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Tutorial 2: Creating a Program “from Scratch” and Assigning a Hot Key
A bit of background: all of the Eclipse’s programs are built on a hundred or so “algorithms.” A single
program can contain one or two algorithms connected in series, parallel, or variations thereof. All of these
raw algorithms are stored in factory programs 100 through 499 and are diagrammed in the separately pro-
vided “Eclipse Algorithm” document. The process of creating a program “from scratch” involves “steal-
ing” an algorithm and its associated parameter settings from an existing program.
 see page 39 for more details
Assuming you’ve read the first part of “Tutorial 1” and know how to
sort and load programs, load Mute_Xfade. Unless you bypass your
Eclipse, the Mute_Xfade is silent. Some may consider this boring.
Let’s make a phaser that pans, shall we? First, we need to “steal” the
phaser algorithm from an existing program. Press
PARAMETER page 3
(PROGRAM) to select the program that we will “steal” from.
Select St Phaser. (This preset is not deeply religious – its apparent
sainthood is an abbreviation for stereo …)
If St Phaser used more than one algorithm, we could use the (BLOCK)
soft key to select which algorithm we’d like to “steal.” But it doesn’t…
So, we can’t…
Load the selected algorithm into effects block A by pressing the <LOAD
FXA>
soft key. You’re taken back to the first page under the PARAMETER
key where you can see that the stereo phaser algorithm is now running
on effects block A.
Cool. Now we need a panner to run after the phaser. Select serial under
PARAMETER page 2 (ROUTING). We’ll load the panner into effects
block B (FXB).  see page 38
Return to PARAMETER page 3 (PROGRAM) and select FM Panner. This
time press <LOAD FXB> to load the panning algorithm onto effects block
B. Voila! A phaser that pans!
Now, let’s say you want access to the panning rate from the
HOT KEYS
area. First find the parameter at PARAMETER <EDIT FXB> LFO (T_RATE).
Hold down its soft key until the screen to the right pops up.
Select the hot key “slot” you’d like it to appear at with (HOT KEY), then
press <ASSIGN>.
Bam! Go to the HOT KEYS area to check out your handiwork!
 see page 33 for more information