Iron Ether Xerograph Deluxe User Manual

Settings templates
use these blank templates to write down
your favorite settings
S/F 2/4 D/U
Freq
Res Sens
Clean Filter Vol
S/F 2/4 D/U
Freq
Res Sens
Clean Filter Vol
Quick start/settings
Start with all switches to the right, and all knobs down
all the way (counter-clockwise). Turn up the filter
volume halfway, and begin turning up the Frequency
knob slowly while playing. You will hear frequencies
gradually becoming audible, from low to high.
Leaving Freq at about noon, begin turning up Sens-
itivity so that you can hear the filter sweep up and
down with each note plucked on your instrument.
Leave Sens at a spot that gives a medium sweep with
your instrument's volume level, and begin turning up
Resonance. You will hear how this emphasizes certain
frequencies and makes the sound more synthy or
"funky."
Switch S/F to slow mode and get a feel for how this
reacts to your playing. The amplitudes of multiple notes
in quick succession will be averaged out, so that instead
of sweeping up and down with every note, the filter
can be smoothly played up and down by playing notes
closer together or more sparsely.
S/F 2/4 D/U
Freq
Res Sens
Clean Filter Vol
S/F 2/4 D/U
Freq
Res Sens
Clean Filter Vol
Iron Ether
Xerograph Deluxe
user's manual
The Xerograph Deluxe is a 4-pole resonant lowpass
filter, with capabilities to sweep the cutoff frequency
of the filter using the instrument's playing dynamics, an
expression pedal, or both simultaneously.
Controls:
Frequency knob: This sets the base cutoff frequency of
the filter. When using an expression pedal, this knob
will set the minimum frequency from which the
expression pedal will sweep (heel down position) - the
maximum frequency (toe down position on the
expression pedal) is set by the range limiter on the
expression pedal itself.
When used as an envelope filter, this sets the base
frequency from which the dynamics will sweep up or
down.
S/F switch: Selects slow or fast envelopes.
2/4 switch: Selects between 2-pole and 4-pole modes.
2-pole is a more mellow, classic sounding filter with a
wide, vocal-like resonance peak. 4-pole mode has a
steeper cutoff and a sharper resonance peak.
Range and interactivity
The Xerograph Deluxe is designed to be a powerful,
versatile tool for creating classic, modern, and unique
sounds. The controls have a wider range than is
commonly found in effects pedals, so that the user is
not limited to a small subset of possible sounds and
techniques. At first this range can be tricky to harness,
and it's quite possible to set the pedal in a way that
filters out all audible frequencies and lets no sound
through at all, but with use these controls should
become quite intuitive, and the increased range will
be useful in sculpting unique new sounds.
In the Xerograph Deluxe, the cutoff of the filter can be
modulated by three separate sources - the Freq knob,
the input dynamics, and the expression pedal. Since
these are all mixed together to control the cutoff, by
necessity they will interact with each other.