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  • Page 1 O W N E R S M A N U A L © Julian Schmidt...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENTS LFO Page (LFO) Mixer Page (Mix) INTRO SEQUENCER 6.1. Tracks OVERVIEW Select tracks 2.1. Front Mute tracks 2.2. Back Unmute all tracks 2.3. Menu Navigation Track length 6.2. Bars QUICK START 6.3. Steps 6.4. Step parameters MEMORY MANAGEMENT Available Step Parameters 4.1.
  • Page 4 7.3. Performance Mode Menu location Basic performance menu Drive Manual Roll Ringmodulator Morph Compressor Shuffle Delay 7.4. Loading and saving 7.10. Reload Button Display description SYNTH MODULES Menu navigation 8.1. Oscillator Kits 8.2. Filter Morph Kits Frequency Songs Patterns Resonance Project Drive 7.5.
  • Page 5 9.1. MIDI channel Global MIDI channels Voice MIDI channel 9.2. Midi routing (midi soft thru) 9.3. MIDI filtering 9.4. MIDI Sync 9.5. Record incoming MIDI Recording melodies 9.6. Transmitting sequencer data to the MIDI out 9.7. MIDI CC list 9.8. MIDI NRPN list FIRMWARE UPDATE 10.1.

  • Page 7: 1 Intro

    INTRO RECORD/PLAY BUTTONS VOLUME FADERS The PLAY button starts and stops the playback. There are 6 faders that control the volume of the The current pattern is reset to the first step when individual voices as well as a main volume fader. THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING THE ERICA SYNTHS X the sequencer is re-started.

  • Page 8: Back

    2.2. BACK POWER > If there are more than 4 entries in the current menu, the next page will be shown if you scroll over Switch for turning the unit on and off. PHONES CONNECTOR DC IN the screen boundary. A '>' or '<' sign in the right 3.5 mm audio output for stereo headphones.

  • Page 9: Quick Start

    MEMORY MANAGEMENT QUICK START The LXR-02 comes with The LXR operates with all data (Kits, Patterns, Songs etc) a universal wall wart loaded into the internal RAM. The data is loaded from the PSU for worldwide use. SD card during power up. All edits are made to the volatile Install the appropriate copy of the files in RAM.

  • Page 10: Sd Card

    4.1. SD CARD VOICES The memory card is used as non volatile storage. Without a memory card you are not able to save your work! The LXR offers 6 voices. They are optimized for different kinds of drum sounds. The type of a voice can not be changed.

  • Page 11: Snare Voice (Voice 4)

    5.2. SNARE VOICE (VOICE 4) 5.4 HI-HAT VOICE (6) This voice is good for snare-drum and clap sounds. A noise source and a The hi-hat voice is nearly identical to the Cymbal voice, but it offers 2 different pitched oscillator can be mixed. Only the noise source is routed trough the filter. decay times for the amplitude envelope.

  • Page 12: Amplitude Envelope Page (Aeg)

    Drum 1-3, Clap, Hi-Hat AMPLITUDE ENVELOPE PAGE (AEG) Each voice has an amplitude envelope. The common parameters are attack and Displayed name Name Description decay time as well as the slope of the curve. Coarse tune Coarse tuning of the main oscillator Drum 1-3 in semitones.

  • Page 13: Modulation Page (Mod)

    MODULATION PAGE (MOD) Clap, Hi-Hat The modulation page contains the velocity modulation parameters. Here you can turn Displayed name Name Description the velocity volume modulation on and off and route the note velocity to any synthesis parameter you like. If the selected voice offers a second envelope, it's parameters can Velocity mod.

  • Page 14: Transient Generator Page (Click)

    SNARE FILTER PAGE (FIL) Voice 4 offers no FM capabilities at the moment, so the Page is empty. All parameters of the filter are on this page. The available parameters are frequency, resonance, type and drive. Clap, Hi-Hat Displayed name Name Description Displayed name...

  • Page 15: Mixer Page (Mix)

    Track length The length of the sequencer track Allows the LFO to be retriggered from LFO retrigger different sequencer tracks. Select the in 16th steps. voice that should retrigger the LFO (v1-v6) MIDI channel MIDI channel the voice responds to. and it will reset its phase whenever a Note MIDI note the instrument responds to.

  • Page 16: Unmute All Tracks

    6.2. BARS UNMUTE ALL TRACKS To unmute all muted tracks simultaneously, go to performance mode and hold A pattern contains up to 4 bars, each with 16 steps. The SEQUENCER buttons only down the SHIFT button. Now the VOICE buttons will unmute all tracks up to the show 16 steps at a time.

