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Page 1 User manual for ﬁrmware version blue-5 Universal CV Processor April 7, 2024...
Page 2: Table Of Contents
The P2B8 controller ......DROID explained ......
Page 3 – Detune multiple voices in a most disharmonic way ..detune 16.20 – General DROID controls ....droid 12 Firmware upgrade 16.21...
Page 4 – Adressable/clockable switch ....octave switch 16.50 – Output one trigger after the Droid has started ..16.66 – Overlay pot with multiple functions (OBSOLETE) . . . once switchedpot 16.51...
Page 5: Installation Of The Master Module
The power connector has 10 pins (two rows of ﬁve pins). Use the shipped 10 pin ribbon ca- ble in order to connect it with the bus board of your Eurorack case. Important: Put the red stripe down! DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 6 The power connector has 10 pins (two rows of ﬁve pins). Use the shipped 10 pin ribbon ca- ble in order to connect it with the bus board of your Eurorack case. Important: Put the red stripe down! DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 7: Getting Started
G8 ex- panders (see page 73). A Droid patch lists all the circuits you want to use and de- • And ﬁnally you can add up to 16 controllers with scribes how they are connected and how the parameters potentiometer, buttons, encoders, motor faders, are set.
Page 8 , because it’s de/pages/downloads droid.ini for creating patches and makes working with the Droid much easier for showing just small portions of a patch Working with the Forge is highly recommended. How- super easy.
Page 9 A ﬁrst patch example – step by step So let’s start! First install the Droid Forge. Download it Now let’s create a ﬁrst simple patch. The ﬁrst step is to from the upper link and install it to your Windows PC or choose wether to use MASTER or MASTER18.
Page 10 Save to SD becomes ac- tive. In the rack view, click on the Droid master on the ﬁrst jack • Press that icon to copy your patch to the SD card. in the third row of jacks. That jack is called “Output 1”...
Page 11: Working With The Forge
2.3 Working with the Forge Before we have a deeper look at how Droid patches work, As you see from the screenshot, there is a red triangle in with the X7 or a similar one. let’s ﬁrst have a closer look at the Forge.
Page 12: Using The Master's Inputs And Outputs
Gate in- and outputs on the MASTER18 These jacks allow your Droid patch to communicate with the outside world. The abbreviations and so on are The two inputs on the MASTER18 can be used also called registers.
Page 13: Numbers And Voltages
So in intermediate steps it’s abso- its output to 5 V, any other number to 0 V. as you will see. lutely no problem to work with larger numbers. Some cir- DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 14: Multiply And Add, Attenuation And Offset
You will see an indicator in the statusbar. cells. • Every cable must be connected to at least one in- Now move the cursor to the target of the cable: the pa- put. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 15: Controllers
For any of those please have a look at the circuit Hence the name! Now there are alltogether six con- (see page 324). For example you can: trollers that you can get for Droid. Learn more about Using pots the available controllers and how to connect them to the •...
Page 16 You get more details on the S10 on page 65. There are many more ways for using buttons. Please look The following example is in Droid source syntax, but it is at page for more examples. And also look at the cir- straight forward to setup this in the Forge.
Page 17: Advanced Patching Concepts
For our example we want to use the button B1.1 to switch modes. between controlling attack and release. For that we cre- To summarize: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 18 At any time, exactly one of the sitions each and can directly be used for select in com- button3 = B1.3 buttons is active. bination with button4 = B1.4 selectat DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 19 = B2.1 such circuit is . But also and even of the buttons … on a B32. Each button selects button buttongroup button2 = B2.2 B1.1 B1.4 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 20 = L2.6 select9 = _SEL_INST1_9 led3 = L2.7 # Scale notes of instrument 1 select11 = _SEL_INST1_11 led4 = L2.8 [buttongroup] select13 = _SEL_INST1_13 minactive = 1 selectfill1 = _SEL_INST1_FILL DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 21: Presets
This does not mean that it does a reset of the cur- rent running state: For example the does • The input tells the circuit which of the pre- algoquencer preset [p2b8] DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 22 Still you might want to save the pot’s position to a preset. output = _PRESET And this can be done with a (see page 324) circuit, as [pot] we will see below. pot = P1.1 [algoquencer] DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 23: Tap Tempo
If you need that, patch the sync then four seconds ago, you start a new row of with a series of button presses. Here is an example with put in addition to the input. taptempo DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 24: Patch Generators
3.12 or whatever) is not important. It just needs to be version 3. Or you can get Python directly from its ofﬁcial home page. This is at Python downloads for Windows. Important: If you see a checkbox with the text “Add DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 25: How To Use Patch Generators
You might want to Preferences: → 1. Open the DROID Forge and go to the Menu File change the order of the controllers, to match your cur- Patch generators. Here you ﬁnd a list of all genera- rent setup of your modules.
Page 26: Motor Fader Performance Sequencer
8, 16 or 32 steps. In addition it has a builtin arpeggia- • gatelength, velocity and glide per step tor, which creates alogrithmic melodies based on many • pitch and gate randomization DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 27 – they affect all tracks at once. Here is Some of the settings are globally and affect all tracks at the meaning of the eight faders: once (such as the root note and the scale). If in ques- DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 28 For each position you move it up or down, the se- lection is used both for the normal sequencer and for the tion second from the bottom selects two octaves and is DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 29 Just swipe with your ﬁnger over all that is taken instead. → Internal clock. This adds a button lablled , which eight touch buttons. A bright LED shows that the fader is DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 30 Pitch and gate The performance menu Now let’s talk about the actual sequencer. Every sequence step has at least a pitch and a gate – and DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 31 Then select another page and press CTRL + COPY to paste its contents. This copy & paste mechanism copies all aspects of the steps, not just those that are currently selected. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 32 If you have disabled the internal clock, there is eight positions of the fader have the following meanings: no clock menu. The pitch accumulator range is set to 4 in this case. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 33 Note: If you use ratchets it might be neccessary to select a short enough gate length for the notes to become audi- DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 34 This allows you to restrict the part of the sequence to be Manual reset to step 1 of one sequence cycle: played by using touch buttons. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 35 In the tab Configuration you can add up to four What the faders or buttons mean depends on the current presets to your conﬁguration. A preset is a stor- DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 36 The fader Drop notes from the scale enables certain pat- trols. As soon as you turn the pot just a bit you get the after that number of steps the arpeggio is reset to its DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 37 Each track can output its notes via CV/gate, MIDI or both. I suggest that you don’t enable MIDI output for tracks You decide this in the tab Output: where you don’t need it, since it takes valuable bandwidth DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 38 I1 of your MASTER18. 3. Enable Sinfonion link in the patch generator. If you do this, the current root note, scale and transpo- sition of the Sinfonion is automatically used by the se- DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 39 5. Octaving pattern 6. Start / stop the clock 6. Movement pattern 7. Extra clock divider 7. Drop notes from scale 8. Pitch accumulator (per tr.) 8. Clocking Clock menu Arpeggio menu DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 40 × slight pitch randomization master clock forward × randomization + accumulator off master clock Track movement patterns Pitch randomization / accumulator Gates from the sequence master clock Arpeggio clocking DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 41: Droid Megasequencer
The Megasequencer outputs a MIDI clock and a running state, as well as the note events, both on the USB and the 1. DROID master TRS output jack of the X7. Please consult the Droid man- 2. X7 Welcome to the DROID Megasequencer. It is solely built ual for details on the X7.
Page 42 A. You need to unscrew the module for that. are played. See the Droid manual for more details. There is a hidden menu layer where you can do lots of in- Reset: The two reset buttons in the ﬁrst row reset each teresting settings.
