ECHNO T SGunp 2-42 The complete sampling and mixing system USER GUIDE NM En Pn 7] BROOKLANDS HOUSE —t GWENT NPS 2AA DIMENSIONS 0291-690933/690901INDEX TECHNOSOUND TURBO TUTORIAL REFERENCE SECTION EDIT MENU. F-X MENU LOOP MENU ECHO MENU SYNTH MENU SYSTEM MENU. EXTRA MENU DISK MENU OTHER FUNCTIONS SYSTEM OPERATION SONG SEQUENCER MIDI SEQUENCER RELEASE MEMORY MULTI TASKING WIRING CONNECTIONS HARDWARE SPECIFICATION PAGE 1 PAGE 5. PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 8 PAGE 9 PAGE 10 PAGE 11 PAGE 12 PAGE 13 PAGE 14 PAGE 15TECHNOSOUND TURBO TUTORIAL INTRODUCTION Weleome to TECHNOSOUND TURBO — The following tutorial is intended to give you a qui into the system's copabilities, whilst the reference section at the back provides you wit information on all aspects of the system. However, in order to avoid the dupli the tutorial will, from time to time, refer you to the oppropricte re START UP First you must plug your Tachnosound module into the, printer port before switching the computer on. on. Although it is not essential ot this stage, you may find this @ convenient timé to connect up your sound source. A coasette deck or CD player ia ideal, but make sure the source is not situated too close to the computer or monitor, in order to minimise the risk of interference. of rite [ore] ems [s] superior [arr] sampie TIME [o23] CHanner [o] Pace [s 5 iNTER 1 PORTER Se LOOP OFFSET SUPE e SS) Be fof] zee, asc RECORD ry (£5 re | [Poem (2) Con F-x | EXTRA =< Creve Se ee Sa Ce CUT | COPY sPuce PASTE | INSRT | MIX DEL | CHOP | FLIP MAIN MENU Now insert the Technosound disk into the disk drive ond switch the computer on. The program will ‘gutoboct to the title screen, after which you can load the the main program by depressing the right hand button of the mouse. Once the program hos been locded, the mein menu shown above, will appear on the screen, ond you will be ready to proceed. At this stage a message will osk if you want to clear the sample memory — reply "Yes" by pressing the Y key. The icons shown on the menu ore activated by positioning the arrow over the function required ‘ond “clicking on” the left hand button of the mouse. 1MAIN MENU AND DISPLAY WINDOWS used for display ond editing purposes — ond for the selection of vorious routines. The main display window in the top holf of the screen, is used for editing somples, ond the two amoller windows below, are used to monitor the input waveforms for each channel, These two ‘windows con ba replaced by other displays and menus whan alternative routines are required, Technosound Turbo uses @ sub-menu syatem which ia controlled from the eight mein buttons on the fight hand side of the menu — EDIT - LOOP — DISK — SYSTEM - F-X — EXTRA - ECHO - SYNTH ry selecting each butten in turn, sterting with LOOP, and you will see @ new menu scroll olong ot the bottom ef the screen, You ore now in o position to load o sample and explore the other functions. LOADING A SAMPLE Select the DISK menu ond press the IFF lood button — The menu You will now see thot the two lower display shows the directory of the Technosound disk. Pt the Voice directory. Now click on the somple selection in the box at the bottom of the window. To load the sample simply press “return” or click on the O.K box. Ht you wish to exit the file selection process, without loading, simply press cancel ‘Once the somple has been loaded, the window will revert back to o twin channel oscilloscope, and the sample waveform willbe displayed in the main window. The space occupied by the waveform wil vory according ta the amount of memery available, MAGNIFYING THE SAMPLE You will now need ta expond the display until the waveform runs the full langth of the window. In ‘order to ochieve this, position the mouse arrow ot the right hand end of the waveform, and click on the right hand button of the mouse. Hold the button down, ond you will see Pointer 2 jump across to te the new position, Note thot the pointer will follow the mouse uniil the button is reledsed. Similarly Pointer 1 may be re-positioned using the left hond button, but for now it must remain on the left hand edge. ; Select the magnify icon — [petal] _ you will see the screen expand to show only the waveform between the twa pointers, PLAYING THE SAMPLE dows have been reploced by o single window which the arrow ot SAMPLES (DIR) ond click , to show GAMEOVER" — you will ee confirmation of your ; if you wil now hear the sample bsing played through Sate iGH GUAT button _ [Flam Ha] monitor speakers or hi-fi, At the same time the screen wll go blank to improve the quolity of playback. i — in addition to hearing the somple, you will olao observe ieee US scons eed Rca scan vertical bar scanning across the window, which i indicating the section of sample currently being heard, ed in more advanced editing procedures ond is cribed in detail in the reference section. The PLAY RTE BUTTON — [> are} - THE POINTERS When you create loops and mix samples, you will need to section off areas of the waveform very accurately. Position the two pointers 0 few inches apart, in the centre of the screen, so that roughly ‘one third