Specifications

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CONTENTS
IMPORTANT SAFETY
INSTRUCTIONS ..............................................................2
ENVIRONMENTAL
DECLARATION...............................................................2
For USA .................................................................2
For Canada ..............................................................2
COPYRIGHT AND LEGAL NOTICES............................................2
INTRODUCTION..............................................................4
Key Features .............................................................4
About This Manual ........................................................4
What’s In The Box.........................................................4
Registering your Bass Station II .............................................4
Power Requirements ......................................................4
Hardware Overview .......................................................5
GETTING STARTED...........................................................7
Loading Patches ..........................................................7
Saving Patches ...........................................................7
Basic Operation – sound modification .......................................7
The LED display ....................................................7
The Filter knob......................................................7
Pitch and Mod wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Octave Shift........................................................7
Transpose .........................................................8
On-Key functions ...................................................8
Local control .......................................................8
SYNTHESIS TUTORIAL........................................................8
Pitch ..............................................................8
Tone ..............................................................8
Volume ............................................................8
The Oscillators And Mixer ............................................9
Sine Waves ........................................................9
Triangle Waves .....................................................9
Sawtooth Waves....................................................9
Square / Pulse Waves ...............................................9
Noise .............................................................9
Ring Modulation ....................................................9
The Filter ........................................................ 10
Envelopes And Amplifier ........................................... 10
Attack Time .......................................................11
Decay Time .......................................................11
Sustain Level ......................................................11
Release Time......................................................11
LFOs.............................................................11
Summary .........................................................11
SIMPLIFIED BASS STATION II BLOCK DIAGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
BASS STATION II IN DETAIL ..................................................12
The Oscillator Section ....................................................12
Waveform........................................................ 12
Pitch ............................................................ 12
Modulation....................................................... 12
Pulse Width...................................................... 13
Oscillator Sync ................................................... 13
The Sub Oscillator ................................................ 13
The Mixer Section ........................................................13
The Filter Section ........................................................13
Filter type ........................................................ 13
Frequency ....................................................... 14
Resonance....................................................... 14
Filter modulation .................................................. 14
Overdrive ........................................................ 14
The Envelopes Section ...................................................14
Portamento .............................................................15
The Effects Section ......................................................15
The LFO Section.........................................................15
LFO 1:........................................................... 15
LFO 2: .......................................................... 15
LFO Waveforms .................................................. 16
LFO Speed ...................................................... 16
LFO Delay ....................................................... 16
LFO Speed/Sync ................................................. 16
LFO Keysync ..................................................... 16
LFO Slew ........................................................ 16
The Arpeggiator Section ..................................................16
Arp Swing ....................................................... 17
The Sequencer ..........................................................17
Record .......................................................... 17
Play ............................................................. 17
SEQ Retrig ...................................................... 17
On-key Functions ........................................................17
APPENDIX ..................................................................19
Importing Patches via SysEx...............................................19
Sync values table ........................................................19
Init Patch – parameter table ...............................................20
Synth settings saved on power-off ..........................................20
Synth settings not saved on power-off ......................................20
MIDI parameters list ......................................................21
MIDI implementation table.................................................21