Page 43 Alternate mode inverts the corresponding button in the selects the base semitone (root note) for the sequences. normal mode - but just every second bar. Each button is a different semitone. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 44 That reduces the harmonic com- Altered Harmonic minor plexity of the melody. Spanish (harmonic minor from 5th) Whole tone Diminished (starting with whole tone) Diminished (starting with semitone) Chromatic (only semitones) DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 45 Pattern length 15 16 15 16 Activity Activity 100% 100% MUTE MUTE (free) (free) (free) (free) (free) Transpose by semitones Master clock speed (free) Menu Stop Reset Reset Normal Accent Scale DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 46: Creating Droid Patches With A Text Editor
5 Creating DROID patches with a text editor 5.1 General procedure If you don’t like to use the Forge, you can write patches Since the Forge operates on the same kind of text ﬁles, Do not use any subdirectories on the card. Put the by directly editing the text ﬁle.
Page 47: Finding A Problem In Your Droid Patch
= P1.1 ter readability. 5.3 Finding a problem in your DROID patch It is not entirely unlikely that you got something wrong LED blink codes on the MASTER • The input LEDS 1 … 8 indicate the tens of the in your patch, some syntax error, some invalid line, stuff line number.
Page 48 The rule is this: • If LD2 blinks, it’s an error in some line of the patch. the SD card. Again look for the color in the table below. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 49: Table Of Error Codes
Note: If you get your start animation with just white LEDs instead of colored ones, your Please checkout this manual about allowed values for parameters and DAC calibration needs to be redone. See page for details. their exact syntax. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 50: Inputs, Outputs And Other Registers
If you have more than one G8, you need a dot- to convert a push button into one that toggles its state on notation for the gate names, for example the gate 7 on each press. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 51 The colored diagnostic LEDs on the back of the module R17 ... R48 output The colored LED squares on the ﬁrst, second, third and fourth G8 expander output The colored LED squares on the X7 expander R49 ... R56 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 52 The LEDs in these push buttons L1.1 L1.2 L2.1 … L2.1 L2.2 L2.3 … R1.1 R1.2 R1.3 R1.4 output The LEDs in the touch buttons of the M4 controller at position 1 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 53: Specifying Numbers In Your Patch
, which would be two mul- -1 * P1.1 * I1 Now we multiply that with the pot P1.1 , which makes the tiplications! latter an attenuator for the CV. How cool is that? [lfo] DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 54 Again you are not restricted to ﬁxed numbers. You can super fast. And that’s important because you want your input = I1 - I2 also use any register you like. In this example to have low latency and smooth envelopes. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 55: Internal Patch Cables
= B1.3 # Argr. should be L1.3! Look at the following example. Here – due to a copy & [buttongroup] paste error – the LED states are sent to the button regis- button1 = B1.1 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 56: Parameter Arrays
A B32 gives you a total of 32 alternative patches to load and so on. And yes: if you have 10 or more controllers and some B32 amongst them, would be droid124.ini DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 57: Controllers
Note: The M4 controller (see page 69) needs an addi- jumper). tional power connector to your Eurorack system. The other controllers are powered by the master. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 58: How To Use Controllers In Your Patch
Forge displays your patch with View / Show master on the right side. LEDs in buttons switches (S10 and P8S8) Now if you want to use one of the controls, bring the cur- DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 59 • Make it easy to exactly dial in 0.5 by creating an ar- page 53. Let’s make attack just go from 0.0 to 0.3: tiﬁcial notch. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 60: Troubleshooting
(see page 69) ﬂash in the alternating four col- since it’s easy to get confused by the fact that left/right If your thing your module is defective, please contact out DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 61 Please contact your should be lit as long as you hold the button (this is the dealer or us directly. default behaviour until you use the button in our patch). DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 62: The P2B8 Controller
ﬂexible. It is good • the buttons range from B1.1 B1.8 choice if you have just one or two controllers. • the LEDs in these buttons are L1.1 L1.8 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 63: The P4B2 Controller
P4B2 is a good choice if you like to work with a larger • the two buttons are B1.1 B1.2 number of big pots. • the LEDs in these buttons are L1.1 L1.2 On the ﬁrst P4B2... DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 64: The P10 Controller
The small pots are not as easy to operate as the numbered from , so if your P10 would be the ﬁrst big ones but they are very space efﬁcient. in the chain, these pots are adressed in a patch by DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 65: The S10 Controller
= 100 them fast, intermediate values will not be seen by the output1 = _FADERMODE Droid circuits. So for example if you move one of the small switches directly from down ( ) to up ( ), the in-...
Page 66: The P8S8 Controller
As a speciality the faders contain LEDs that can be con- three positions: (down), (center) and (up). You ac- trolled and used for any purpose. Use the registers cess them with the registers through L1.1 S1.1 S1.8 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 67: The B32 Controller
B1.1 1.32 on the face plate) and the LEDs accordingly through make the B32 be too slow to detect one of the presses. L1.1 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 68: The E4 Encoder Controller
6-pin ribbon cable that came Please read the chapter about the circuit (see a R2M/R2C bridge. encoder with your module. Make sure that you always use the DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 69: The M4 Motor Fader Controller
M4. you always use the shrouded pin headers (there is an ad- × ditional 3 2 connector at the bottom which is just for de- bugging the hardware). DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 70 If you experience your touch plates not to react properly to your ﬁnger, check the following: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 71 [droid] motors will go off for a couple of seconds, the supercaps m4faderspeed = P1.1 recharge and the powerup LED animation is visible (with m4notchpower = P1.2 green LEDs). DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 72 • The ﬁrmware upgrade does not work reliably over they will get red and slowly fader out. need ﬁrmware updates from time to time. a R2M/R2C bridge. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 73: The G8 Expander
G8s if it is the last one. So if you want a second G8, simply get a version 2 one and use the old one as the second G8. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 74: Using The G8 In Patches
• When used as an output, it outputs 5 V when you send a value 0.1 or higher to its register, and 0 V otherwise. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 75: The X7 Expander
The X7 has the following jacks: • Do the same with a MIDI controller app on your • One USB-C port for MIDI via USB and for access to tablet or phone (via USB). DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 76: Installation
The installation of the X7 is very easy. These are the rules: your SD card reader. The USB-Stick mode is also helpful DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 77: Midi
0. Future software up- verter in Eurorack land. Here are some of the key fea- dates might make this more ﬂexible, if there is demand. tures: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 78 You can select one speciﬁc channel with the rently played note in form of the typical 1 volt per octave jack: channel DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 79 = G4 You even can use MIDI keys (maybe from controller pads) gate5 = G5 The X7 aims to be the most precise, comprehensive and as buttons. gate6 = G6 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 80: Midi Through
The X7 can forward MIDI data, that are incoming via TRS → Using the CV MIDI feature of the X7 is easy. Use the degree = 7 or USB, to one of its two outputs (TRS / USB), while still DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 81: Four Gate Outputs
. It’s part of the sound driver (ALSA), so it’s usually amidi MIDI deﬁnes a type of event that is called “Sysex”, which already installed. can send any MIDI commands in- amidi is an abbreviation for “MIDI System Exclusive Message”. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 82 ﬁle at full velocity (value 127): the right position. Or you might consider using the Droid Of course the switch on the X7 needs be on the right Forge instead of the command line.
Page 83: Software Update For The X7
In case of an error, all 16 LEDs blink in one color. If all 1. Bring the master into the maintenance mode (see The X7 has a software update procedure. LEDs blink yellow, the ﬁrmware ﬁle is missing (which is DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 84: Some Technical Details
ﬁrmware up- The X7 uses the same micro controller (MCU) as the grade mode. If you have visual access to the four diag- DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 85 The communication between the master and the X7 is bridge rectiﬁer, four diodes, so the polarity of the input out the X7. running at a much higher bit rate than is used for the con- is ignored. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 86: The Master18
9.2 Using the Forge 9.4 USB access to your SD card If you are working with the Droid Forge, you need to se- The MASTER18 can give you direct access to its micro SD You can think of the MASTER18 lect your type of master in the menu Rack.
