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CreamWare PRO-12 ASB User Manual

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  • Page 1 PRO-12 ASB Authentic Sound Box Rev 1.2...

  • Page 2: Disclaimer

    In no event will CreamWare be liable for any loss of data or for errors in data use or processing resulting from the use of this product or the documentation. In particular, CreamWare will not be responsible for any direct or...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Index Owner’s Manual Disclaimer Index Introduction Getting started Making connections Power adaptor MIDI connection Audio connection Power switch USB connection and drivers Installation of Remote Software Presets The Control Panel Oscillator A & B Filter Section Amplifier LFO / Modulation Glide / Unison Configuration Strip Prodyssey Remote Software...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction Welcome Thank you for choosing the PRO-12 ASB. We hope you will have as much fun with your PRO-12 ASB as we did when developing this unique and characterful synthesizer. Please read this manual thoroughly in order to take full advantage of the many features the PRO-12 ASB has to offer.

  • Page 5: Getting Started Making Connections

    PRO-12 Remote Software. Connect the MIDI in and out of your PRO-12 ASB to the MIDI in and out of your keyboard or computer. The MIDI input of your PRO-12 ASB should be connected to the MIDI output of your keyboard / computer, and vice versa.

  • Page 6: Audio Connection

    PRO-12 ASB please turn the power switch on! USB Connections and driver installation (Windows XP) An alternative to using MIDI to connect your PRO-12 ASB to a computer is to use the built-in USB interface. On a PC, this requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2;...

  • Page 7: Presets

    - then continue by pressing the 'Next' button. You can now set the installation path within the 'Installation path' drop-down menu. If you don’t set a dedicated path here, the Remote Software will be installed to “C:\Programs\Creamware\PRO-12 ASB Remote”. Installation requires 6.7 MB of empty hard disk space. The 'Choose Start Menu Folder' lets you choose your own directory.

  • Page 8: Control Panel

    Control Panel Oscillator A&B Apart from a few small differences, oscillators A & B are largely identical. Both have sawtooth and pulse waveforms, and oscillator B has an additional triangle wave. Each oscillator waveform has its own dedicated on/off button and all of them can be active at the same time, which allows a mix of up to five waveforms in parallel.
  • Page 9 Coarse Use this to set the oscillator frequency. The range can be adjusted over 6 octaves. Fine Use this knob to detune the oscillators with respect to one another. Detuning and then mixing two oscillators produces vibrations that result in a more lively sound. The range can be adjusted over approximately one octave.
  • Page 10 Audio mixer The audio mixer is used to mix the oscillators' signal before they are routed to the filter section. Each oscillator has its own volume control. A third knob controls the amount of unpitched 'white noise' (useful for creating percussion sounds and other effects) in the mix. The 'Add page' of the Remote Software contains an additional volume control for external sound sources.

  • Page 11: Filter Section

    Filter section Along with the envelope curve and other modulation sources, the PRO-12 ASB's filter controls the way the synthesizer's tone chan- ges over time. The filter is the 'lowpass' type with a slope of 24dB per octave; this means that all frequencies above the 'cutoff' fre- quency (see below) are reduced in volume by 24dB per octave, while frequencies below the cutoff point are left untouched.
  • Page 12 Envelope Amount: This controls the intensity of the filter's envelope curve. When the knob is turned up the filter envelope curve acts on the filter cutoff, causing its frequency to change over time and producing a mobile timbre. The cutoff frequency returns to normal at the end point of the envelope curve.

  • Page 13: Amplifier

    Amplifier The amplifier's ADSR (attack / decay / sustain / release) envelope curve determines how the volume of a sound changes over time. The PRO-12 ASB's master volume control is part of the amplifier section. Attack Determines the duration of the initial 'attack' phase of the ADSR envelope curve.
  • Page 14 Options for Amp- and Filter Envelope Pressing this button automatically sets the sus- tain to zero. This is a good way to switch ra- pidly between a sustaining and a percussive sound without having to change the sustain level each time. ('ADR' is another feature not available on the original 1978 synth.) Release This button determines whether 'release' is on or off.

