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ELMYRA v1.3 
 
by neutral labs
 
Manual
Hello, owner.
Congratulations on building, buying or stealing the mighty Elmyra. You
may not know it, but this device will change your life forever, if it
hasn't already. For the best possible experience, please read this
manual carefully to the end. Actually, there might be one of those
hidden clauses in there, where you win a prize because you're the
first person reading it. I'm not saying there is, but you won't know
unless you read it, right?

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  • Page 1 ELMYRA v1.3    by neutral labs   Manual Hello, owner. Congratulations on building, buying or stealing the mighty Elmyra. You may not know it, but this device will change your life forever, if it hasn’t already. For the best possible experience, please read this manual carefully to the end.
  • Page 2 Disposal For private households: This symbol (figure on the right) product(s) and/or accompanying documents means that used electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) should not be mixed with general household waste. For proper treatment, recovery and recycling, please take this product(s) designated collection points...

  • Page 3: Signal Flow

    Connecting Elmyra Elmyra comes with a USB power cord that has a USB A connector on one end and a 5.5 x 2.1 mm DC barrel plug on the other end (ring is negative, tip is positive). It operates on 5 V of DC voltage and can conveniently be powered by any mobile phone charger, USB hub, laptop or even by a USB power bank on the go.

  • Page 4: Front Panel

    Front Panel Elmyra’s front panel has 3 sections: The voices (x3), the top row and the scratch/bite distortion circuit. Feel free to experiment on your own, but in case you want to know exactly which input does what, check the reference below. Position 1 and position 2 refer to the switch positions, which are up (1) and down (2) if you bought a complete Elmyra.
  • Page 5 quite square”. Changes the envelope attack and Enable drone mode release length for this voice. (see below). Position 1 is long, position 2 is short. TUNE Changes the frequency of the voice. This can be either a smooth change, or steps between notes if in chromatic mode.
  • Page 6 When turned up, this introduces a random modulation to the frequency of each voice, but unlike common LFOs this does not vary slowly over time. Rather, a new deviation value is chosen for each cycle of the waveform. The amount of deviation is controlled with this knob.

  • Page 7: Chromatic Mode

    Drone Mode Flip any of the ENV switches twice quickly (within 1 second) to put the corresponding voice in drone mode, meaning that it will ring even if you’re not touching the touchpads. Another way of doing this is by putting a coin across the touchpads, but be advised that using the ENV switch is the cheaper method.

  • Page 8: Firmware Update

    To leave recording mode, flip SHAPE switch 3 twice again, or alternatively enter playback mode directly by flipping SHAPE switch 2 twice. Sequencer Mode: Playback Flip the SHAPE switch of voice 2 (in the middle) twice quickly to enter playback mode. The voices will now play back their recorded TUNE values step by step and the TIME settings will be updated as well with each step.
  • Page 9 charging mobile phones, from your computer into the connector inside Elmyra’s bowels. Be gentle. Install and open Arduino IDE and install the SAMD21 libraries as described here: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-itsy-bitsy-m0/using-with-arduin o-ide Load the project into the IDE. Upload the sketch via the arrow button on the top left.

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