User Manual

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Menu Navigation
Although most of the key parameters affecting the nature of the sound Peak generates are
immediately accessible through dedicated, “per-function” rotary controls and switches,
many further parameters and synth settings can be modified using the OLED display and
its associated controls.
Peak’s menu system has been designed to be as simple and consistent as possible. The
eight buttons above the display
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, plus Patch, select one of nine menus. Each menu has
multiple pages: use the Page/Select buttons to scroll through the pages in sequence.
On each page, Row 1 is a “title” row and stays fixed. Rows 2, 3 and 4 each display a
parameter for modification; some pages do not have all data in all rows. Use the three
buttons to the left of the display to select the row to edit: the active row is indicated by an
asterisk. The parameter value may be adjusted either by the rotary control or the
Value +/- buttons.
LFO 2 4/6
Phase Free
MonoTrig Legato H
Slew 0
Synth section
Parameter to
be adjusted
Current
parameter
value
Row 3 is
selected
Page 4 of 6
Loading Patches
Peak can store 512 Patches in memory, arranged in four Banks of 128; the Banks are
designated A to D. Banks A and B are pre-loaded with 256 great factory Patches
especially created for Peak, while Banks C and D are for storing your own Patches and
come pre-loaded with the same default “initial” Patch Init Patch. See page 37
for the default synth parameters this Patch contains. This initial Patch will always be the
starting point for creating new sounds “from scratch”.
A Patch is loaded by simply selecting its number with the rotary patch selector
5
or the
Patch buttons
6
. It is immediately active.
The Compare button
2
is a really useful feature as it lets you hear the Patch you loaded
in its “factory” state, ignoring any changes or tweaks you’ve been making. Hold the button
down to hear the original Patch: when you release it, you’ll be back to your modified
version. This is a useful feature to use when you’re about to save a new Patch into a
memory location that might already contain a Patch you want to retain – you can press
Compare during the Save process to check what’s in the intended memory location.
You can press Initialise
1
at any time to load a copy of the default initial Patch. Doing
so does not overwrite the previous Patch, though you will lose any modifications that you
made to it if you haven’t saved it in a user Patch location.
If you’re working without a keyboard, you can generate a note (corresponding to middle C)
at any time by pressing Audition
3
.
Note that when you change Patch, you lose the current synth settings. If
the current settings were a modified version of a stored Patch, these
modifications will be lost. Thus it is always advisable to save your settings
before loading a new Patch. See Saving Patches.
Saving Patches
Patches can be saved to any of the 512 memory locations, but remember that if you save
your settings to any location in Banks A or B, you will overwrite one of the factory presets.
To save a Patch press the Save button
4
. The OLED display changes as shown below:
SAVE RENAME 1/3
I Utopian Streams H
H
-space->
Character to
be inserted
Cursor
Initial Patch
Name
You can now give the Patch you want to save a name. The existing name is displayed
initially; use the Row 2 button ( H ) to move the cursor to the character position to be
changed and then use the rotary parameter control
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to select the new letter. Repeat
this process one character at a time. Upper case, lower case, numbers, punctuation marks
and space characters are all available in sequence from the rotary control. Use the Row
4 button to insert a space instead of a character. When you have entered the new name,
press Page/Select H to select Page 2, where you decide which memory location the
modified Patch will be saved in.
SAVE LOCATION 2/3
Patch 000 H
Bank A
Utopian Streams
Now you can enter the memory location by Bank and number. Note that the name of the
Patch currently in the memory location you select is displayed on Row 4, to remind you
what it is in case it’s something you don’t want to overwrite. Press Page/Select H again to
select Page 3, and you can (if you wish) assign your Patch to one of several pre-determined
categories.
SAVE CATEGORY 3/3
Category None h
When you have done this, press Save again, and the display will confirm that the Patch is
saved.
You may save a modified Patch to the same location, if you are happy for
the earlier version to be overwritten. This can easily be achieved by
pressing Save four times in succession.
Peak Factory Patches can be downloaded from the Novation website if
they have been accidentally overwritten. See page 36.