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  • Page 1 Mimeophon...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents soundhack Mimeophon Limited Warranty Installation Panel Controls and Inputs/Outputs Understanding the Mimeophon Tips and Tricks Patch Corner Appendix: Input Gain Level...

  • Page 3: Fcc

    This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. makenoisemusic.com Make Noise Co., 414 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806...

  • Page 4: Limited Warranty

    Make Noise to be the fault of the user are not covered by this warranty, and normal service rates will apply. During the warranty period, any defective products will be repaired or replaced, at the option of Make Noise, on a return-to-Make Noise basis with the customer paying the transit cost to Make Noise.

  • Page 5: Installation

    Eurorack style bus board, minding the polarity so that the RED stripe on the cable is oriented to the NEGATIVE 12 Volt line on both the module and the bus board. On the Make Noise 6U or 3U Busboard, the NEGATIVE 12 Volt line is indicated by the white stripe.
  • Page 6 The Mimeophon is a stereo, multi-zone color audio repeater module by Make Noise and soundhack, coded by Tom Erbe. The Mimeophon (from Greek mimeo (repeat/copy) and phon (sound)) is a sonic take on various historical copying devices, in particular the mimeograph, a machine invented by Thomas Edison in the late 19th century for making many copies of printed material.
  • Page 7 Panel Controls Mimeophon Panel Controls 1. L (Mono) Input. Signal input for Left Channel. Modular signal level (typically 10Vpp). 2. R Input. Signal input for Right Channel. Modular signal level (typically 10Vpp). Normalled to L Input. 3. L Output. Signal output for Left Channel. Modular signal level (typically 10Vpp). 4.
  • Page 8 Panel Controls (cont.) 16. ZONE CV Input. CV control over Zone Selection. Range 0-5VDC. 17. COLOR Panel Control. Adjusts Color. "Unity" is at ~3:00, where Repeats will be closest to uncolored. 18. COLOR CV Input attenuverter. Bi-polar input attenuator for COLOR CV Input. 19.

  • Page 9: Understanding The Mimeophon

    Understanding the Mimeophon Inputs and Outputs The Mimeophon has two inputs and two outputs. The inputs are normalled for mono use when you patch only the Left input. The Mimeophon is set up for easy patching of Mono-to-Mono, Mono-to-Stereo, or Stereo-to-Stereo. For Stereo to Stereo, patch the left and right sides of a stereo signal to the Left and Right Inputs, and monitor both Left and Right Outputs.
  • Page 10 Understanding the Mimeophon (cont.) Zones (cont.) The various Zones of the Mimeophon are nested inside each other from shortest to longest: Zone 1 contains all of Zone 0, Zone 2 contains all of Zone 1, etc. The incoming sound is always being written into ALL the Zones, so switching from smaller Zones to larger ones will often unearth sounds from seconds or even minutes ago.
  • Page 11 Understanding the Mimeophon (cont.) RATE, SKEW, and Ping Pong The Rate parameter controls the frequency of Repeats, and therefore also the length of the Repeats. Rate moves smoothly between Repeat sizes within the selected Zone. Its changes are continuous and fluid, and with Repeats turned up beyond zero, changes in Rate will cause doppler modulation/effects, leaving traces of shifted pitch in the copied material.
  • Page 12 Understanding the Mimeophon (cont.) The μ or microRate input is a dedicated doppler modulation destination. microRate is always continuous, and maintains the same short range across all Zones, thus allowing for consistent doppler effects even while TEMPO is patched (the Rate parameter is changing without doppler). Doppler effects include chorus, vibrato, and flange.
  • Page 13 Understanding the Mimeophon (cont.) TEMPO The Tempo input allows the Repeats to be synced to an external clock, with divisions and multiples of this tempo chosen by the Rate and Zone parameters. When this input is in use, a slew-less crossfade is implemented to achieve instantaneous “switches” from one multiple or division to the next on the Rate control.
  • Page 14 Understanding the Mimeophon (cont.) RATE Output The Rate Output completes the conversation between Mimeophon and the rest of the system, outputting a clock pulse at the current Rate. If SKEW is enabled, the resulting two Rates will be OR’ed together, resulting in clock pulses from both Left and Right channels being output by the Rate Output at once.
  • Page 15 Understanding the Mimeophon (cont.) FLIP The FLIP button flips the Zone so it is “backwards.” In medium and large Zones, sounds played into the Mimeophon’s input (or held in place by the HOLD button) will be reversed upon playback. In the smallest two Zones, FLIP will create "Total Protonic Reversal," the distortion of sound which happens when you flip an audio buffer every 70 samples.

  • Page 16: Tips And Tricks

    Tips and Tricks - Zones 6 and 7 are very long, to the extent that all manipulations of the Mimeophon in shorter Zones will still appear in Zones 6 and especially 7 for potentially several minutes, especially with higher Repeats settings. Consider playing in the smaller Zones for awhile, then pressing HOLD, removing modulation, and navigating to the Zone 7, using the Repeats control to view different portions of the complex facsimile you have created.

  • Page 17: Patch Corner

    Patch Corner Tempo Synced Echo In Zone 4 or 5, set Color to 3:00, Mix to 11:00, Repeats to 12:00. mult your sequence clock to the TEMPO input, and adjust Rate to taste for rhythmically interlocking repeats. Engage Skew and adjust further for tempo-synced stereo repeats.
  • Page 18 Patch Corner (cont.) Octaviocho (Tony) Use VCO with multiple wave shape outputs (STO, DPO). Patch your voice to be processed using VCO (see "Make Noise System Tutorial 1a: Basic Sequencing"). Patch triangle or sine from same VCO to Mimeophon uRate In. Set Zone to any from 1 to 5.

  • Page 19: Appendix: Input Gain Level

    Appendix: Input Gain Level If your input signal is particularly low- or high-amplitude, you may want to adjust the input gain of the Mimeophon. You may attenuate or amplify, or neither (the default is Unity gain, which works with most modular level signals).
  • Page 20 mp70 Change Log New firmware version mp70 is available here: http://www.makenoisemusic.com/content/manuals/mp70_firmware.zip It adds the following feature: Clear all Zones by setting Mix and Repeats fully counterclockwise. If your Mimeophon has a serial number of #1000 or higher, you do NOT need this update.  Check the Zone Activity Window for correct colors on power up. MP70 Zone = Light Pink/Red If your Mimeophon already powers up with these colors you do not need this update.