  • Page 15: Lfo / Modulation

    The LFO (low frequency oscillator) of your PRO-12 ASB features the same three waveforms used by oscillator B - sawtooth, triangle and pulse. Choose a waveform simply by pushing one of the three LED push buttons; you can turn them on individually, all at the same time or in any combination you like, which can lead to very intere- sting results.
  • Page 16 The modulation wheel controls the intensity of the 'wheel buss' LFO modulation. In the origi¬nal synthesizer, this was the only way to control the wheel buss, but the PRO-12 ASB has more advanced options, including additional controls for overall modulation intensi- ty and modulation offset.
  • Page 17 Poly Mod In this section you can set the depth (intensity) of the modulation sources (filter envelope and oscillator B) and select single or multi- ple modulation destinations. Source Amount Filter Env This knob sets the modulati- on strength of the filter en- velope for all selected desti- nations.
  • Page 18 Glide The 'glide' effect creates fluent sliding pitches (glissandi) between notes at a speed determined by the glide control. This knob sets the rate of the pitch glides - higher settings produce slower glides. The glide function doesn‘t have a separate on-off switch, but is activated simply by turning up this control.

  • Page 19: Configuration Strip

    Configuration Strip The lower 'configuration strip' section of the control panel contains various display features and controls to change system and effects settings and to manage presets. Match This display enables you to view the programmed value for every parameter of a currently active pre- set.
  • Page 20 Press the 'control' button to select the MIDI local mode using the 'down/up' buttons or the data wheel. The display toggles between 'ON' (indicating that the PRO-12 ASB is set to 'local on' mode) and 'OF', indicating that 'local off' is selected. In 'local on' mode, inco- ming MIDI messages are transmitted via the Prodyssey ASB's MIDI out socket;...
  • Page 21 Having selected 'preset', you can press the 'user' button to switch between the factory and user banks. (Please note that this function will not work unless you press the 'preset' button first.) User (secondary function) The 'user' button has a secondary function which is activated by holding it down for one second.
  • Page 22 Effects programs: t f e t f e t f e t f e Parameters value range:...

  • Page 23: Panel Layout

    Remote Software General To control your PRO-12 ASB with the Remote Software, you have to connect the PRO-12 ASB to a computer via USB or MIDI. The Panel’s Layout The Remote Software has three pages for sound control: the 'Main' page duplicates the control panel of the PRO-12 ASB and contains all the parameters you already know from the hardware.

  • Page 24: Main

    More details As the 'Main' page controls are identical to the hardware controls described earlier in this manual, this chapter focuses on the additio- nal functions of the Remote Software. The ADD PAGE Keyboard Mode Retrig/Normal This control toggles between the two trigger modes of the envelope curve.
  • Page 25 Low Note/Last Note This switch toggles between 'low note' and 'last note' priority. With 'low note priority', lower notes take priority over higher notes, which means that a high note will not sound if a low note is being held. If 'last note priority' is selected, the last note played always sounds no matter what other notes are being sustained.
  • Page 26 Aftertouch The original 1978 synthesizer did not have aftertouch facilities, so the PRO-12 ASB's aftertouch function has been modelled on that of the later Prophet™ T8. However, unlike the T8, the PRO-12 ASB's aftertouch works globally (this is called 'channel aftertouch') rather than polyphonically ('key aftertouch').
  • Page 27 Filter Controls the amount of aftertouch applied to the filter cutoff - this allows aftertouch to be used to create filter sweeps. Controls the amount of aftertouch applied to output volume. MW Amt Controls the amount of aftertouch applied to the 'wheel buss' (LFO) modulation.
  • Page 28 MIDI Clock This knob controls the tempo of the the PRO-12 ASB's internal MIDI clock in BPM. LFO Settings Retrig This control toggles between the the LFO's two modes. In 'free run' mode, the LFO cy- cles freely and independently; in 'retrigger' mode the LFO is restarted / retriggered whe- never a note is played.
  • Page 29 Wheel MOD MW Intensity This sets the maximum intensity the 'wheel buss' modulation can reach when the modulation wheel is pushed all the way up. MW Offset You can use this control to add built-in modulation to a patch, which saves having to push up the modulation wheel every time! If a patch uses the MW offset, you can still use the mod wheel to add more modulation.

