Overviews, Basic Information, And Quickstart; The Big Picture - A Must-Read - Eventide Eclipse User Manual

Overviews, Basic Information, and Quickstart

You've bought a serious piece of machinery, friend. A beneficiary of Eventide's venerated Orville and
H3000 line of effects processors and a quarter century of Eventide's digital audio excellence, the Eclipse
boasts...
• The world's richest sounding and widest array of effects
• A global tempo feature that synchronizes LFOs, delay times, and other time-sensitive parameters to the
music being processed
• Two configurable effects blocks for serial, parallel, or dual-mono processing
• An arsenal of LFOs, envelope followers, and ADSRs that can be patched to any parameter
• Analog and AES/EBU, S/P DIF, optical, and ADAT digital inputs and outputs for total flexibility
• 24bit resolution for superb fidelity at up to 96kHz sampling
• MIDI control of parameters for inspired creativity
Read on to learn how to put all this muscle to use...
The Eclipse is conceptually simple. At any given time:
• A "program" is loaded. Programs such as delays, reverbs, and pitch shifters (among many others) do the
effecting.
• A "tempo" is running unless turned off. The Eclipse derives the tempo from a sequencer connected to
its MIDI In port or from the front panel
as LFO rates and delay times change to synchronize with the tempo.
• A "modulation block" is modulating. The modulation block contains LFOs, envelope followers, etc.,
that exist independently and in addition to any LFOs, envelope followers, etc., that are constituents of pro-
grams. You can patch parameters from programs to these LFOs, envelope followers, etc.
• A suite of "global parameters" defines the Eclipse's overall behavior. Global parameters are such things
as input and output levels, digital audio speeds and protocols, MIDI channels, and so on.
You load and save programs with the
cated under the
HOT KEYS
(series, parallel, etc.) is accessible with the
An "effects block" runs one of the Eclipse's core set of "algorithms." The algorithms are described in the
separately provided "Eclipse Algorithms" document. Put another way:
• A program, such as
and the routing between them (series, parallel, etc.).
• An effects block runs an "algorithm," such as
.
chorus
• You load and save programs under the
• You alter the routing between effects blocks and the parameters of
each effects block under the
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The Big Picture – A Must-Read
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key
(there are a few other ways to set the tempo)
key, and a program's most important parameters are lo-
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(some programs only use one of the two available effects blocks)
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. Many parameters such
Release 2.500
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