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PISTON HONDA
SYNC
0-5V
1V/OCT
CV
+/- 8V
0-8V
SYNC
0-5V
1V/OCT
+/- 8V
0-8V
A
MIX
OUTPUTS
INDUSTRIAL MUSIC ELECTRONICS MODEL 1991 MARK III
PISTON HONDA MARK III
OPERATIONS MANUAL • FIRMWARE V1.1
DUAL WAVETABLE OSCILLATOR
THREE-AXIS MORPHING WITH NONLINEAR WAVESHAPERS
FREQUENCY
MODE
SELECT
FM/EXT IN
AC 10V
OSC A
PP
LINK
FREQUENCY
MODE
CV
B
CV
+/- 8V
PRESET/EDIT
CV
+/- 8V
X
Y
Z
WAVEFORM SELECTION
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- Page 1 1V/OCT FM/EXT IN +/- 8V AC 10V 0-8V OSC A LINK FREQUENCY MODE SYNC 0-5V 1V/OCT +/- 8V 0-8V +/- 8V OUTPUTS WAVEFORM SELECTION INDUSTRIAL MUSIC ELECTRONICS MODEL 1991 MARK III PISTON HONDA MARK III OPERATIONS MANUAL • FIRMWARE V1.1...
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Page 2: Getting Started
FUNDAMENTALS The Piston Honda operates much like any voltage-controlled oscillator module, meant to be the main tone generator in a modular synthesizer patch. The difference in principle is the “wavetable”, the means by which the waveforms are generated A wavetable oscillator is special because instead of generating a “classic” waveform like a sawtooth or square, it generates an arbitrary waveform by reading digital data from memory. -
Page 3: Waveform Selection
CV INPUTS Most CV inputs on the Piston Honda accept full-scale, bipolar control voltages with a range of +/-10v. The response of the various inputs are scaled to provide a musically useful range of motion within the typical range of +/- 5V, with additional reactivity far outside of this range. -
Page 4: External Input Mode
The shared waveform controls exhibit “locking” behavior to prevent accidental editing of the wrong oscillator. The sliders and attenuverters are locked when the SELECT buttons are pressed, or when a new preset is loaded. To unlock a slider, simply move it from its current position. It will edit the parameter only for the currently selected oscillator, while the unselected oscillator’s parameters remain locked. -
Page 5: Soft Reboot
WAVEFORM CV Because the waveform selection CV inputs are shared between the two oscillators, you may wish to disable the response for one of the oscillators (such as when you are using the Piston Honda as two independent oscillators). Setting Waveform CV to “Off” will cause that particular oscillator to ignore incoming Waveform CV on the X, Y, and Z controls. -
Page 6: Preset Manager
PRESET MANAGER Preset/Morph selector The Preset Manager provides an easy way to manage the entire state of the control panel and menu system from a single OLED Display set of controls. Eight presets are available and they may be stored to nonvolatile memory in the Piston Honda (not on the SD card). -
Page 7: Preset Menu
TRIG + OFFSET Treats the CV input as a trigger input instead. When a trigger or gate event is received, it will advance the preset number by one. The attenuator knob will manually scan through the presets. TRIG RANDOM Randomizes all parameters subject to Preset Scope when a trigger event is received at the CV input. Note that random patch results must be written to memory using the PRESET menu’s “Save Presets”... -
Page 8: Upgrading Firmware
UPGRADING FIRMWARE: You will need an inexpensive “Pickit3” programmer device and a computer with a USB connection to install any available upgrades for this module. You may download new firmware and detailed upgrade instructions from http:// www.industrialmusicelectronics.com on the relevant product page. Note that upgrading the firmware will reset the internal waveforms to the factory configuration.
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