Page 87: Midi
2. You will see the MASTER18 USB device named as 9.5 MIDI MIDI over TRS/DIN “DROID X7” on your Mac/PC. Don’t be confused by that. That’s right. It is because it’s does exactly the MIDI features overview same as the X7 and is compatible with that.
Page 88 ﬁle on the SD card. But the color DROIDERR.TXT you cannot use both in the same Droid patch currently. indicates the cause of the error. You ﬁnd a list of all colors Future ﬁrmware versions might change this.
Page 89 3.5 mm stereo cable (sometimes also called aux-cable). The usual idea is that you put all your Droid 10.2 Setup with one master controllers into a skiff case and mount your master, X7...
Page 90 You can put the R2M/C bridge at any position in your con- troller chain that you like. So it’s possible to have some controllers directly connected to the master. Simply wire DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 91 • When no memory card is in the , no states The rule is this: Droid numbers all circuits of the same using a module, most will answer this: When a module will be saved. But you can always put one there type, starting from 1 –...
Page 92 = O1 closer look at how the DROID works: [bernoulli] [bernoulli] The basic working process of your DROID is a simple loop input = G1 input = G1 that is repeating over and over again – at a speed of ap- distribution = P1.1...
Page 93 ﬁxed value and your pot is free for something The digit 9 will be displayed as 8 + 1. So here is 0.951: same time. Well, then it will blink between white and red: else! DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 94 B1.7: B1.8: L1.1: 0.000 L1.2: 0.000 L1.3: 0.000 L1.4: 0.000 L1.5: 0.000 L1.6: 0.000 L1.7: 0.000 L1.8: 0.000 P1.1: 0.77631 P1.2: 1.00000 Internal patch cables: _CLOCK: 1.00000 _PITCH: 0.23430 _RELEASE: 0.30000 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 95 (I wouldn’t sug- master after 1.5 ms plus some internal computation time. til the last controller sends all collected data back to the gest that anyway). DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 96 LD3 shows the tens. So for MAGENTA- This is how the version green-8 is being shown: 24, LD3 blinks two times in magenta and LD4 blinks four Here are some things that could possibly go wrong: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 97 Firmware already up-to-date First make sure that you have the ﬁrmware ﬁle of green- the DROID will restart and your are done. This whole 8 on your SD card. This is probably the case anyway if thing should last just a few seconds.
Page 98 When the blue LEDs reach I1, continue holding the but- ton. DROID restarts. Still hold the button. Now the ani- mation of the blue LEDs starts in the opposite direction: The four positions I1 ... I4 represent four different menu...
Page 99 Otherwise you probably never will need to calibrate your a second when you load a new patch by pressing the but- outputs. If you want to do so anyway, please make sure DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 100 0 V or 5 V. m18calibration.ini pensating badly tracking VCOs. For that rather use the ibration. 5. Repeat this step for all relevant outputs and target circuit (see page 147). calibrator DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 101 If directory or have mistyped one of the dots or curly brack- mdutil -i off /Volumes/Untitled you create your own card, or if yours came shipped with ets! cd /Volumes/Untitled DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 102 10-20 mA (per output). Eurorack compatible expander for the DROID master, • 8 CV output jacks with a voltage range from -10 V with 4 HP The consumption is the maximum under normal condi- to +10 V, driven by highly accurate low jitter 16 bit tions.
Page 103 P2B8 Controller P10 Controller M4 Controller Eurorack compatible expander for the DROID master, Eurorack compatible expander for the DROID master, Eurorack compatible expander for the DROID master, with 5 HP with 5 HP with 14 HP • STM32F030 Micro controller running at 48 MHz •...
Page 104 This module creates – together with R2C – a remote This module is put into a skiff and wired with a standard bridge to Droid controllers in another skiff, using a stan- 3.5 mm stereo patch cable to the R2M. Two chains of con- dard 3.5 mm stereo patch cable.
Page 105 C Major 7 ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♭ Major ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ C Locrian ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ B Locrian ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 106 ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♭ Major ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ C Melodic minor from VII ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ C Harmonic major from VII ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 107 Double harmonic major from VI ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ B Double harmonic major from VII ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ C Double harmonic major from VII ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 108 The column Default shows the value a parameter has if you don’t patch anything into it. Here the special symbol denotes a certain “intelligent” behaviour when this jack is not used. Please read the description for details. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 109 In addition each used input or output parameter need some memory, depending on its type: • Normal inputs need 12 bytes. • Trigger inputs need 16 bytes. • Tap tempo inputs need 30 bytes. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 110 In addition each internal patch cable and each unique constant (like ) needs 8 bytes. Note: If you are using the Droid Forge for creating your patches, you don’t need to do any computations yourself. The Forge will always show you the exact memory consumption of your patch.
Page 111 . For example you could have just minimum maximum the range of 0.1 to 0.5 mapped to the three bits: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 112 MSB – the most signiﬁcant bit. The LSB (least signiﬁcant bit) is the highest output that you actually patch. If you do not need the full resolution of 12 bits, simply just use the ﬁrst couple of outputs. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 113 – will introduce random changes to clock = G1 drum. For orchestrating a whole drum kit simply use pitchlow = 1V the repeating pattern in a very controlled way: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 114 LED. It will morphled clock signal. Also using a reset input helps you to sync input of some drum voice. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 115 One bar usually has the same number of steps as your according step in the normal page for every second bar. pattern. But if you set , one bar will consist repeats = 2 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 116 = P1.1 * 15 number of beats will stay the same! to save. This makes situations easier where you have one DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 117 You can even share button1 = B1.1 ter a reset, the step LED is turned off until the next clock button2 = B1.2 the buttons with completely other circuits. cycle. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 118 When playing rolls, i.e. more than one beat per step, the gate length is divided by the number of rolls. That way the gates get shorter and even at a gatelength close to 1.0 the gates are still audible and do not merge together. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 119 L1.2 use the jack in order to overlay your buttons with several algoquencers, the will always be active. select mutebutton The idea is to always have direct access to this button. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 120 50%, which means that exactly the half of the steps will get an event. This is different from a situation where you have deﬁned buttons but all are deselected. In that case means that exactly the number of beats of your pattern are being played, which is zero in that case. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 121 This is very similar to , but this time you decide whether beats should be placed rather in the ﬁrst half of the distribution offbeats bar or in the second half. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 122 Note: even if the circuit is currently not selected, it will nevertheless work and process all its other inputs and its outputs (those that do not deal with buttons or LEDs) in a normal way. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 123 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 124 Outputs the currently selected length. This is useful if you are using the lengthbutton for interactively changing the length of the pattern and want to share that setting with other circuits. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 125 274). If you own a Sinfonion: the arpeggiator in the 0 V corresponds to a C! DROID is working a bit differently and is more about gen- eral principles than about preprogrammed patterns. That In other words: specifying a D (...
