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  • Page 1 Gotharman’s deMOON User Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Index Main Features What Is The deMOON deMOON’s internal flow deMOON front deMOON back How To Get Around On The deMOON The Pattern/Sound select page The Edit pages Overview Of The Edit Group Pages Explanation Of The Edit Pages Sequencer...

  • Page 3: Main Features

    Main Features • 4-note polyphonic Oscillators with continuously variable waveforms, wave-shape modulation, fm and pwm which works on all waveforms. • 4 high quality unique sounding analog-modelled bpf/lpf/hpf filters. • Granulator effect. • 5 distortion types. • 4 LFO’s with continuously variable waveforms, waveshape modulation and rate modulation. •...
  • Page 4 What is the deMOON? The deMOON are a 4-note polyphonic virtual analogue filterbank synthesizer build on the latest DSP technology. That it’s a filterbank synthesizer means, that instead of having only one or two filters to treat the sound, like most synthesizers, it has four filters forming a bank. A filter are an excellent tool for recreating the reflections that comes from an acoustic box, like a violin box or the human mouth, but having only one filter limits the number of possible reflection emulations a lot.
  • Page 6 DeMOON front Edit1 / Ctrl 2: When on the pattern select screen (the screen showing on the picture) and on the edit page select screen, this knob transmits midi-controller 2 internally, and tweaks all parameters, which has midi-controller 2 selected as modulation source.
  • Page 7 Play / Enter: This knob starts and stops the internal step sequencer. It also works as a midi note on indicator – every time a midi note on, on the selected midi-channel, are received it will light up. When you select a new pattern, change the controller number for the sequencer controller track or save a pattern, it will start blinking, and you will have to push it to confirm.
  • Page 8 DeMOON back Connections 9VDC: Connect the supplied power adaptor to the socket. The switch beside it are the power on/off switch. MIDI in: Connect this to the MIDI out of a MIDI transmitting device (MIDI keyboard, sequencer, computer or whatever).
  • Page 9 How to get around on the DeMOON Some main rules: If the cursor is blinking, you can move it by turning the cursor(click)value encoder. If the cursor is not blinking, you can change the value of the parameter the cursor are located below, by turning the cursor(click)value encoder.
  • Page 10 The pattern/sound select page This is the deMOON main page. Every time you turn on your deMOON, it will for a short while write: ”Gotharman’s deMoon”, and right after that, it will go to this screen. On the top of the display it writes the name of the selected pattern/sound. It remembers what pattern was selected, when it was turned off, and goes to that pattern when it is turned on again.
  • Page 11 The Edit pages NOTICE: The edits you do, are not automatically stored in memory. If you would like to keep your creation, you wil have to SAVE the pattern. How to do that, are explained later in this section. How to enter the edit pages from the pattern select page: If the cursor is not blinking, push the cursor(click)value encoder, so the cursor is blinking.
  • Page 12 Overview of the edit group pages:...

  • Page 13: Sequencer

    Explanation of the edit pages The Sequencer pages The deMOON sequencer are a one-track monophonic type with a maximum of 32 steps. It has separate tracks for note, velocity and controller. Tracks are "recorded" by entering values for each step. It can be controlled from an external midi-keyboard in various ways. All parameters in both the sequencer and synth section can be changed, even while the sequencer is running.
  • Page 14 -Gate: When you hit the Play/Enter knob, the sequencer starts running, but you can’t hear it. A midi note-on from an external midi device (on deMOON’s midi ch) will gate the sequencer, and cause it to output the track data.
  • Page 15 Edit 1 – Note value: Adjusts the note value for the selected step. Edit 2 – Velocity value: Adjusts the velocity value for the selected step. Value: 0-127. 0: Step off, 1: Hold previous step. Encoder: Selects step 1-32. Edit 1 – controller number: Selects the controller number (01-03) you want the controller track to put out.

  • Page 16: Note Randomizer

    The Note Randomizer page The note randomizer treats incoming MIDI note on and off's and notes generated by the internal sequencer (if turned on). When it receives note data, it takes a look at a user adjustable probability parameter, and randomly decides if it will play that note or not. If it decides to play the note, it will have a look at a user adjustable random velocity parameter, and if this is higher than zero, it will randomize the note velocity value with the adjusted amount.

