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Summary of Contents for WaveReX WaveR8
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Page 2: Preface
However, you should know that this manual guides you WaveR8 ROMs: samples.waverex.de about the correct use of WaveR8. In addition, you will find impor- tant safety instructions that you must follow. They are highlight- Web: www.waverex.de ed in gray and therefore easily recognizable. You don't want to... -
Page 3: Note
Operation Manual - Revision WaveReX is a registered trademark. The unauthorized use of the name or the logo may result in legal action. English Version: 1.0.2 E – 10.08.2021 WaveR8 is an independent product and is not related to Roland Corporation Japan... -
Page 4: Special Thanks To
Special Thanks to How to reach us Emily, Ray Bellis, Rainer Buchty, Jon Sabberton, www.waverex.de Tobias Hopp, Dirk Stephan, Peter Grandl, Vain Sacrosanct and www.waverex.com all our supporters www.shop.waverex.de www.instagram.com/waverexboard/ www.facebook.com/WaveReX/ www.youtube.com/channel/UCfJzIp27T1ikvZaY- JJHWSPA ... -
Page 5: Table Of Contents
User interface ....................Why you should read the manual ............QUICK START ..............NOTE ..................Principle ....................The WaveReX Team ................Connecting .................... Operation Manual - Revision ..............Installing the USB driver ..............Special Thanks to ................... Opening the software editor .............. - Page 6 Roland units to Decibel Conversion ..........SPECIFICATIONS ............... TROUBLESHOOTING ............Glitches ....................My R-8 is frozen! .................. My card is not recognized in the R-8 ....................The software editor does not display my WaveR8 ................I have discovered a bug ..............
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Page 7: Safety Instructions
The WaveR8 housing protects the underlying components and serves as an insertion aid into the card slot. WaveR8 is a plug-in card for the MEMORY CARD 1 (ROM) slot of the Roland R-8 Human Rhythm Composer. It serves as a re- CAUTION! placement for the PCM cards created by Roland. - Page 8 Never short-circuit the contacts! This will destroy WaveR8 and can cause you serious physical damage! A defective WaveR8 can severely damage your device. CAUTION! Do not use WaveR8 if it has any obvious damage. If you are not sure, contact support. Web: www.waverex.de Mail: support@waverex.de...
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Page 9: Eu Declaration Of Conformity
EN 55032:2016-02 Electromagnetic compatibility of multime- that the following described product dia equipment - Emission Requirements (CISPR 32:2015); English version EN Product: WaveR8 55032:2015 Type of product: Memory card with passive electronic com- ponents for use in the Roland R-8 / R-8M... -
Page 10: Intended Use
Preparation WaveR8 was designed exclusively for and is compatible only with To connect WaveR8 to your computer, you need a micro USB ca- the R-8 Human Rhythm Composer manufactured by the Roland ble. This is not included in the delivery. -
Page 11: The Hardware
The USB Port The Hardware The USB port on your WaveR8 is used to transfer data from your computer to WaveR8. It is a USB-B-Micro connector. To guarantee the longevity of your WaveReX we have chosen a USB connector that is fixed to the board with four solder pads. -
Page 12: The Software Editor
All instruments listed in the instrument list are the R-8, as well as the name of your instrument. In addition, you loaded onto the WaveR8 and are then available in the R-8 as can make presets for all parameters, which are also available to Card Sounds. - Page 13 The Play Direction and Attenuate parameters cannot be changed later the device. Instrument list All instruments listed here are then available as Card Sound in the R-8. Use the Plus (+) button to add a new, empty instrument to your list.
- Page 14 In the Transfer section you will find the Device selection field. All WaveR8s that are connected to your computer are displayed here. Use the selection box to choose the WaveR8 you want to write to. You will also find the Send Card button here, which you can use to send your compilation to your WaveR8.
- Page 15 Low Frequency Part "Load LF Sample" button Adds a sample to the Low Frequency part only. You can think of the part as a kind of channel that the sample runs through from top to bottom. This part represents the independent res- onance sample.
- Page 16 High Frequency Part "Load HF Sample" button Adds a sample to the High Frequency part only. You can think of the part as a kind of channel that the sample runs through from top to bottom. This part represents the independent at- tack sample.
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Page 17: Quick Start
Connecting Turn on your computer and wait for it to boot up. Take your WaveR8 out of the box. The side with the label is the top side. The bottom side has the warning labels. Do not put your WaveR8 into the R-8 for the time being. First place it on a smooth, dry surface, e.g. - Page 18 Select Search for driver software on the computer. Then specify the folder of the USB driver. WaveR8 is now displayed in the Device Manager as WinUsb De- vice under Universal Serial Bus devices. Confirm with Next. Windows will then install the driver for Wa-...
