Operation Manual

THE COMBINATOR
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Combinator elements
In the picture below an unfolded Combinator device is shown.
The front of the Combinator consists of the following elements (from the top down):
D The narrow panel at the top is always shown, even when the whole Com-
binator is folded.
It contains a display which (amongst other things) shows the name of the currently
loaded Combi, and standard Select/Browse/Save patch buttons.
D Next is the Controller panel, which is always shown if the Combinator is
unfolded.
See “The Controller panel”.
D The Programmer panel contains settings for Key and Velocity Zone map-
ping as well as Modulation Routing settings.
The Programmer can be shown/hidden by clicking the “Show Programmer” button
on the Controller panel. See “Using the Programmer”.
D At the bottom are the devices included in the Combi.
Devices can be shown or hidden by clicking the “Show Devices” button on the
Controller panel. The empty space at the bottom is used for adding more devices
to a Combi by drag and drop. Clicking the empty space so that the red Insertion
line appears also makes the Combi the target container for new created devices
(from the Create menu). See “About the Insertion line”.
About internal and external
connections
Unlike other devices, the Combinator contains both external and internal audio con-
nections.
D External connections are used to connect a Combinator to devices out-
side the Combi.
D Internal connections are how devices within the Combi are connected.
External connections
D The “Combi Output L/R” connectors carry the audio output of the Combi-
nator.
This output connects with a device outside the Combi, normally a mixer. Internally,
this output is connected to the “From Devices” connectors. When you create a
new Combinator this output will be auto-routed to the first available mixer input
channel.
D The “Combi Input L/R” connectors is the input to the Combinator (used
for effect Combis only).
Internally, this input is connected to the “To Devices” connectors.
Internal Connections
D The “From Devices L/R” inputs is where the outputs from devices in the
Combi are connected.
D The “To Devices L/R” outputs connect to an input on a device in the ef-
fect Combi.