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Gotharman`s FuZioN Music WorkStation User Manual V 10.60

1. 16 When you turn on Fuzion after an update it will need to finalize this It will show this by turning on all its LED s one by one When all LED s has been turned on they will turn off and Fuzion will start normally and are ready to use Sometimes Fuzion might not start up normally right after an update If anything on the display looks incorrect if Fuzion outputs sound without any reason or if you experience any other abnormal behavior right after an update please turn Fuzion off and on again If something goes wrong If the power should go off while Fuzion is getting the update from the USB drive and programming the processors simply start over again from step 7 If the power should go off while Fuzion is finalizing the update LED s turn on simply turn Fuzion on again and it will now finalize the update If one update was already finalized it will come up with some warnings the processor x updating failed Simply ignore these and turn Fuzion off and on again Written by Flemming Christensen Gotharman 2015 www gotharman dk
2. Rename button to enter this page Use the 8 edit knobs to enter a new name for the file Push the Rename button when you are done Delete a file To delete a file on the USB drive select the file you would like to delete using the arrow buttons and push the Delete button Only files can be deleted not directories Fuzion will now ask Push Y es to confirm or No to exit Updating Fuzion s firmware Now and then updates will be available for Fuzion that adds new functionality and fixes bugs These will always be available for download here http www gotharman dk fuzionupdates htm So to update Fuzion you must have a computer with an internet connection and a Fuzion compatible USB drive ready See the start of this section for what USB drives are Fuzion compatible Then you should follow these steps 1 Download the 3 update files of the latest update from the Fuzion Updates site to your computer 2 Connect the USB drive to your computer 3 Make sure that the USB drive is DOS formatted 4 Create a directory in the root directory of this USB drive that is named UPDATE If the USB drive already contains a directory called UPDATE please delete all files inside this 5 Copy the 3 update files from your computer to the USB drive UPDATE directory Make sure that no other files are present in this folder and please don t rename the files 6 Eject and remove the USB drive from your comput
3. When the sequencer is stopped after an audio track recording the audio recording will be saved as a sampling with the name AudioTr preset number track number t ex AudioTr AO1 12 The sequencer tempo is saved together with the sample as the sample tempo The sample tempo is used for calculating the start point if you start playing back the preset from any other position than position 0 0 0 and for calculating the rhythmical sample start point if the Quantized Start function explained later in this manual is activated All audio track samples can be selected and exported just like any other samples When a track are in Audio Track mode the track VU meters no longer shows the trigger event but the actual audio output Using imported samples for Audio Tracks It is also possible to use an imported wav file sample as an audio track If you already know the tempo of the sample you would like to use you must first adjust this After you have imported the sample via USB go to the Sample Rec page inpi BINI A 1 NOISEI Select the sample using the Select buttons Adjust its tempo in BPM using edit knob 7 Push the Save Start End button If you do not know the tempo of the sample please skip this step for now Now go to the sequencer main screen ach OFF OFF 120 Trk1 LLY OFF MEE Em ME ea o7 De E 16 Off Select the track between 9 and 16 that you would like to use for th
4. Trig button play the touch keyboard or a connected MIDI keyboard to audition The Quantized Start and Quantize Adjust parameters are for use with the Sample Remix function described on the following page When you have found the right sampling push Exit to return to the oscillator page Sample Remix All samples now has a tempo assigned to them By selecting any sample on the Sample Rec page its tempo will be shown api BM i 1 NOISEI The sample tempo is set to the current sequencer tempo when recording an audio track On all other samples you will have to set the tempo manually if required This should be done if you plan to use a sampling as an audio track or together with the Quantized Start remix function To set a samples tempo manually simply use edit knob 7 to adjust the tempo between 1 and 300 BPM and the hit the Save Start End button to save the tempo together with the sampling A sample that has no tempo assigned to it will be set to 120 BPM When a Fuzion sample are exported as a wav file via USB the sample tempo are now also exported so if you import it again the tempo will be restored On the sample select page in the Synth section 2 parameters are used for the Remix function NOISEI 126 BPM Quantized Start knob2 Quantize Adjust knob35 Quantized Start Values Off 1 32 1 24 1 16 1 12 1 8 1 6 14 When this parameter are at any other setting than Off
5. at this as green bars As default the selected track s bar 1 and 2 note C2 to C4 are shown 2 bars and 2 octaves are shown at a time To change the view use Edit knob 1 for changing the track Edit knob 2 for changing the bar Edit knob 3 for changing the middle note Other settings that can be done on this page Edit knob 4 Sequencer tempo Edit knob 5 Track last bar Edit knob 6 Track last step Edit knob 7 MIDI channel Edit knob 8 Track quantize setting If you play back notes on a connected MIDI keyboard that are inside the selected range these will be shown as squares to the left of the note grid 4 ppp Ok ah HE aes mae po Hi pi A MNA DN DAR IUDA IM IOS IR AURAS ARL PIR AE TT 1 Quantize When the sequencer is playing back a pointer will roll over the note grid showing the position that is played back Inputting note events There are 3 ways of inputting new note events to Fuzion s sequencer Realtime recording as explained earlier in this manual grid recording and step pointer recording First I will have a look at Grid recording Before you can start to grid record you must turn track quantize on If you attempt to switch on grid recording when track quantize is off Fuzion will tell you to turn quantize on first When grid recording quantize selects the resolution and the length of the notes to be recorded On the note grid page push the Grid button Trek Bor 1
6. Processor s Fuzion has 2 global effects processors that the signals from the 8 synths can be sent through Each synth has separately adjustable sends for effect 1 and 2 At writing moment only 3 different effect types can be selected for these but more will be added in future updates These are Delay Reverb and Granulator Only effect 1 can have Reverb selected The output of the effects will right now only go to audio out 1 and 2 but this might be changed in a future update Remember to save all edits you do in the effects Else they will be lost when you change preset or turn Fuzion off See how to in the Save Preset section From the Preset select screen push the EFX button to enter the effects pages The first page you will face should look something like this From this page push the EFX Select button to set up the effects The effects select page The parameters on this page use the edit knobs to adjust 1 Effects processor 1 effect select Choices are at the moment Delay 1 Reverb 1 Granulator 2 Effects processor 2 effect select Choices are at the moment Delay 1 Granulator Conn Effects connection 2 1 The 2 processors are connected as 2 separate effects 2 gt 1 The output of effect 2 goes into effect 1 Fusion Effects fusion When this is off the 2 effects will run completely independent of each other using their own separate memory When this is on the 2 pr
7. To the USB connector a USB drive can be connected This should be Maximum 32 GB DOS formatted With a USB drive connected you can Import export and back up samples as wav files Import export and back up Fuzion presets Update Fuzion To import a wav file from another device it must be Mono or stereo 44 1 KHz sample rate Fuzion will import other sample rates but they will play back in a wrong speed 16 bit native PCM Connect the supplied power adaptor to the Power input and to a 100V to 240V power source y Wp K P f ty Aji f N O ej Bg yt Sif i LE hart S K wy iy H 1 7 POWER SUPPLY M A H AM VLG pil y It s a 9V minimum 1A type with a 2 1 mm DC plug with positive middle Some Fuzion s has been shipped out with a power adaptor that has multiple tips If you have received one of these you should use the tip with the blue ring and make sure that the 2 parts are alligned to the text Tip Please look at the picture on the next page Turn it on Toggle the power switch on the right end panel so its pin is pointing down Your Fuzion should now turn on Fuzion Structure it ich ai eee AEE an i aba lanai N E TEE _ 7X44 i sdojaatey dary Z edojaauy poy adopaauy poy H a pus zxaa puos 1X44 Ee JOY pu s X44 ai P aa p SuluuRg dwy y umnsuJ a 3 T TINO oIpny T Suruueg ae 8 yds L wuss 9 mudg u g IN
8. controller edit main page Sequencer functions Fuzion s sequencer also has a number of digital functions like copy delete transpose and move To access these from the sequencer main page push the Func button to enter this page From this page you can access all the functions explained on the next pages by pushing their respective buttons Copy The selected track will always be the destination track of a copy The source track and preset can be selected on this page The parameters on this page Event Select the event type you would like to copy All Copy all events from the selected bar range Note Copy note events from the selected bar range CC s Copy CC events from the selected bar range Bend Copy pitch bend events from the selected bar range Maft Copy mono aftertouch events from the selected bar range Paft Copy poly aftertouch events from the selected bar range Prgr Copy program change events from the selected bar range Track Select the source track to copy from Track 1 to 16 can be selected From The first bar of the source track that will be copied To The last bar of the source track that will be copied To bar The first bar of the destination track that the events will be copied to Events that already exists in the range of the destination track that is copied to will be overwritten X How many times the events should be repeated on the destination
9. corner of the screen just along with the Track parameter are a small VU meter that will show when notes are played back by the selected track In the lower right corner a bar beat counter are located which shows what bar beat is currently being played back Right above this you can see how many percent of the currently selected presets sequencer memory that has been used The parameters of this page The first 8 parameters that can be changed with the edit buttons when the yellow LED near the Lowr button is unlit Track Selects track 1 to 16 The selected track are the one that is recorded to and the one that channelizes any incoming MIDI data and the touch keyboard Quantz The quantize setting of the selected track This can be changed at any time and will immediately change the note quantization of the track regardless of if the sequencer is running or not Settings can be Off 1 32 1 24 1 16 1 12 1 8 1 6 1 4 Metro Sequencer metronome Settings are Off no metronome On metronome is always on Rec Metronome are on when realtime recording The metronome outputs a click on Audio Out 1 and 2 for every beat 1 4 of a bar For the first beat in a bar it outputs a click that has a higher frequency than the next 3 clicks Tempo The sequencer tempo in BPM From 1 to 300 BPM Last Bar Step The track length When a track reaches this bar step it will reset and start over again Can be adjusted
10. effects An instrument effect for each of the 8 synthesizers were added that will have effects like FAT distortion compressor and others USB was also added to make it possible to import and export wav files and presets to back up your work and for updating the Fuzion firmware To make everything work as fast and effective as possible Fuzion is not programmed behind any OS Everything is performed directly by the processor and everything is programmed in assembly language which is up to 30 times more effective than the C language that most people program in and it is programmed specificly for the Fuzion hardware Very special thanks to Christopher Curtis Timo Reichert Gene Schwartz Rashad Becker Perfect Circuit Audio For supporting this project from the beginning I really appreciate your trust Without you Fuzion might not have been Sotharman July 201S Getting Started Connecting ty gt On the right end panel of your Fuzion you will find the power switch connections for power supply and 2 audio inputs and 4 outputs The outputs are stereo paired Output and 3 are right channels and output 2 and 4 are left channels Since on most of the presets all audio are directed to output 1 and 2 you would probably want to connect these to a mixer or an amplifier or anything else that ends out in a set of speakers a single speaker or even a pair of headphones if you are in a neighbour friendly mood S
