Installation - Xaoc Devices ZADAR Operation Manual

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Thank you for purchasing this Xaoc Devices
product. Zadar is a powerful, four-channel en-
velope, modulation, and transient generator,
in a compact yet very complete, feature-rich
package. It is capable of synthesizing a vast
palette of envelope shapes starting from hun-
dreds of shapes stored in the memory. These
starting shapes are not mere wavetables, but
flexible vectors that can be stretched (from
a fraction of a millisecond to half an hour),
flipped, warped, distorted, delayed, shuffled,
repeated, and amplitude modulated in real
time. A set of freely assignable CV inputs al-
lows for external control of most parameters.
Each channel can work independently or com-
bined with other channels within one of the
chaining and looping algorithms. Operating
Zadar is quick and immediate, thanks to its
accessible interface and crisp OLED display.
The main screen displays all parameters to-
gether with the currently selected shape. En-
tering the simple 3-page menu is needed only
for advanced settings.

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The module requires 10hp worth of free space
in the eurorack cabinet. The ribbon type pow-
er cable must be plugged into the bus board,
paying close attention to polarity orientation.
The red stripe indicates the negative 12V rail
and should align with the dot, –12V or red
stripe marks on both the unit and the bus
board. The module itself is secured against re-
versed power connection, however reversing
the 16-pin header
age to other components of your system by
short-circuiting the +12V and +5V power rails.
The module should be fastened by mounting
the supplied screws before powering up. To
better understand the device, we strongly ad-
vise the user to read through the entire manu-
al before using the module.
VectOR shAPes
Each shape is a vector curve comprising 3 to
1000 breakpoints, and each segment interpo-
lates between those breakpoints in real time.
This method allows the shapes to be scaled
from a fraction of a millisecond to half an hour,
without any stepping artifacts that would oth-
erwise be caused by undersampling. Similar to
vector graphics, these synthesized envelopes
are infinitely scalable and therefore have in-
finite resolution. This flexible approach allows
shapes to be smooth when you want them to be
smooth and sharp when you want them to be
sharp — regardless of time scale.
Within the 1.0 firmware revision, there are
260 different shapes organized into 26 banks
of 10 shapes. They have been carefully de-
signed to suit a wide range of use, from es-
sential synth envelopes to complex transients,
from modulation cycles to rhythmic patterns,
from quasi-random modulations to perfect-
ly regular functions, from natural envelopes
extracted from a variety of acoustic and elec-
tronic instruments to fractal abstractions and
sequences. Several renowned artists have been
invited to contribute extra "signature" shape
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