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Bastl Pizza CRUST Manual

A hard-hitting drum voice
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CRUST
A Hard-Hitting
Drum Voice
BASTL
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  • Page 1 CRUST A Hard-Hitting Drum Voice BASTL INSTRUMENTS...
  • Page 2 PIZZA CRUST A hard-hitting drum voice Pizza CRUST is a hard-hitting drum voice and goes way beyond drum territory. It consists of two layers – the NOISE source and dual oscillator TONE generator. Hard-hitting drums need a lot of transient attention and CRUST has you...
  • Page 3 ● velocity input - when trigger not connected it acts as input for external envelope ● assignable CTRL knob and CTRL CV option ● firmware updates via micro USB ● interchangeable HW with the Bastl Pizza Oscillator and Pizza Basil (just a di erent panel)

  • Page 4: Technical Details

    TECHNICAL DETAILS ● 8 HP ● PTC fuse and diode protected 10 pin power connector ● 24 mm deep ● current consumption: +12 V: 90 mA; -12 V: 20 mA ● -5/+5 V range on all CV inputs ARCHITECTURE...
  • Page 7 BUTTON COMBOS TIMBRE >2s = CTRL assignment (press nearest button to assign) PITCH>2s = TUNE mode TONE + NOISE = manual trigger TONE + PITCH knob = stepped detune TONE+ ENV knob = pitch envelope decay (two di erent curves) NOISE + PITCH knob = noise tuning TIMBRE + PITCH button >2s = enters calibration mode of v/oct...
  • Page 8 POWER Before connecting the ribbon cable to this module, disconnect your system from power! Double-check the polarity of the ribbon cable and that it is not misaligned in any direction. The red wire should match the -12V rail both on the module and the bus board.