  • Page 17: Oscillators

    The Oscillator Pages The deMOON oscillator waveforms are continuously variable from triangle to saw to square or from triangle to saw to noise. The wave-shaping can be modulated from all sources, including the oscillator itself. All waveforms can be pulsewidth and pitch-modulated. The noise waveform can be pitched or unpitched.
  • Page 18 Encoder – Wave shape modulation level source: Selects a source, that modulates the level of the wave shape modulation. Choices are: manu(al) – nothing modulates the modulation level, lfo1, lfo2, env(elope), velo(city), osc(illator), ctr1, ctr2. Edit 1 – Waveform pulse width: Value 0 to 255. Edit 2 –...
  • Page 19 Edit 1 – tune: Tunes the oscillatots in semitone steps. Edit 2 – Bend: Adjusts how much incoming midi pitch bend messages will affect the oscillator pitch. From 0 to 255 (about 12 semitones). Encoder – Noise: Off: The waveshape parameter on oscillator page 1 will morph between triangle- saw-square.
  • Page 20 Encoder – Pitch modulation level source: Selects a source, that modulates the level of the pitch modulation. Choices are: manu(al) – nothing modulates the modulation level, lfo1, lfo2, env(elope), velo(city), osc(illator), ctr1, ctr2. Edit 1: Oscillator output envelope attack time. Edit 2: Oscillator output envelope decay time.
  • Page 21 Edit 1: Oscillator LFO 1 frequency. Edit 2: Oscillator LFO 1 frequency modulation. A negative value inverts the modulator. Encoder: Oscillator LFO 1 frequency modulation source.Value: lfo1, lfo2, env(elope), velo(city), osc(illator), ctr1, ctr2, ctr3. Edit 1: Oscillator LFO 1 waveshape. Value 0-255. 0: triangle, 64: saw, 128: square, 255: pulse. Edit 2: Oscillator LFO 1 waveshape modulation.
  • Page 22 Edit 1: Oscillator LFO 2 frequency. Edit 2: Oscillator LFO 2 frequency modulation. A negative value inverts the modulator. Encoder: Oscillator LFO 2 frequency modulation source.Value: lfo1, lfo2, env(elope), velo(city), osc(illator), ctr1, ctr2, ctr3. Edit 1: Oscillator LFO 2 waveshape. Value 0-255. 0: triangle, 64: saw, 128: square, 255: pulse. Edit 2: Oscillator LFO 2 waveshape modulation.

