User manual

Eclipse User Manual - Contents
Release 4.0.1 Page 1 of 66 Eclipse User Manual
The Hows and Whys of This Manual................................................................................................... 5
Overviews, Basic Information, and Quickstart...................................................................................... 6
The Big Picture – A Mus
t-Read .............................................................................................................. 6
Knobs, Keys, and Jacks........................................................................................................................... 7
The Front Panel.................................................................................................................................... 7
The Back Panel..................................................................................................................................... 9
Getting Around and Altering Parameters.............................................................................................. 11
The “Areas” (e.g. – Levels, Program, Setup, etc.)............................................................................. 11
Understanding the Display and Soft Keys ......................................................................................... 12
The Bottom Line of the Display .........................................................................................................................................................12
The Top Line of the Display...............................................................................................................................................................13
Altering Parameters............................................................................................................................ 13
Quickstart............................................................................................................................................... 14
Hooking Up To the Outside World.................................................................................................... 14
Analog Connections...........................................................................................................................................................................14
Digital Connections...........................................................................................................................................................................14
Choosing Effects ................................................................................................................................ 15
Altering the Effects ............................................................................................................................ 15
Tempo................................................................................................................................................................................................15
Tempo Mode......................................................................................................................................................................................16
Tempo-Controlled Parameters: T_DELAY, T_RATE, etc..................................................................................................................16
Tutorial 1: Loading a Program, Setting the Tempo, and Assigning
Modulation ......................................................................................................................................... 16
Tutorial 2: Creating a Program “from Scratch” and Assigning a Hot
Key ..................................................................................................................................................... 19
Operation................................................................................................................................................. 20
Mounting and Handling ..................................................................................................................... 20
Memory Cards.................................................................................................................................... 20
The Display Brightness and Click Features
....................................................................................... 20
Global Signal Flow and Levels ............................................................................................................. 21
Using the Meters ................................................................................................................................ 21
Input and Output Modes (Global Stereo or Global Mono?
) .............................................................. 22
Global Wet/Dry Mix .......................................................................................................................... 22
Global Levels ..................................................................................................................................... 22
Bypassing and Muting........................................................................................................................ 24
Digital Setup.......................................................................................................................................... 24
Digital Input ....................................................................................................................................... 24
Internal and External Clock Source ................................................................................................... 25
Using Higher Sampling Rates Disables Some Programs ..................................................................................................................26
Digital Output..................................................................................................................................... 26
ADAT Output or Two-Channel Optical Output? ...............................................................................................................................27
Program Operations - Load, Save, Remove, etc.................................................................................... 28
Sorting and Loading Programs........................................................................................................... 28
Loading Programs From MIDI .........................................................................................................................................................29
Using MIDI Maps.............................................................................................................................................................................29
Using MIDI Bank Select Messages....................................................................................................................................................30
Saving and Updating Programs.......................................................................................................... 30