Page 126 Per default the pattern is played in a range of two octaves. [arpeggio] But that can be set easily with two parameters. pitch clock = I1 ﬁnes the lowest possible pitch of a note. The arpeggiator output = O1 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 127 And there is one more fun setting: current scale and another ﬁve inputs selectfill1 drop = 1 . This can be (default) or octaves that select the notes not in the current selectfill5 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 128 = O1 of each of the seven buttons to one of these functions: Now you can switch on and off scale notes for being part [p2b8] of the patterns. Have fun! DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 129 Skip every second selected note – — Ž ™ š ‘ Skip every third selected note Skip the 2 nd and 3 rd note of each group of three – Ž ™ ‘ DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 130 3 steps, it is played once in full (3 steps) and once just the ﬁrst 2 steps, since then the auto reset happens. A trigger to makes set it’s internal counter to 0. reset autoreset Autoreset gives you direct control over the rhythmic feel that your arpeggio melodies have. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 131 120, then you can use a 1V/Oct input for selecting the root note via a sequencer, MIDI keyboard or the like. Also then you are compatible with the ROOT CV input of the Sinfonion. ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 132 Gate input for selecting the 11 th (which is the same as the 4 th ). select11 Gate input for selecting the 13 th (which is the same as the 6 th ). select13 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 133 Selects the alternative 13 th (i.e. the 13 th that is not in the scale). selectfill4 Selects the alternative 7 th (i.e. the 7 th that is not in the scale). selectfill5 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 134 3 rd , 5 th , 7 th , 9 th disable root, 3 rd , 5 th , 7 th , 9 th and 13 th disable all scale notes (ﬁll notes untouched) DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 135 This value is being added to the output pitch when not in tuning mode. It can be used for musical transposition or transpose adding a vibrato. Output Type Description This is what it’s all about: here comes the pitch CV for the current arpeggio note. output DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 136 Gates from input are forwarded here if the random decision was in favour of output 1. Gates from input are forwarded here if the random decision was in favour of output 2. output2 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 137 = O1 output = O1 makes sure that the actual output rate is limited to the maximum the DROID hardware can do, so not one single When a trigger arrives at , the output burst can get lost. Also you might want to use the...
Page 138 Number of triggers to send in one burst. Number of time slots to wait before starting with the burst. skip 1 2 3 Output Type Description The triggers are output here. output DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 139 CV looper: output = _CLOCK_DIV button = B1.1 led = L1.1 [clocktool] [button] states = 4 input = G1 # external clock button = B1.4 output = _SOMETHING DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 140 Otherwise it will continue to output its current value to release the button. And the state of does tog- nextpattern = B1.1 L1.1 and leave the control of the button and the LED output gle. to some other circuit. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 141 = _VIRTUAL_BUTTON_1 [button] select = _BANK2 button = B3.1 led = L3.1 output = _VIRTUAL_BUTTON_2 Note: If you need more than two banks, consider switch- ing with a buttongroup (see page 144). DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 142 21. This circuit has 16 presets, so this number ranges from A trigger here loads a preset. As a speciality you can use the trigger for selecting a preset at the same time. loadpreset A trigger here saves a preset. savepreset DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 143 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 144 If this select = L1.2 # be active only when L1.2 is active [buttongroup] is the case then the sum of the values of all active but- button1 = B1.3 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 145 E.g. if , the circuit will be active if is exactly instead of a positive gate signal. In some cases this selectat select is more conventient. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 146 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. clearall dontsave If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid starts. Output Type Description / 1.0, whenever the 1 st ...
Page 147 For a good result I suggest either using a precise tuner or you don’t want that to happen, simply keep the calibra- using eight such circuits one could ﬁx the tuning playing the voice at the same time as a reference voice DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 148 Tuning adaption for the negative voltage range. A value of 1 means an upwards tuning of one semitone per octave, -1 tunelowtail likewise downwards. Tuning adaption for voltages > 8 V. A value of 1 means an upwards tuning of one semitone per octave, -1 likewise tunehightail downwards. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 149 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. clearall If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 150 In case none of the inputs is non-zero, this value is copied to the output. else case Output Type Description To this output the select value input is copied. output DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 151 (or even never!), so you can select the root note and the degree scale with the inputs . Setting root degree root , for example, will select D natural minor: degree DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 152 , they will be placed at different octaves. spread root button = B1.6 degree led = L1.6 By the way: It’s of course no problem to just use three or DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 153 Even if just two outputs are connected, you can still make use of this circuit. Now just the ﬁrst two select... puts are taken into account. But things like inversion and spreading works nevertheless. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 154 120, then you can use a 1V/Oct input for selecting the root note via a sequencer, MIDI keyboard or the like. Also then you are compatible with the ROOT CV input of the Sinfonion. ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 155 Gate input for selecting the 11 th (which is the same as the 4 th ). select11 Gate input for selecting the 13 th (which is the same as the 6 th ). select13 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 156 Selects the alternative 13 th (i.e. the 13 th that is not in the scale). selectfill4 Selects the alternative 7 th (i.e. the 7 th that is not in the scale). selectfill5 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 157 3 rd , 5 th , 7 th , 9 th disable root, 3 rd , 5 th , 7 th , 9 th and 13 th disable all scale notes (ﬁll notes untouched) DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 158 This value is being added to the output pitch when not in tuning mode. It can be used for musical transposition or transpose adding a vibrato. Output Type Description 1 st ... 4 th pitch output output1 ... output4 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 159 [clocktool] [clocktool] clock = I1 # patch a clock here clock = I1 # patch a clock here output = O1 output = O1 divide delay = -0.1 multiply = 2 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 160 This might lead to two merging gates, which in turn causes a missing gate output. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 161 60 BPM. If you feed that value to the input of an LFO you get that running at exactly the rate same speed (not in the same phase, however). outputpitch Same for the modiﬁed output clock DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 162 If you omit all four, defaults to ifequal with . Check this out: ifequal output = O1 This make a super basic circuit just check if two compare values are equal: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 163 Speciﬁes the output value in case non of the stated conditions are met. else An optional precision to be used by precision ifequal Output Type Description Here one of is output. output ifgreater ifless ifequal DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 164 . If fact it is just of these. This decay release When is not patched or otherwise set to its decayshape has been chosen in this way because I believe that this DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 165 When it ends during attack, decay / gate sustain are being skipped and release starts at the current level of the envelope. That way short gates can result in “quieter” envelopes). DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 166 , the level of the envelope will go up or down again during the sustain phase swell until it reaches swelllevel Time of the swell phase swelltime Level the swell phase is approaching. Setting this to the same as effectively disables swell. swelllevel sustain DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 167 0 and avoid nasty klicks, even if the attack is set to 0. It comes at a price, however. The delay between the trigger and the ﬁrst zero crossing might vary a lot from note to note and that could make your rhythm untight, especially if the frequency of the oscillator is low. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 168 This output will emit a trigger with a length of 10 ms when the decay phase has ended. endofdecay endofrelease This output will emit a trigger with a length of 10 ms when the release phase has ended. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 169 = I1 * 0.5 output = _INPUT_CV [copy] Input Type Default Description input Connect the signal you want to copy here. Output Type Description The resulting signal will be sent here. output DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 170 This value decides which of the two inputs should be mixed and to which degree each one should go into the mix. At fade the mix consists of 100% of the ﬁrst inputs, at of 100% of the last patched input. Output Type Description output Output of the mix DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 171 The CV is read from and is sent to DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 172 For example you could divide the value tapespeed = 0.2 # max loop five x longer (the Droid master has about 100.000 bytes of memory by 10 before sending it to and multiply it with 10 af-...
Page 173 Output Type Description Output of the bypassed or looped CV cvout Output of the bypassed or looped gate gateout DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 174 The normal output range is 0 to 1 (i.e. 10 V) per default, but you can change that with the parameters minimum . For example you could have the three bits maximum mapped to just the range of 0.1 to 0.5: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 175 This sets the lower bound of the output range, i.e. the value that the bit sequence 000000000000 will produce. This sets the upper bound of the output value, i.e. the value that the bit sequence will produce. maximum 111111111111 Output Type Description output Output signal. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 176 Alongside the continous CV, eight gate signals can be fed buttongroup Here a new sample is just and only created at each posi- the S10 similar things. through the delay. Use … gatein1 gatein8 gateout1 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 177 If you patch this input, “triggered” mode is enabled. In this mode, the virtual tape just records a new CV on each trigger sample . So it just records stepped CVs, no slopes and no CV changes between the triggers. sample DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 178 When the internal memory of the tape is exceeded and data got lost, this gate goes to for 0.5 seconds. If you are suspecting this situation, you can wire this output to an LED and observe the memory status that way. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 179 This is ment to be a tuningmode tuningpitch help for tuning your VCOs. This pitch CV will be output while the tuning mode is active. tuningpitch Output Type Description output1 ... output8 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 180 16.20 – General DROID controls droid This circuit gives access to some general circuit gives you access to mis- and that of reducing the force feedback droid ledbrightness conﬁguration settings. It does not cellaneous functions that affect the system as a whole.
