User manual

Basic Operation
Power On
Push the Power switch to switch on the Memotron Rack. The Memotron Rack will need some seconds
to initialise and will then be ready for use.
! Attention – First power ON the Memotron Rack and secondly power ON your audio system
in order to avoid a cracking noise.
Power Off
Push the Power switch to switch off Memotron Rack.
! Attention – First power OFF your audio system and secondly power OFF the Memotron
Rack in order to avoid a cracking noise.
Realtime Sound-manipulation Functions
Memotron Rack sounds are called tracks. Up to six tracks can be used simultaneously and sonically
processed via MIDI. As each track can be assigned to a separate MIDI channel, all tracks can be
separately processed in their sound.
• VOLUME (Control Change 7) defines the output volume of a track.
• Mix (Modulation / Control Change 1) allows you to blend tracks steplessly, simulating the
shifting of the Tron’s tape head block. The six tracks can be freely allocated to the three mix
positions (A – lower position, B – middle position and C – upper position). For this function you
must activate the parameter „x_Mix“ in the sound-settings for each track and assign each
blendable track to the same MIDI channel.
• PITCH (Pitchbend) shifts the pitch 3 halftones up and 3 halftones down. This will slightly affect
the maximum duration of a played note.
• TONE (Control Change 74) changes the sonic character with help of a passive 12 dB lowpass
filter.
• HALF SPEED (Control Change 12) emulates halving the tape speed. The playback-pitch will be
lowered by one octave and the duration of a played note is doubled. HALF SPEED also emulates
a slight reduction of the audio quality, especially in higher frequency ranges.
If you use a Memotron keyboard, all sound functions of the Memotron Rack can be controlled directly.
! Any real-time sound settings can only be used for your performance and can not be stored
permanently.
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