  • Page 17: Automation

    6.5. AUTOMATION Edit automation using the step edit menu The automation data can also be edited manually. > Go to the step parameter menu. (step edit mode, blinking voice mode LED). Parameter values can be recorded to the sequencer steps. Each step can store >...

  • Page 18: Basic Pattern Editing

    BASIC PATTERN EDITING OPERATION MODES Basic pattern editing is done in VOICE edit mode. Select the track you want to edit with the VOICE buttons. The step data will be displayed on the 16 sequencer button LEDs. You can then use the SEQUENCER buttons to set and remove steps. There are different modes for different tasks.

  • Page 19: Sound Editing

    Parameter editing As an example lets take a look at the filter page: To change the frequency of the filter of voice 3 > Press ' VOICE Button 3' to select the voice. > Press ' SELECT button 6' to show the filter page. >...

  • Page 20: Step Parameter Editing

    STEP PARAMETER EDITING MANUAL ROLL Step parameters consist of note value, velocity, probability and the parameter The first 7 sequencer buttons trigger a manual roll for each corresponding automation. You can find more information in the step parameter section of the manual. voice.

  • Page 21: Display Description

    After this initial load, all changes made are temporary. If another kit is selected, all Quick naming scheme changes to the current kit are lost. If a pattern is changed, all changes to the To speed up the name entry on the save page you can also use the knobs below the current pattern are lost.

  • Page 22: Morph Kits

    MORPH KITS Loading A morph kit is a normal kit that is loaded as morph target. Any kit can be loaded as > Press LOAD + PATTERN a morph target. > The screen will show “Select Pattern, Current: x” > Now you can use the SEQUENCER and BAR buttons to select the pattern to load. Loading >...

  • Page 23: Menu Location

    7.6. GLOBAL SETTINGS MENU MENU LOCATION To start the pattern generator press the SHIFT + PERF buttons. A flashing PERF button LED indicates that the pattern generator mode is active. The settings menu contains the global configuration of the synth. Global settings The display will show the pattern generator menu.

  • Page 24: Screensaver

    SCREENSAVER Received MIDI P - Program Change, C - Control Change, R- The display provided with the kit is an OLED display. To expand the lifetime of the Filtering Realtime start/stop/clock, N - Note on/off. OLED display and to avoid burn in, the firmware provides a screensaver for the If a letter is shown, the MIDI message in display.

  • Page 25: 25 7.8. Song Mode

    7.8. SONG MODE INSERTING AN REMOVING LINES To insert a line into the song table, just push the COPY button. It will insert a copy of the highlighted pattern in the slot below and shift the following patterns down by one. The song mode allows you to arrange up to 64 patterns to play after each other To delete a line from the song table, use the clear function by pressing to arrange them into a song.

  • Page 26: Fx Mode

    7.9. FX MODE Drive strength Input gain of the distortion unit. Colour Tube Fold Clip The LXR provides a digital FX processor. Only 1 effect can be used at a time. Bias Offset Feedback Currently there are 4 FX available: Drive, Ringmodulator, Compressor and Delay. You can use the FX processor by setting the output routing on the mixer page to “FX”.

  • Page 27: Compressor

    COMPRESSOR DELAY A compressor is a dynamic processor that is able to reduce the volume of loud Straight forward delay FX. Not much to say here. It’s a classic! sounds and boost the volume of quiet sounds, thus reducing the dynamic range of Try using the range control for very short delay times and LFO modulation to get the signal.

  • Page 28: Oscillator

    OPERATION MODES FREQUENCY The frequency determines the operating point of the filter in the spectrum. For example a low pass filter will cut off all frequencies above its set cutoff frequency In this chapter we will take a closer look at the synth modules used in the (all frequencies below it pass the filter unaltered –...
  • Page 29 Lowpass Bandpass The lowpass filter removes high frequencies from the signal. All frequencies The bandpass filter removes frequencies above and below the set cutoff frequency. above the cutoff frequency are reduced gradually. 18 dB 18 dB 12 dB 12 dB 6 dB 6 dB 0 dB...

  • Page 30: Attack/Decay Times

    Notch LP2 Type The notch filter removes frequencies around the set filter frequency. Again, the This type is a special case. It replaces the SVF model with a simpler implementation resonance controls the width of the stopband. of the SVF topology with much more digital resonance. Use it for those screaming acid sounds! 18 dB 8.3.

