How to Use This Handbook
Part 1 - Getting Started
The first section, entitled Opening The Box, will help you recognise the
various components of your new machine, check whether you’ve been sent
everything you need for the kit you ordered, and connect everything up.
After that, follow through A Lightning Tour of the Controls in the second
half of Part 1, trying out the different settings suggested and beginning to
get to grips with using Soundbeam for your own purposes.
Once you have started using Soundbeam in earnest, you will probably want
to move quickly on from the Locked Set-ups and Pitch Sequences
(pre-set in the factory) - with their various settings for Sensor, Range,
Divisions, Trigger Modes, Transpose and MIDI Utilities - to developing
your own new, personal ones, and saving them to the User Set-ups and
Pitch Sequences - ie those defined by you. For this, you can consult
Part 2 - Step by Step
which gives examples of all the procedures you need for any of the
Soundbeam operations. It may be useful to try them out first yourself,
as they stand, before adapting them for use for your own specific needs.
Part 3 - EXPLANATIONS
has detailed explanations of everything you need to know about how
Soundbeam 2 works, together with various practical suggestions, a section
on Trouble Shooting and a glossary of many of the terms you’ll come across
in the course of using Soundbeam to make music with electronic
musical instruments.
APPENDIX A - SET-UPS and PITCH SEQUENCES
has details of all the settings collected in each of the 30 Locked Set-ups,
and all the sequences of notes or chords in each of the 30 Locked Pitch
Sequences, as well as those for User Set-up 31 (repeated in User Set-ups
Nos 32 - 128). and for User Pitch Sequence 31 (repeated in User Pitch
Sequences Nos 32 - 100).
In the folder on the inside back cover of Part 3, you will find 3 blank
duplicates of each of the two forms for you to photocopy. They are for
recording details of the User Set-ups and Pitch Sequences you define
and Save yourself.
And finally, of course, if you’re really in difficulties you can ring Robin Wood’s
helpline - 01726 883265 (working hours, weekdays, British time)
Edward Williams, The Soundbeam Project, Bristol, England
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