highpass filter as the incoming audio fades back in through a lowpass. . . . . . . . and as you continue upwards from the central position the looped signal will fade back in through a lowpass filter as the incoming audio fades out through a highpass. ;) Pitch Bender Try setting the pitch bender to relatively high and low values, and then play around with it while you hold a loop key. Slow sweeps back to the middle from just above or just below will often yield excellent results. Modifier Keys D1 Reverse - while you are holding down a loop key, holding the D#1 key will cause the loop to play backwards. C#1 or D#1 Gate Keys - With the Modwheel in min or max position, pressing either of the C#1 or D#1 keys will `kill' the incoming audio or close the gate until you release the key. [. . . ] Of course, if you are using the LFOs for continuous selecting a clock divider for the LFO Rate mightn't be too daft an idea. Alternative Atomizer modes Now you have got a feel for the Atomizer in its `normal' mode, try some the other settings between 2 and 16. In these modes, the loop is updated once it has played through the number of cycles equal to the number you select with this parameter. Those modes are great to create digital sounding "freeze time" effects. For the most obvious demonstration of this effect, try a low number, say 2 or 4 and trigger some of the shortest loops or the audio rate keys. 14 ATOMIZEROPERATIONSMANUAL © 2008 Kemper Digital GmbH, Germany. [. . . ]