Electrix Repeater Addendum User Manual

MANUAL ADDENDUM

Loop B ased Digital Recorder

MANUAL CHANGES

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KEY FEATURES OF REPEAT E R

Compact Flash Cards (CFC) are Repeater's main storage mechanism. They supplement Repeater's internal 8MB of

memory with up to 512MB of additional storage space. Loops on the CFC are in .WAV file format. With the
addition of an inexpensive CFC USB card reader, you can export loops and tracks from Repeater to your PC with­out any special software.

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Tempo Lock - In beat detect mode, activation of the tempo lock feature locks the unit tempo to the currently

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detected beat, allowing only minor variations for tracking. In user mode, activation of tempo lock forces all newly
loaded loops to run at the current user tempo.

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USING THE METRONOME

Repeater has a great training feature that will help you to develop a consistent meter with some practice. Repeater
will produce a metronome sound at the current tempo when you press and hold the Tempo Lock button for 1 sec-
ond. While the metronome is playing Repeater will quantize the initial record to the beat of the metronome. To dis­engage the metronome press and hold Tempo Lock for 1 second. You can set the metronome level by pressing
and holding Tempo Lock while tempo Lock is engaged. Use the Tempo knob to adjust the level while holding
down the Tempo Lock button. When the metronome is active in user sync mode, recordings will be quantized to
the beat as they are in MIDI or Beat Detect sync modes.

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Input Mute

In some situations it may be desirable that the dry signal is not passed through Repeater and mixed with the track
outputs. To activate this feature, hold down Stop and press the Overdub button. The display will state 'Dry
Muted' or 'Dry unmuted' depending on whether you are activating or deactivating the feature. This feature can
also be accessed via MIDI.

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Sampling from Sample CDs

If you need help capturing a loop from a sample CD try using Repeaters ÒSingle Bar CaptureÓ mode. Put Repeater into Beat Detect sync mode,
arm the Audio Trigger by pressing Stop and Record together. Now play the sample. Repeater will start recording automatically when the audio
kicks in. Now press Record near the downbeat of the end of your track, as long as youÕre close Repeater will automatically tweak the loop end

to the nearest transient. DonÕt worry about your loop speeding up when youÕre done. This is because you have now left ÒSingle Bar CaptureÓ and
are in Beat Detect mode. Just put Repeater into user sync mode and hold down the Tap Tempo button to reset to the native tempo of the just-

captured loop.

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Audio Triggered Recording

You still have to press record manually to finish the loop recording, but try this on for size:

Repeater can begin recording when it hears something, rather than in response to a button being pressed. Here is
how to do it:

¥ Press and hold Stop and then press Record. This puts the

unit into audio triggered mode.

¥ Whilst record is held down the trigger level can be adjusted using

the tempo encoder.

¥ The audio trigger is activated when Record is released. This is

indicated by the record button LED flashing.

¥ The audio triggered record will start when audio is detected above the selected trigger level.

¥ Audio triggered record can be cancelled by pressing the Stop button

Setting up for Trigger Recording

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I M P O R TA N T !

Repeater must record or Overdub though the entire length of the ÒVirtual TrackÓ after which it flattens the
track and it is no longer virtual. If you do not record through the entire length of the loop Repeater will auto­matically keep recording until the end of the loop. During this time the Record LED will flash to indicate that
Repeater is still Recording. If you press Stop during the recording immediately after a Loop Multiply your
overdub will be lost.

You can multiply the loop out by a factor greater than two by pressing and holding the Loop Multiply Button.
Use the Tempo encoder to select the multiplication factor. Release Loop Multiply to execute. If you have multi-
plied the loop further than you wanted, you can multiply the loop by a fraction to get back to where you started, or
to a smaller number of multiples of the original loop. Just rotate the tempo encoder to the left to access the available
fractional multiples of the current loop. Note this is only possible for loops consisting completely of 'virtual' tracks.

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S L I P P I N G

Slipping lets you offset the start position of a loop
or its individual tracks.

¥ Press Slip, and the display will change to show

the slip offset of each active track in beats.

¥You can select/deselect the appropriate tracks

for Slipping by using the Track Select but-
tons. Editing one track at a time displays the
slip amount with a finer resolution.

¥ Use the Tempo knob to set the slip position in

bars/beats/1/100 of a beat, with zero being the
original position. Use the Loop knob to slip
whole beats

Track 1

Track 2

¥Twist the knob quickly to edit in larger steps.

Twist the knob slowly to adjust in finer amounts.

¥ Press Slip again to confirm and exit.

¥ Press and hold Slip to reset to 0 slip.