11. in the middle of the screen are the names of the files and directories on the drive File names are labelled with black and directory names are labelled with blue The file in the top that has its colours inverted are the currently selected file To select any file or directory use the 2 arrow buttons In the upper right corner you can see how many files directories the currently opened diretory holds Fuzion will only show 12 files directories at a time When you have the 12 file selected and then push the arrow down it will show the names of the next 12 files which then can be selected Here the 4 file is selected TR969_ 1 WA 26 678 KB 85 KB Importing files File that can be imported to Fuzion are Samples with the ending wav Presets with the ending fzp Files that are shown but can t be imported directly are Update files with the ending hex Files with any other ending will not be showed on Fuzion s screen regardless of if they are present on the drive To import a single sample or preset select the wav fzp file you would like to import using the arrow buttons Samples are imported to the sample bank selected on the Sample Rec page When importing a single preset it is only loaded to the preset buffer and you will have to save it manually to keep it Push the Import button Fuzion will now import the selected file and show the progress on a progress bar Importing multiple files
12. like to control and the MIDI output it is connected to Realtime recording Now you are ready to record something Only realtime recording will be explained in this section Step pointer recording and grid recording will be explained later in the Note Edit section First you should adjust the length of the track This setting can be changed at any time so it is not important to get it right Just set it where you think it should be If you wants all tracks to have the same length you should only adjust the length of track 1 Switch the metronome to on or rec if you would like this to sound Adjust the tempo This you can also do at any time even while recording Hit the Play button and then the Rec button or hit the Rec button first and then the Play button It will start a 2 bar count in if you push Rec before play Now please play the connected keyboard and controllers or the touch keyboard and all your actions will be recorded When you are finished push Rec again so the red Rec LED does not light up and remember to save your work explained later in this manual Note Edit From the sequencer main screen push the Note button to enter the note edit page Tempo 12622Last Step 2 8 GCh 1 Tr Quantize On this page you can view grid record and edit note events and step pointer record any MIDI events The first note edit page you will enter shows the note grid All recorded note events will be shown
13. oscillator this parameter lets you morph between sine triange saw pulse and feedback waves When Perc is selected as the oscillator this parameter adjusts the level balance of the 4 sinewaves When Sample Noise Audio In or AuTrk is selected as the oscillator this parameter does nothing PW Start When Wave is selected as the oscillator this parameter adjusts the pulse width of the waveform Unlike many other oscillators the pulse width can be adjusted on all Fuzion s waveforms not just the pulse wave When Noise is selected as the oscillator this parameter adjusts the intensity of the noise When Sample or AuTrk is selected as the oscillator this parameter adjusts the sample start point When Perc is selected as the oscillator this parameter adjusts the detuning of the sinewaves When Audio In is selected as the oscillator this parameter does nothing Type This parameter selects the oscillator type At writing moment the possibilities are Wave Virtual analog oscillator The Wave parameter lets you morph between sine triangle saw pulse and feedback waveforms The PW parameter lets you adjust the pulsewidth of any of the waveforms Noise Generates a noise waveform At some tune settings the noise becomes metallic The PW parameter lets you adjust the intensity of the noise Smpl Sample Plays back a sampling every time it is triggered by a no
14. s MIDI channel inverted Cc7 MIDI CC 7 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc7 MIDI CC 7 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc8 MIDI CC 8 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc8 MIDI CC 8 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc9 MIDI CC 9 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc9 MIDI CC 9 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc10 MIDI CC 10 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc10 MIDI CC 10 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc11 MIDI CC 11 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc11 MIDI CC 11 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc12 MIDI CC 12 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cce12 MIDI CC 12 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc13 MIDI CC 13 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc13 MIDI CC 13 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc14 MIDI CC 14 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc14 MIDI CC 14 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc15 Cc15 Ccl6 Ccl6 Cc17 Cc17 Cc18 Cc18 Cc19 Cc19 AftT AftT MIDI CC 15 received on the synth s MIDI channel MIDI CC 15 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted MIDI CC 16 received on the synth s MIDI channel MIDI CC 16 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted MIDI CC 17 received on the synth s MIDI channel MIDI CC 17 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted MI
15. separately for each track Bar 1 128 Step 0 31 in 1 32 note steps If both Bar and Step is turned fully down on track 2 to 16 the default setting it will read out Trk1 The track will then have the same length as track 1 In that way you do not have to set the track length for each track if they have the same length anyway Chan The track MIDI channel When Int Ext is set to Ext the first number is the MIDI channel and the second is the MIDI output number 1 or 2 If Int Ext is set to Int it is possible to select channel 1 to 16 and synth 1 to 8 Synth direct MIDI channel 1 16 output 1 or 2 synth 1 8 Int Ext Set the track up to control either Fuzion s internal synth s Int or external MIDI gear Ext The next 8 parameters that can be changed with the edit buttons when the yellow LED near the Lowr button is lit Prob The track Note Randomizer probability Fuzion has a separate Note Randomizer for each track If probability is turned fully up all notes of the track will play back The more you turn this parameter down the less notes will be played back Velo The track Note Randomizer velocity The more this is turned up the more the Note Randomizer will affect the velocity of the notes played back by this track Time The track Note Randomizer time When this is turned up notes played back by this track will be randomly delayed 2ndChan The track Note Randomizer second MIDI channel Settings Of
16. the Bad Blocks parameters measures a number higher than 20 you should back up your work and ship your Fuzion for service Then the FLASH memory will need to be replaced On the last lines you can see how many samples are hold in each FLASH memory bank and how big a percentage that has been used FLASH refers to sample Bank B On the Common page it is also possible to completely erase sample Bank A and B To do that if you are really sure that you would like to push the Del Smp Bnk A or Del Smp Bnk B button depending on what sample bank you would like to erase Fuzion will now ask If you are really sure that you absolutely have to do this push Yes to start the erase The sample bank you have chosen will now be completely wiped out While it is being erased the LED close to the button you pressed will flash When it stops flasking the erase has been done If you don t want to do this anyway push No to exit Touch Keyboard Settings On this page it is possible to adjust which notes you would like the touch keyboard to play Each note are adjusted separately From the Preset Select screen push the More button to enter this page Push the Kybd SetUp button Use edit knob 1 to 8 to adjust the notes for the 8 lower keys You can at any time touch the display to hear the notes You can also just push and hold a note while you are adjusting it to hear the ch
17. the PW Start parameter will only jump to sample start points that fits the selected rhythmical value The sample tempo is used for calculating these points so to make this function the sample tempo should be adjusted to fit the actual tempo of the sample If a sample with a length of one bar is quantized into 1 16 notes this will give 16 start points If the sample has a length of 2 bars it will give 32 start points and so on The maximum number of possible start points to be selected is 512 If a sampling has a length that is caused by your settings to have more than 512 start points only the first 512 start points will be used Quantize Adjust Values 256 to 255 Sometimes if the quantized start points does not fit as they should this parameter can be used to move the points forwards or backwards To remix a sample recording Make sure that Sample is selected as the synth oscillator Select the sample you would like to remix Set the Quantized start parameter to t ex 1 16 Set the PW Start parameter in the middle position Set Velo to modulate the PW Start parameter turn the amount fully up Program a series of 1 16 notes in the sequencer on note C4 to get the original sample pitch Now adjust the velo values of each note to select specific sample start points Adjust the notes to re pitch Modify the note positions to change things rhythmically Add more variations to your remix using the Note Randomiz
18. C4 Senn Ep po piteet jo I Quantize A pointer now appears in the note grid You can now use edit knob 1 to move this pointer around in the note grid The step resolution of which the pointer will jump is determined by the quantize setting Any MIDI events that are received from the MIDI inputs will be placed at the position of the pointer To exit step pointer recording simply hit the Ins button again so its LED goes off Edit note events I did many experiments trying to find a way to edit the note events in the note grid that would work great on the Fuzion hardware I didn t find any Marking 8 notes in the note grid at a time for editing and using arrows to select these was a confusing experience especially if the notes were close to each other Then you would never know what note you would edit when turning a knob So i came to the conclusion the editing notes directly in a note grid or piano roll only works properly on mouse based systems like computers not on a hardware sequencer with knobs So I had to find another way I had been thinking that it would be really great if it somehow could be possible to integrate something that reminded of analogue style sequencing into this design And there was the answer From the note grid page push Note and you will enter this screen where it is possible in some kind of analog style to view and edit the note values of each note event in the tr
19. DI CC 18 received on the synth s MIDI channel MIDI CC 18 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted MIDI CC 19 received on the synth s MIDI channel MIDI CC 19 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Mono aftertouch received on the synth s MIDI channel Mono aftertouch received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted From the Preset Select page push the Synth button to enter the first synth page Synth 1 Tune Fine Wave PW Siari Osc 24 0 TO a Fiker type Prii Priun Levei Pec Amp_tio Wave al Sample Mod Env Fat Phase Boost Seleci Mod On Louw Enit Eo tes Trig Here you can select the different synth building blocks by pushing the respective buttons to the left adjust the parameters using the 8 edit knobs select what synth to edit by pushing the Select button and assign a sampling to the synth by pushing the Sample button On any other pages than the oscillator page it is possible to access the sound finder by pushing the Sound button In the upper left corner of any synth edit page you can see which of the 8 synths that your are editing right now Most synth pages has more than 8 parameters to adjust The Lowr button is used to select whether the 8 edit knobs edits the parameters on the upper half of the screen or those on the lower half of the screen When the Lowr button LED is turned off the edit knobs adjusts the parameters on the upper half of the screen When it
20. Feed Osc LPF rier Adi Ade AS Tobi Amp_tio par Mod Env Type Cut Peso Feed BP8 Mod Exit Adj Adj Adj3 Output 1 2 The parameters on the upper half of the screen are for filter 1 The parameters on the lower half of the screen selected using the Lowr button are for filter 2 Parameters that are the same for both filters are only explained one time Type Filter 1 2 type Possibilities are LPF Low pass filter BPF Band pass filter BP8 Steep band pass filter HPF High pass filter ADD Reverse filter Adds harmonics to the sound BEF Band eliminate filter BASS A filter with most power in the bass area LOFI Agressive low pass filter LPF2 Low pass filter 2 with a slightly different response than the first variant BPF2 Band pass filter 2 with a slightly different response than the first variant BP82 Steep band pass filter 2 with a slightly different response than the first variant HPF2 High pass filter 2 with a slightly different response than the first variant ADD2 Reverse filter 2 with a slightly different response than the first variant BEF2 Band eliminate filter 2 with a slightly different response than the first variant BAS2 Bass filter 2 with a slightly different response than the first variant LOFI2 Agressive low pass filter 2 with a slightly different response than the first variant Peq1 Parametric EQ Peq2 Steeper parametric EQ Cut Filter 1 2 cutoff freque