  • Page 9: Trigger Input

    TRIGGER input Pizza Crust is waiting for your triggers to start doing its tasty magic. Send triggers into the TRIGGER input (or alternatively to the VELOCITY input. See ENVELOPES chapter). You can manually trigger by holding TONE and then pressing NOISE!
  • Page 10 OCTAVE In OCTAVE mode, the PITCH knob adjusts the octave (total range of 10 octaves, from A-1 to A8, which is equal to 13.75 Hz - 7040 Hz). SWEEP SWEEP controls the pitch envelope. Either making transient kick type sweep to the right or softer membrane type sweep up to the left.
  • Page 11 DETUNE LINEAR & EXPONENTIAL DETUNE To the left is a linear detune to the main pitch going further to the absolute Hz LFO range that is independent from the main PITCH. To the right you can set an exponentially detuned ratio up to 16:1.
  • Page 12 SEMI - semitone selection FINE - fine tune adjustment TUNE - broad pitch control (similar to OCTAVE mode, but going through the whole range of the oscillator) You can think of the TUNE mode as set & forget. For example: in the TUNE mode, you can select which root note you want the oscillator to be with the SEMI option to then go through di erent octaves of this tone with your OCTAVE selection.
  • Page 13 LAYERS Crust consists of two separate layers, the TONE & NOISE. Each is responsible for very di erent sounds. With their combinations you can achieve a plethora of variable results. LAYER fader Layer mixes between the TONE and NOISE layers of your drum sound.
  • Page 14 TONE modes The TONE section is dual oscillator setup and they have 4 di erent configurations-modes. Press the TONE button to select one of 4 modes for the tone character of the drum voice. The lights indicate the active setting. The four options are: The FM mode is the classic 2 operator sound.
  • Page 15 NOISE modes and NOISE PITCH Press the NOISE button to select one of 4 noise characters of the drum voice. The lights indicate the active setting. Each NOISE mode has the NOISE PITCH setting accessed either by holding the NOISE button and turning the PITCH knob or by assigning it to the CTRL knob.
  • Page 16 The four options are: WHITE WHITE noise is the default NOISE mode. Use the FILTER to cut PITCH=ampli the low or high frequencies. tude modulation frequency BIT is a downsampled version NOISE of the white noise, adding a PITCH=down crunchy sample rate 8 bit character to the noise.
  • Page 17 ENVELOPES ENV knob This knob macro controls both the TONE and NOISE amplitude envelopes. ● Central position is the shortest envelope click ● Going clockwise will increase the decay (D) ● Going counter-clockwise will increase both attack and decay (AD) ○...
  • Page 18 VELOCITY input Sets the amplitude of the envelopes - therefore controlling the final loudness of the drum voice. If there is no cable at the TRIG input and there is voltage applied at the velocity input you can use it as a VCA. Once there is a rising voltage detected on the velocity input, it will trigger internal FM/PITCH envelopes.
  • Page 19 TIMBRE fader Controls the character and amount of the three parameters. When the fader is in the middle position, the timbre parameters are inactive. By going to the left or right it selects two di erent flavors of the parameters. All TIMBRE settings are remembered as you switch from one to another.
  • Page 20 For both TONE & NOISE The CLIPPING is the last stage in the signal chain when TONE and NOISE are already mixed together and it has several elemental parts and happens di erently for the left and the right side. The left side uses a resonant high-pass filter tuned to the same frequency as the main oscillator ensuring bass boost or boost of the fundamental frequency.
  • Page 21 Only for TONE does slightly di erent things for each of the TONE modes: TIMBRE TIMBRE FADER TO THE FADER TO RIGHT (TRANSIENT) THE LEFT (BODY) static fm fm envelope amount amount static fm fm envelope amount + fm amount + fm feedback feedback RING...
  • Page 22 CTRL The CTRL is an assignable control. Most are already controllable parameters, but some are synth parameters that are otherwise not accessible. The CTRL opens a lot of control and modulation options and makes CRUST a very versatile voice module. CTRL knob (-6V to +6V) The CTRL knob can serve as a static control of many parameters.
  • Page 23 CTRL destinations Possible CTRL Select Indicated by destinations by pressing lights SWEEP depth PITCH SWEEP DETUNE PITCH DETUNE OCTAVE PITCH OCTAVE PITCH exponential PITCH OCTAVE + SWEEP SWEEP decay PITCH SWEEP + DETUNE TONE mode select TONE DUAL + RING TONE VCA (unipolar) TONE DUAL...
  • Page 24 PITCH V/OCT (-5V to +8V) V/OCT input serves as external control of the oscillator's pitch. It includes several features to keep you in tune. The main struggle in modular synthesis is to match your V/OCT source and your oscillator. Crust has you covered with the V/OCT CALIBRATION MODE.
  • Page 25 V/OCT CALIBRATION MODE Enter the V/OCT CALIBRATION MODE by holding the TIMBRE and PITCH buttons. All LEDs will turn on to indicate the mode. Press the TIMBRE button to quantize the V/OCT input (stepped animation on SHAPE leds) or leave it unquantized (smooth fading of SHAPE leds).

  • Page 27: Boot Settings

    BOOT SETTINGS ● Hold the PITCH button at powerup to go to firmware update mode. ● Hold the TIMBRE button at powerup to reset user settings (FINE delay settings, CTRL destinations). ● Hold TIMBRE and NOISE at powerup to do a factory reset: resets user settings and calibration.

  • Page 28: Firmware Update

    FIRMWARE UPDATE 1. Connect a micro USB cable to the Pizza Crust module. (Make sure it's a data cable and not just a power cable.) 2. Hold the PITCH button and plug the USB into your computer 3. The SWEEP LED will start flashing 4.
  • Page 29 Antonín Gazda, Jiří Březina, Florian Helling, Jan Pavlacka, Matteo Ruggiero, Wes Langill Management: John Dinger Manual: František Hruška, Martin Vondřejc Graphic design: Anymade Studio The idea turned into reality thanks to everyone at Bastl Instruments and thanks to the immense support of our fans.
  • Page 30 BASTL more info and video tutorials www.bastl-instruments.com...

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