Complete control of your PedalPro via four multi-level, pressure-sen- • Thank you from all of us at Vintage Revolution for purchasing the Pedalino – a sitive switch pads. No switches or mechanical moving parts to break revolutionary foot controller that sets new precedents in terms of ergonomics down.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Location ABOUT THE WARNING SYMBOLS Make sure you always have the unit placed on a stable surface and that it is level. NEVER place it on a stand that could wobble or on inclined surfaces. Do not place heavy objects on top of the unit.
3.1 DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY This electronic format manual makes easy work of finding your way around Vintage Revolution B.V., Binckhorstlaan 36, Den Haag, The Netherlands, the many innovative features of your Pedalino™ Foot Controller. Electronic declares that the following product:...
Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS 8.4.5 Operating with the virtual board p.15 Functions of the control Pad p.17 8.5.1 Bypassing PedalPro p.17 1 INTRODUCTION 8.5.2 Customising Bypass Mode p.17 Message to the Users 8.5.3 Tuner/Mute Functions p.18 Summary of Features 8.5.4 Switching banks in favourite mode p.19 8.5.5 Enter and exit Virtual Board...
Getting to Know - Top Panel CryClass=11 00 Hz 008 Ø CryBabyWdÖ 1. BYPASS LED - When lit, the PedalPro is in full bypass mode. plied on the sensor pads 13-16. Three levels of force (LEVEL 1, LEVEL 2 and LEVEL 3) are possible, as indicated by the number of LEDs lit up.
Getting to Know - Rear Panel 9VDC • 500mA 17. ADES™ connector - Use the 5-PIN ADES cable supplied to connect here 20. POWER switch - Turns the power on and off. your PedalPro™ analogue multi-effect and control it with your Pedalino using 21.
Setup Guide CONNECTIONS With the PedalPro Switched OFF You are able to start up the Pedalino with the PedalPro either switched ON or Connecting to the PedalPro OFF. For the proper functioning of your Pedalino Foot Controller, you must use the If the PedalPro is switched OFF when you turn on the Pedalino, you will see supplied 5-PIN ADES™...
Setup Guide With the PedalPro switched ON Wah=10 If the PedalPro is already ON when the Pedalino is switched ON, the calibra- 008 Ø CryBaby Ö tion process will take place as above. Please do not touch or press the pads until the calibration process is complete.
How to Use Your Pedalino OPERATING THE MULTI-LEVEL PADS ‘soft’. Pedalino, however, comes with two factory-defined sets of thresholds: ‘soft’ and ‘hard’, to accommodate different playing styles. You also have the possibility to adjust the predefined sets, and even to fine-tune the thresh- Your Pedalino comes with four foot-operable multi-level switching pads.
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How to Use Your Pedalino Whichever mode you choose for accessing your favourite presets using your The long dash ( ) sign between the preset number and the preset name indi- Ï cates that the preset is ready to be loaded, but has not yet been loaded. Pedalino, just reorder the favourite presets of your PedalPro in the order that best suits your gig, and enjoy ultra-fast preset switching.
How to Use Your Pedalino 8.3.1 Switching between favourite preset banks Examples: 2-levels favourite access mode • To access your favourite presets, press the Favourites switch [4]. The cor- If your Pedalino is set to work in 2-levels mode and bank A is selected, by responding LED will light up.
How to Use Your Pedalino 8.4 VIRTUAL BOARD MODE Examples: 3-levels favourite access mode The virtual board mode transforms your Pedalino into a pedal board allowing When your Pedalino is set to work in 3-levels mode and bank A is selected, −...
How to Use Your Pedalino If a preset is an empty one, the default routings are loaded as shown in the • Press Set Key (11) to enter in the editing page of the selected Pad. previous figure. In virtual board mode Pad 1 is always assigned to Lead 1 .
How to Use Your Pedalino 8.4.5 Operating with the virtual board Once you enter the virtual board mode, you can use the pressure pads to activate/deactivate effects or to change the function of the expression pedal. The following table gives you an overview of the pad commands at different pressure levels.
How to Use Your Pedalino 8.5.3 Tuner/Mute Functions Pedalino Foot Controller allows you to access and control the chormatic tuner included in your PedalPro. This means that all the information on the tuning status of your guitar will be displayed on your Pedalino. Pedalino’s bright, over-sized display is ideal for the purpose.
How to Use Your Pedalino When you are using the tuner, the ADES ON/OFF switch [3] is deacti- Wah=10 vated and you cannot interrupt the ADES connection with the Pedal- 008 Ø CryBaby Ö Pro. 8.5.4 Switching banks in favourite mode The top line of the display indicates the name of the parameter that you can control in real-time, and its current value.