21. NE Em PuTrh i 40 G Off Sequencer track 9 to 16 can be switched to Audio Track mode When a track are in audio track mode it does not record MIDI notes Instead when you start realtime recording it will record an audio sample from the source selected on the Sample Rec page audio inputs or outputs to the sample bank selected on the Sample Rec page When recording is done it will save this audio sample assign it to a synth and place an audio track note event on the sequencer track that will trigger this synth This will allow for a kind of 8 tracks of pattern based harddisk recording The length of the audio tracks can be adjusted separately even after recording and presets can be switched without any pauses no matter if they have audio tracks or not MIDI controller events can still be recorded on audio tracks if you would like to control something on the synth used for it Please notice though that the audio track itself is not using the MIDI channelizer system so you will have to set this up manually to point at the synth used for the track If you activate realtime recording on an audio track that already has audio recorded to it only MIDI controller events will be recorded To re record and audio track you must first erase it To do that with the audio track selected hit the Rec button Reset will now change to Erase Hit the Erase button Switch Rec off and then on again to record a new
22. NS a Se VOILZA J yds FVELWJELJJOD make IOUN HSVTA I ukg q u Olpny Ip1099y ajduiesg ry opiy Jgouonbag ZNO IAIN ei 1 MO IAIN paousapy T Ul IAIN prrogAoy yono L 1 UL IAIN The sequencer is the heart of Fuzion When you want to play the internal synthesizer s or control MIDI gear through Fuzion you must go to the sequencer and channelize the MIDI input and the Touch Keyboard first The Touch Keyboard and the 2 MIDI inputs are connected directly to the sequencer s input All operations on gear connected to the MIDI inputs and on the touch keyboard can be recorded and re transmitted to the internal synth section and to MIDI gear connected to the 2 MIDI outputs via the sequencer To set up what the touch keyboard and the gear connected to the MIDI inputs will control go to the sequencer page select any of the 16 tracks and select whether you would like to control Fuzion s synths Int or MIDI gear Ext Now set the track MIDI channel to the same MIDI channel as the synth MIDI gear you would like to control Fuzion s sequencer will now channelize the touch keyboard and the MIDI input to this This procedure are explained further in the Sequencer section of this manual The User Interface Shi FragModi Freg Mod 2 Env 1 Env 1 Filter Weve Mod PW Mod Amp_tfo Ccl Env 1 Mod Env Level Mod Pan Mod Env1 Man Enit Phaze Mod Env1 Fuzion has a row of 6 pushbuttons on the
23. Oct C3 Tempo 128 Last Stay 2 0 feo oto ous caaeeeenee 0 A P SM TE D WO UN DAG IOR D 1A DA AA D D NOA O p 20A V5 BB FP D 28 IN HL MT VA PA UE MA a Quantize 8 yellow squares will now appear inside the note grid These squares indicates where in the note grid notes will be added if you turn edit knob to 8 By turning any of the edit knobs you turn a note on at this position and adjusts its velocity value The velocity value is visualized by a red colour If you want to switch the note off again simply turn its velocity value down to zero By using the 4 arrows that appears in the left of the display you can navigate the 8 squares around in the note grid to select which notes you would like to input If the grid squares are placed at a position where note events already exists their velocity value will be shown with red colour inside the squares It is then possible to edit the velocity value of the note or remove it by turning its velocity value down to zero For exitting grid record simply hit the Grid button again so its LED goes off It does not matter if the sequencer is playing back or is stopped when you performs grid recording and when you turn it on and off Step pointer recording This recording mode lets you input MIDI events not only note events to the track at a specific point of time On the note grid page push the Ins button UPoint Bar 1 BOct C3 Te moe 126e24Last Step 1 8
24. Sotharmnan s FuZior l Sothsarmsans Fuzion rl po gt 2 an am am om E psan o a e 2 x J Mius LWorksstation LJAcer frignvual N 10 60 Contents Of This Manual Introduction Very special thanks to Getting Started Structure User Interface Preset Select Screen Synth Triggers Sequencer Sequencer track main page Setting up the sequencer to control the internal synth s 28 Setting up the sequencer to control external MIDI gear 34 Realtime recording Note Edit Grid recording Step pointer recording Edit note events Velocity edit Note length edit Note position edit Erasing a sequencer track Making quantize permanent CC s Pitch Bend and aftertouch edit Sequencer functions Copy Erase Transpose Delete Move Clear Sequence Swing Audio Tracks Using imported samples for Audio Tracks 25 35 36 38 40 41 43 44 45 46 46 47 52 53 55 57 58 59 60 61 64 66 14 16 19 21 24 The 8 Synthesizer s List of synthesizer modulation sources Synth pages structure Selecting Synth 1 to 8 Oscillator Osc parameters Selecting a sample for the oscillator Sample Remix Filter s parameters Amp and LFO s parameters Modulation envelope s parameters Sound Finder Global Effects Processor s Effects select Effect 1 parameters Effect 2 parameters Sample Record Recording a sample Deleting a sample Adjusting the start and end points of
25. To import multiple files at one time select a directory using the arrow buttons Push the Import button Fuzion will now ask mport All Samples Presets From Directory Are You Sure Push Y es to continue or No to exit If you pushed yes Fuzion will now import all samples and presets that the selected directory holds It will though not import files from any sub directories Samples are imported to the sample bank selected on the Sample Rec page Presets are imported to the selected preset and forwards so make sure that you have not selected a preset that you planned to keep before using this function Open a directory or folder To open a directory to see what s inside or to import single files or sub directories simply select the directory you would like to open using the arrow buttons and then push the Open button Fuzion will now open the directory and show the first 12 files in it The D in the upper left corner will now be replaced by the opened directory s name 969CLAP WAU 74 KE KB KB 16 KB nad le 58 KB 115 KB 74 KB Make a new directory A new directory can be created in the root directory or inside another directory To do this push the Make Dir button The 8 edit knobs can now be used to select an 8 character name for the new directory When you are done with this push the Make button The new directory will now be created You can
26. Wavel Wave2 LFO 1 and 2 output waveform Morphs between triangle sawtooth square pulse and FM waveforms The FM waveforms are high frequency waves that can be used for FM synthesis of oscillator filters and amp Amp and LFO s modulation riti e Mod nvi For each parameter that can be modulated it is possible to select a modulation source and to adjust the modulation amount For a complete list of modulation sources see the list in the start of this section The parameters on this page Atk Mod Modulates the amp envelope attack time Dec Mod Modulates the amp envelope decay time Rel Mod Modulates the amp envelope release time Amount Mod Modulates the amp envelope output level Mix Mod Modulates the mix between the fiters outputs and the un filtered oscillator Fit1 2 Mod Modulates the mix between filter 1 and 2 Gain Mod Modulates the amp output level Ratel Mod Modulates the rate of LFO1 Modulation envelope s parameters Since the parameters are the same for modulation envelope 1 and 2 each are only explained one time The parameters on the upper half of the screen are for modulation envelope 1 and the parameters on the lower half of the screen Lowr selected is for modulation envelope 2 Atk Mod envelope attack time The time it will take the mod envelope to rise from zero to its maximum value when a note event is received and held down Dec Mod envelope decay time When the mod enve
27. a middle C of the currently selected Sequencer track If on a Synth page it will trigger a middle C of the currently selected synth The Touch Keyboard Fuzion s screen are touch sensitive Unlike many other devices it is though not possible to edit anything using the touch screen All editing is done with knobs It is though always on any page active as a touch keyboard G4 G 4 A3 Ass BS ee Fuzion s touch keyboard has a range of 12 notes It is possible to adjust what note each key should play back and the notes doesn t have to be in any specific order The touch keyboard will always trigger what the selected sequencer track controls This can both be the internal synth and a connected MIDI device The Preset Select Screen Maore Play Sequencer H2 i20 bpm Rec Synth microGother Reset Preset Sample Aer Trach i A Presei Channel Wd Err Ent i Hah This is the first screen you will see right after Fuzion s start up screen Here you can change preset and jump to Fuzion s edit and settings pages To select a preset Push any of the two buttons marked Preset The upper one will increment the preset number the lower one will decrement the preset number Hold any of them down for fast scroll and hold both down for really fast scroll 1024 presets can be selected from AQ1 to P64 The yellow LED near the Enter button will now start to flash Push Ent
28. a sample Sample Tempo adjust Save Preset Initialize Preset Common Settings Touch Keyboard Settings Checking the firmware version and effects RAM USB Importing files Importing multiple files Open a directory Make a new directory Export samples and presets to a USB drive Rename a file Delete a file Updating Fuzion s firmware 73 75 78 80 83 84 89 92 96 99 102 104 112 121 126 128 129 146 147 148 149 150 152 153 154 71 101 118 130 134 136 140 142 143 Blank page Introduction Thank you very much for purchasing consider to purchase a Fuzion Music WorkStation The goal with Fuzion was to design a workstation that was fast and intuitive to compose music with Unlike many other music workstations Fuzion does not work in different modes On Fuzion you can edit a sounds jump to the sequencer and record or edit edit the effects everything while the sequencer keeps running You do not have to switch between different modes where you can t edit the sounds in one mode and can t record a sequence in another On Fuzion ALL parameters and functions are accessible at ANY time The first thing I designed was its sequencer This has 16 tracks that each can be set to control Fuzion s internal sound engine or any MIDI gear connected to its 2 MIDI outputs can have separate lengths up to 128 bars can have separate quantize clock settings changable on the fly while the sequ
29. ack You can now use the 2 arrows to select which notes you would like to edit and use the 8 edit knobs to change the values The note values are shown both graphically by the bars and in text below the bars The middle value will always be the original note at the time it was selected When a note is being played back by the sequencer Fuzion will indicate this by inverting the colours for this these note s Only notes inside the 2 bars that are selected on the note grid page can be selected on the note edit pages To exit from note value edit simply hit the Note button again The same system is used for editing velocity note length and note position Here are a short description of these pages Velocity edit Enter and exit this using the Velo button If a note velocity value are adjusted down to zero this note will be erased Note length edit Enter and exit this using the Length button The minimum adjustable length for each note are half of the original length The maximum adjustable length for each note are double the original length On this page the length are shown in bars beats tics along with the bar Note position edit Enter and exit this using the Pos button When adjusting the position of a note event it is moved in 1 32 steps or in steps selected by quantize On this page the note event position are shown in bars beats tics along with the bar Erasing a sequencer t
30. an to use a sampling as an audio track or together with the Quantized Start remix function To set a samples tempo manually simply use edit knob 7 to adjust the tempo between 1 and 300 BPM and the hit the Save Start End button to save the tempo together with the sampling A sample that has no tempo assigned to it will be set to 120 BPM When a Fuzion sample are exported as a wav file via USB the sample tempo are now also exported so if you import it again the tempo will be restored Save Preset When you have created a new preset it should be saved for later recall If you do not save your presets they will be lost forever as soon as you select another preset A preset that is saved on Fuzion contains All sequencer data The settings for the 8 synthesizers The settings for the 2 effects processors From the Preset Select screen push the More button to enter this page From this page push the Save Preset button You should now enter this page Use the Prs u and Prs d buttons to select the preset location on which you would like to save your new preset Holding one of these buttons down will scroll through the preset locations Holding both down will scroll fast through the locations Preset number and name is shown for presets that are already saved If you save your new preset on such a location the old preset will be overwritten On preset locations where a preset has not ye
