Tiptop Audio Trigger Riot User Manual

Trigger Riot

User Guide

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Thanks for joining the Riot: get ready to sequence in a whole new way. The
Trigger Riot is a deep machine that combines a great deal of functionality with an
intuitive interface. In this manual we begin with a few simple “quick start” patch
examples to get you used to working with the Riot, followed by a deeper function
by function explanation. We are doing our best to provide the Riot with as minimal
bugs as possible but if you do come across a strange behavior, please report this
to us ([e-mail]) so we can keep updating the intelligence built into
the Riot.

Let the Riot begin!

In the following patch examples we will use the 808 Drum Modules and Z4000
Envelope Generators for clarity, obviously any other module with a gate/trigger
input should work. Lets get straight to the fun part:

MUTE/

SEL A

MUTE/SEL1

MUTE/SEL2

MUTE/SEL3

MUTE/SEL4

MUTE/

SEL B

MUTE/

SEL C

MUTE/

SEL D

HOLD ON POWER-UP

TO LOAD USB

+

+

+

+

Trigger Riot

A

1

2

3

B C D

4

3

2

1

4

A B C D

IN

CLOCK

OUT

INDEPENDENT

/MATRIX

IN RESET

OUT

TAP

TEMPO

P1 P2 P3 P4

B1

beat
sync

B2 B3 B4

BPM/

CYCLE

RST/CLR

BOSS

reset F/L

clock source

DinSync

DIVIDEMODE STEPS PROBABILITY SPEED

TIME

SHIFT

CLOCK

SHIFT

PULSE
WIDTH

Tipt p

Audi o

loop start end

MASTER KNOB USE
TO SET BPM, CYCLE
LENGTH AND OTHER
GLOBAL SETTINGS

LOAD AND SAVE
PRESET IN BANKS,
SET PRESET CHANGE
QUANTIZED TO THE
BEAT, LOOP PRESETS.

DISPLAY

MATRIX OF KNOBS

HORIZONTAL
TRIGGER OUTPUTS

VERTICAL
TRIGGER
OUTPUTS

CLOCK IN
AND OUT

RESET IN
AND OUT

TAP TEMPO, CYCLE LENGTH
SETTINGS, MATRIX ON OFF,
ASSIGN A BOSS FOR SYNC BUS,
MANUAL RESET AND CLEAR
ALL, START STOP WITH
GLOBAL SETTINGS

SELECT A MODE TO ASSIGN TO THE MATRIX OF KNOBS

Get to know the Trigger Riot

3

Riot patch 1: let’s play

MUTE/

SEL A

MUTE/SEL1

MUTE/SEL2

MUTE/SEL3

MUTE/SEL4

MUTE/

SEL B

MUTE/

SEL C

MUTE/

SEL D

HOLD ON POWER-UP

TO LOAD USB

+

+

+

+

Trigger Riot

A

1

2

3

B C D

4

3

2

1

4

A B C D

IN

CLOCK

OUT

INDEPENDENT

/MATRIX

IN RESET

OUT

TAP

TEMPO

P1 P2 P3 P4

B1

beat
sync

B2 B3 B4

BPM/

CYCLE

RST/CLR

BOSS

reset F/L

clock source

DinSync

DIVIDEMODE STEPS PROBABILITY SPEED

TIME

SHIFT

CLOCK

SHIFT

PULSE
WIDTH

Tipt p

Audi o

loop start end

MASTER
KNOB

CLEAR
BUTTON

1

5

9

2

6

10

MUTE ROW 1

MUTE ROW 2

MUTE ROW 3

Module used:

Trigger Riot
BD808
SD808
Z4000
Z3000
Z2040
MIXER

1.

2.

3.

4.

DECAY

ACCENT

BD OUT

GATE IN

ACCENT IN

TONE

Tiptop

Audio

LEVEL

BD808

Tiptop

Audio

LEVEL

SNAPPY

ACCENT

SD OUT

GATE IN

ACCENT IN

SD808

TONE

+

Tipt p

Audi o

A

D

S

VC

A

GATE RETRIG

SHOOT

Z4000 VC-EG

OUT

R

S

D

R

+

ATK

ATTENUVERTER

+

-

+

-

DEVIATER

VC

SLOPE

Z3000 Z2040 MIX

Turn your Riot ON, patch OUT 1 to the BD808 Gate IN, Patch OUT 2 to the
SD808 Gate IN Patch OUT 3 to the Z4000 Gate IN.