of the somple is sectioned off, The size of the section is shown under “AREA SIZE", on the pointer memory locations are shown on the left Below Pointer“1 indicator, you will see three orrows, which control the left hond button. Select the left ond right-buttons in turn, in order to move the pointer by one byte at a time, 2Reset the pointer to the edge of the window by pressing the outside arrow — [ Repeat the procedure with the right hand pointer, which is controlled by the arrows on the right Experiment with the somple by sectioning off different parts of the waveform and playing them back, using the. various commands previously mentioned. You will observe thot only the Section between the pointers 1s replayed Try expanding the picture several times using the MAGNIFY button. Reposition the pointers at each stage ond observe the change in oreo size. ss Yose tee irae seed tolnsrorigaca aver cing] lis pertienery renee (CST Mognify part of the sample again and reposition the two pointers somewhere near the centre. This time select the FULL button - = this will reset the pointers to the stort and end of memory — and reset the screen to clear the magnification. _ you will see the waveform disoppear. Finolly clear the sample from memory using the WIPE button ~ THE ZOOM DISPLAY A very useful feature of the aystem is the ZOOM disploy facility Lood in the "GAME OVER" somple again ond mognity the waveform to run the enti fh of the window. Reposition the pointers somewhere neor the centre ond click om the ZOO! utton. You will see a new display replace the oscilloscopes in the lower window. The disploy provides an incredible close up of each pointer ond it will enable you te produce very accurate loops. Press ZOOM again te clear the display. CREATING LOOPS Reset the pointers at each end of the sample, then coll up the LOOP menu. Select each of the LOOP icons in turn — Faye eS S| — ] Moves the Super Loop pointer RIGHT - 1 pixel at o time. Initiolly the Super Loop pointer is located beneath Pointe 1 — Reposition it between the other two pointers and click on FORWARD LOOP — the loop will start ot Pointer 1 = on to Pointer 2 — and then return to the Super Loop pointer — to form a continuous loop between the last two pointers. Similarly selection af REVERSE LOOP ‘wil have the opposite effect. Use SUPER LOOP in conjunction with ZOOM to a jeve precisa looping effects. Provides o very close up view of each pointer and the sample waveform — thus snobiing fine tune adjustment for leoping and editing purposes. The outside windows Show the input waveforms for eoch channel, in real time, whilat the thrae central windows ow the somple waveform. The central pointer corresponds with SUPER LOOP, whilst those on either side correspond with the left and right pointers. RECORD - Connect 0 suitable sound source to the Technoscund module, ond click ‘on the ECHO menu, Select THRU from the menu, and elick on the RECORD button to ial sequence. Listen to the incoming sound,cnd press the left button of when yeu are ready te stort recording. 10PLAYS the somple with the screen blonk for high quality PLAYS the somple ond disploys the waveform, A acon bor shows the section currently playing PLAYS the sample under interrupts. This means that you con continue editing the RTE | sample whilst hearing the effects of your editing. Also the sample outomotically loops Gt the end. Athough there iso slight reduction in quality, dnd the affective somple rote ig limited to 23kHz, you will find this play mode invaluable during the creation of loops. This enables samples to be recorded and played ot voriqus frequencies or musical SAMPLE RATE notes. The rotes ore adjusted by clicking the arrows in the box, located in the lower left partion of the sereen, either up or down, Somplas con be token ot any rote within the ranges shown below: 8 - BIT Stereo 5,000 to 42,224 He 4 — BIT Stereo 5,000 to 29,557 Hz Mone 5,000 to 57,207 Hz Mono 5,000 to 41,242 Hz In general you will find thot the higher you set the frequency, the better will be the quality. However setting the frequency high will reduce the available sample time ‘The period setting indicates the vclue which must be placed in the computer's hardware ragister, to correctly reploy the sample at its correct speed. ‘SYSTEM OPERATION VARIABLE CUT BUFFER The cut buffer size con be varied to auit particular requirements, by editing the file: Cutbuffer.inf It contains the stotement — Cutbutter= #500004 (ie 50K8) Chonge the number to suit. eg If you require 250kB simply change the number to #2500004 The sampler reads this file when bootina. if it is not there, then a SOkB will be used. VAR'\BLE SEQUENCER MEMORY The length of sequencer con also be chonged by editing the Cutbuffer.Int file, but this time the second number is changed. Refer to the file for full insieuctions. COPYING TECHNOSOUND TO A HARD DRIVE Enter the amigades CLI shell ond type the following: makedir dhO:technosound RUNNING TECHNOSOUND FROM A HARD DRIVE ed dhO:technosound technosound PHASESHIFT MODES The most effective modes for using PHASESHIFT on the EXTRA menu, are MONO or SIMULATED