Page 181 Note: Just that part of the state is affected that is saved to the SD card. For example the (see page 113) algoquencer does not reset to the ﬁrst step, it just clears it’s current pattern. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 182 360 cycle of the pot during which the center position should notch be assumed. is probably a good value. Notch does not work if selects positive or negative inﬁnity. mode DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 183 The number you set for selects the number of positions discrete in this “switch”. For example produces the values discrete = 4 In this mode the inputs notch mode smooth are ignored. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 184 Color of the pointer in the LED ring. Here are some example color values: color cyan green yellow orange 0.73 magenta violet blue DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 185 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. clearall If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 186 . That’s as simple as this: coders at once, so you need less circuits if you work with many encoders in a similar way. [encoder] encoder = E1.1 output = O1 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 187 100% (the button adds 90% to the ﬁrst (because ) and then adding 0.5 - 0.2 = 0.3 standard 10%): [buttongroup] (because that’s the start value): button1 = B1.1 button2 = B1.2 button3 = B1.3 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 188 If the value is already near 1 and you While you could achive a similar effect with outputscale continue turning clockwise, it starts over at 0. Or if you , using is better, = 4V outputoffset = -2V mode DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 189 = O3 # CW of the values -2 V, -1 V, 0 V, 1 V and 2 V. Such a switch can be used as an octave switch for a VCO. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 190 1 2 3 Speciﬁes the number of encoder ticks you need to turn to get one trigger at movedup moveddown . One complete rotation of the encoder creates 96 such ticks. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 191 Note: The mode is for situations where encoders are overlayed with and an encoder is unused. Setting select mode can be used to disable this encoder and blank its LEDs. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 192 If you use discrete , one turn of the knob changes the virtual switch by eight positions, if sensitivity is at 1.0, and accordingly faster or slower if you change that. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 193 This is the preset number to save or to load. Note: the ﬁrst preset has the number , not ! For the whole story on preset 1 2 3 presets please refer to page 21. This circuit has 16 presets, so this number ranges from DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 194 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 195 • Repeats: The LEDs are purple and white. Purple everywhere in these patches. When you encoquencer means an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, or 15). read “fader” or “M4”, think of “encoder” and “E4”. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 196 5, 6, 7 and 8 will be useless. You need to set numfaders = 4 this situation. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 197 . The CV range cvrange cvbase cvbase cvrange cannot be negative and is capped at 1. If you need a greater range, consider multiplying the output value of the output of the sequencer. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 198 1, but step 2. The shifting wraps around at the end of your sequence, so if you have 24 steps and shift is 1, the sequencer will play step 1 instead of step 24. Note: Other things like take place after shifting. startstep endstep playmode from autoreset DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 199 , the sequence just consists of one single step. startstep endstep Settings startstep larger then endstep is allowed and reverses the playing order. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 200 Sets the general direction in which the sequencer moves through the steps. means forwards and means backwards. direction If set to , the sequencer will change the direction every time it reaches the start or end of the sequence. pingpong DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 201 (see page 281) for details on the pitch accumulator. If set to non-zero, automatically issues a reset (just like a trigger to ) every N clock ticks. autoreset 1 2 3 reset DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 202 Switches the current meaning of the touch buttons below the faders. You probably want to connect the output of a buttongroup (see page 144) here. Here are the possible modes: gates start / end gate pattern skip DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 203 The pitch input of a keyboard. This is used for playing along with the or recording with keyboardcv keyboardmode recordmode The gate input of a keyboard. A positive gate enabled play along (see ) and also recording, if keyboardgate keyboardmode recordmode is set accordingly. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 204 Sets tha chance for a step to be affected by the next “lucky” operation (see triggers below). luckychance DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 205 Sets the gates of the affected steps randomly to on or off. The chance for on is determined by luckyamount . So with luckyamount = 0 you clear all gates and with luckyamount = 1 you set all gates. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 206 Reverses the playin gorder of the affected steps. has not inﬂuence. luckyreverse luckyamount DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 207 120, then you can use a 1V/Oct input for selecting the root note via a sequencer, MIDI keyboard or the like. Also then you are compatible with the ROOT CV input of the Sinfonion. ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 208 Gate input for selecting the 11 th (which is the same as the 4 th ). select11 Gate input for selecting the 13 th (which is the same as the 6 th ). select13 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 209 Selects the alternative 13 th (i.e. the 13 th that is not in the scale). selectfill4 Selects the alternative 7 th (i.e. the 7 th that is not in the scale). selectfill5 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 210 3 rd , 5 th , 7 th , 9 th disable root, 3 rd , 5 th , 7 th , 9 th and 13 th disable all scale notes (ﬁll notes untouched) DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 211 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. clearall If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 212 1 2 3 page to see the currently being played step. The current value of the pitch accumulator (an integer number in the range … accumulator 1 2 3 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 213 13, beats: 5, offset: 0 [euklid] clock = G1 length: 13, beats: 5, offset: 1 reset = G2 beats = P1.1 * 15 + 1 output = G3 length: 4, beats: 2, offset: 1 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 214 Output of the beats in the current pattern. The gate length is directly taken from the input clock – just as the voltage. output Here those impulses will be output where there is no beat in the pattern. offbeats DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 215 The startvalue The following droid patch will convert this into a linear lects the voltage where the exponential input curve and time(ms) curve: the linear output curve should be the same. If the input is...
Page 216 Output Type Description Here comes the resulting linear output output DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 217 Note: even if the circuit is currently not selected, it will nevertheless work and process all its other inputs and its outputs (those that do not deal with buttons or LEDs) in a normal way. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 218 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 219 Select Att 3 Dec 3 Sus 3 Rel 3 Att 4 Dec 4 Sus 4 Rel 4 An alternative would be to have control over all decay DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 220 You also can create smaller matrices, for example 3 led3 = L1.5 output = O1 Simply omit the outputs output14 led4 = L1.7 × in that case. Also 2 2 is possible. led5 = L1.2 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 221 Control output31, output32, output33 and output34 Control output41, output42, output43 and output44 Control output11, output21, output31 and output41 Control output12, output22, output32 and output42 Control output13, output23, output33 and output43 Control output14, output24, output34 and output44 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 222 There are just four inputs since every column of ledcolor1 ... ledcolor4 ledvalueXY outputs has the same LED color (in order to identify them). The color works as with the registers for the LEDs on the master module. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 223 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. clearall If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 224 1 2 3 mainoutput phonesoutput1, 1 2 3 phonesoutput2 outputmix1in1 ... outputmix1in16 outputmix2in1 ... outputmix2in16 outputmix3in1 ... outputmix3in16 outputmix4in1 ... outputmix4in16 outputmix5in1 ... outputmix5in16 outputmix6in1 ... outputmix6in16 outputmix7in1 ... outputmix7in16 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 225 Note: even if the circuit is currently not selected, it will nevertheless work and process all its other inputs and its outputs (those that do not deal with buttons or LEDs) in a normal way. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 226 1 2 3 select select E.g. if , the circuit will be active if is exactly instead of a positive gate signal. In some cases this selectat select is more conventient. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 227 Loads the value into the ﬂip ﬂop that’s deﬁned with load loadvalue loadvalue Value to set the ﬂip ﬂop to, when load is triggered. Output Type Description Outputs the current value of the ﬂip ﬂop: either output DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 228 Play with the four pots and you will get all sorts of very interesting random patterns. But why would you set such strange parameters? Well, DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 229 Lower bound of the allowed range. If unpatched, no lower bound will be applied. minimum maximum Upper bound of the allowed range. If unpatched, no upper bound will be applied. Output Type Description Folded output voltage output DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 230 ’s internal ﬂash memory. Output Type Description Depending on the current state of the button here the value of will be copied. output input1 input2 input3 input4 The LED in the button DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 231 For each input gate, trigger or edge, the out- gatetool percentage since nobody – not even Droid – can look into gatelength = 0.3 # 30% of one clock tick puts an output gate and an output trigger and an output the future...
