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- Page 1 µScale Manual µScale Intelligent Quantizer and Interval Generator Manual Revision: 2018.02.16...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
µScale Manual Table of Contents Table of Contents Overview Features Installation Before Your Start Installing Your Module Front Panel Controls Inputs & Outputs Usage Active Scale Menus MENU INTRVL ROOT BANK SCALE SAVE CLEAR Special Functions (Long Hold) Load from EEPROM (BANK Button): Save to EEPROM (SAVE Button) Scale Select Mode (SCALE Button) Shifting... -
Page 3: Overview
µScale Manual Overview The μScale is a 6 hp CV quantizer module. 1V/Oct 0-10 V range pitch CV signals are fed into the input marked I N and 0-10 V unipolar or ±5 V bipolar CV is fed into the S HIFT input to generate interesting and complex melodic CV out of the two outputs ... -
Page 4: Installation
µScale Manual Installation Intellijel Eurorack modules are designed to be used with a Eurorack-compatible case and power supply. Before Your Start Before installing a new module in your case you must ensure your case’s power supply has sufficient available capacity to power the module: ●... - Page 5 Eurorack case. Ensure the red stripe on the cable lines up with the -12V pins on the bus board. On Intellijel power supplies the pins are labelled with the label “-12V” and a thick white stripe: If you are using another manufacturer’s power supply, check their documentation for instructions.
- Page 6 µScale Manual Once connected, the cabling between the module and power supply should resemble the picture below: Before reconnecting power and turning on your modular system, double check that the ribbon cable is fully seated on both ends and that all the pins are correctly aligned. If the pins are misaligned in any direction or the ribbon is backwards you can cause damage to your module, power supply, or other modules.
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Page 7: Front Panel
µScale Manual Front Panel Controls 1. SHIFT P olarity Switch - This switch alters the range of the S HIFT input. When set to UNI the input voltage is assumed to be unipolar with a range of 0 to 10 V. When set to ±5 V... -
Page 8: Usage
µScale Manual Usage Active Scale The μScale is real-time programmable, which means you can edit the scale while it is in the process of quantizing CV. To do this, simply click any of the 12 buttons which represent the keys of a 12 note keyboard where the top-most button is C and the bottom-most button is B. -
Page 9: Root
µScale Manual displayed as a red LED. This interval is calculated in terms of fixed semitones (chromatic) or scale degrees (diatonic), depending on the option set in the S cale Shift menu. ROOT Shifts the scale forwards or backwards relative to its root note. The green LED indicates the current lowest note of the programmed scale relative to ‘C’. -
Page 10: Load From Eeprom (Bank Button)
µScale Manual Load from EEPROM (BANK Button): Reloads all banks and settings that are stored in EEPROM non-volatile memory. Every time the µScale is powered on it automatically performs a load from EEPROM. Save to EEPROM (SAVE Button) Saves all stored scales/banks and settings to EEPROM non-volatile memory. If you do not do this, all edits and changes to banks, scales and settings will be lost when you power down the module. -
Page 11: Diatonic
µScale Manual then the final resulting note that will play out of O UT A is E2, the nearest note in the C major scale to D#, rounded up. The interval value (generated at O UT B ) uses the A value as its root, but uses the value before the shifting is added to it. - Page 12 µScale Manual The ROOT destination is an exception. With this destination the Scale Shift type is irrelevant and changing those values will have no effect. Instead the shift value is applied to the entire active scale moving it forwards or backwards by the shift amount. When the scale is being shifted it maintains the interval relations between each scale step so that the result is that the root note of the scale is shifted.
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Page 13: Technical Specifications
µScale Manual Technical Specifications Width 6 hp Maximum Depth 24 mm Current Draw 60 mA @ +12 V 7 mA @ -12 V Page 12... - Page 14 µScale Manual APPENDIX A - BANK PRESETS The µScale ships with 5 banks pre-filLED with scales. The user is free to erase, modify and program their own scales/banks instead. These can serve as a starting point or provide inspiration on how to set up ones own set of banks BANK1: MAJOR SCALES - Each of the 12 Major scales is stored at its respective root note.
- Page 15 Scale 12 which has all 12 notes. The result is that a CV value of 0 (or -5 depending on the jumper setting on the PCB) will select the lowest scale and the highest CV value will select the highest scale. (See video demo on Intellijel Vimeo page or website)