Electro-Harmonix POG3 Manual

Electro-Harmonix POG3 Manual

Polyphonic octave generator

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Thank you for purchasing the Electro-Harmonix POG3 Polyphonic Octave
Generator. The world's best line of octave pedals just got a huge update, featuring:
stereo outputs, voice panning, 5th above voicing, multi-mode resonant filter
with envelope sweep, extensive expression control, and 100 customizable
presets. The POG3 will transform your sound into endlessly inspiring tones
and textures!

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Quick Start Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Top Panel Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
OLED Display and Home Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Global Settings Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Factory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Notes and Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
EHXport™ Computer Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
In the Box:
POG3 Polyphonic Octave Generator
9.6VDC / 500mA Power Supply
USB-C Cable
User Reference Manual
Warranty/Compliance Insert
POWER SUPPY REQUIREMENTS:
Voltage: 9VDC
Polarity: Center-Negative
This device comes equipped with an Electro-
Harmonix 9.6DC-500 power supply. Use of the
wrong adapter or a plug with the wrong polar-
ity may damage the device and void the war-
ranty. Do not exceed 10.5VDC on the power plug.
Power supplies rated for less than 300mA may
cause the device to act unreliably.
Current: 300mA

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Generator. The world’s best line of octave pedals just got a huge update, featuring: stereo outputs, voice panning, 5th above voicing, multi-mode resonant filter with envelope sweep, extensive expression control, and 100 customizable presets. The POG3 will transform your sound into endlessly inspiring tones and textures! Table of Contents Quick Start Guide .
  • Page 2: Quick Start Guide

    4. Press the DRY ATTACK button to RIGHT button in the upper left route the dry signal through the corner of the POG3 is illuminated. Attack effect; this button is now lit. 4. Set the FILTER slider to maximum. Your Dry voice now also fades-in.
  • Page 3 Preset Saved is shown. The preset 3. Footswitches: Press both PRESET is saved. footswitches simultaneously to 4. If you are modifying or saving on unload the current preset and an existing preset, the POG3 will enter LIVE mode. - 3 -...
  • Page 4: Top Panel Controls

    LEFT, RIGHT, and DIRECT buttons presets as well as adjust settings. to enable their respective outputs. The NavCoder provides the following The POG3 remembers the state of movements: these outputs separately for EFFECT and BYPASS modes and their states •...
  • Page 5 The FILTER control can be used to shape the tone of the POG3’s voices. 5. MASTER VOL Knob Controls the All of the generated signals go through POG3’s overall output volume.
  • Page 6: Connections

    POG3 between Disable Dry Detune to make best use effect mode and buffered bypass. of the Spread effect when the POG3 is 22. EFFECT LED The EFFECT LED lights routed in mono. solid to indicate the POG3 is in effect 17.
  • Page 7 DIRECT button on the top panel of the suitable device. Use the PAN controls POG3. The output impedance present- on the front of the POG3 to split or ed at this jack is 550Ω. The maximum blend the various voices between these output level is +12.5dBu.
  • Page 8: Oled Display And Home Screens

    FOCUS feature is active. The FOCUS icon indicates that pushing UP ( ) button switches +1 and +2 Octaves on the NavCoder will open the POG3 between the original POG algorithm Global Settings Menu. The Global Set- (Focus Off) and a Pitch Fork style...
  • Page 9 The GRAPHIC Home View’s main feature is that it displays a graphical representation of the POG3’s sliders and knobs, all of which move in real-time on the display. This view is helpful if you want to get an idea of where the controls are set after loading a preset.
  • Page 10 Data View pages 1 (top) and 2 (bottom) The second page of DATA View organizes ATTACK, FILTER, and DETUNE sections into their own rows, with their associated controls in each row. When the DRY signal is routed through any of these effects, a ‘DRY’ icon appears at the end of the row.
  • Page 11: Global Settings Menus

    Home View: Standard (default), Graphic, Data (Pg) 1, Data (Pg) 2, Performance Contrast: 1-10 (default = 10) Name Crawl: On (default) /Off Factory Settings Restore: Preset 1-10, Expression, Display, All settings Firmware Version Displays your POG3’s firmware version. - 11 -...
  • Page 12: Presets

    NavCoder to the right. Save Preset: while Save Preset is highlighted, push the NavCoder to the right. The POG3 immediately saves the current settings to the currently selected preset number. Helpful Hint: Possibly the quickest way to save a preset from a home screen is to push the NavCoder D-Pad in the following sequence: up, right, right.
  • Page 13: Filter

    Shortcut: press and hold the DRY button under the FILTER slider for approxi- mately 2 seconds. For a complete picture of the POG3’s Filter, also see the Filter controls Top Panel Controls section on page 5. Filter Mode: Choose between Low-Pass, Band-Pass, High-Pass.
  • Page 14 You should find there is a sweet spot for your style of playing and your instrument but also each different instrument may require a different Trigger Sensitivity setting. Helpful Hint: If you find the envelope does not always trigger when you play a note, set Trigger Sensitivity to a higher setting.
  • Page 15: Expression

    127 the toe position. Calibration: We recommend you calibrate the POG3’s expression pedal input either when first using the POG3 in your set up or if you change expression pedals. POG3 calibration is only available when an expression pedal or control-voltage is connected to the EXP / CV IN jack.
  • Page 16 Rotate NavCoder CCW for Custom. Push NavCoder right to enter the Heel setup screen: 1. Upon entering the setup screen, the POG3 will ask you to set the expression pedal to the heel setting. Upon doing so, a Graphic View screen will appear.
  • Page 17 Reverse: Off/On Calibration: Set> No-Pedal Value: 0-127 Warp (WRP) Warp mode engages whammy style pitch bend on all voices except DRY. FOCUS must be enabled to Warp—or bend—the +1 and +2 Octaves. The -2, -1, and +5th voices are always available for Warp sweep. Heel Trans: Set the interval for the heel position, ranging from 0 to 120, where each decade is a note on the chromatic scale, the standard notes on a piano keyboard.
  • Page 18 In between the heel and toe positions of the expression pedal, the POG3 glissandos or slides from one frozen note to the next. The position of the expression pedal sets the glissando speed: the closer the pedal is to the toe position the slower the glissando rate.
  • Page 19: Midi

    MIDI The POG3 has both MIDI IN and OUT ports. MIDI IN is used for a number of functions including: controlling nearly every parameter on the POG3 in real-time, choosing and loading presets, or playing the POG3 like an organ or synthesizer with standard MIDI Note messages from a MIDI keyboard.
  • Page 20 Load Preset and Load the preset specified by the MIDI CC data 0…99 Effect Off value + 1. Put the POG3 into bypass. For ex- ample, send data value 00 to load to Preset 1. DRY Pan knob DRY L/R position 0…127...
  • Page 21: Display Options

    Home View setting in the Display Options menu. Contrast: 1-10 (default = 10): adjusts the brightness or contrast of the POG3’s OLED display. A setting of 1 is the lowest contrast and is the darkest setting.
  • Page 22: Factory Settings

    Expression: Restores the factory expression settings. Display: Restores the three Display Options. All Settings: Erases all presets on the POG3 and then restores factory Presets 1-10. This function also resets all other settings to their factory defaults. After performing All settings restore, the POG3 restarts.
  • Page 23: Ehxport™ Computer Application

    EHXport Computer Application ™ The EHXport™ companion software for your POG3 runs on Windows and Mac and provides: Preset editing and creation Preset transfer and backup to and from your computer Preset rearrangement Global settings entry Firmware updates EHXport™ is available as a free download at ehx.com/pog3.
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