Gotharman's Little deFormer Guida all'installazione
Gotharman’s
Little deFormer
Quick Manual
Contents Of This Manual
Introduction 3
Very Special Thanks To 4
Audio Path 5
Gettin Started 6
Well, Now It’s Time For Some Action 10
Editin Parameters 11
List Of Parameters 13
Common 13
Sampler 13
Record A Samplin 18
Compressor 28
Distortion 29
Filter 30
Time & Pitch Effect 32
Sequencer 6
Modulation 8
Knob CC’s 50
Save Preset 51
FLASH 53
Updatin The Little deFormer Firmware 55
List Of Included Samplin s 60
Introduction
Thank you very much for purchasing/consider to purchase a Little deFormer.
The Little deFormer are the result of a lot of ideas I have been writing down, since I made the first
deFormer in 2009, coming true. It has more effects (plus more to come), more filter types, an added
sampler, a much improved sequencer, it’s expanable and MIDI updatable, and has much more
power.
The idea behind
Being a budget musician, you usually don’t have the cash to bring out and set up all of your gear,
when you go out and play live.
The alternative is to sample phrases from your gear, and just trigger those samplings live, or to pre-
record everything on a dat recorder or one of all those fancy new recorders.
Personally I have used both methods, but found both of them really boring. That was why I made
the first deFormer. After I made that, I brought a Roland MC-909 or a SP-606 and connected their
output to the deFormers audio input. Because of the deFormers great granular effects, it was now
possible to really tweak the samplings, and do something while standing on the stage, and it was no
longer boring.
In the Little deFormer, I have added a sampler with a stunning audio quality, ready to be boosted up
on a big PA. So now it is only nescessary to bring one piece of gear…
Because of the deFormers unique and high quality Gotharman made effects, it is also usable as an
add-on for the studio, who needs something that they can’t get anywhere else (at least not at this
moment).
I hope you will deForm some reat tracks with it.
Very special thanks to:
Kris Kunz
Georg Osswald
Kirk Marrison
Rafael Marfil
Gene Schwartz
Halvard Djupvik Smedsrud
David Kronemyer
Egan Budd
Steve Korn
Pedro Figueredo
Goeran Stangeland
James Neville
Robert Korizek
For supportin this project. I really appreciate your trust. Without you, the Little deFormer
mi ht not have been…
Gotharman May 2012
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Gettin Started
Well, now you got your Little deFormer, you probably can’t wait to get it up and going, so let’s
jump right to it.
Connectin :
Connect the audio out 1 or 2 or both 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. Since it doesn’t have build in speakers, it just needs to be connected to something, that can
transfer its amazing sound to you.
If you plan to control it from a MIDI device, connect that to its MIDI input.
If you would like to effect some other gear through the Little deFormers effects, connect this to
Audio Input 1 and/or 2. NOTE: When nothing is connected to Audio Input 2, Audio Output 2 are
internally connected to this. The audio in 2 level parameter then acts as a feedback control.
Connect the supplied power adaptor to the Power DC input, and to a 100V to 2 0V power source.
It’s a 9V, 660 mA type with a 2.1 mm DC plug, with positive middle.
Turn it on
Toggle the power switch on the back, so its pin is pointing down. Your Little deFormer should now
turn on.
The User Interface
Volume knob
Turns the output level of the Litte deFormer up or down, depending on what direction you are
turning it. Clockwise movement will turn the volume up, counterclockwise movement will turn the
volume down.
Edit button
Pushing this will access the edit menu’s. It is also nescessary to push it, to confirm a preset change.
Exit button
This will exit from any menu to the preset select screen.
Dec and Inc buttons
These will select preset. In the edit menu’s they will select among the different edit pages. In the
Assign menu they will select samplings. Holding one of these buttons down, will cause it to scroll
through presets/samplings/pages.
Assi n button
Push this one time, so the Assign LED is lit, to select a sampling for the last pushed step button.
Push any step button, to view what sampling is assigned to it, and use the inc/dec buttons to select
another sampling
Push it one more time, so its LED is flashing, to mute/unmute any of the 32 sequencer tracks, by
pushing the step buttons.
9 – 16 button
When on the preset select screen, this button swithes between sample 1-8 and sample 9-16
triggering, via the step knobs.
On sequencer step programming screens, it toggles between step 1-8, 9-16, 17-2 and 25-32. When
reaching step 17-2 its LED flashes slow, when reaching step 25-32, it flashes fast.
On the sequencer track mute/unmute screen, it is also possible to access track 17-32 in a likewise
manner.
Freeze – Start/stop button
Pushing this button freezes the audio content of the time and pitch effect. If a preset is stored, with
this button active, the frozen audio content will be stored together with the preset as a sampling, and
re-loaded the next time you select that preset. The Freeze LED is Flashing to visualize the delay
time of the selected time & pitch effect.
When the Assign LED is lit or flashing, or when a sequencer edit page is selected, this button
functions as sequencer start/stop.
The 8 Edit Knobs
Edits up to 8 parameters at a time on the various edit pages. When on the Preset select page, or the
edit group select page (explained later), these knobs sends out a selected MIDI CC number, both to
the MIDI OUT and internally. Parameters assigned to be controlled by ”Kn1-8” will be affected,
when turning these.
The 8 Step Buttons
On most pages, these triggers the sampling assigned to them. On the sequencer track on/off page,
they toggles each sequencer track between on and off stage, and on the sequencer pages they step
grid program the sequencer tracks.
Well, now it’s time for some action
If you have followed the previous steps, your Little deFormer should now be turned on and
connected. When it is turned on, it starts up on the preset select screen:
Listenin to the pre-pro rammed preset sequences
Push the ”Assign” button one time, so it is lit.
Push the ”Freeze Start/Stop” button one time.
The sequencer will now start.
To stop it, hit the ”Freeze Start/Stop” button again.
Listen to some other preset sequences
Push the ”Assign” button 2 times, so it is unlit, and you are back on the preset select screen.
Use the ”Inc” and ”Dec” buttons to select another preset.
The ”Edit” LED will start to flash.
Push the ”Edit” button to confirm the change to another preset.
If the sequencer is still running, the ”Edit” LED will now start to flash faster, until it reaches the
sequencer start step. Then the ”Edit” LED will go out, and playback of the newly selected preset
will start.
If the sequencer is stopped, it will change to the new preset, immediately when the ”Edit” button is
pushed.
Listen to some samplin s
While still on the preset select screen, push some of the step buttons. You should now hear some
samplings play back. The step LED will light up, as long as the sample is playing.
Push the ”9-16” button to switch between sampling 1 to 8 and 9 to 16.
Selectin other samplin s for the step buttons
Push the ”Assign” button one time, so its LED is lit.
Push a step button.
The assigned samplings name and number are now displayed.
Push the ”Inc” and ”Dec” buttons to assign another sampling to the step button.
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