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- Page 1 V-STATION U S E R M A N U A L...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Requesting your personalized V-Station PowerCore plug-in ..Installing the V-Station - OS X ...... - Page 4 CONTACT DETAILS If you would like to get in touch with us, please e-mail: info@tcelectronic.com. Alternatively, you may contact the TC Electronic distributor in your area, or write to: TC ELECTRONIC A/S Customer Support Sindalsvej 34 Risskov DK-8240 Denmark www.tcelectronic.com USA: TC ELECTRONIC, INC.
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Page 5: System Requirements
• POWERCORE PCI or FIREWIRE running system 1.9 or later • Mac OS X (10.2.8 or higher) • G4 / 800 MHz or faster • 256 MB RAM • VST or Audio Unit compatible host application. • System must meet requirements of the host application V-Station PAGE 3... -
Page 6: Requesting Your Personalized V-Station Powercore Plug-In
2) A dialogue box will appear titled 'Plug-In Setup'. Click 'Next' a) Fill in the Plug-In serial number. This is found on the V-Station PowerCore box. b) Enter your valid email address. A download link for a personalized version of the V-Station PowerCore plug-in will be emailed to this address. - Page 7 Requesting your Personalized V-Station for DAW's without Internet 1) If the Audio workstation is not connected to the Internet, the V-Station PowerCore can still be installed. A different computer with an Internet connection and valid email account must be used instead to complete the installation.
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Page 8: Installing The V-Station - Os X
(either WinZip or Stuffit Expander will be needed to uncompress the plug-in) 2) After the file is extracted, run the installer program 'V-Station PowerCore Installer' . The installer will copy the V-Station PowerCore audio unit version to the following... -
Page 9: Main Panel
Main panel The main panel is where you'll find the most important parameters for the majority of the V-Station's sounds. Here you will find the OSCILLATORS, a 5-channel MIXER, the FILTER, the ENVELOPE GENERATORS and the LFOs. If these terms mean nothing to you, read on... -
Page 10: Oscillators
The oscillators on an analogue synthesizer can be likened to the strings of a guitar and they provide the basic sound source for the majority of the V-Station's sounds. All three oscillators are identical offering a wide range of waveforms and you have control over octave, semitone tuning and detune for each of the three oscillators. -
Page 11: Mixer
The noise generator can be used to create many unpitched sounds such as drums or special effects. The SOLO buttons allow you to hear each of the sound sources in isolation. This can be very useful when setting up a sound for isolating the individual elements. V-Station PAGE 9... -
Page 12: Filter
Filter The V-Station's low-pass filter is the heart of Novation's 'liquid analogue' technology by accurately modelling the unique tonal characteristics of a 'true' analogue filter. The filter can be swept with its own envelope generator or LFO2. Resonance is fully vari- able from nothing to screaming and to add more edge, the O-DRIVE control allows you to add distortion. -
Page 13: Env
'LED' above the speed control. The two LFOs can be independently synchronised to incoming MIDI clock so that sweeps and other effects are in time with the sequencer's tempo. The following are constant to all pages: V-Station PAGE 11... -
Page 14: Master Section
Here you can select programs using the PROGRAM up/down buttons to the right of the LCD. These two buttons are a good start to hearing what the V-Station is capable of as you can step through the 200 preset sounds that are supplied. Any of these can be edited and tweaked and saved. -
Page 15: Portamento
With each instance of the V-Station having its own arpeggiating possibilities all per- fectly synchronized with each other, you can create weaving rhythmic and melodic soundscapes. Portamento With the portamento control, you can add glide between notes to re-create the 'slide' function of the Roland TB303™... -
Page 16: Selecting And Writing Programs
Whilst it is easy to add effects to the V-Station in your host sequencer, the V-Station's own internal multi-effects are an integral part of the sounds themselves. The V-Station offers a variety of delay / echo effects, various reverbs, chorus/flanger/phaser, distortion, EQ and autopan which can all be used simultane- ously. -
Page 17: Loading And Saving Banks
"Techno". You might also create a series of 'vintage' synth emulations - again, these could be saved as a bank called "Vintage". Whatever... you can subsequently load all these sounds back into your V-Station at any time. In this way, you can build up your own private library of V-Station sounds. -
Page 18: Editing Sounds
When you load that song again, the instances of the V-Station will be recalled along with the sounds you selected / edited. The WRITE and SAVE BANK options are more for building up a library of your own sounds. -
Page 19: Midi Clock Sync
Notes about MIDI Clock Sync. By default, the V-Station is set to sync to the tempo of the sequencer and by default, the arpeggiator is set to sync to this external clock source. This makes sense - when you switch the arpeggiator on (or you select a sound that uses the arpeggiator), it is automatically synchronized to the tempo of the song you are working on. - Page 20 Other pages Whilst most of the V-Station's functionality is presented on the MAIN panel, there are deeper but lesser-used parameters available on other sub-pages. These are selected in the top right of the window: Simply click on these buttons to access the other pages.
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Page 21: Extra
EXTRA PAGE Here you can set lesser-used parameters for the Oscillators, LFOs, Envelopes and Arpeggiator. For more details of the controls provided on this page, please consult the PDF documentation that comes on the installation CD-ROM. V-Station PAGE 19... -
Page 22: Controls
Here you can set how the various controllers such as pitch bend, mod wheel, after- touch and breath can control pitch, filter cutoff, effects balance, etc., for performance control. For more details of the controls provided on this page, please consult the Operator manual documentation that comes on the installation CD-ROM. V-Station PAGE 20... -
Page 23: Global
GLOBAL PAGE In this page, you can set parameters that affect the V-Station as a whole such MAS- TER TUNING, clock source (internal or external), velocity curve and so forth. Also in this page you can restore the factory presets and also import sounds from a 'real' K-Station. -
Page 24: Conclusion
However, to get a deeper understanding of the V-Station's remarkable capabilities, it's worth taking the time to read the other PDF documentation provided on the CD-ROM. Here you will find not only more details of the V-Station's functions but also a brief course in analogue synthesis.
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