User manual FXPANSION GURU

[. . . ] A word from Devine Machine Credits Installation Windows Installation 8 MacOSX Installation 9 6 6 7 8 Authorization 10 Instant gratification. . . GURU: Fundamental Philosophy 11 1:1 Engines, Pads, Patterns and Graphs 11 1:2 SmartSlice: GURU's enlightened approach to drumloop-slicing 13 1:3 Overview of the GURU interface 14 1:4 Control conventions and keyboard shortcuts 16 CHAPTER 2. . . Starting to use Guru: the Browser 17 2:1 Operating the Browser 17 Favourites Browsing and Preview tools Auto mode Preview tools 18 18 18 18 Using Auto mode 19 Slicing/Mapping tools 20 Score button 20 Slice mode context menu 20 Using Auto mode 21 Using component slices 22 Operating without Auto mode 22 More about the Score mode 22 Using REX files with GURU 23 Loading Patterns and Pattern Sets 24 Saving Patterns and Pattern Sets 25 2:2 Hit tab 19 2:3 Loops tab 20 2:4 Patterns tab 24 2:5 Kits tab 25 1 CHAPTER 3. . . Working with Pads & the Pad Edit view 26 Pad signal flow diagram 26 Pad Edit Keyboard modifiers 27 Waveform display 28 Utility controls 29 Gain, Pan, Tune/Fine, Cut/Rez/Type 30 Pad effect slot 31 Direct/Aux Controls 31 Amp Envelope 32 FX Envelope 32 Audition 32 Layers and Velocity Splits 32 Velocity Split 33 3:1 Pad Edit view 27 3:2 Automating Pad Edit view parameters in your host 35 Operating Pads 36 Pad context menu 36 Moving/Exchanging/Copying Pads 37 3:3 Other Pad operations 36 CHAPTER 4. . . [. . . ] Clicking on a node toggles between the Graphs Select Pad select indicator 47 and Graphs Edit views for the corresponding Graph type and Pad lane. The matrix also serves as a convenient overview to indicate which Pad lanes have active Graphs, as each matrix node is permanently highlighted when any events exist within any subGraph in its respective Graph type. You can click the Pad select indicator arrow to return to the Pattern view. Graphs Edit view Pattern overview tabbed sub-Graph selector Graph edit area The choice of tabs available in the tabbed sub-Graph selector varies according to the Graph type. These tabs allow you to select a sub-Graph of the Graph type for editing. The Pattern overview lets you edit notes in a Pattern as you would in the Pattern and Graphs Select view, but only in Draw mode: Select mode is not available. You can exit back to the Graphs Select view by clicking the large OK button, or by clicking the same matrix node again. Clicking any other matrix node jumps to the respective Graph type/Pad. Clicking the Pad select indicator arrow takes you back to the Pattern view. Editing events in a sub-Graph You will notice that the Graph editor area follows the stepbased approach of the Pattern view. Instead of notes, however, Graphs show parameters represented as bar graphs. The Background of the Graph will reflect the colour associated with the Pad type ­ blue (kick), red (snare), yellow (hihat) or green (perc). OK to exit back to Graphs select view 48 · Clicking in the Graph edit area will cause the relevant step's value to jump to the mouse cursor. Clicking and dragging left/right will result in the mouse `painting' values across multiple steps. · [CTRL]-clicking returns the step in the Graph to the default value. You can [CTRL]-click and drag left/right in order to do this to multiple steps. · [SHIFT]-clicking `fixes' the mouse's vertical position, so you can paint the same value across multiple steps by clicking and dragging while holding down [SHIFT]. · Holding down the [ALT] key while clicking and dragging allows you to shift the Graph's events vertically and horizontally. The graph will `wrap' horizontally, but if you release the mouse button after points in the Graph have exceeded the vertical boundaries of the Graph edit area, these values will be lost (they will be `cut' by the vertical boundaries of the Graph edit area). Some sub-Graphs behave slightly differently from the Velocity example in the screenshot above: some have positive and negative values, while others may have stepped values, and so on. It is worth noting that Velocity is a very special type of subGraph: any changes to the velocity of a note made by clicking on it and dragging up/down in the Pattern view will be reflected here, and vice versa. It is also important to note that if a note is deleted in the Pattern view draw mode, its Velocity graph value will not be affected: when you add a new note on the same step, it will have the same velocity as the previous note. The Shift Graph is very important in several other functions in GURU, such as Score mode, unquantized Recording and advanced Groove operation. However, all Graphs will affect notes from your MIDI sequencer too, with the exception of the Repeat and Shift Graphs. [. . . ] You need to be in Graphs Edit view for the particular sub-Graph to which you would like to record, and GURU needs to be in Record mode. As the automation values are fed into GURU, the relevant Graph values are written at step onsets. 93 11:5 Loading and Saving in GURU Load/Save with the host session When using GURU as a plugin, its settings will be saved with the host project file. This involves saving all Engine, Pattern and Pad settings, with references to the samples used. Load/Save a Bundle file GURU can save the entire contents of the Engine to a GURU Bundle (. GRU files) with the use of the Save button on the toolbar. This is effectively like saving your host project, except all samples are saved inside the file. 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