Page 232 Output Type Description Outputs a gate with controllable length for every gate, trigger or edge event. outputgate Outputs a 10 ms trigger for every gate, trigger or edge event. outputtrigger DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 233 Output Type Description Toggle between at every gate, trigger or edge event. outputedge DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 234 . That extends the quarter cycle (90°) apart: The resulting output looks like this: waveform to negative voltages (while doubling the peak- to-peak voltage): [lfo] bipolar = on triangle = O1 time(sec) time(sec) DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 235 1 V / octave scheme. One “octave” here means doing this. The following example outputs a sine wave at about the fact that the Droid uses Hz rather than BPM. that the frequency doubles. Here is an example for creat- 5 Hz to O4 that is gently oscillating between 2 V and 3.5V:...
Page 236 Here is an example hz = 2 patch: output = G1 [lfo] A triangle wave is selected with the code = 0.5 randomize = 0.8 sine = O1 time(sec) [lfo] bipolar hz = 2 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 237 = 4 output = O1 waveform = 1.0 time(sec) And in between – at – we get some mixture: [lfo] hz = 4 output = O1 waveform = 0.5 time(sec) DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 238 This is an interesting feature that cannot be found in analog LFOs since it would be very hard to build in actual circuits. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 239 . This output is for your convenience and avoids needing two LFO circuits in cases cosine ◦ ◦ where you want to make quadrature applications. Please note that can easily be achieved by negating the outputs at a later stage. sine cosine DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 240 Please note, that many times when you think you need input of the LFO, since setting the level to 0 level the logic circuit you can do the same much simpler. Here disables it: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 241 Note: When both are 1 at the same time, the sum is 2, of course. This does not matter, since the out- put voltage is capped at 10 V ( ) anyway. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 242 Hence a dedicated output for a logic negate. Adds to this output for each input that is high. count 1 2 3 countvalue Adds to this output for each input that is low. countlow countvalue DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 243 1 V, the output will convert 1.234 V to 0.234 V, -2.1 V to 0.9 V and input2 input2 0.5 V to 0.5 V. If is zero or negative, the output will be zero. input2 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 244 The integer number nearest to round input1 The largest integer number that is not greater than floor input1 The smallest integer number that is not less than ceil input1 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 245 = L2.1 four buttons in a diagonal so that inputs is connected led22 = L1.3 to output and so on: led31 = L1.4 led32 = L2.3 This matrix looks like this: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 246 E.g. if , the circuit will be active if is exactly instead of a positive gate signal. In some cases this selectat select is more conventient. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 247 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. clearall dontsave If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid starts. Output Type...
Page 248 • The maximum length of a track is 6000 bytes. also the case when the starts. Also a track change The playback starts immediately when the DROID starts. Longer tracks cannot be loaded. Sorry. But this restarts playback. Per default the track is looped. You can restart the play-...
Page 249 Note: this does not mean that the notes are quantized to 16 th notes. You still have the complete resolution. event in the ﬁle has a relative time stamp, measured in DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 250 (which is the default), the pitch bend will directly be applied to all output pitches. Alternatively you can bendpitch set it to and use the output , for using it elsewhere. pitchbend DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 251 You can listen to up to four CCs (control changes). For example if you are interested in the current value of CC#17, set ccnumber1 ... ccnumber4 1 2 3 and use the output for getting the value of CC 17. ccnumber1 = 17 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 252 The notes will be distributed to the deﬁned outputs according to the settings roundrobin voiceallocation For each voice there is an optional velocity output, which translates the MIDI velocity into values from 0 to 1. velocity1 ... velocity8 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 253 256, and so on. As long as no bank select CC has been received, will output 0. bank Output the current state of the mod wheel level – within the range from . The mod wheel is changed by MIDI modwheel control change 1. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 254 This output gives you access to the current state of the “soft pedal” (MIDI CC 67). It is while the pedal is hold and soft otherwise. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 255 LED for the button: rently playing note, but you can change that behaviour in [midiin] various ways. pitch = O1 gate = O2 [midiin] note1 = 24 notegate1 = _NOTE24 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 256 • Legato pedal (CC 68): While down, ties conse- a reset signal for some circuit: MIDI channels qutive notes together by keeping gate • You want to fetch more than four CCs. tween notes. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 257 = 1 MIDI1 pitch = O1 TRS port on the MASTER18 trs = 2 MIDI2 gate = O2 The next example just processes data from the USB port of the X7: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 258 In most cases the note off velocity is set to 0, which would immediately cut off the release phase when the velocity is patched into a VCA. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 259 The oldest note will be cancelled (default) The new note will not be played and simply be omitted The lowest note will be cancelled The highest note will be cancelled DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 260 2) Gets a 8 th triplets clock here. This is faster than but slower than clock8t clock8 clock : a clock running at 16 th notes. clock16 The same as clock DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 261 0 to 127, but this is converted in the range 0.0 .. 1.0 here, in order to make it easier to use that as a CV. If you need the raw number, multiply the output with 127. Note: as long as no CC message with the selected number happened, this output will be set to 0. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 262 This output gives you access to the current state of the “soft pedal” (MIDI CC 67). It is while the pedal is hold and soft otherwise. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 263 MIDI1 You can specify any velocity you like with the jack . Let’s randomize that. Since the velocity jack velocity Here is how the MIDI ports are numbered in the various DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 264 = P1.1 a second midiout circuit. For each simultaneous note [midiout] modwheel = P1.2 add one pair of pitch gate jacks: clock = _CLOCK DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 265 MID pitchbend events in order to reﬂect the pitch . Here, as soon as the gate goes pitchstabilization changes. See the documentation of the pitchtracking high, it watches how evolves over time. And it pitch jack for details. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 266 MIDI also sends a velocity at the end of a note. The idea is to model the speed with which a key is being released. This noteoffvelocity1 ... is rarely used. If you don’t use these jacks, the velocity for “note off” events is the same as that for “note on” events. noteoffvelocity8 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 267 You can deﬁne up to 16 notes that can be directly controlled with a dedicated gate. This is convenient for playing drum notegate1 ... notegate16 sounds directly from triggers and also for using DROID controllers as MIDI controllers. A trigger or gate to notegate1...
Page 268 Speciﬁes up to eight different CC numbers that can be continuously updated via the corresponding through ccnumber1 ... ccnumber8 1 2 3 inputs. The value needs to be an integer number from DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 269 When the Droid starts it needs a short time until the X7 is operating and your PC / DAW is able to receive the MIDI delayinitialccs events via USB. Initial CC updates during that short time period might get lost and you are missing the correct CC states (which are updated later only on changes).