31. anges Push the 1 8 button so it changes to 9 12 to adjust the notes for the 4 upper keys Push Exit when you are done Checking the firmware version and effects RAM From the Preset Select screen push the More button to enter this page In the top of this page you can see the firmware version number currently running on your Fuzion If the SRAM says anything other than OK the effects RAM might need to be replaced USB The USB pages lets you access the files and directories of a USB drive attached to Fuzion s USB connector You can import and export samples as wav files import and export presets update Fuzion s firmware re name and delete files and make new directories USB drives used with Fuzion should be Maximum 32 GB DOS formatted From the Preset Select screen push the More button to enter this page Push the USB button TR989_ 1 WAUII 26 678 KO KICK_1_ WAU 189 KB 86 KB ESISNRG1 W 85 KB ArT 1 1 s On this first page that you will enter the root directory of the connected drive is shown You can see that it is the root directory by the D in the upper left corner If you have accessed a directory the name of this will replace D If you do not see the root directory of the drive make sure that it is connected properly and that it is has the right specs as described in the start of this section The names you see
32. audio track To record an audio track on the Sequencer main page select a track number between 9 and 16 On these tracks a parameter called AuTrkx where x indicates a number between 1 and 8 will appear in the lower right corner of the screen The number indicates what synth will be used for the audio track Track 9 AuTrk1 uses Synth 1 Track 10 AuTrk2 uses Synth 2 and so on Push the Lowr button to select this parameter and use edit knob 8 to switch the audio track mode for the selected track On At the moment you do this the synth assigned to this audio track are initialized for the purpose Tune is set to middle position and the filter mix parameter is turned fully up to bypass the filters The sequencer transpose control is also set to the neutral position Now hit the Lowr button again so it is not activated and use edit knob 5 and 6 to adjust the track length The track length adjusted before recording will be the audio recording length You can though stop the recording at any time before it reaches the track end if you like Hit the Rec button If the sequencer is already playing back it will now reset and start a 2 bar metronome count in If the sequencer is stopped please hit the Play button to start the count in After the count in it will start to record the audio It will record until it reaches the adjusted track end or until you hit the Play button to stop it
33. ch the playback stre The second granulator sequencer will time stretch the playback Dir Sets the playback direction of the Granulator output which can either be forwards fwd or backwards bwd The buttons Bypass This will bypass the selected effect and pass the audio signal through unaffected Freeze When this is active the selected effect stops sampling the input signal applied to it and only plays back the content that is already sampled to its buffer To edit the order in which the granulator fragments are played back push the Steps button to enter the step edit page ritit Use edit knob 1 to 8 to adjust which fragment of the sound buffer that should be played back at each step of the granulator sequencer Push the Lowr button to switch between editing the upper and lower row To edit the pitch change or timestretch amount for each step of the granulator sequencer push the Pitch button to enter the pitch edit page i j M 1 Ta Use edit knob 1 to 8 to adjust the pitch change or timestretch amount for each step of the granulator sequencer Push the Lowr button to switch between editing the upper and lower row Effect 2 parameters Delay 1 Delay 1 are a single tap delay with granular parameters size and beam and with adjustable crossfade and direction The maximum delay time is 45 seconds Parameters Level The output level of the effect TimeGr Delay tim
34. copy events between tracks and presets and to erase specific events a whole track or the whole sequence The next thing I designed was the synthesizer engine This was designed to be flexible with many sound possibilities while at the same time being easy to tweak It has one screen per module one for the oscillator one for the filters and so on and each module can be selected by the push of a button Furthermore a Sound Finder was engineered that makes it easy to audition and import sounds from any other preset to the one you are working on now A Fuzion oscillator can be a virtual analogue waveform one a virtual percussion oscillator a sampling or an audio input The oscillator can be processed by 2 filters with each 18 filter types including 2 parametric EQ types an amp an instrument effect 2 LFO s and 3 envelopes Fuzion has 8 synthesizers built in and all sounds except for audio inputs can be played back chromatically from a connected MIDI keyboard over the full 10 octave MIDI note range triggered from the built in touch screen keyboard or triggered from an assignable button Fuzion s sound engine is designed to sound good with 24 bit converters and 32 bit internal processing A sampler part was also designed to make it possible to record and edit samplings Sample playback is performed through the synthesizer engine 2 global effects processors were also added that will have reverbs delays pitch effects and granular
35. d grains to another place Deep Simulates a delay box with adjustable depth The buttons Bypass This will bypass the selected effect and pass the audio signal through unaffected Freeze When this is active the selected effect stops sampling the input signal applied to it and only plays back the content that is already sampled to its buffer Reverb 1 A FAT high resolution synthesized reverb with granular Size parameter Parameters Level The output level of the effect With Lowr selected Time Reverb time The total reverb time is a combination of time timeX feed and feedX Fine Reverb time fine adjust Time X Adjusts how much the following reverb taps will decrease in time Lower settings is good for a short reverb and higher settings for a long reverb Size A granular parameter The more this is turned up the less space of the reverb box is used causing some echo s to repeat and others not to sound at all Feed Reverb feedback Feed X Adjusts how much the following reverb taps will decrease in feedback Lower settings gives a delay effect As this is turned up it goes over in a metallic reverb type and at higher settings it gives a more full reverb Dir Reverb playback direction Fwd Forwards Bwd Backwards The buttons Bypass This will bypass the selected effect and pass the audio signal through unaffected Freeze When this is active the selected effect stops sampling the in
36. e microGothar Reset Trig Trach i PA Channel 92 Trig PEPE UEP Di To set up what the 8 triggers should trig first from the Preset Select page push the More button Push the Triggers Setup button to enter the triggers setup page m i Syn Int C4 64 mr tor Synz Ini C4 64 On this page use the buttons 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7_8 to select which 2 triggers you will adjust Use the buttons Trig1 and Trig2 to audition the triggers By edit knob 1 to 8 you can adjust the settings for 2 triggers at a time The settings are VE Select whether you would like the trigger to trig an internal synth Int or an external MIDI device Ext Chan Selects the channel that the trigger is sent to For external devices MIDI channel and output are selected The settings goes from 1_1 to 16_1 and from 1_2 to 16_2 For internal synths the settings goes from channel to 16 and from synth to synth8 synth direct Note Select the note you would like the trigger to play The whole 10 octave MIDI note range can be selected C4 is the middle C Velo Select the velocity value you would like the trigger to send Value 1 to 127 The Sequencer The sequencer is the main reason why I made Fuzion I wanted a sequencer with which it was possible to combine long realtime recorded sequences with TR like step pattern sequences so that is what I have been working towards Fuzio
37. e audio track and switch audio track mode on as explained in the previous section Adjust the track length Push the Note button to enter the note edit page On this page hit the Ins button An audio track note event will now be inserted that eqauls the track length Go to the synth pages mem m Filter yopa Rec Amp_tiao Wave wel Sample Mod Env Fat Phase Boost Seleri Mad On Lows Ein Efne Trig Eniti Select the synth used for the audio track AuTrk1 Synth1 AuTrk2 Synth2 and so on Hit the Sample button NOISEI 126 BPM Quantized Start knob2 Quantize Adjust knob35 Select the imported sample using the select buttons Push Play to audition If you did not knew the sample tempo now go back to the Sequencer Main screen and adjust the sequencer tempo until the audio track loops as it should When this is done go to the Sample Rec page adjust the sample tempo to the same as the sequencer tempo and save it If the sample tempo is incorrect the audio track will not continue from the right point and the Quantized Start points will not fit If these functions are not important to you you do not have to bother about adjusting the sample tempo The 8 Synthesizer s Fuzion has 8 powerful synthesiser s Each of these can play back their own sound and have their MIDI channels and key ranges set completely independent of each other It is possible to create split
38. e group which is the largest unit in adjusting the delay time Time Delay time Fine Delay time fine adjust Feed Delay feedback amount At values over middle the feedback signal will be gained and create infinite feedback This might cause some saturation With Lowr selected Size A granular parameter The more this is turned up the less space of the delay box is used causing some echo s to repeat and others not to sound at all Xfade Ducked Crossfade Makes the delay effect sound smoother by crossfading the feedback repeats into each other Dir Delay playback direction Fwd Forwards Bwd Backwards Beam A granular parameter that gt beams some of the delay sound grains to another place The buttons Bypass This will bypass the selected effect and pass the audio signal through unaffected Freeze When this is active the selected effect stops sampling the input signal applied to it and only plays back the content that is already sampled to its buffer Granulator This effect records the input signal to a buffer and cuts this up into fragments which sizes depends on both the Time and the Fragments number of fragments parameters It is then possible to rearrange the order of these fragments and to re pitch or time stretch them using two 16 step granulator sequencers to get something completely new out of the input signal Parameters Level The output level of the effect Steps Sets
39. elope 2 Env2 ADSHRR envelope 2 inverted Aen ADSHRR amp envelope Aen ADSHRR amp envelope inverted Velo The velocity value of the last received note event on the synth s MIDI channel Velo The velocity value of the last received note event on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Kyb The note number value of the last received note event on the synth s MIDI channel Kyb The note number value of the last recetved note event on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Lfol LFO 1 Lfol LFO 1 inverted Lfo2 LFO 2 Lfo2 LFO 2 inverted Rnd Key trigged random generator Each time a note event are received by the synth the random generator output changes to a new random value Rnd Key trigged random generator inverted Cc1 MIDI CC 1 received on the synth s MIDI channel Ccel1 MIDI CC 1 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc2 MIDI CC 2 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc2 MIDI CC 2 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc3 MIDI CC 3 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc3 MIDI CC 3 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc4 MIDI CC 4 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc4 MIDI CC 4 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc5 MIDI CC 5 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc5 MIDI CC 5 received on the synth s MIDI channel inverted Cc6 MIDI CC 6 received on the synth s MIDI channel Cc6 MIDI CC 6 received on the synth
40. encer is running has a Note Randomizer for each track and a global Swing sequencer Tracks can be recorded either in real time grid mode where you insert notes in a piano roll style window or step insert mode where a pointer can be moved around on the piano roll and it places all received events at the position of this pointer All MIDI events like notes CC s aftertouch and program changes can be recorded In the recent update it is also possible to record 8 audio tracks into the sequencer For editing the recorded MIDI events different methods are available depending on the type of event you want to edit I early learned that editing notes in a piano roll that might work on a computer did not really work as an intuitive method on this little box Therefore I engineered the Bars edit method where notes velocity values lengths and positions are presented as bars that changes colour when the note are played back and that can be edited using knobs in a kind of analogue sequencer style fashion I think that this system works really well for experimenting with a composition When editing MIDI CC s and aftertouch events these are presented as values in a frame one bar at a time 8 of these values can be selected at a time and the selected values are presented as the same kind of bars used in the note edit system and can be edited using knobs When editing program changes these are presented on an event list It is possible to
