Tiptop Audio ONE User Manual

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ONE manual

The ONE module was born out of a desire to bring the entire world of sampled sound into the
modular system with a tight coupling to the beat. ONE combines the great audio quality of 24
bit and 96kHz les with high performance and ease of use. SD card media provides access to an
unlimited palette of sounds from user created WAV les or commercially available cards crafted
only for ONE. Each SD card can hold up to 256 sound les in 16/24bit mono WAV format. Files
can range in length from under a second to over an hour long.

Manual Chapters:

Getting started

CV modes

Trigger/Gate/Fade/Loop modes

SD cards and your own samples

Sample Rate and Pitch

Custom Boot Options

Firmware Update

Getting started:

One is very simple to use. Install it in your system and insert the SD card with the VCTRS label
facing the button side then power up. Plug the audio out of ONE to your audio system or set
ONE on the same bus board as your MIXZ to have the output automatically routed to the MIXZ.
Set level half way up, set the white pitch knob half way up, click on the PLAY button to hear the
rst sample play o the card. If you insert the card after power up you will need to click the
button twice, once for telling ONE to load the card and second to trigger the sound. Now con­nect a trigger out from your Circadian Rhythms, Trigger Riot or other sequencer into the GATE
IN, you should hear ONE triggered by the sequencer. Turn the yellow knob to switch sounds.
Turn the white knob to change pitch.

Patch Tutorial 1

Turn the white pitch knob to minimum, now connect the CV out from the Z8000 or other
sequencer into the CV IN, clock the Z8000 and listen how the Z8000 sequences the sample
pitch.

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Circadian Rhythms

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Z8000

Circadian Rhythms

CV Modes:

ONE has three modes for processing external CV.

1) Quantized Pitch. This is the default setting on ONE. CV select playback rates which corre­spond to the 12 tone equal temperament Western scale. The CV input is not 1V/Oct but since
internal it already get quantized to pitch there is no need to use a Quantizer. The range is
approximately 3.5 octaves and the native rate of the le determines how far up and down the
le can be pitched. See section on sample rate and pitch for more on that. Naturally as the pitch
lowers the attack part of the sound gets longer which results in delaying the initial part of the
sound.

2) Free Pitch. In this mode playback rate is not quantized but covers a similar playback rate
range (3.5 octaves) with ner resolution between rates. Same as above, as the pitch gets lower
the attack part of the sound gets longer and the onset of the sound is delayed.

3) File Select. In this mode dierent les can be loaded with CV, CV points to a le in the card
and a trigger pulse loads it. The le will play at the native rate of the sample. The CV in gets
added to an oset created by the FILE select yellow knob. For example, if you select the 10th
le using the FILE knob, the CV will select a range of 32 samples upwards from 10. Because
changes apply only with a trigger a new level of CV can be set during the le playback without
aecting the currently playing sound and the next trigger will activate it. Note that latency
increases in this mode due to the access time needed for the SD card to nd and load the le
when changed. Please note that ONE performs a lot of operations in a short time to maintain
minimal latency, a slow sequencer with unsynchronized Trigger/CV timing might not work well
in this mode. We recommend the Z8000 with Circadian Rhythms or Trigger Riot for a reliable use
of this mode.

Selecting CV Modes:

Remove any CV source connected to the CV in Jack and follow these steps:

- Hold the PLAY button down (best done with no le playing)

- Turn the white knob side to side, you will notice how the light switch from red to blue to
ashing red, each one indicate a dierent mode. Upon releasing the button at a given
light state will load that corespondent mode:

Solid RED - Free Pitch
Solid Blue - Quantized Pitch
Flashing Red - File Switching

Trigger/Gate/Fade/Loop/Sequnce modes:

ONE has four modes for handling a variety of audio material.

Trigger Mode - This is the default mode for ONE with the lowest latency and is highly recom­mended for use with percussive sequenced sounds. ONE detects the rising edge of a trigger
and starts playing from the start of the le until the end. If a new trigger pulse is detected ONE
will stop the currently playing sound and retrigger.

Fade Mode - similar to Trigger Mode only with a fade in/out at the trigger point to remove any
clicks from audio discontinuities. This mode is most useful with smooth sounds that have a low
content of high frequency harmonics where the ‘click’ is more obvious and distracting if not
removed. Due to the nature of the fade process some latency is added to retriggering.

Gate Mode - ONE starts playing when a gate pulse comes in and only plays as long as the gate
is high. This mode is good for processing very long samples that do not require tight timing. The
audio is faded in and out to remove clicks. Note that the fade out takes at least 10ms (at 96k)
and increases as the sample rate slows down - if the fade does not complete before the next
trigger a click may still be heard.

Looping Mode - by pushing the PLAY button or sending a single trigger ONE will start playing a
continuous loop. Re-triggers reset to the start of the audio le. Looping can be stopped by
selecting a new le with the yellow knob. In addition to drum and sequencer loops this mode is
great for turning ONE into a CV generator with LFO, noise or other waveforms.

Sequence Mode - Each trigger loads and starts playing the next le in ONE's le list. The le list
can be specied by creating a playlist.txt le (see section on Playlist).

Selecting Trigger/Gate/Fade/Loop/Sequence modes:

Remove any CV source connected to the CV in Jack and follow these steps:

- Hold the PLAY button down (best done with no le playing)

- Turn the FILE yellow knob step by step, you will notice how the light switch from red to
blue to ashing red to ashing blue, each one indicate a dierent mode. Upon releasing
the button at a given light state will load that corespondent mode:

- Solid Red - Trigger mode

- Solid Blue - Gate mode

- Flashing Blue - Fade mode

- Flashing Red - Looping mode

- Alternating Blue and Red - Sequence Mode