Page 270 6 and creates a MIDI clock from it. This is an alternative to : don’t use both at the same time. Here you can directly send the MIDI clock in 24 PPQN. midiclock clock DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 271 1 2 3 select select E.g. if , the circuit will be active if is exactly instead of a positive gate signal. In some cases this selectat select is more conventient. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 272 It’s limited by the MIDI stan- dard. If you send MIDI data faster, some events will Forward MIDI events from the ﬁrst active TRS port to the get lost. ﬁrst TRS output: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 273 1 2 3 midiout tousb 1 2 3 Selects which USB MIDI port to output to. See the manual of midiout for details on port selection. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 274 [minifonion] compatible, you have to multiply the values with the fac- input = I1 tor of 120 before sending them to the Minifonion: output = O2 root [minifonion] degree = 7 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 275 120, then you can use a 1V/Oct input for selecting the root note via a sequencer, MIDI keyboard or the like. Also then you are compatible with the ROOT CV input of the Sinfonion. ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 276 Gate input for selecting the 11 th (which is the same as the 4 th ). select11 Gate input for selecting the 13 th (which is the same as the 6 th ). select13 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 277 Selects the alternative 13 th (i.e. the 13 th that is not in the scale). selectfill4 Selects the alternative 7 th (i.e. the 7 th that is not in the scale). selectfill5 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 278 3 rd , 5 th , 7 th , 9 th disable root, 3 rd , 5 th , 7 th , 9 th and 13 th disable all scale notes (ﬁll notes untouched) DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 279 Here comes your quantized output voltage output Whenever the quantization changes to a new note a trigger with the duration 10 ms is output here. No trigger is output notechange in bypass mode. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 280 “louder” or distorting them when two sequencers play a note at the same time. Minimum of all patched inputs of this circuit. minimum Average of all patched inputs of this circuit. average DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 281 (see quantize respond to the 15 notes in this range. The touch buttons [motoquencer] below). clock = _CLOCK below the faders switch on/off the gates. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 282 The Gate pattern decides how gates are played when re- • Gates that are played always are blue with a con- [p2b8] peats is 2 or larger. There are four gate patterns, which [m4] DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 283 – with a second ﬁnger – press another 127 steps, just like in a MIDI CC). And will quantize = 1 step. That will be the start step. quantize to semitones ( V steps). DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 284 Here just the steps between start and end are di- through the sequence. Pattern for example goes al- An example: You set autoreset to 7 in order to create vided into parts. ways two steps forwards (according to direction DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 285 In many cases it is desirable to have several CVs randomization. Setting it to will affect all steps. At and maybe also additional gate outputs as part of a se- DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 286 = B1.7 sequencer. And as long as you don’t run out of RAM, you gate = O6 button8 = B1.8 can add as many tracks as you like. led1 = L1.1 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 287 = _CV the linked sequencer, not to that of the main se- keyboardgate = _GATE quencer. • Don’t use select fadermode buttonmode DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 288 By changing pages or presets between copy and paste, you can copy parts of your sequence elsewhere. There are also two alternative triggers for pasting. just pastes the faders of the currently se- pastefaders DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 289 0”, which is a special state where it waits for the clock to advance to the ﬁrst step. Without that fancy logic, a reset plus clock would skip step 1 and start with step 2. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 290 Inverts the CV or pitch output. This is like mirroring the fader position. Now if the fader is up, the output is low and invert vice versa. In scale quantized mode, the melody still stays within the scale. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 291 1, but step 2. The shifting wraps around at the end of your sequence, so if you have 24 steps and shift is 1, the sequencer will play step 1 instead of step 24. Note: Other things like take place after shifting. startstep endstep playmode from autoreset DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 292 , the sequence just consists of one single step. startstep endstep Settings startstep larger then endstep is allowed and reverses the playing order. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 293 Sets the general direction in which the sequencer moves through the steps. means forwards and means backwards. direction If set to , the sequencer will change the direction every time it reaches the start or end of the sequence. pingpong DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 294 (see page 281) for details on the pitch accumulator. If set to non-zero, automatically issues a reset (just like a trigger to ) every N clock ticks. autoreset 1 2 3 reset DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 295 Switches the current meaning of the touch buttons below the faders. You probably want to connect the output of a buttongroup (see page 144) here. Here are the possible modes: gates start / end gate pattern skip DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 296 The pitch input of a keyboard. This is used for playing along with the or recording with keyboardcv keyboardmode recordmode The gate input of a keyboard. A positive gate enabled play along (see ) and also recording, if keyboardgate keyboardmode recordmode is set accordingly. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 297 Sets tha chance for a step to be affected by the next “lucky” operation (see triggers below). luckychance DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 298 Sets the gates of the affected steps randomly to on or off. The chance for on is determined by luckyamount . So with luckyamount = 0 you clear all gates and with luckyamount = 1 you set all gates. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 299 Reverses the playin gorder of the affected steps. has not inﬂuence. luckyreverse luckyamount DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 300 120, then you can use a 1V/Oct input for selecting the root note via a sequencer, MIDI keyboard or the like. Also then you are compatible with the ROOT CV input of the Sinfonion. ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 301 Gate input for selecting the 11 th (which is the same as the 4 th ). select11 Gate input for selecting the 13 th (which is the same as the 6 th ). select13 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 302 Selects the alternative 13 th (i.e. the 13 th that is not in the scale). selectfill4 Selects the alternative 7 th (i.e. the 7 th that is not in the scale). selectfill5 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 303 3 rd , 5 th , 7 th , 9 th disable root, 3 rd , 5 th , 7 th , 9 th and 13 th disable all scale notes (ﬁll notes untouched) DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 304 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. clearall If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 305 1 2 3 page to see the currently being played step. The current value of the pitch accumulator (an integer number in the range … accumulator 1 2 3 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 306 _FUNCTION selectat = 3 led4 = L1.4 output = O4 output = _PRESET [buttongroup] As you can see: each fader has a input match- button1 = B1.1 selectat DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 307 Don’t use the there. Now both virtual output its position and it will immediately snap to the other side. faders will control the output that is deﬁned in the sec- circuit: motorfader DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 308 And that case the current preset is also cleared. A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. clearall DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 309 Input Type Default Description If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts. Output Type Description output Output the current value if the virtual motor fader (don’t use this if you are using sharewithnext This output provides you with the current state of the touch button below the fader, but only if the circuit is selected.
Page 310 ... ifequal8 else Speciﬁes the output value in case non of comparison values is found at the input. Output Type Description The vaue of the matching input. output ifequal else DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 311 , i.e. the value range 0.0 ... 1.0 ... 1.0 when the pot moves left right. → → This outputs 1.0 - , i.e. the value range 1.0 ... 1.0 ... 0.0 when the pot moves left right. righthalfinv righthalf DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 312 = B2.7 led1 = L1.1 led2 = L1.2 led3 = L2.1 led4 = L1.3 led5 = L1.4 led6 = L2.3 led7 = L1.5 led8 = L1.6 led9 = L2.5 led10 = L1.7 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 313 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. clearall If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 314 This output is as long as one of the buttons is held. You can use that together with the output to use the gate semitone as a CV/gate keyboard with 12 keys. notebuttons DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 315 If you now feed some V/Oct source, such as the pitch out- output = G3 put of a sequencer, to , it will be shifted up and down for up to two octaves. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 316 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. clearall If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 317 Wire this to the LED in the button for nuding up. It will indicate the current value. ledup Wire this to the LED in the button for nuding down. It will indicate the current value. leddown The output of the current value plus value if output offset DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 318 VCO 1 is never detuned nor pitched up. If you are running low in outputs then some use a passive multiple or stacked cable and connect VCO 1 externally the pitch and thus save one output. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 319 Outputs for the 1 V / octave of the three VCOs. is an exact copy of so you could omit that and rather output1 ... output3 output1 input patch VCO 1 to the original pitch CV. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 320 Type Default Description Set a delay in seconds after the Droid’s start before the trigger triggers. Note: the default value is 10 ms, not zero. This delay 0.01 allows all attached controllers to have sent at least one update before and the real pot values etc. are available at the circuits.