41. er All sequencer functions that can be used on any other sequencer track can of course also be used on the remix tracks so please just release your creativity Oscillator modulation At the Osc page push the Mod button to enter the modulation page pe Frag Mod i Freg Mod 2 Env 1 Env 1 Fitter Weve Mod PW Mod Amp_tio Ccl Env 1 Osc Mod Env Level Mod Pan Mod Env 1 Man Enit Phaze Mod Env 1 For each parameter that can be modulated it is possible to select a modulation source and to adjust the modulation amount For a complete list of modulation sources see the list in the start of this section The parameters on this page Freq Mod 1 Freq Mod 2 Modulates the oscillator pitch Wave Mod Modulates the wave morphing of the Wave oscillator or the sinewave balance of the Perc oscillator PW Mod Modulates the pulse width of the Wave oscillator the intensity of the Noise oscillator the start point of the sample oscillator or the sinewave detune of the Perc oscillator Level Mod Modulates the output level of the oscillator Pan Mod Modulates the stereo pan position of the synth output When source is set to gt Man manual the modulation amount parameter acts as a normal pan position parameter Output and 2 are paired for panning and output 3 and 4 are paired for panning Phase Mod Modulates the phase difference of the FAT effect layers Filter s parameters pe cL Type Cut Peso
42. er to confirm that you want to switch to the new preset If the sequencer is playing back the Enter LED will now start to flash faster awaiting track to reach its end As soon as this happens Fuzion will switch to the newly selected preset and the Enter led will stop flashing If the sequencer is not playing back Fuzion will immediately switch to the new preset when Enter is pushed When Fuzion is turned off it will remember which preset was selected and start up with this when turned on again Right below the preset name the currently selected track is shown Right after the track number is shown either a _ which indicates that the selected track has no data recorded to it or an R which indicates that the track has data recorded to it If you hit Rec at this page realtime events will be recorded to the displayed track Right under the track number is the channel the selected track is channelized to displayed Synth Triggers On the Preset Select page it is possible to trigger 8 internal synths or external MIDI devices using the pushbuttons To do so hit the Triggers button Now 8 of the pushbuttons will have their names changed to Trig1 to Trig8 Initially these are set up to play back note C4 of internal synth 1 to 8 To play the synths simply hit the corresponsive buttons To exit from Triggers mode simply hit the Triggers button again Prey H2 iO bpm Fe
43. er and connect it to Fuzion s USB connector 7 Turn Fuzion on if it isn t already turned on 8 From the preset select screen push the More button 9 Push the USB button 10 Wait for Fuzion to register the USB drive so all files and folders are presented on the screen 11 Push the Update button 12 Fuzion will now search for the UPDATE folder and valid update files If it finds both it will ask Update processor 1 2 3 Update Processor 13 Push Yes to proceed with updating or No if you regret 14 If you pushed Yes in step 13 Fuzion will now start to get the update files and program its 3 processors Every time it starts to program a processor it will look like it halts for a couple of minutes This is because it does halt when erasing the program memory of a processor Erasing the program memory of processor 1 Programming Processor 1 Programming processor 1 counter in the bottom counts up Programming Processor 1 Erasing the program memory of processor 2 counter is zero Progra ng Processor 2 Programming processor 2 counter in the bottom counts up Programming Processor 2 Erasing the program memory of processor 3 counter is zero Programming processor 3 counter in the bottom counts up Programming Processor 15 When programming is done Fuzion will ask you to restart it Please turn Fuzion off and then on Programming Done Please Restar
44. f MIDI channel 1 16 If this is set to any other setting than Off notes that are not played back by this track when the probability parameter has been lowered will play back on this second MIDI channel It will trigger the internal synth s or external MIDI gear depending on the setting of the Int Ext parameter Transp Track transpose This parameter will transpose the whole selected track by the selected value in realtime Settings 32 to 31 notes Swing Sets the last step for the Global swing sequencer which will be described later in this manual On track 9 to 16 and extra parameter called AuTrkx where x indicates a number between and 8 will appear in the lower right corner of the screen OFF OFF ize Lasi Bar Siep Trk 1 me RA am EEE mem J ore MENE Em PuTrh i 40 G Off When this parameter is On the track functions as an Audio Track When it is Off it functions as a normal MIDI event track Setting up the sequencer to control the internal synth s Before I go on and describes the rest of the sequencer pages I will here describe the steps for setting up the sequencer to control the internal synths and external MIDI gear for those of you who just can t wait At first the easy and un complicated way which has some limitations Right after this the more complicated and less limited way will be explained On the Sequencer Main page simply set a track to Int and adjust
45. ght after power on and can be selected in the synth oscillator section just like synth waveforms From the Preset select screen push the Sample Rec button to enter the sample record page 7 y inpi Banh ECHF r lt 7 Ma 1 NOISEI On this page you can audition samples adjust the audio input levels switch input monitoring on and off select sample bank for import and recording record and delete samples select the sample recording source set the tempo of a sample and adjust a samples start and end point To audition the samples on your Fuzion use the Select buttons to select the sample you would like to audition Hold one of these down for fast scroll and hold both for really fast scroll The sample number and are shown in the middle of the screen To audition the selected sample push the Trig button Use edit knob 3 to switch between sample Bank A and B While auditioning a sample the sample VU meter right under the sample name show the volumes of the sample If you apply an audio signal to Fuzion s audio inputs this VU meter will show the volume of the applied signal s By adjusting the Moni parameter with edit knob 4 you can switch monitoring of audio input 1 and 2 on and off When monitoring are on for any of the inputs the audio signals applied to these are sent directly to Fuzion s audio outputs 1 and 2 When you record a sample you will probably need to have monitoring on unless
46. h edit pages We do however not want to edit a synth right now We just wants to set up the MIDI channels and key ranges for the synth s so they match something that we can use for recording a sequence As default the synths are set up like this Synth 1 MIDI channel 1 key range C 1 to G9 Synth 2 MIDI channel 2 key range C 1 to G9 Synth 3 MIDI channel 3 key range C 1 to G9 Synth 4 MIDI channel 4 key range C 1 to G9 Synth 5 MIDI channel 5 key range C 1 to G9 Synth 6 MIDI channel 6 key range C 1 to G9 Synth 7 MIDI channel 7 key range C 1 to G9 Synth 8 MIDI channel 8 key range C 1 to G9 To change these settings you should push the Adj with knob 1 3 button so the red LED near it lights up Now it is possible to select any of the 8 synths without jumping back to the synth edit pages So now you can select any of the 8 synths and use edit knob 1 to 3 to adjust the low and the high key of the key range and the MIDI channel You can without any problems layer and overlap the synths Fuzion can handle it There s a few other function here If you push the Chan button the selected synth will be set to the same MIDI channel as the selected sequencer track It you push the Key Hi or Key Lo buttons you can select the upper and lower keys of the synths key range by playing these notes on a connected MIDI keyboard To exit from the synth select page make sure
47. h in the upper right region of it You will get the best results by having Fuzion s input level in the middle position and adjust the level of the sample source on the source itself You should only adjust Fuzion s input level parameters if it is the only possibility you have or if the source is too weak When you are ready to record the sample push the Record button in the upper left corner Fuzion will now start to record the new sample recp 1 D2 88 48 Recording When you are finished recording your sample push the Stop Record button Fuzion will now jump to this screen recp 12 DB B CA To audition the sample you have just recorded push the Audition button To name and save the sample push the Name button If you would not like to keep this sample push the Exit button and the new sample will be erased When pushing the Name button Fuzion will jump to this page Here you can use edit knob to 8 to select the first 8 characters of the new sample s name When you have done that push the Next button to enter the last 8 characters of the sample name Use edit knob 1 to 8 to select the last 8 characters of the new sample s name When you have done that push the Save button to save the new sample and return to the Sample Rec page Deleting a sample On the Sample Rec page select the sample you would like to delete Push the De
48. hat type of event you would like to add The possible event types are bend Pitch Bend event prgr Program change event maft Mono aftertouch event cc0 to cc127 MIDI CC 0 to 127 Every time you hit the Add button on this page a new event will be added When you are done adding events hit the Exit button to return to the controller edit main page If you push the Edit button on the controller edit main page you will enter the edit page for the selected event Eight events can be adjusted at a time using the eight edit knobs Use the arrow buttons to select which eight events you would like to adjust Use the Bar buttons to select the bar you would like to edit The bar you select here is also the bar where new events will be added when using the Add function on the controller edit main page When the sequencer is playing back a pointer is rolling over the edit window as the events are playing back On the controller edit page it is also possible to add an extra event of the same type as the one you are editing Push the Add button to go to this site 0 Use Edit Knob 2 to set the position for the new event in ticks inside the selected bar Position can be 0 to 95 Use Edit Knob 2 to adjust the value Every time you hit the Add button on this page a new event will be added When you are done adding events hit the Exit button to return to the
49. he Adj with knob 1 3 button so the red LED near it lights up Now it is possible to select any of the 8 synths without jumping back to the synth edit pages So now you can select any of the 8 synths and use edit knob 1 to 3 to adjust the low and the high key of the key range and the MIDI channel You can without any problems layer and overlap the synths Fuzion can handle it There s a few other function here If you push the Chan button the selected synth will be set to the same MIDI channel as the selected sequencer track It you push the Key Hi or Key Lo buttons you can select the upper and lower keys of the synths key range by playing these notes on a connected MIDI keyboard To exit from the synth select page make sure that neither Adj with knob 1 3 Key Hi or Key Lo is selected and then push any of the 8 synth select buttons to return to the synth edit pages Oscillator Osc parameters pt Tune Fine Weve PW Stari Ose 90 Play Filter tyoe Priv Priun Level Rec Mod Env Fat Phase Boost Select Mod Off Lows Enit Poly GetSndEind Efke Trig OC ear Tune Adjust the basic pitch in semitones When an audio input is selected as the oscillator this parameter has no function Range 64 to 63 Fine Fine tuning of the pitch When an audio input is selected as the oscillator this parameter has no function Range 256 to 255 Wave When Wave is selected as the