  • Page 23: Filters

    Filter 1-4 edit pages The deMOON has four filters which are indepenently programable and each can be routed in serial or parallel to the others. Each filter can be set in lo-pass, band-pass or hi-pass mode. Cut-off, resonance and output levels can be modulated, and each filters output can be panned separately. The filter-section has it's own two LFO's , one envelope and a random-generator, that can be trigged from LFO1, LFO2 or midi note-on's.
  • Page 24 Edit 1 – Filter type: Choices are: BPF: band pass mode, LPF: low pass mode, HPF: high pass mode. Edit 2 – Filter pan: Pans the output of the filter. –127: left, 0: center, +128: right. Encoder – Filter connection: (this parameter does not show in filter 1) par: the filter are connected in parallel to the other filters.
  • Page 25 Edit 1 – Filter cutoff frequency: Value 0 to 255. Edit 2 – Cutoff modulation 2: Value –128 to +127. A negative value inverts the modulator. Encoder – Cutoff modulation 2 source: Value: lfo1, lfo2, random, env(elope), osc(illator), velo(city), ctr1, ctr2. Encoder –...
  • Page 26 Edit 1 – Filter resonance: Value 0 to 255. Edit 2 – Resonance modulation: Value –128 to +127. A negative value inverts the modulator. Encoder – Resonance modulation source: Value: lfo1, lfo2, random, env(elope), osc(illator), velo(city), ctr1, ctr2. Edit 1 – Filter feedback: Value 0 to 255. The filter output can be feed’ed back to its input. That makes the resonance effect sounding sharper.
  • Page 27 Edit 1 – Filter output level: Value 0 to 255. Edit 2 – Output level modulation: Value –128 to +127. A negative value inverts the modulator. Encoder – Output level modulation source: Value: lfo1, lfo2, random, env(elope), osc(illator), velo(city), ctr1, ctr2. Edit 1: Filter modulation envelope attack time.
  • Page 28 Edit 1: Filters LFO 1 frequency. Edit 2: Filters LFO 1 frequency modulation. A negative value inverts the modulator. Encoder: Filters LFO 1 frequency modulation source. Value: lfo1, lfo2, random, env(elope), osc(illator), velo(city), ctr1, ctr2. Edit 1: Filters LFO 1 waveshape. Value 0-255. 0: triangle, 64: saw, 128: square, 255: pulse. Edit 2: Filters LFO 1 waveshape modulation.
  • Page 29 Edit 1: Filters LFO 2 frequency. Edit 2: Filters LFO 2 frequency modulation. A negative value inverts the modulator. Encoder: Filters LFO 2 frequency modulation source. Value: lfo1, lfo2, random, env(elope), osc(illator), velo(city), ctr1, ctr2. Edit 1: Filters LFO 2 waveshape. Value 0-255. 0: triangle, 64: saw, 128: square, 255: pulse. Edit 2: Filters LFO 2 waveshape modulation.

  • Page 30: Minigran

    While the deFormers granulator works in sizes of 100 seconds, deMOON's minigran only works in sizes of milliseconds, so it is not very usable for rearranging beats. It's more like that it rearranges the waveform, and makes it sound glass/bell/voice-like or very strange.
  • Page 31 Edit 1 – ReOrder: Adjusts how much minigran will reorder the fragments randomly. Value 0-255. At setting 0 it will not reorder the fragments, but repeat fragment 1 a number of times. Edit 2 – Pitch shift: Adjusts how much minigran will randomly pitch shift the fragments. Value 0- 255.

  • Page 32: Distortion

    The Distortion pages Edit 1 – Drive: Adjusts the gain of the distortion effect. Edit 2 – Offset: Signals below the offset level will not be distorted. Signals above the offset level will be distorted. Encoder – Distortion mode: -GAIN: Not really a distortion. Just gains the sound. It is possible to gain the sound so it clips. -VALVE: A digital model of a classic valve distortion.

  • Page 33: Midi

    The MIDI pages Edit 1 – MIDI ch: The deMOON midi channel. On the channel you select here, the deMOON will receive midi data. It ts remembered after power off. Value 1-16. Edit 2 – Sync: Adjusts wheteher the step-sequencer will use its internal clock source or an external...
  • Page 34 The Save pages Stores a complete pattern, including sound and sequence in deMOON’s memory. Use the Cursor(click)value encoder to select the location, where you want to save your sound, or move it to the ”X” and push it if you regret. It will write the name of the taget location at the top of the display or write <empty>, if no sound is previously stored in the selected location.
  • Page 35 DeMOON MIDI-implementation Note-on’s and Note-off’s are received on the selected midi ch by deMOON’s sound engine and sequencer. Pitch bend change are received on the selected midi ch by deMOON’s oscillators. Program change are received on the selected midi ch.
  • Page 36 36 – Filters oscillator input level 37 – Filter 1 type 38 – Filter 2 type 39 – Filter 3 type 40 – Filter 4 type 41 – Filter 1 cutoff frequency 42 – Filter 2 cutoff frequency 43 – Filter 3 cutoff frequency 44 –...
  • Page 37 84 – Filters LFO 2 frequency 85 – Filters LFO 2 frequency modulation 86 – Filters LFO 2 frequency modulation source 87 – Filters LFO 2 waveshape 88 – Filters LFO 2 waveshape modulation 89 – Filters LFO 2 waveshape modulation source 90 –...
  • Page 38 COPYRIGHT GOTHARMUSIC 2009...