Page 321 Shows the difference between the current calibration of the selected output and reference voltage and its default cal- calibration ibration value. Shows you the percentage of uncalibrated outputs. If all eight outputs are calibrated (differ from the default calibration uncalibrated value) this outputs DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 322 Input Type Default Description The pitches of up to 16 input voices. pitchinput1 ... pitchinput16 The gates of up to 16 input voices. gateinput1 ... gateinput16 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 323 The highest note will be cancelled Output Type Description The pitches of up to 16 output voices. pitchoutput1 ... pitchoutput16 The gates of up to 16 output voices. gateoutput1 ... gateoutput16 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 324 0.0 all the time, a minimum value of enough to hit the center reliably. Here is an example: ter does not match it output value. There are three situa- 0.001 is enforced. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 325 = I4 gauge on a MASTER18. release = _RELEASE4 output = O4 [pot] pot = P1.1 select = L1.1 Now you can switch between the four envelopes with the DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 326 • If you turn the physical pot left, then the value of ﬁnd examples and more hints there. the virtual pot is always decreased until both reach at the same time. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 327 Changes the resolution of the pot in lower or higher ranges. Set or more, if you want small values near 0.0 slope slope to be “zoomed in”. Set slope to if you want to zoom in value nears 1.0. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 328 . This is the value before startvalue clear outputscale is applied. If you use , the parameter does not expect a fraction but a discrete number in the range of the discrete values discrete , etc. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 329 A trigger here loads the default start state into the circuit and into all of its presets. clearall If you set this to , the state of the circuit will not saved to the SD card and not loaded from the SD card when the Droid dontsave starts.
Page 330 , i.e. the value range 1.0 ... 1.0 ... 0.0 when the pot moves left right (and the righthalfinv righthalf scaled by outputscale onchange This output emits a trigger whenever the pot is turned in either direction. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 331 This parameter selects which value is chosen if the input value lies between two allowed quantized values (which is direction 1 2 3 almost always the case). The default is to choose the nearest value. quantized down quantize to nearest allowed value quantize up DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 332 Here comes your quantized output voltage output Whenever the quantization changes to a new output value a trigger with the duration 10 ms is output here. No trigger changed is output in bypass mode. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 333 ﬁrst cell. The next example places three outputs at the positions • Since the DROID is very precise in processing CV There are eight outputs, which you can place at any of the voltages you can use the...
Page 334 . At the possible levels are maximum minimum maximum minimum minimum maximum and so on... maximum Output Type Description Output of the random number / voltage output DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 335 ), the recording B1.1 button = B1.4 doubles the speed speed. The fun part: you even can use starts and L1.1 becomes lit. The input is still bypassed to led = L1.4 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 336 (see page 144) circuits or the switches on the recorder is ignored. It is in scrub mode. The playled gateout4 = O4 the S10 similar things. output is , the other LED outputs are DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 337 So the recordings can sample your SD card. The ﬁles are very small, but the operation be as long as 256 notes. can take a small number of milliseconds. During that time DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 338 If you patch this input, “triggered” mode is enabled. In this mode, the virtual tape just records a new CV on each trigger sample . So it just records stepped CVs, no slopes and no CV changes between the triggers. sample DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 339 In some cases this is more conventient. Output Type Description during recordings. recordled playled during playback or scrubbing. when no playback, recording or scrubbing is going on. stopled DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 340 When the internal memory of the tape is exceeded and data got lost, this gate goes to for 0.5 seconds. If you are suspecting this situation, you can wire this output to an LED and observe the memory status that way. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 341 While this gate input is high, the circuit is bypassed and is copied to bypass input output Output Type Description The most recently sampled value is sent here. output DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 342 In some cases this selectat select is more conventient. Output Type Description The input will be copied here, but just when the circuit is selected via output select DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 343 = 1/120 pitch1 gateoutput = O2 pitch1 = 1 pitch2 = 12 pitch1 = P1.1 * 3V pitch2 = 8 pitch3 = 10 pitch2 = P1.2 * 3V pitch3 = 13 pitch4 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 344 = 8 pitch3 = 13 pitch4 = 25 pitch5 = 4 pitch6 = 11 pitch7 = 7 pitch8 = 21 chaintonext = 1 # continue at next sequencer [sequencer] pitch1 = 2 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 345 See chaintonext pitch the general circuit notes for details. Output Type Description The pitch output. It is unquantized. pitchoutput The optional CV output, in case you use the inputs. cvoutput DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 346 Output Type Description The gate output. gateoutput DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 347 4. Use the outputs of this circuit to provide your other circuits with the information about the current har- monic situation such as the root note and the scale. This is a basic example for using a Droid to add one more quantizer to a Sinfonion: [sinfonionlink]...
Page 348 Outputs a trigger whenever in Song mode the Sinfonion forwards to the ﬁrst bar of the song. reset Outputs a trigger for every step of a song. step Outputs a trigger for every beat (subdivision of a step). beat DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 349 Or in other words the voltage changes fast at the beginning and slower at the end: time S-curve original pitch time Linear original pitch DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 350 Description Output for the resulting CV with the exponential (classical) slew algorithm applied exponential Output for linear slew limiting linear Output with the slew limitation according to the S-curve algorithm. scurve DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 351 This results, in essence, to a 0.00 reset = I1 damped sine wave. position = O1 velocity = O2 are available at their respec- position velocity tive outputs ready to be used for modulation. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 352 Outputs the current velocity of the mass velocity Output the current length of the string. If the string goes upwards (which is possible with certain modulations), this position can be negative. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 353 P1.1 , which you can map to a toggle button: tuningmode going through several octaves, and uses a quantizer for creating steps of 1 V each: [button] button = B1.1 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 354 This value is being added to all outputs, but not in tuning or bypass mode. It can e.g. be used for making a vibrato on a chord. Output Type Description 1 st ... 8 th pitch output output1 ... output8 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 355 [switch] connected outputs send their values into the black horri- Now Let’s do the opposite thing: distribute one input to input = I1 ble void. output1 = O1 four different outputs: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 356 Output Type Description 1 st ... 16 th output. Use these outputs in order and don’t leave gaps. output1 ... output16 DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 357 • If you turn the physical pot left, then the value of knob, the decay parameter will change. Holding will B1.2 the virtual pot is always decreased until both pots change release. Holding both at the same time is also DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 358 These inputs select which of the virtual pots should be changed when the physical pot is being turned. These should switch1 ... switch8 be set to Output Type Description output1 ... output8 The output of the up to eight virtual pots. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 359 Type Default Description Patch a steady clock here for this circuit to be of any use clock A trigger here resets the internal step counter and restart at step 1. reset DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 360 -0.3 will make it 30% early. The timing values are clipped into the range -0.9999 …0.9999. Output Type Description Here comes the modiﬁed output clock output DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 361 For switching between these layers you need a CV. your . By the way: is a synonym for onvalue This example assigned three different layers to one but- output = _CLOCK_DIV ton. Each layer has its own state. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 362 Similar to , but always sends when the button is off and when the button is on – independent of the values negated inverted onvalue offvalue DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 363 As an alternative to seconds you can specify the length how fast the output level is moving and into which direc- in terms of clock ticks. This needs a steady clock signal tion. patched into the input. clock DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 364 In pingpong mode that trigger is not sent when the transient has reach the -value, but when it is back at start (i.e. after one full cycle). DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 365 Number of times the delayed trigger is being repeated. Each further repetition is with the same delay. repeats A high gate signal suppresses any further output gates. However, the current gate is ﬁnished normally. mute DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 366 Whenever there are more input triggers than this circuit can keep memory of, this output outputs a gate of 0.5 sec overflow length. You can wire this to an LED in order to know when this happens. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 367 1 2 3 select select E.g. if , the circuit will be active if is exactly instead of a positive gate signal. In some cases this selectat select is more conventient. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 368 If you are lucky enough to own an E4 controller (see page 68), you can use the LED ring of an encoder to display the [p2b8] current tuning. Here is an example: DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 369 Outputs if the input frequency is “in tune”. Here the input is applied. If you use , this output only ledintune precision select works while the circuit is selected. DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...
Page 370 Here you get the pitch of the reference tone the tuner currently “locked in” into. It is either the nearest semitone or referencepitch the note selected by in the nearest octave. tuningnote vcofound This output is whenever a valid input signal is found on the tuning input DROID manual for blue-5 Table of contents at page...