50. how many steps the granulator sequencers should go through until they starts over again from step one Values 1 to 16 Fragments Adjusts how many fragments grains the recorded input signal should be cutted up in when played back Values 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 With Lowr selected TimeGr Granulator time group which is the largest unit in adjusting the granulator time Time This parameter plus TimeGr adjust the total size of the Granulator record and play buffer How long time it will record the input signal until it starts over again Fine Fine adjustment of the Time parameter Feed Adjusts how much of the Granulator output signal should be fed back to its input Xfade Adjusts how much ducking crossfade that will be added between the granulator sequencer steps Mode Sets the playback mode of the second granulator sequencer pitc The second granulator sequencer will re pitch the playback stre The second granulator sequencer will time stretch the playback Dir Sets the playback direction of the Granulator output which can either be forwards fwd or backwards bwd The buttons Bypass This will bypass the selected effect and pass the audio signal through unaffected Freeze When this is active the selected effect stops sampling the input signal applied to it and only plays back the content that is already sampled to its buffer To edit the order in which the granulator fragments are played back
51. ince Fuzion doesn t have build in speakers it just needs to be connected to something that can transfer its amazing sound to you Connect the other outputs to effects processors filters computers or anything else that can process sound Connect the outputs of these back to Fuzion s inputs for mixing to the main outputs or further processing inside Fuzion Stereo headphones can be connected to Out hp and Out3 hp to monitor either output 1 and 2 or output 3 and 4 Any line level audio gear can be connected to Fuzion s 2 audio inputs It is possible to sample and to process any audio presented on these using Fuzion s filters and effects D L CE ST x L ee et e a e e On the left end panel of your Fuzion you will find the USB connector and two sets of MIDI in and out You will need to connect a MIDI keyboard to MIDI input 1 in order to take full advantage of Fuzion s fully chromatically playable sounds As it is at writing moment it is preferable to connect a keyboard and or other MIDI controlling things to MIDI in 1 and to use MIDI in 2 if you need to MIDI sync Fuzion to other gear Reason for this is that MIDI in 2 is not fully spec d yet but it will be in an update very soon To MIDI out 1 and 2 you should connect the gear you would like to control with Fuzion s sequencer If you plan to connect more than 2 MIDI devices it would be preferable to use a MIDI thru box to avoid long MIDI delays
52. is turned on the edit knobs adjusts the parameters on the lower half of the screen E a d Caa ier ain oo sotmorrmnsar pt Tune Fine Weve PUL Steri Osce 24h Fiter Tupe Pod Piun Level Aep_is Wave meee aeee Mod Env Fat Phase Boost Mad oa Endi Eini Eip Many of the synth parameters can be modulated To access the modulation setup page for Osc Filter Amp _Lfo and Mod Env simply push the Mod button when you are on any of these pages When you do that it s blue LED will light and a new page will pop up with the modulation parameters Synth I Frag Mod i Osr Envl Fiha Wave Mod Amp_Lfo Ccl Mod Env Level Mod Saal bs Enii Freg Mod 2 Envl Rey PU Mod Pec Select Lous Env1 Pan Mod Man Phaze Mod Trig Env1 To select a synth for editing or to adjust the MIDI channel and key range for the synths from any synth page push the Select button to enter this page oelect oynth Min l E I d To select a synth for editing simply push the respective button for that synth number and Fuzion will take you back to the synth edit pages for the synth that you selected Each of the 8 synths has a VU meter on this page that shows when the synth is trigged Right beside each VU meter are a blue bar that shows the output level of each synth The output levels can be adjusted using the 8 edit knobs To adjust the MIDI channel and key range settings you should push t
53. its channel setting above 1 to 16 to select synth 1 to 8 directly shown as Syn1 to Syn8 The sequencer track will now control the selected synth in the full 10 octave MIDI note range without you having to set up the synths channel and key range irach 1 16 OF 120 eo ee a m mili am 0 16 But like with many other good things this method has a downside You can t set up the synths with layers and key splits overlaps That is why I will explain a little more complicated method on the following pages From the Preset Select screen push the Synth button to enter the synth pages Synth 1 Tune Fine Wave PW Siari Osc 24 0 MANIEE En ana Pay Fiker tyoe Pi Priun Level Pec Amp_tio Wave Sample Mod Env Fat Phase Boost Seleci Mod On Louw Enit GR oa Trig Notice that in the upper left corner of this page you can see which of Fuzion s 8 synth s that are selected right now By pushing the buttons to the left of the screen you can select the different modules of the synth to edit the sound You can select which synth to edit by pushing the Select button on the right side of the screen Now push the Select button to enter the Synth select page oelect oynth Min g li ji d By pushing any of the 4 upper buttons on each side of the screen you can select what synth you would like to edit When you push one of these you are immediately taken back to the synt
54. l events on all 16 tracks of the sequencer If you are sure you would like to do this push the Do button Else Push Exit to regret Swing Fuzion s sequencer has a fully programable swing generator The Swing parameter on the sequencer main page adjust how may steps the swing generator should have from to 16 16 OFF Lasi Bar Siep HE Int 2 0 hE OFF 0 l From the sequencer main page push the Swing button to enter the swing generator page On this page swing can be switched on and off for each of the 16 sequencer tracks by pushing the corresponding button If a track LED lights up swing will be applied to that track To switch between track 1 to 8 and track 9 to 16 push the 1 8 button The name of that button will change to 9 16 when you are viewing track 9 to 16 At writing moment the swing generator are always set to 1 16 resolution This might be changed in a future update Use the 8 edit knobs to adjust the delay in ticks for each step of the swing generator The steps are played back sequentially with a 1 16 resolution If the sequencer is playing back the value bar of the step that is being played will be inverted To edit step 9 to 16 of the swing generator push the 1 8 button The name of that button will change to 9 16 when you are viewing step 9 to 16 Audio Tracks OFF OFF 120 Lasi Bar Siep Trk 1 me RA am EEE mem J ore ME
55. left side of its screen and another row on the right It has 8 knobs for editing parameters and a volume knob below the screen The pushbuttons has different functions for each menu page but on most pages you will find Exit in the lower left corner sequencer Play and Rec in the upper right corner and Lowr and Trig in the lower right corner Exit will exit to the previous page with the last possible page being the Preset select screen Play will start and stop Sequencer playback When the sequencer is playing back the green LED near the Play button will light Rec will turn Sequencer realtime recording on or off When realtime recording is activated the red LED near the Rec button will light On pages that has the Reset button which will reset all sequencer tracks to playback position 0 0 0 this will change to Erase when the Rec button is activated Pushing Erase will erase all events on the currently selected sequencer track Lowr will give you access to edit the parameters on the lower half of the screen on pages that has more than 8 parameters es Osc 0 0 Fitter Level asm Amp_tio Wave Sample Mod Env Fat Phase Boost Fe 94 Mad On Lows Enit Efni Eine T rig Every time you enter a new page the Lowr button will be switched off and the 8 edit pots will edit the upper 8 parameters on pages with more than 8 parameters The names of the parameters selected for editing will be inverted Trig will trigger
56. lete button Fuzion will now ask if you are sure Are You Sure To delete the sample push Y es If you regret push No to return to the Sample Rec page If you pushed Yes it will now delete the selected sample If this was not the highest numbered sample in a bank it will copy all higher numbered samples one place down It will also modify the sample numbers used in the presets so it might take some time Adjusting the start and end points of a sample If a sample has silence at the start and or end of it or if there are parts of a sample you do not intend to use it might be nescessary to adjust the start and end points of it To do this select the sample you would like to adjust Push the S E button to select the Start and End parameters Adjust the start point using edit knob 5 fine adjust using edit knob 6 Adjust the end point using edit knob 7 fine adjust using edit knob 8 Audition using the Trig button When you are satisfied with the result push the Save Start End button rp Banbh uni es 1 NOISEI Sample Tempo Adjust All sample has a tempo assigned to them By selecting any sample on the Sample Rec page its tempo will be shown api BM i 1 NOISEI The sample tempo is set to the current sequencer tempo when recording an audio track On all other samples you will have to set the tempo manually if required This should be done if you pl
57. ll The name and the number of the preset you are auditioning sounds from are shown in the upper part of the screen and the synth number is shown by inverting any of the 8 numbers right under the preset name It is only possible to select synths that has a sound that differs from the initial sound so you will not have to go through a lot of initial sounds if you have not programmed all 8 synths in a preset To audition the sound push the Trig button or simply play it by the touch keyboard or a connected MIDI keyboard If a sequence is programmed for this synth this will immediately play back with the sound you have found Experiment immediately by quick editing the sound using the 8 edit knobs Quick edit parameters Tune The oscillator pitch Atk The amp envelope attack Rel The amp envelope release Gain The amp output level Cut1 Filter 1 cutoff frequency Resol Filter 1 resonance Cut2 Filter 2 cutoff frequency Reso2 Filter 2 resonance To keep the sound that you have found quick edited just push the Exit button to return to the synth edit pages Here you can of course tweak the sound further using all the synth parameters If you did not find what you wanted and just wants to keep the sound that was on this synth before you entered the Sound Finder push the Regret button You will now return to the synth edit pages and the original sound of this synth will be restored The 2 Global Effects
58. lope has reached its maximum value in the time set by the attack parameter it will decay until it reaches the sustain level and stay there as long as the note that trigged it is held Sust Mod envelope sustain level Explained under the Dec parameter Hold Mod envelope note hold time If this parameter is turned fully down it has no function If it is turned up it will simulate a note that is held down for the adjusted amount of time regardless of when the note that triggered the envelope is released It will always make the envelope run through the attack time the decay time and the release time at least one time The length of the hold time adjusts how long the envelope should stay at the sustain level If the next parameter Rept Repeats is turned up the hold function will run the attack and decay sequence for the number of times adjusted by rept The hold parameter can be really useful for t ex drum sounds where you want the sound to have the exact same length every time it is trigged Rept Mod envelope attack decay repeats Adjusts the number of times the attack decay sequence should be repeated From 1 to 8 times If you put attack to zero set a very short decay time and set this parameter at a middle value 4 to 5 repeats you got yourself a handclap envelope Rel Ivl Mod envelope release level If this is turned fully down the mod envelope will release form whatever level it is at when a note off event a
59. n s sequencer has 16 tracks Each of these tracks can have their length set separately up to 128 bars have its quatize setting changed on the fly even while the sequencer is running and control either Fuzion s internal synths or any MIDI gear It is possible to realtime record step pointer record or grid record MIDI data on the tracks Note CC pitchbend aftertouch and program change data can be recorded When you play on a MIDI keyboard connected to any of Fuzion s MIDI inputs or on Fuzion s touch keyboard you will play on whatever the selected sequencer track is set up to control All data is channellized through this It is possible to set up any track to control Int Fuzion s synths or Ext connected MIDI gear and it is possible to select any of the 16 MIDI channels and 2 MIDI outputs It is also possible to record 8 Audio Tracks and make Fuzion work like a pattern based harddisk recorder Remember to save all edits you do in the sequencer Else they will be lost when you change preset or turn Fuzion off See how to in the Save Preset section To enter Fuzion s sequencer from the preset select screen push the Sequencer button You will now enter the sequencer main page 1716 OFF 129 Lasi Bar Step fChanl Int 2 0 7 Wa OFF 0 16 On this page you can select any of the 16 tracks adjust the basic settings for the selected track and access the sequencer edit functions In the upper left
