Speed Brake; Tap Divide Button & Led - Electro-Harmonix Super Pulsar User Manual

When TAP sets the modulation speed, it is saved in presets and during a power
cycle. So if you tap in a tempo, then save a preset, the rate that is saved in the
preset is your tap tempo. Additionally, if you tap in a tempo then power cycle,
when you restart, your last tap time sets the modulation speed. Move the RATE
knob to cancel out of TAP.
The BEAT LED, located above the TAP FSW, always blinks at the current tempo
whether the tempo is set by TAP, the RATE slider or external clock. The BEAT
LED also synchronizes with the current waveform so that it lights when the
modulation waveform is in the upper half of its sweep.
SPEED BRAKE – Press and hold the TAP FSW for more than 1
second to slow down Super Pulsar's speed of modulation. The
longer you hold TAP, the slower the modulation rate will go.
Release TAP to restore the modulation speed back to its current
setting. Please note: Speed Brake is only available to the Super
Pulsar's built-in TAP footswitch. Speed Brake cannot be initiated
from an external switch connected to the TAP/CLK IN jack.
TAP DIVIDE BUTTON & LEDs – The TAP DIVIDE button allows you to divide
down your TAP time to create faster modulation rates in relation to what you
tapped. Each press and release of the TAP DIVIDE button jumps to the next Tap
Divide mode. There are 7 available Tap Divide modes represented by 5 LEDs.
TAP DIVIDE Works Like So: Super Pulsar always assumes that the musician taps
in a quarter note. That quarter note can then be divided down to 6 other types
of notes: dotted eighth note, quarter note triplet, eighth note, eighth note triplet,
16th note and 32nd note (all LEDs lit). The seventh mode is quarter note or OFF,
where the tap tempo is not divided down and the modulation speed is set to
your actual tap time. No LEDs are lit when Tap Divide is set to quarter note/OFF.
Below is a chart displaying the 7 modes, their divide ratios and an example of
the modulation rate for each mode:
TAP DIVIDE
MODE
Quarter Note / OFF
Dotted 8th Note
Quarter Note Triplet
8th Note
8th Note Triplet
16th Note
32nd Note
LED DIVIDE
SYMBOL RATIO
1 / 1
3 / 4
2 / 3
1 / 2
1 / 3
1 / 4
All LEDs 1 / 8
MODULATION RATE (for a
2Hz/500mS TAP TIME)
2 Hz / 500mS
2.7 Hz / 375 mS
3 Hz / 333 mS
4 Hz / 250mS
6 Hz / 167 mS
8 Hz / 125mS
16 Hz / 62.5mS
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