  • Page 31: Slope

    SLOPE REPEAT The slope parameter controls the shape of the generated curve. A setting of 63 will A special feature of the envelope to simulate claps and other sounds with a give you a linear envelope as seen above. Lower settings will result in an fuzzy/rattling attack.

  • Page 32: Snappy Mode

    SNAPPY MODE A list of the included samples: The snappy mode is the first entry in the selection list, shown in the menu as 'Snp' Displayed name Name Description To make the attack of the sound more 'snappy' an additional pitch envelope is used. Snappy Mode >...

  • Page 33: Sample Rate Reduction

    8.5. SAMPLE RATE REDUCTION 8.7. LFO Each voice has a low frequency oscillator. They are basically the same as the audio The sample rate reducer can gradually reduce the sample rate from 44kHz to zero. oscillators, but run at a lower maximum rate. Reducing the sample rate will give more of a lo-fi sound.

  • Page 34: Velocity Modulation

    MIDI 8.8. VELOCITY MODULATION The note on velocity can be used as a modulation source and is an important tool The synthesizer has 2 MIDI interfaces. A standard serial interface using DIN connectors, to bring some life to your static patches. The velocity can modulate 2 destinations as well as a MIDI USB interface to be used with a computer.

  • Page 35: Midi Sync

    These are set in the global menu under mtx and mrx If the record mode is active, the played MIDI notes are Function Voice (transmit and receive respectively). Combinations of directly recorded into the corresponding patterns. The letters are shown. If a letter is shown, the midi message MIDI notes to which the voices react can be selected in that category will be transmitted or received.
  • Page 36 Function Voice Function Voice Function Voice Noise frequency Volume envelope attack FM frequency Mix osc/noise Volume envelope decay FM amount Coarse tune mod. Osc 1 Volume envelope attack FM frequency Coarse tune mod. Osc 2 Volume envelope decay FM amount Gain mod.

  • Page 37: Midi Nrpn List

    9.8. MIDI NRPN LIST NRPN Nr. Function Voice Function Voice Velocity mod. destination Decimation Since there are more than 127 parameters in the Velocity mod. destination Decimation LXR, some parameters have to be controlled using Velocity mod. destination Decimation NRPN messages. Velocity mod.
  • Page 38 NRPN Nr. Function Voice NRPN Nr. Function Voice NRPN Nr. Function Voice LFO retrigger Transient generator waveform FX Type LFO sync Transient generator waveform FX Routing LFO sync Transient generator waveform FX Amount LFO sync Transient generator frequency FX Distortion Type LFO sync Transient generator frequency FX Parameter 1...

  • Page 39: Firmware Update

    FIRMWARE UPDATE INTRODUCTION TO DRUM SYNTHESIS The software for the LXR can be updated using the memory card. This chapter will introduce you to the very basics of drum synthesis. Of course, this is just a small pointer in the direction of a few classic drum sounds. There are many more sounds to discover beyond the well-known drum sounds of the 10.1.

  • Page 40: Snare

    CLICK AMPLITUDE ENVELOPE The attack sound is an important part of a kick. There is no general rule here. Try We want a sharp percussion sound, so the attack will stay at zero. different transient generator settings for various clicks and pops or even slightly For the decay it depends on what kind of snare you are after.

  • Page 41: Hi-Hat

    recommended to lower the volume of the voice otherwise the cymbal sound may FILTER be too loud. BP filter 60-80 with high resonance settings gives good results. FILTER 11.4. HI HAT A bandpass filter with high resonance settings and a frequency above 110 gives good results.

  • Page 42: More Info About Drum Sound Design

    TECHNICAL INFORMATION OSC PAGE > Select rectangle wave. > Set frequency to 71 12.1. ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATION AMPLITUDE ENVELOPE Main outs > Attack 0 Level: +4 dBu peak > Very exponential slope around 2 to 5 Output impedance: 100 unbalanced > Depending on the slope setting a short decay in the range of 25 to 50 Headphone out FILTER Level: +4 dBu peak...
  • Page 43 SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS DISPOSAL Please follow the instructions for the use of the Erica Synths X Sonic Potions LXR-02 below, because only this will guarantee the proper operation of the module and ensure the warranty from Erica Synths. This device complies with EU guidelines and is manufactured and confront RoHS without the use of Use the LXR-02 exclusively with the power supply unit (PSU) supplied with lead, mercury, cadmium or chrome.
  • Page 44 You will find the Erica Synths terms of warranty at www.ericasynths.lv Items for return, exchange and/or warranty repair should be sent us according to the guidelines on SUPPORT section on www.ericasynths.lv Erica Synths Andrejostas St. 43 Riga Latvia LV-1045...

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