60. ncy Reso Filter 1 2 resonance setting Feed Filter 1 2 feedback amount Adj1 Adj2 Adj3 Changes the filter response For the parametric EQ types Adj3 acts as cut boost Cobl Select how the 2 filters should be connected par for parallel ser for serial filter 1 into filter 2 Output Select whether the synth should output to audio out 1 and 2 or to audio output 3 and 4 Filter s modulation Synth 1 Cuti Mod i Cuti Mod 2 Osc Env2 Ccl _ Filer esoiMod Feed Mod Pec Amp_tio Velot Env 1 Mod Env Cui2 Modi Cut2 Mod 2 Select Env 1 Ccl ee Enit Reso2 Mod Feede2 Mod Trig Env 1 Env 1 For each parameter that can be modulated it is possible to select a modulation source and to adjust the modulation amount For a complete list of modulation sources see the list in the start of this section The parameters on this page Cut1 Mod 1 Cut1 Mod 2 Modulates the cutoff frequency of filter 1 Resol Mod Modulates the resonance of filter 1 Feed1 Mod Modulates the feedback amount of filter 1 Cut2 Mod 1 Cut2 Mod 2 Modulates the cutoff frequency of filter 2 Reso2 Mod Modulates the resonance of filter 2 Feed2 Mod Modulates the feedback amount of filter 2 Amp and LFO s parameters Atk Amp envelope attack time The time it will take the amp envelope to rise from zero to its maximum value when a note event is received and held down Dec Amp envelope decay time When the amp envel
61. ocessors will use the same memory space fusioning together This can create some really odd effects To exit the effect select page push the EFX1 button if you would like to edit the parameters of effect 1 or the gt EFX2 button if you would like to edit the parameters of effect 2 Effect 1 parameters Delay 1 Delay 1 are a single tap delay with granular parameters size and beam and with adjustable crossfade direction and depth of the delay box The maximum delay time is 45 seconds Parameters Level The output level of the effect TimeGr Delay time group which is the largest unit in adjusting the delay time Time Delay time Fine Delay time fine adjust Feed Delay feedback amount At values over middle the feedback signal will be gained and create infinite feedback This might cause some saturation With Lowr selected Size A granular parameter The more this is turned up the less space of the delay box is used causing some echo s to repeat and others not to sound at all Xfade Crossfade Makes the delay effect sound smoother by crossfading the feedback repeats into each other Mode Crossfade mode Norm Normal crossfade mode The repeats crossfades into ech other Duck Ducked croosfade mode One repeat fades out before the next one fades in Dir Delay playback direction Fwd Forwards Bwd Backwards Beam A granular parameter that gt beams some of the delay soun
62. of course also just push Exit if you do not want to make a directory anyway Export samples and presets to a USB drive The samples and presets held in Fuzion s FLASH memory can be exported to a USB drive for back up or for use with other gear or computers Fuzion exports samples as standard 16 bit 44 1 KHz native PCM wav files so they can be used with any other gear that supports this format Fuzion exports presets in its own fzp format so these can at writing moment only be used by Fuzion itself To enter the export page push the Export button Export All Preset All exports are done to the currently open directory There are 4 different possibilities for exporting Export Pushing this button will export the selected sample Use the 2 Select buttons to select the sample to be exported use edit knob 3 to select the sample bank and use the Trig button to audition the sample before export Export All Samples Pushing this button will export all samples of the selected sample bank Use edit knob 3 to select the bank for export Export Preset Pushing this button will export the currently selected preset Export All Presets Pushing this button will export all programmed presets Rename a file It is possible to rename files on the USB drive Only files can be renamed not directories To do this select the file you would like to rename using the arrow button and push the
63. ope has reached its maximum value in the time set by the attack parameter it will decay until it reaches the sustain level and stay there as long as the note that trigged it is held Sust Amp envelope sustain level Explained under the Dec parameter Hold Amp envelope note hold time If this parameter is turned fully down it has no function If it is turned up it will simulate a note that is held down for the adjusted amount of time regardless of when the note that triggered the envelope is released It will always make the envelope run through the attack time the decay time and the release time at least one time The length of the hold time adjusts how long the envelope should stay at the sustain level If the next parameter Rept Repeats is turned up the hold function will run the attack and decay sequence for the number of times adjusted by rept The hold parameter can be really useful for t ex drum sounds where you want the sound to have the exact same length every time it is trigged Rept Amp envelope attack decay repeats Adjusts the number of times the attack decay sequence should be repeated From to 8 times If you put attack to zero set a very short decay time and set this parameter at a middle value 4 to 5 repeats you got yourself a handclap envelope Rel lvl Amp envelope release level If this is turned fully down the amp envelope will release form whatever level it is at when a note off event are
64. possible to adjust the filter responses to create completely new ones using 3 adjust parameters The 2 filters can be connected in serial or parallel and their outputs can be mixed either normal or inverted Each filter has a feedback loop On some types this makes the sound sharper on others it makes the sound more full On the filters parameters like cutoff frequency resonance and feedback can be adjusted and modulated The output of the filters goes into an amp section The output level of the amp section is always controlled by the amp envelope which is an advanced Fuzion ADSHRR type The amp level can also be adjusted and modulated by any other modulation source The output of the amp goes into an instrument effect Each synth has their own instrument effect At writing moment only a FAT effect can be selected for this which can make really crazy things but in future updates more instrument effect will be added The output of the instrument effect can be panned assigned to output 1 2 or 3 4 and sent to global effect 1 and 2 Modulation sources includes 3 ADSHRR envelopes 2 LFO s and one random generator per synth plus MIDI sources Remember to save all edits you do in the synthesizers Else they will be lost when you change preset or turn Fuzion off See how to in the Save Preset section List of synthesizer modulation sources Env1 ADSHRR envelope 1 Env1 ADSHRR envelope 1 inverted Env2 ADSHRR env
65. push the Steps button to enter the step edit page ritit Use edit knob 1 to 8 to adjust which fragment of the sound buffer that should be played back at each step of the granulator sequencer Push the Lowr button to switch between editing the upper and lower row To edit the pitch change or timestretch amount for each step of the granulator sequencer push the Pitch button to enter the pitch edit page i j M 1 Ta Use edit knob 1 to 8 to adjust the pitch change or timestretch amount for each step of the granulator sequencer Push the Lowr button to switch between editing the upper and lower row Sample Record To get samples into Fuzion for using in the synths or as audio tracks when oscillator mode is sample or AuTrk you can either import wav files from a USB drive or record your own samples from Fuzion s 2 audio inputs This section will describe the latter For how to import wav files please see the USB section of this manual Fuzion has 2 banks of FLASH memory for storing samples Bank A and Bank B Bank A holds up to 100 minutes of samples maximum 2048 and Bank B holds up to 200 minutes of samples maximum 4096 A total of 6144 samples 300 minutes All samples that are imported or recorded stays in Fuzion s FLASH memory even after a power off Since they are played back directy from the FLASH there are no loading times All Fuzion s samples are immediately available ri
66. put signal applied to it and only plays back the content that is already sampled to its buffer Granulator This effect records the input signal to a buffer and cuts this up into fragments which sizes depends on both the Time and the Fragments number of fragments parameters It is then possible to rearrange the order of these fragments and to re pitch or time stretch them using two 16 step granulator sequencers to get something completely new out of the input signal Parameters Level The output level of the effect Steps Sets how many steps the granulator sequencers should go through until they starts over again from step one Values to 16 Fragments Adjusts how many fragments grains the recorded input signal should be cutted up in when played back Values 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 With Lowr selected TimeGr Granulator time group which is the largest unit in adjusting the granulator time Time This parameter plus TimeGr adjust the total size of the Granulator record and play buffer How long time it will record the input signal until it starts over again Fine Fine adjustment of the Time parameter Feed Adjusts how much of the Granulator output signal should be fed back to its input Xfade Adjusts how much ducking crossfade that will be added between the granulator sequencer steps Mode Sets the playback mode of the second granulator sequencer pitc The second granulator sequencer will re pit
67. q Syne Oute On FLASH ID 81 D3 D1 95 58 Bad Blocks 8 Samples used 187 24 FLASH2 ID 81 D3 D1 95 58 Bad Blocks 2 0 Samples used 221 common The following parameters can be adjusted on this page using edit knob to 4 Contrast Adjusts the display contrast This setting is automatically saved and will be remembered after a power off Sync Sequencer syncronization This setting is automatically saved and will be remembered after a power off Settings Int Fuzion s sequencer will be clocked internally at the rate set by the Tempo parameter in each preset Ext1 Fuzion s sequencer will be clocked externally by MIDI clock events applied to MIDI in 1 Sequencer play and stop can also be controlled externally Ext2 Fuzion s sequencer will be clocked externally by MIDI clock events applied to MIDI in 2 Sequencer play and stop can also be controlled externally Sync Out1 Sync Out2 Settings Off On Select whether or not you would like Fuzion to transmit MIDI clock and start stop events on respectively MIDI out and 2 Even if Fuzion is syncing to an external MIDI clock source it will re transmit this if any of these 2 parameters are on This setting is automatically saved and will be remembered after a power off Right under the 4 parameters it is possible to check the status of the 2 FLASH memory banks that holds the presets and samples FLASH ID and FLASHZ2 ID should be 01 D3 D1 95 58 If
68. rack On all pages that has the Reset button this is changed to Erase when the Rec button is activated Pushing the Erase button will erase the entire content of the currently selected sequencer track Making Quantize permanent On the Note Grid page Grid will change to Quan when the Rec button is activated Pushing the Quan button will re save all note events on the currently selected track positioned using the currently selected Quantize setting CC s Pitch Bend and aftertouch edit From the sequencer main page 1 16 OFF Lasi Bar Step jChean 2 0 E Int fi ame OFF Used 8 Push the Ctrl button to enter the controller events edit page PitchBend CC 1 On this first page the controller edit main page you will see a list of the controller events present on the selected track Use the arrows on the left to select an event type for editing If you would like to add other types of controller events push the Add button to go to this page TE FE 22 bend 0 Add 0 Here you can use Edit Knob 1 to select the position for the new event The position can be from 0 to 95 and is showed in ticks The new controller event is added in the bar selected on the controller event edit page which will be explained on the next page of this manual With Edit Knob 2 you can adjust the value for the new event With Edit Knob 3 you can select w
69. re received When it is turned up the mod envelope will jump to the adjusted level when a note off event are received and release from that Rel Mod envelope release time The time it will take the mod envelope to decay from the value it is at when a note off event are received to zero Modulation envelope s modulation For each parameter that can be modulated it is possible to select a modulation source and to adjust the modulation amount For a complete list of modulation sources see the list in the start of this section The parameters on this page Atk1 Mod Atk2 Mod Modulates the mod envelope 1 2 attack time Decl Mod Dec2 Mod Modulates the mod envelope 1 2 decay time Rell Mod Rel2 Mod Modulates the mod envelope 1 2 release time Amount Mod Amount2 Mod Modulates the mod envelope 1 2 output level The Sound Finder Synth 1 Regrei bei Play PolyFuzion Rec nntgean Tune Ath Ael Gain 7 O ee HT Pesol Cute Resoe When creating a new preset you might not want to create all the sounds from scratch Therefore a Sound Finder was implemented Using this you can scrool through and audiotion all the sounds in any preset and quick edit the sounds right away To enter the Sound Finder from any other synth page than the oscillator page push the Sound button Use the 2 Select buttons to select the sound Hold any of them down for fast scroll and hold both down for really fast scro
