Starr Labs R.3 User Manual

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GoTar USB_MIDI Controller User Manual R.3

Congratulations on your purchase of the GoTar, a portable USB_MIDI guitar controller that is designed to be

simple to use yet offer a variety of useful features to apply in a variety of musical environments.

Overview

The instrument incorporates these hardware features:

 24-Fret Velocity-sensitive Fingerboard

 (2) Rotary Potentiometers

 4-way Analog Joystick

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OctaveUp/Down buttons

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EDIT mode button

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Side-mount Sustain Bar

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Side-mount MIDI buttons

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USB 1.1 Mini-B device receptacle

Software features:

 Tapping keyboard-style or Strumming Guitar-style

 Play on a single channel or multiple channels

 Fingerboard 2-Zone Split and Layer

 Program Change

 MIDI Channel change

 Multiple Tunings

 Octave selects

 Right-Hand/Left-Hand switch

 Field-upgradeable firmware

Upgrades available on a custom request basis:

 5-Pin MIDI Output port.

 Wireless MIDI Transmitter and USB receiver system

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Page 1 GoTar USB_MIDI Controller User Manual R.3 Copyright Starr Labs © 2015-2020 Congratulations on your purchase of the GoTar, a portable USB_MIDI guitar controller that is designed to be simple to use yet offer a variety of useful features to apply in a variety of musical environments.
Page 2  External battery Pack for wireless and 5-pin MIDI applications Getting Started Using a USB-A Male to-Mini-B Male cable, plug in the GoTar to the USB port of your computer. If you are using an Apple mobile device first connect the appropriate Apple Camera Connection Adapter to the mobile device then plug in the Gotar to the Camera Connector using the standard USB-MiniB cable.
Page 3 Setup Mode [Fingerboard Control Function Re-Mapping for Frets 22, 23, 24] Play the GoTar in “Live-Mode”. Configure the GoTar in “Setup-Mode”. Press the EDIT button to enter or exit the Setup Mode. There are a variety of Mode selections that can be made by entering the Setup mode. The Setup Mode assigns GoTar setup functions to 3 frets of the fingerboard, while leaving 20 frets of the fingerboard available for performance at the same time for testing your changes.
Page 4 Fret #22 of the GoTar fingerboard is dedicated to provide a selection of six different fingerboard tunings in Setup Mode. LED-controller tuning: [The primary purpose for this tuning is to interface with the Starr Labs script running in Ableton Live that allows remote control or the Live Session View Clip-grid.] This tuning assigns Strings #1-5 to MIDI Channel 15, notes 1-120.
Page 5 PatchUp and PatchDown: These two keys allow you to increment and decrement the MIDI ProgramChange-number for the fingerboard. In Split-mode you can individually change the Patch of each Zone by holding a key in the zone and pressing the ProgramChange keys. Release and re-press the fingerboard-key to repeat. Channel-Up and Channel-Down: These two keys allow you to increment and decrement the MIDI channel-number for the fingerboard.
Page 6 Channel: the standard MIDI system allows 16 separate channels, each of which can have a different voice or sound and other settings unique to that channel. Continuous Controllers: Also called “MIDI CC”. In its basic form, it refers to physical knobs, wheels, sliders, and any device that can change, modulate, or affect the sound of musical notes.