Eclipse User Manual
Release 1.10.1 Page 17 of 58 Eclipse User Manual
Tutorial 2: Creating a Program “from Scratch” and Assigning a Hot Key
A bit of background: all of the Eclipse’s programs are built on a hundred or so “algorithms.” A single pro-
gram can contain one or two algorithms connected in series, parallel, or variations thereof. All of these raw
algorithms are stored in factory programs 100 through 499 and are diagramed in the separately provided
“Eclipse Algorithm” document. The process of creating a program “from scratch” involves “stealing” an
algorithm and its associated parameter settings from an existing program. ! see page 36 for more details.
Assuming you’ve read the first part of “Tutorial 1” and know how to sort
and load programs, load Mute_Xfade. Unless you bypass your Eclipse, the
Mute_Xfade is silent. Some may consider this boring.
Let’s make a phaser that pans, shall we? First, we need to “steal” the phaser
algorithm from an existing program. Press
PARAMETER page 3
(PROGRAM) to select the program that we will “steal” from.
Select
St Phaser. (This preset is not deeply religious – its apparent saint-
hood is an abbreviation for stereo …)
If St Phaser used more than one algorithm, we could use the (BLOCK)
soft key to select which algorithm we’d like to “steal.” But it doesn’t… So,
we can’t…
Load the selected algorithm into effects block A by pressing the
<LOAD
FXA>
soft key. You’re taken back to the first page under the PARAMETER
key where you can see that the
stereo phaser algorithm is now running
on effects block A.
Cool. Now we need a panner to run after the phaser. Select serial under
PARAMETER page 2 (ROUTING). We’ll load the panner into effects block
B (
FXB). ! see page 34
Return to PARAMETER page 3 (PROGRAM) and select FM Panner. This
time press
<LOAD FXB> to load the panning algorithm onto effects block
B. Violla! A phaser that pans!
Now, let’s say you want access to the panning rate from the
HOT KEYS
area. First find the parameter at PARAMETER <EDIT FXB> LFO (T_RATE).
Hold down its soft key until the screen to the right pops up.
Select the hot key “slot” you’d like it to appear at with
(HOT KEY), then
press
<ASSIGN>.
Bam! Go to the
HOT KEYS area to check out your handiwork! ! see page 30
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