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Eclipse User Manual
Release 4.0.1 Page 17 of 66 Eclipse User Manual
Press the PROGRAM key again to jump “up” a level.  see page 28 for more
information
Press the <  > and <  > keys until the left side of the screen reads
Programs-Guitar. Now you can access programs that were designed to
process guitars. Use the knob to select the program
FuzzADSRPreamp.
Load the program by pressing the conspicuously labeled
<LOAD> soft
key. You’re whisked away to the HOT KEYS area…
Too much distortion? Select the (FUZZ) soft key and use the knob to
select out.
Press the HOT KEYS key again to access more soft keys. Need more
funk? Select (SENS) and use the knob to tune in the “good stuff”!
OK, let’s load a different program that has an LFO so we can check out
the Eclipse’s tempo feature. Go back to the PROGRAM area and press the
<  > soft key until the left side of the display reads Programs-All.
Use the knob to select Dual Modfilter and then <LOAD> it.
To insure that your tempo is behaving in a way that makes what follows
comprehensible, set SETUP TEMPO (TAP SRC) to Internal. You can
experiment with other settings (such as the all-important Midiclock) on your own time!
As an important aside, selecting Off would disable the tempo feature.
Return to the HOT KEYS area, play some music and tap the TAP key in
time. You’ll notice that the tempo is displayed (with less precision than
it truly possesses) and that the program’s modulating filters get all cozy
and synchronized with the music.
Select HOT KEYS (T_RATE) and play around with different values, such
as whole note or 1/8 note. Not bad…
Notice that if you alter (T_RATE), the associated parameter (RATE) is
affected. It works like this: you select the source of the tempo as
described above. The tempo
then “informs” all the T_DELAY, T_RATE,
and T_xxxxx parameters in the program that is loaded. They “filter” the
tempo information based on the rhythmic value you choose and
“inform” the actual (DELAY) or (RATE) parameters in the program in
their “native language” (e.g., milliseconds or Hertz).
The “unadorned” (DELAY) and (RATE) parameters are thus slaves to the
tempo and their associated (T_xxxxx) parameters. To relinquish control
back to the “unadorned” parameters, either turn off the tempo system as
described above, or turn off a given
(T_xxxxx) parameter to off (just
keep spinning the knob to the right; you’ll get there!). Doing either ef-
fectively breaks one of the arrows shown to the right.
 see pages 15 and 35 for more information