  • Page 30: Effects

    EFFECTS PAGE The 'Effects' page contains controls for the chorus / flanger and stereo delay effects built into your PRO-12 ASB. Chorus / Flanger Flanger This switch toggles between the chorus and flanger effects. Rate Controls the speed of the chorus / flanger modulation.
  • Page 31 Delay Left / Right This section contains separate controls for the left and right chan- nels of the PRO-12 ASB's stereo delay effect. BPM L Click on this button to set the left channel delay to a musical note length - if you click on the arrow to the right of the 'note' window, a drop-down menu appears with values ranging from whole notes (1/ 1) down to 64th note triplets (1/64T).
  • Page 32 Feedback (left / right) Controls the amount of feedback applied to the delay effect. (This affects the number of repeats you will hear.) Hi Damp (left / right) Controls the amount of 'treble damping' applied to the delay. (This simulates the effect of old tape echo devices, whose repeats used to grow successively duller on each reiteration!) Level (left / right) Controls the delay volume level.

  • Page 33: Prefs

    Please make sure that you have set both MIDI in and MIDI out channels correctly. Hardware Info In this section you will find details of your PRO-12 ASB's hardware version, which you may need when downloading firmware updates. Device Displays the name of your unit.
  • Page 34 This facility enables you to download software updates for your PRO-12 ASB's operating system when they become available. Activation Key Enter the activation key code of your PRO-12 ASB here. Firmware Source File Displays the name of the update file to be downloaded.

  • Page 35: Midi Monitor

    MIDI MONITOR The 'MIDI monitor' button is on the lower panel of the Remote Software's display. Click on it to view a list of incoming and outgoing MIDI messages. Controls Clear Removes all entries from the MIDI monitor's display list.

  • Page 36: Midi Keyboard

    MIDI KEYBOARD The Remote Software's built-in MIDI keyboard enables you to play the PRO-12 ASB without using an external keyboard or sequencer software - you can play the synthesizer with the computer mouse. Turn on the MIDI keyboard by clicking on its switch of the Remote Software's display.

  • Page 37: Preset Administration

    (which can contain multiple banks of presets) from your computer's hard drive. You can save preset files to create back-up copies, or to exchange with other PRO-12 ASB users. The extension for preset files is *.pdy.
  • Page 38 'restore', 'overwrite' and 'delete' (use 'restore' to load an existing preset). Upload of Preset files To transfer presets between the PRO-12 ASB hardware and the Remote Software, click on the 'Box' button. You will see four options in a drop-down menu: 1.
  • Page 39 P a r a m e t e r P a r a m e t e r B a n k S e l e c t S u s t a i n P e d a l M o d u l a t i o n U n i s o n v o i c e s S o s t e n u t o...

  • Page 40: Specifications

    Specifications Synthesizer Type Virtual analog synthesizer Technology Physical Modelling, Virtual Circuit Modelling Number of Voices Sampling Rate 44.1 kHz (internal oversampling) Resolution 32 bit (Audio) Analog Output 2 x 1/4 inch (6,3mm) unbalanced Analog Input 2 x 1/4 inch (6,3mm) unbalanced Control Inputs Pedal, Switch MIDI...

  • Page 41: Warranty Regulations

    To return defective goods, please contact the retailer where you purchased the product. As an alternative you can also contact CreamWare directly to receive the RMA number for the defective product. PLEASE NOTE: It is mandatory to return the product with the referring RMA number to avoid delays in repair. If possible, please also add a description of the failure occurred to enable us executing the repair as soon as possible.
  • Page 42 CreamWare Audio GmbH Am Turm 11 - 13 53721 Siegburg Germany Register HRB 5804, AG Siegburg VAT-ID: DE813874968 Tel.: +49 2241 59 58 0 Fax +49 2241 59 58 57 www.creamware.de www.creamware.com...

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