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Page 19: Opening The Software Editor
The content of the card will be loaded and displayed in the main window. You can see if your WaveR8 is connected to the software in the lower right corner of the device overview. The connected Wa- veR8 and its serial number are displayed here. -
Page 20: Editing A Card
Editing a card Adding an instrument First make sure that there are less than 26 instruments in the instrument list. There are exactly 26 instruments in the list. If it Deleting an instrument is full, you cannot add any more instruments. You can see this by To delete an instrument from your compilation, first select the the grayed out plus button. -
Page 21: Create A Card
The main window is now empty and you can start your work. Changing the card name The card name as displayed in your R-8 defaults to WaveR8. However, you can change it at any time. The Card Name text box is located in the upper left corner of the main window. -
Page 22: Adding Two Samples
(Attack) sample. The split point or cutoff is initially set to 450Hz by default but can be changed at any time. The name of the instrument is taken from the first 8 letters (without spaces and special characters) of the file name. Use this method if you want to use ready-made samples / drum sounds in your R-8 without changing them. -
Page 23: General Instrument Settings
File formats General instrument settings Now you can make general settings for the instrument. The gen- The Roland R-8 natively uses mono samples with a sample rate eral instrument settings can be found at the top left of the win- of 44100 Hz and a bit depth of 16 Bit. -
Page 24: Editing The Resonance Sample
These include first the Assign. Here, a poly- or mono-phone Editing the resonance sample playing mode of the instrument can be defined or several in- struments can be assigned to one bus. This parameter is preset to POLY. The Output allows you to place the instrument in the panorama, but only if you also use the stereo outputs of your R-8. - Page 25 We have already made go-to presets for a quick start, which ample, to save memory. A much more interesting aspect, how- should fit most use cases. ever, is sound design. For example, you can use the same reso- nance sample for all your bass drums and only vary the attack In the following we will work our way through all fields and para- sample to create a recognition value.
- Page 26 First you will find a low-pass filter on the left side. This is con- nected upstream of the entire signal processing. You can change the slope of the filter via the dropdown to the left of the cutoff control. The slope is given in dB/octave. The Cutoff...
- Page 27 Best Practice: ters that are interesting for the R-8 and are NOT available on the device, the expression parameters. The slope is preset to 96dB/octave. This guarantees a very steep separation between the lowpass filtered resonance sample and the high pass filtered attack sample and is interesting if you want to play back a sample in your R-8 true to the original, with- out boosts or cuts in the spectrum.
- Page 28 of 127. The range between the two values is the dynamic range. Who noticed the funny values from 0 to 127 that don't even have The sustain is the level as played by the R-8. a unit? Now follows, as already mentioned, the Decay envelope, which What does that mean? That's easy to answer: acts completely independently of the previous envelope.
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Page 29: Editing The Attack Sample
Wait... let's go back inside ourselves now and internalize the Editing the attack sample numbers we just saw! -42dB?! So, we have a dynamic range of 42dB!. The R-8 even works with only 7-bit samples! Worse is always possible thought the programmer when he cre- ated the Decay parameter. -
Page 30: Transferring A Card
filter of the resonance sample. Since you can use the attack sample without the resonance sample, the cutoff has a frequen- Check if your configuration fits on your WaveR8. Remember: you cy range of 10 - 1000Hz. All frequencies below the cutoff are cut have 512kB of memory available. -
Page 31: And Now Into The
Caution! Never plug your WaveR8 into your R-8 while it is live, especially The left corner of the WaveR8 will flash blue to indicate that the when the R-8 is powered on. This can cause serious damage to transfer is in progress. You can see the progress of the transfer your R-8. -
Page 32: Save A Card
SOUND&DEMO if you want to transfer the card sounds and all Save a card patterns and songs of the card to the internal memory. The R-8 now shows you under LOADED the card that is already You can save your compilation at any time. To do this, click on in memory and under LOAD the card that is to be loaded into the the Save Card button in the main window. -
Page 33: Patterns And Songs
That's why we initially disabled them. Please be a little lenient with us. For the development of your WaveR8, we had neither design nor function plans or even the software of the R-8 itself at our disposal. All the work you have in front of you is reverse engineered by byte by byte, sometimes bit by bit. -
Page 34: Basics
You can also load a separate sample for each part, for example, Basics to create interesting new drum sounds. For example, you can combine the low-frequency part of one sample with the attack Basic principle of the R-8 of another sample. To import your sample, use the buttons in the respective Part Load LF Sample and Load HF Sample. -
Page 35: Blending Samples
The sample rate conversion or resampling can only be set in fixed steps and is an integer factor of the sample rate 44100Hz. The resample factor behaves as follows: Resample factor Sample rate 44100 Hz 22050 Hz 11025 Hz We could have installed an automatic for this, but we did not 5512 Hz (actually 5512.5 Hz) want to patronize the user and thus give it into your hands For the interested and tech-savvy reader:... -
Page 36: Roland Units To Decibel Conversion
What should be considered? The Nyquist frequency! If we set a Roland units to Decibel Conversion factor of about 1, the sample rate of the sample is reduced to 22050Hz. Thus, the Nyquist frequency is 11025Hz. All frequen- cies above the Nyquist frequency are filtered out and not played Rolands Dezibel -3.28568888... -
Page 37: Specifications
For this reason, we have currently deacti- vated the function. If your R-8 freezes, don't panic! It is neither defective nor can it be destroyed by WaveR8. Turn off the R-8, hold down the CURSOR PAGE and PARAMETER SELECT keys and restart the R-8. -
Page 38: My Card Is Not Recognized
R-8 Feel free to report this to support. We will immediately initiate a bug fix. First, make sure there is readable content on your WaveR8. With- support@waverex.de out content, the card is of course unreadable for your device.