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- Page 1 User Reference Manual...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
MIDI AND MIDI SYNC USER NOTES & TIPS SIGNAL PATH DIAGRAM Copyright 2005 Electro-Harmonix. All rights reserved. 2880 and Electro-Harmonix and logo are trademarks of New Sensor/Electro Harmonix. Product and company names used within the manual are trademarks of their respective companies. -
Page 3: Precautions For Safe Use
Carefully review the safety precautions as they not only ensure long and trouble-free life of your 2880, but also ensure your own long and trouble-free life. Instead of neatly tossing it to the side once it comes out of the box, keep your manual in a convenient place for quick reference. - Page 4 The 2880 uses world-class audio converters, while offering uniformity in syncing and integration with any user’s current equipment. The storage is on flash cards that range from 128 megabyte to 2 gigabyte. All files may be downloaded...
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Page 5: Quick Start Guide
When you are finished playing, hit either the RECORD or PLAY button to stop recording. Pressing RECORD will stop recording and stop the 2880. Hitting PLAY will loop the 2880 back to the beginning, put the 2880 into OVERDUB mode and automatically continue recording onto TRACK 2. To exit OVERDUB mode, press the RECORD button. - Page 6 5. Hit the RECORD button. The 2880 will not immediately begin recording but instead will give you a 4-Beat count- in. On the 5th beat, after the count-in, the 2880 will begin recording. This is beat 1 of the loop. Upon hitting the RECORD button, the Clix metronome will reset to beat 1.
- Page 7 4. Locate the 6 files you want to restore to the 2880 on your hard drive. 5. Copy the files to the 2880’s Compact Flash card, directly to its root folder (meaning do not place the files into a folder on the Compact Flash card if you want the 2880 to play them).
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Page 8: The Record Transport
NEW LOOP button again to exit Record-Ready Mode. If you press the NEW LOOP button while recording a New Loop it will end recording and put the 2880 into Playback mode. Below is a table displaying the results of press-... - Page 9 Quantize modes. When the QUANTIZE LED is lit, the 2880 is in Quantize mode. When you record a New Loop in Quantize mode, the 2880 will give you a 4 beat count-in and extend the loop length to the nearest full bar;...
- Page 10 100%, with each pass of the loop, the volume of the previously recorded audio will attenuate according to the setting of the fader. Using this function, it is possible to use the 2880 as a very long delay pedal.
- Page 11 TEMPO Slider when recording. LEDs: The CLIX LEDs blink on the beat, at the same tempo the 2880 is set to. The left LED lights briefly on CLIX every beat, the right LED blinks only on beat 1.
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Page 12: Analog Control And I/O
You could use this input to connect a CD Player, iPod, Mixer, Drum Machine or Sampler. The 2880 does not record audio from the AUX IN Jack. The Input Impedance presented at the AUX IN Jack is 6.8 kOhms, so it is best suited for Line Inputs. -
Page 13: Digital I/O And Power
MIDI IN 2880 can sync to MIDI Clock through the MIDI IN jack. You can use a drum machine, sequencer, beat box or any device that outputs MIDI Clock as the MIDI Clock master; the 2880 will slave to the external device. -
Page 14: Usb Port
Cards will have to be formatted to the FAT16 file system. Most store bought cards are formatted for FAT16. If you need to format a CF Card, attach the 2880 to a Windows PC via the USB port, and choose “FAT,” under the File System pull-down menu. -
Page 15: In-Depth Look At Recording Tracks
In-Depth Look at Recording Tracks Readying the 2880 to Record a NEW LOOP: Plug your instrument into either the LEFT or RIGHT INPUT jacks, or both if recording two separate instruments or if recording in stereo. To monitor your recording, connect the LEFT and/or RIGHT OUTPUT jacks to a mixer or amp or plug headphones into the HEADPHONE jack. - Page 16 4-Beat count-in. The 2880 will start recording after the 4-beat count-in; on the 5th beat you hear. Pressing the PLAY, RECORD or NEW LOOP buttons will end the loop. The 2880 will truncate the loop’s length to the end of the previous bar if the aforementioned buttons are pressed within the first 2 beats of the current bar.
- Page 17 The loop length is set automatically for all tracks when you record a New Loop on Track 1. This means the loop length for the entire 2880 is set when you record your New Loop. It also means the loop length for all 5 tracks are always identical to Track 1’s length.
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Page 18: In-Depth Look At Overdubbing Tracks
When Overdubbing with the 2880, both the RECORD and PLAY LEDs will be lit solid. Choosing a Track to Overdub: After recording a New Loop, the 2880 may have automatically advanced to Track 2. If so, you may be already over- dubbing onto Track 2, are both the RECORD and PLAY LEDs lit? To choose a track to Overdub onto, press the TRACK SELECT button. - Page 19 3. Press the Play button to playback the loop. 4. When the punch-in section arrives, press the RECORD button. The 2880 immediately begins erasing and recording onto the active track. 5. When the Punch-In section is finished, press RECORD or PLAY to stop recording.
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Page 20: In-Depth Look At Mixdown
What is Mixdown: Looking at the 2880’s top panel, you can see it has a simple mixer that combines the 4 recorded tracks, the DRY input signal and the Mixdown track, which are then sent to the stereo outputs. You can independently adjust the volume of any of the 4 tracks, the DRY OUT and the Mixdown track. - Page 21 Performing a Mixdown: While the 2880 is idle, press the MIXDOWN button once. You should see the MIXDOWN LED light up solid. When the MIXDOWN LED is lit solid, the 2880 is ready for normal MIXDOWN. At this point you can either press RECORD to jump right into Mixing Down or you can press PLAY to rehearse the Mixdown.
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Page 22: Midi And Midi Sync
Start command when you press RECORD to begin the 4-beat count-in. When you stop a loop and the 2880 goes into idle mode, a MIDI Stop command is sent out. So if the 2880 is playing a loop and you press either the PLAY or RECORD buttons to stop the loop, it will send out a MIDI Stop command. -
Page 23: User Notes & Tips
Below are a number of pointers to help you create loops when using the 2880 with MIDI Clock. To summarize these tips: when the 2880 creates a loop as a MIDI Clock slave, it needs to work in Quantize mode in order to create loop lengths that are exactly x number of bars in length. - Page 24 Headphone Level knob, these controls are fully analog and cannot be controlled via MIDI. Controlling the 2880 via MIDI is the same as pushing the 2880's buttons and moving its sliders and rotary controls. The 2880 does not send Program and Control Change messages, it only can receive these messages.
- Page 25 Setting the MIDI Channel: The MIDI channel on which Program and Control Change messages are received can be altered from 2880’s panel and saved in internal memory. Press the MIXDOWN button and hold it for more than 2 seconds. After holding MIXDOWN for 2 seconds, you will see all of the LEDs blink except the four track LEDs.
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Page 26: Midi Program Change Messages
2880 with Program Change, we have also added more functions not present on the face of the 2880, such as mute/unmute of the tracks and direct selection of a track. A program change message has one information byte, P0 (0 to 127), but this is usually presented to the user as being 1 to 128,... - Page 27 If the channel's level is zero when the command is received then the level will be set either to that of 2880’s panel fader or to that of the last CC message (20..24), depending on which was the last received.
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Page 28: Signal Path Diagram
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