STEREO. CLEARING SAMPLE MEMORY - EXTRACTING SAMPLES FROM GAMES The message displayed on boot up "De you want to clear sample memory?" con be used in conjunction with the RAMSCAN focility to extract samples previously stored in memory DEMOPLAYER The program "DEMOPLAYER" loods in 9 song, created on the SONG SEQUENCER (not midi) It loads ina 32 colour (256x320 pixel) binary picture file , dis; eys the picture, and plays the song Use the right mouse button to exit the pragram. NB. It will not lood IFF picture files. WwAPPENDIX A SONG SEQUENCER The song sequencer enobles the user to link sets of somples together to form a song. Nine different samples can be stored in oll, though these con be repeoted whenever necessary. ‘The icons with the numbers 1-9 indicate the nine samples with which the sompie positions con be stored. The sample is not copied to another part of memory when programmed, ils posi imply noted, To program o somple, simply position the two pointers oround the somple and press the PROG icon The stotus disploy will’ show "RE-PROGRAM SAWPLE". Simply click the desired numb: ~ (1~9) to store its position. When you have programmed cll the samples you require, you can the go on ta create the song. SONG CREATION {lick on the CLR icon to cleor the song memory ond keep the progrommed somples intact, The song ie represented on screen o8 a sequence of samples to ploy os follaws SAMPLE 1 00 --— Position in song 00-48 Somple number te ploy 1-9 To add @ somple to 0 song , click on it's number 1-9. The status will display “ADD SAMPLE TO SONG" Then click on the top line of the song window where it says "SAMPLE X QO". The X will change to the number of the sample selected earlier. Other lines in the aang con be programmed in the same manner until your song is complete. You can scroll through the song with the up ond down arrow keys. To delete o sample in the song . simply click with the right button over the line of the song you wish to erose. The sample number will then be reploced with an X. . When playing ¢ song with the PLAYSONG icon, the positions in the song , with SAMPLE X inserted, will be ignored, and the next line will be interpreted. ie. If you hod "SAMPLE 1 00" ot the top of your song, and "SAMPLE 2 48" ot th bottom, with "SAMPLE X” in between them, then somple 2 would be ployed directly ofter somple 1, with the somple X s having no effect on the song. ‘ll functions using pull down windows, such as LOAD & SAVE , ZOOM, MIDI SEQ ond USER ECHO, will be inoperative unlil the EXIT icon is clickedAPPENDIX B MIDI SEQUENCER The samples 0-19 are programmed in the same woy os described in the song sequencer section, except thot if SUPER LOOP is enabled, then the samples willbe looped when they end . The super loop offset is ignored in this instance. Four somplea con be played simultaneously using the four audio channels of the computer. The channels can be selected with the "C" icon. Clicking on the REC icon will start recording a sequence into the selected channel 0-3. By ploying (on your midi keyboard, the samples ore played and stored in the channels sequence, 3 -Midi Octoves are accounted for , storting at middle C (C3). The MIX icon has the some effect a8 PLAY, except that previous doto is not overuritten, so 0 sound chonnel can be overlaid with different samples. MODE NORMAL - Allows you to play the selected sample over 3 octov ASSIGNED - All 20 somples ore ovoilable by pressing different keys on the midi keyboard as follows: C3-- — Somple 0 Sample | Sample 2 ete Sample 12 Sample 19 All somples ore ployed in the middle C pitch.APPENDIX C RELEASE MEMORY 1 nis used in conjunciion with the MULTITASK icon. When Technesound Turbo boots up, it reserves all avoiloble memory to run other programs. Hence the RELEASE MEMORY icon releases memory for other programs to use. Tegislaceg, momen simely set the two pointers anyuhera in the sample window, and set the gop between the pointers, to the size you wish the new somple window to be. All memery outside the pointers is released. The released memory con now be used to run other programs. MULTI TASK The MULTI TASK icon simply pushes the Technosound screen to the back of any other screens that moy be active ie. Workbench screen, To run gnother program at the same. time os Technosound, simply boot up your, Workbench disk, then rt your Technosound disk and boot up Technosound, by double clicking on it's icon. When Technosaund is running, move the pointers apart until the oreo aize indicates roughly 50,009, Then click on RELEASE MEMORY. Finaly click on MULTI TASK, and you vil a88 the Warkbench screen. Boot up another pragram which hes muiti tosking facilities, and you will then have two programs working ot the same lime.TECHNOSOUND MODULE, TECHNOSOUND TURBO CONNECTIONS STEREO LEADS Phono Sockets a TAPE DECK TYPICAL SOUND SOURCE Printer port ‘COMPUTER HARDWARE SPECIFICATION SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO 30.48 Bs MAXIMUM FREQUENCY 98.5 kHz FREQUENCY SELECTION Software controlled RESOLUTION 8 bils LINEARITY +/~ 05 LSB MAXIMUM INPUT SIGNAL 2.5 RMS. ANTIMALIASING FILTER yes MULTIPLEXED STEREO INPUT 15