How to Use Your Pedalino 8.6.2 Using Tap Tempo TIPS & TRICKS - TAP TEMPO Tap Tempo allows you to set the tempo to one or all the time-based effects • You can also control your Tap Tempo on the fly without entering in the (modulation and delay) by using an Expression Pedal according to the defini- Bypass Mode as long as your Preset is not using the expression pedal tion of the Assign parameter (See page 50 of the PedalPro’s manual).
How to Use Your Pedalino 8.6.3 User-defined Expression parameter ranges • Press the ADES switch [3], located next to the top line of the display, to activate the upper limit (top line of the display). Pedalino allows you to customise the ranges of some of the expression •...
How to Use Your Pedalino ADES™ SETTINGS in the PedalPro ADES™ - AN IN-DEPTH LOOK PedalPro and Pedalino communicate using a specific protocol designed Expression Parameter Control,Virtual Board by VR called ADES™ (Advanced effect DEScriptor). The ADES protocol is a PedalPro’s software architecture brings you three additional features for bidirectional data protocol used for controlling the effects’...
How to Use Your Pedalino ADJUSTING PEDALPRO’S EFFECTS ON-THE-FLY Type – This parameter allows you to assign to the Preset you are editing, one of the four Virtual Board: Rock, Blus, Fusn, Funk. Pedalino allows you to change several key parameters of your PedalPro’s To change the Type parameter, press EDIT [5].
How to Use Your Pedalino To change another parameter, press the SET key [11] repeatedly to scroll • av ur ite pr through the list of available parameters. You can also use the Favour- ite switch [4] and the ADES switch [5] to scroll forwards and backwards through the list of available parameters.
How to Use Your Pedalino as indicated by the LEDs, and is designed for those who want more sensitive • Once the set you want is shown on the top line of the display, this set has pads, or for use when playing sitting. The ‘hard’ set requires the most force, automatically loaded.
How to Use Your Pedalino These two pages show the current settings for the thresholds of the respective 8.8.5 Customising individual pads’ thresholds sets. The thresholds are symbolised here by the number of LEDs [7] that will for LEVEL 2; for LEVEL 3).
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How to Use Your Pedalino Assuming that the global threshold value for LEVEL 2 of the ‘soft’ set is 46, the While you are adjusting the offsets, you can try out the new thresh- resulting individual soft thresholds (for LEVEL 2) of each one of the four pads olds as you are customising them by simply pressing pads [13], will be: [14], [15] or [16], and looking at the force-feedback LEDs [7] to...
How to Use Your Pedalino 8.8.6 Protecting PedalPro’s presets (temporary adjustments) 8.8.7 RE-INITIALISING THE PEDALINO If you do not want your on-the-fly changes permanently stored in the Pedal- If you want to restore Pedalino’s factory settings and reload the factory value Pro’s preset (say, you are only testing some adjustments to one of your stored for user-defined thresholds, you can do that by re-initialising your Pedalino sounds), you can protect PedalPro’s presets from changes using preset save...
Firmware Upgrade & Extras • INSTALLING NEW FIRMWARE Firmware File’ and browse to find the file with the new firmware in the location where you stored it in your computer. If new firmware for your Pedalino Foot Controller has become available on Copy the Firmware Unlock Key you have received from VR with your •...
Technical Specifications 10 TECHNICAL SPECS Tested to comply with: EN 55103-1 and EN 55103-2 Safety Certified to: IEC 60065 / EN 60065 Environment Operating Temperature: 0° C to 35° C (32° F to 95° F ) Storage Temperature: -30° C to 70° C (-22° F to 167° F ) Humidity: Max.
Pedalino Menu Structure 11.1 ON-STAGE QUICK ACCESS GUIDE Browse Mode Browse Mode USER-DEFINED ON-THE-FLY EFFECT Expression range Press FAVOURITES Press MENU Press SET EXPRESSION PARAMETER Press SET ADJUSTMENT RANGES Favourite Mode Press MENU Press SET to scroll through the list Press + or - to adjust selected value Press EXIT to return to Browse/Favourite Mode Browse Mode...
Pedalino Menu Structure 11.2 FULL MENU OVERVIEW MENU NAME MENU PAGES Filt_Bpm max/min Trem_Dep max/min Expression range Press SET Trem_Bpm: max/min Phas_Bpm: max/min Chrs_Wet: max/min Chrs_Bpm: max/min Flng_Wet: max/min Flng_Reg: max/min Flan_Bpm: max/min Press MENU to scroll through the list Dly_Inp: max/min Press ADES or FAVOURITE to switch max/min Dly_Out: max/min...
Appendix A. LIST OF COMPATIBLE EXPRESSION PEDALS The following are the expression pedals that have been tested with the Pedalino and that are guaranteed to work. Set the EXP. MODE switch [19] as indicated in the table below. COMPATIBLE EXPRESSION PEDALS BRAND - MODEL* EXP.