Atomizer Operations Manual
Atomizing loudly once a day keeps you happy :)
About Atomizer
ATOMIZER OPERATIONS MANUAL
ABOUT ATOMIZER About Atomizer What Is Atomizer? Atomizer is, at its heart, an instant looping device. It enables you to ‘play’ beat-synced loops on your keyboard in realtime, taken from any audio you choose to send into the Virus TI’s inputs. The loop lengths can range from a 1/2 note (minimum) down to a 1/32nd note, and from there, down to slices so small that they are perceived as pitched notes.
ATOMIZER OPERATIONS MANUAL Automatic tempo detection for the 4th Millenium •• About Beat Scanner Atomizer features a sophisticated algorithm which processes the incoming audio stream and adjusts the global tempo parameter of the Virus TI to match it. Scanning the beat can take anything from a couple of beats to a few bars, depending on the material - watch the LFO1 (Desktop, Keyboard and Polar) or BPM (Snow) LEDs while audio is playing, and you will instantly get a better picture of the process.
ABOUT ATOMIZER Atomizing audio Press and hold the A1 key on your keyboard (the next ‘A’ up from the tempo key) - you should hear the incoming audio being swapped with a pretty quick loop which, assuming you tapped the tempo in 1/4 notes, will actually be looping every 1/16th note. Let the note go, and you will immediately it switch back to the original incoming audio. Now spend a little time playing any of the keys from E1 and up.
ATOMIZER OPERATIONS MANUAL Reversing Audio Pushing the D1 key plays the buffered audio backwards. Please note that after reversing the audio buffer it might not be in sync with the playback anymore. Gating Audio Atomizer features a sophisticated implementation of a “DJ Kill EQ” - style audio gater effect. Hit C#1 to gate all incoming audio and the modwheel to narrow the range of the gater effect. This way you can limit the gate to for instance the bass frequencies of the playback.
ABOUT ATOMIZER Modwheel The Modwheel behaves as a crossfade mixer controller. If you move it without holding down any of the action keys, it will have no effect on the incoming audio. At Minimum position, you will hear either the dry input, or the loop you are triggering. As you move the modwheel upwards, you will hear the looped signal fade out through a highpass filter as the incoming audio fades back in through a lowpass..... ...at the central position, you will only hear the incoming audio... ...
ATOMIZER OPERATIONS MANUAL The Gater works in addition to the looping keys, so if you are holding down a loop key, you will gate in and out of the looped signal or cross-fade mix, depending on the position of the modwheel. Virus TI Snow owners can access some modifier and action keys by switching the play mode to “Atomizer”, which eliminates the need for an extra keyboard.
ABOUT ATOMIZER Applying additional FX If you like, and you *will* like, you can use the Virus TI’s effects section to enhance the Atomizer. Any effect you choose, i.e. Rate Reducer, Phaser, Delay, Reverb etc., will be applied to only the looped or ‘Atomized’ signal, so the incoming audio will always be dry.
ATOMIZER OPERATIONS MANUAL
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