70. received When it is turned up the amp envelope will jump to the adjusted level when a note off event are received and release from that Rel Amp envelope release time The time it will take the amp envelope to decay from the value it is at when a note off event are received to zero Drone Amp envelope drone offset level When this is turned up the amp envelope will never reach an output value lower than what this is adjusted to It will release to this adjusted value instead of zero Use this to keep the output of the synth open for drone sounds or for external input sounds Mix Mix balance between the filter outputs and the un filtered oscillator signal When this is turned fully down only the output from the 2 filters goes to the amp When it is turned fully up only the clean oscillator signal goes to the amp Fit 1_2 Filter 1 2 mix When the 2 filters are connected in parallel this adjusts the mix balance between them When this is turned fully down only filter 1 can be heard and when turned fully up only filter 2 can be heard Fit 1_2 2 Select if the mix between the 2 filters should be normal Pos or inverted Neg When the filters are mixed together inverted they will remove harmonics from each other and that can sometimes give some really interesting results Gain Amp output level At settings higher than middle the amp output will be gained Rate1 Rate2 LFO 1 and 2 rate Adjusts the speed of the LFO s
71. s layers and overlaps exactly how you like You can create your own sounds from scratch or just tweak any of the preset sounds to your likings or just use the preset sounds as they are To get a start point for a sound Fuzion s synth section has a sound finder that lets you audition and import the sounds from any other preset All Fuzion s synth sounds are chromatically playable over a 10 octave range If you would like to just play a synth sound via a connected MIDI keyboard you must make sure that the selected sequencer track is set to the same MIDI channel as the synth you would like to play A Fuzion synth is monophonic It is though possible to poly chain several synths up to 8 and play sounds polyphonically It is also possible to decide if the poly chained synths should all play back the same sound or if each of them should play back their own sound The first building block of a Fuzion synth sound are the oscillator This creates the basic sound A Fuzion oscillator can be a virtual analog waveform a sampling a noise waveform a percussion waveform multiple sinewaves noise or any of the 2 audio inputs On a Fuzion oscillator it is possible to adjust and modulate parameters like tune pulse width level and sample start point The output of the oscillator goes into 2 filters that can be used to shape the sound Each filter has 18 different types to choose from 16 filtertypes and 2 parametric EQ types It is also
72. t been saved the name will be shown as lt empty gt Push the Next button when you have found the right location Use edit knob 1 to 8 to select the first 8 letters of the name for your new preset Press Next when you are done Use edit knob 1 to 8 to select the last 8 letters of the name for your new preset Press Save when you are done Your preset will now be saved and Fuzion will exit from the save pages Initialize Preset If you would like to start out from scratch with a completely clean preset this is the function to use Please notice that the preset on the selected location are not immediately wiped out It will not be overwritten until you save the new preset so even though you have initialized it it can still be recalled if you should regret From the Preset Select screen push the More button to enter this page Push the Init Preset button Initialize Preset 2 Fuzion will now ask you to confirm Press Yes to initialize the currently selected preset and return to the previous page or press No just to exit without initializing Common Settings On this page you can adjust the display contrast adjust the MIDI sync settings erase the sample banks and check the FLASH memory From the Preset Select screen push the More button to enter this page Push the Common button i Conirasi 2 oyne Ini 3 Oyne Oulik OH
73. te on The sample to play back can be selected by pushing the Sample button on this page The PW parameter lets you adjust the sample start point Perc Generates sounds that are great for percussion voices but can also be used for other types of sounds It generates 4 sinewaves and a noise wave The level balance of the 4 sinewaves can be adjusted by the Wave parameter and the detuning of them can be adjusted by the PW parameter The noise level can be adjusted by the PNIvl parameter and the noise tune can be adjusted by the Pntun parameter On synth 1 to 4 the sinewaves and the noise are mixed together and goes into both of the filters On synth 5 to 8 the sinewaves goes into filter 1 and the noise goes into filter 2 Ainl Ain2 Audio in and 2 By selecting an audio input as an oscillator you can run external gear through Fuzion s filters and effects It is possible to select an audio input as the oscillator on multiple synths if you would like to run a signal through many filters at the same time If you only wants to hear the signal going through the filters make sure to go to the Sample Rec page and turn Moni monitor off To let the audio signal through without having to constantly trigger the synth you should go to the Amp_Lfo page and turn the Drone parameter up AuTrk Audio Track sample used by an Audio Track PNlvl When Perc is selected as the oscillator t
74. that neither Adj with knob 1 3 Key Hi or Key Lo is selected and then push any of the 8 synth select buttons to return to the synth edit pages Now push Exit to return to the Preset Select page Now from the Preset Select page push the Sequencer button to enter the sequencer main page 1 16 OFF 120 Last Bar Siep 2 0 Int OFF TranspjSwing 0 16 Here set the Int Ext parameter to Int and select the MIDI channel the fits the synth you want to control You should now be able to play this from a connected MIDI keyboard As default the sequencer tracks are set up like this Track 1 Internal channel 1 Track 2 Internal channel 2 Track 3 Internal channel 3 Track 4 Internal channel 4 Track 5 Internal channel 5 Track 6 Internal channel 6 Track 7 Internal channel 7 Track 8 Internal channel 8 Track 9 External channel 1 Track 10 External channel 2 Track 11 External channel 3 Track 12 External channel 4 Track 13 External channel 5 Track 14 External channel 6 Track 15 External channel 7 Track 16 External channel 8 Setting up the sequencer to control external MIDI gear From the Preset Select screen push the Sequencer button to enter the sequencer main screen 1 1 16 OFF 120 TEI z3 e S am MENE Em FOG Set the Int Ext parameter to Ext and adjust the MIDI channel to match the MIDI device you would
75. track If this is 1 events will be copied time Preset The source preset that will be copied from When you have adjusted all the settings push the Do button to execute or the Exit button if you regret Erase This function will erase the selected events inside the specified bar range The parameters on this page Event Select the event type you would like to erase All Erase all events from the selected bar range Note Erase note events from the selected bar range CC s Erase CC events from the selected bar range Bend Erase pitch bend events from the selected bar range Maft Erase mono aftertouch events from the selected bar range Paft Erase poly aftertouch events from the selected bar range Prgr Erase program change events from the selected bar range From The first bar of the selected track that will be erased To The last bar of the selected track that will be erased CC If CC s are selected as the events to be erased and you only wish to erase one specific CC number choose the number with this parameter If this is set to Off all CC numbers will be erased When you have adjusted all the settings push the Do button to execute or the Exit button if you regret Transpose This function will transpose note events inside the specified bar range up or down The parameters on this page Transpose Adjust how many semitones you would like to
76. transpose the note events up or down Value 32 to 31 From The first bar of the selected track that will be transposed To The last bar of the selected track that will be transposed When you have adjusted all the settings push the Do button to execute or the Exit button if you regret Delete This function will delete all events inside the specified bar range The difference between this and erase are that with delete all events are removed and if there are any events above the specified bar range these will be moved down to replace the deleted events The parameters on this page From The first bar of the selected track that will be deleted To The last bar of the selected track that will be deleted When you have adjusted all the settings push the Do button to execute or the Exit button if you regret Move This function will move all events on the selected track forwards or backwards The parameters on this page Move Adjust how many ticks you would like to move the tracks events forwards or bakwards A negative value moves the events backwards a positive value moves the events forwards A value of zero will not move the events at all Value 128 to 127 The value is also shown rhytmically When you have adjusted all the settings push the Do button to execute or the Exit button if you regret Clear Seq Clear All Tracks This function will delete al
77. urned on the selected synth poly chains to the synth one number below it It is possible to polychain more than 2 synths simply by turning poly on for the next synths in the row All 8 synths can be poly chained for 8 notes of polyphony This parameter is only present on Synth 2 to 8 GetSnd If this parameter is turned on the poly chained synth will play back with the same sound as the synth it is chained to If it is off the synth will play back with its own sound making it possible to play polyphonic with completely different sounds This parameter is only present on Synth 2 to 8 Efx1 Global effect 1 send level Adjusts at what level the output of the selected synths instrument effect is sent to global effect 1 At levels above middle the synth output itself is damped Efx2 Global effect 2 send level Adjusts at what level the output of the selected synths instrument effect is sent to global effect 2 At levels above middle the synth output itself is damped Selecting a sample for the oscillator If oscillator type is set to Sample you might want to select which sample it should play back To do this push the Sample button on the oscillator page NOISEI 1286 BPM Quantized Start knob2 Quantize Adjust knob3 Use the 2 Select buttons to select a sampling Hold any of them down for fast scroll and hold both down for really fast scroll Use edit knob 1 to switch between sample bank A and B Push the
78. you need to avoid some feedback in your audio chain When using the audio inputs as oscillators in the synth section you should switch monitoring off in order to avoid having both the clean and the sythesized inputs at the same time Settings Off Monitoring of both input 1 and 2 are off No audio input signals will be sent to audio out 1 and 2 1 Audio input 1 will be sent to audio out 1 and 2 Input 2 will not 2 Audio input 2 will be sent to audio out 1 and 2 Input 1 will not 1_2 Both audio in 1 and 2 will be sent to audio out 1 and 2 Recording a sample Select the source you would like to sample record by adjusting the Source parameter using edit knob 8 Choices are Inp 1 2 Audio In and 2 mixed Inp 1 Audio In 1 only Inp 2 Audio In 2 only Outp 1 Whatever is present on Audio Out 1 Outp 2 Whatever is present on Audio Out 2 Outp 3 Whatever is present on Audio Out 3 Outp 4 Whatever is present on Audio Out 4 If you selects any of the audio outputs please skip the next sections on adjusting the levels If you selects any of the audio inputs adjust the input level Inp1 or Inp2 depending on what audio input you would like to sample to a middle value using edit knob 1 or 2 Turn the input level of the other input fully down Apply the signal that you wold like to sample Watch the VU meter Adjust the output level of the sample source if possible so the VU meter is not standing too muc
79. ype this parameter adjusts the noise level For all other oscillator types this parameter does nothing PNtun When Perc is selected as the oscillator type this parameter adjusts the noise pitch For all other oscillator types this parameter does nothing Level The oscillator output level Adjusts at what level the oscillator goes into the filters At levels above middle the signal is amplified At higher levels saturation might occur The following 3 parameters are for the instrument effect At writing moment Fuzion only has one instrument effect called FAT but in future updates more will be added The FAT effect adds up to 4 layers of the sound to itself and it is possible to adjust the phase of these and to select whether the effect sound should be boosted or just layered The input to this effect is taken from the synth s Amp output so tweaking the filters will affect this effect FAT Adds 0 to 4 layers of the input sound to itself Phase Adjusts the phase difference of the FAT layers When turned fully down all layers are in phase The more it is turned up the more the layers goes out of phase to each other Useful for creating comb filter type sounds Boost When this is on the FAT layers are sonically added to each other which will make the sound louder and might cause it to saturate If it is off the sound stays at it s original sonic level even when layers are added Poly When this parameter is t

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