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  • Page 1 Vector Sequencer...

  • Page 2: Getting Started

    MIDI in and out on DIN jacks, and dedicated jacks for Limited Warranty DIN Sync (in and out). Five12 warrants the Vector Sequencer to be free of defects in assembly or Installation materials for one year from the date of purchase by the owner. This...

  • Page 3: Front Panel Tour

    Front Panel Tour USB A ‘To Device’ Run, Clock, Reset Mod CV In CV and MIDI Outputs Plug in a MIDI Keyboard for Sync In or Out, Triggers In or Out, 0-5V, set mapping in Flexible output assignments, programming sequences, or send MIDI setup in Globals.

  • Page 4: Sequence Editing

    Sequence Editing Pitch Gate Velocity Len/Rpt Ratchet For your first sequence, connect the Pitch1 and Gate1 outputs of the through all dyads to an octave, then triads and seventh chords. To set a Vector to other modules in your system, such as an oscillator for pitch part to chord mode, see Parts on page 11.
  • Page 5 Sequence Controls Control The Seq Ctl pages contain overall settings for the sequence, such as The X and P modes are phase-based, where the rate deviates (faster or sequence length and rate. There are three sub-pages here, turn encoder slower) from a default rate of 16th, 8th note triplets or 8th notes. The X 9 to move between them.
  • Page 6 Globals, Tempo, Routing Global The GLOBALS pages have a wide range of configuration settings for the Vector. There are three main sections: GENERL, PARTS, and ROUTING. Use Prev & Next to move between them. Use encoder 9 to dial through the sub-pages of each section. CV OUT: These are two sets of Pitch, Gate &...
  • Page 7 Recording On the Rec page, you can enter or modify sequences using the built-in The recording modes are: one-octave keyboard, any USB MIDI Class-compliant host or device, or, OFF: No recording activity. if you have the Jack Expander module attached, a MIDI keyboard connected via a traditional 5-pin MIDI cable.
  • Page 8 Chance Ops Chance Chance operations allow you to add variability to a pattern, such as Jump: Backwards, Anywhere, Forwards randomly skipping or muting a step, jumping to another step, or changing the pitch. For each step in a sequence, you can pick an operation and the probability that it will happen.
  • Page 9 Sequence Ops, Generate & Evolve Shift ACD1: Acid 1: Generates a 16 step sequence at 1/16th notes with a Sequence Operations variety of pitch tones, including minor seconds and tritones. Gates and A variety of sequence transformations can be triggered by holding down Velocity steps are set to %50, and then a few accents (Velocity @ 100%) the Shift key and pushing any of the white keys on the mini keyboard.
  • Page 10 Sub Sequencers Modulation In addition to the main sequence, each Part on the Vector Sequencer value of that parameter. has two simpler CV-only sub-sequencers for internal modulation. These 3. Enable the parameter modulation by turning encoder 8 to ON. sequencers are limited to a maximum length of 8 steps and a range of speeds based on standard musical divisions.
  • Page 11 CV Modulation Modulation The Vector Sequencer has two CV inputs (Mod1 and Mod2) that can Modulation Targets: be used to control a variety of parameters such as gate time, velocity GATE: Gate time. scaling or the probability for chance operations. The input voltage range STLN: Step Length.
  • Page 12 Parts Global Part The Vector sequencer has 8 Parts, each of which has a main note-based sequencer and two sub-sequencers for modulation. All of the sequencers for all Parts start and stop with the Run button (or external sync), and they all share a common tempo, but are otherwise independent.
  • Page 13 Chord & Drum Parts Global Part In addition to the default monophonic sequences, you can format h7: half-diminished, d7: fully diminished). any of Parts 5-8 as four voice Chord or Drum sequencers. This can be If you want to make a custom chord, which allows much greater flexibility done on the 2nd page: Press Global, then Next, the page GLOBALS...
  • Page 14 Chord & Drum Parts Global Part As with Chords, Drum Parts have four voices (a.k.a. 'lanes'), but no pitch value, instead each Voice has a velocity level, which you can edit on the PITCH page (re-titled DRUM on the display). The level values are indicated by 4 columns on each sequence step, one per voice.
  • Page 15 About SD Cards be automatically generated. Your Vector Sequencer comes with a high quality SD card that has been tested to work both speedily and reliably. SD cards from SanDisk and Transcend are both recommended, in sizes from 8GB to 32GB.
  • Page 16 Presets, Playlists & Scenes Preset/Scene Preset/Scene The Playlist is simple in concept, but very flexible. Each Preset can: PRESETS • Play forever (by default). • Play for x beats/bars then go to a later Preset. • Play for x beats/bars then go to an earlier Preset and repeat y times. Each Part on the Vector supports up to 20 Presets, depending on the Use encoders 4-8 to edit the Playlist settings for a Preset.

  • Page 17: External Sync

    External Sync Global In addition to its internal clock, you can synchronize the Vector to DIN MIDI Beat Clock: Sync, MIDI Beat Clock, or an external clock pulse. If the clock source in 1. Connect a MIDI Beat Clock source to the Vector via the USB A or B your modular can generate a run/stop CV and clock ticks at 24PPQN jacks on the front panel, or use the 5-pin MIDI Input connector on the Jack (parts per quarter note), you can use the Run &...
  • Page 18 The Dashboard Part On the Seq Ctl page for any part, you can edit eight parameters at a time for a single Part. The Dashboard is a series of pages that let you edit one parameter for all eight Parts at once. To get to the Dashboard, press Part to go to the PART page, and then press Next.

  • Page 19: Tips And Tricks

    Tips & Tricks you then connect the Vector to a computer via USB, you can access the Copy & Paste contents of the SD card without having to remove the Vector from your You can copy a preset from one ‘slot’ to another: Hold Shift and press case.
  • Page 20 Vector Sequencer Project - All projects stored on micro-SD Card Preset Part - Eight parts per project Playlist Preset - Up to 20 presets per part depending on sequence length Note Sequence - 16, 32, or 64 steps long...

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