Use the master knob to set the BPM to 120. Randomly start turning
knobs 1, 5, 9. As you turn the knob the display shows the division you set. Now
turn knobs 2, 6, 10, you will hear how more triggers are getting added to the
stream. Keep playing with all the other knobs of rows 1, 2, and 3 to keep adding
triggers to create patterns.

Click on MUTE/SEL 1, 2, and 3, the LED’s turn red, the trigger outs get muted;
click again to unmute.

Go have some fun, if you want to start a new riot just press
and hold the RST/CLR button, it will clear it all up.

Riot patch 2: OK I like it, let’s go pro

4

MUTE/

SEL A

MUTE/SEL1

MUTE/SEL2

MUTE/SEL3

MUTE/SEL4

MUTE/

SEL B

MUTE/

SEL C

MUTE/
SEL D

HOLD ON POWER-UP

TO LOAD USB

+

+

+

+

Trigger Riot

A

1

2

3

B C D

4

3

2

1

4

A B C D

IN

CLOCK

OUT

INDEPENDENT

/MATRIX

IN RESET

OUT

TAP

TEMPO

P1 P2 P3 P4

B1

beat
sync

B2 B3 B4

BPM/

CYCLE

RST/CLR

BOSS

reset F/L

clock source

DinSync

DIVIDEMODE STEPS PROBABILITY SPEED

TIME
SHIFT

CLOCK

SHIFT

PULSE
WIDTH

Tipt p

Audi o

loop start end

MASTER
KNOB

CYCLE
BUTTON

DECAY

ACCENT

BD OUT

GATE IN

ACCENT IN

TONE

Tiptop

Audio

LEVEL

BD808

Tiptop

Audio

LEVEL

SNAPPY

ACCENT

SD OUT

GATE IN

ACCENT IN

SD808

TONE

MIX

PRESETS
AND BANKS

1

5

2

6

3

7

4

8

Turn your Riot ON, patch OUT 1 to the BD808 Gate IN, Patch OUT 2 to the
SD808. Use the master knob to set the BPM to 120. Press the BPM/CYCLE
button, the display will show CYCE (it’s short for Cycle END), use the master
knob to set the cycle endpoint to 68. Press again on BPM/CYCLE button, the
display will show CYCS (short for Cycle Start), use the master knob to set it to

4. You have just set the Riot to Cycle through 64 clock cycles, a 64 step
sequence. Setting CYCLE helps make things more repetitive which is great with
complex patterns and is also useful to time preset changes, sync with external
gear and more.

Turn knob 1 and set it to 4, turn knob 5 and set it to 8. Music starts playing.
Turn knob 2, set it to 10, you will hear new bass drum kicking in, things
start getting more interesting. Set knob 3 to 8, oops nothing seems to happen,
that is because 8 is an even number so the trigger of 4 from Knob 1 already
fills this spot. So turn Knob 3 to 15, now you hear it. Turn knob 4 to 61. As you
see, Knob 1 2 3 and 4 are all mixed out to out 1. Looking closely at the panel
graphics, you will see plus signs (+) next to the knob and a sum (=) at the end
of the row pointing at the OUT 1 jack.

Module used:

Trigger Riot
BD808
SD808
MIXER

1.

2.

Riot patch 2: OK I like it, let’s go pro Continue...

To summarize, you just did the following:

Set the Riot Cycle length by setting the start and end points to 64
Set BPM
Set different divisions for bass drum on OUT 1
Set different divisions for Snare drum on OUT 2
Use the MUTE/SEL buttons to mute channels 1 and 2.
Save the sequence to a Preset
Do changes to the sequence and save those to another Preset
Toggle between Presets.
Clear the Riot to get started again.

5

MUTE/

SEL A

MUTE/SEL1

MUTE/SEL2

MUTE/SEL3

MUTE/SEL4

MUTE/

SEL B

MUTE/

SEL C

MUTE/
SEL D

HOLD ON POWER-UP

TO LOAD USB

+

+

+

+

Trigger Riot

A

1

2

3

B C D

4

3

2

1

4

A B C D

IN

CLOCK

OUT

INDEPENDENT

/MATRIX

IN RESET

OUT

TAP

TEMPO

P1 P2 P3 P4

B1

beat
sync

B2 B3 B4

BPM/

CYCLE

RST/CLR

BOSS

reset F/L

clock source

DinSync

DIVIDEMODE STEPS PROBABILITY SPEED

TIME
SHIFT

CLOCK

SHIFT

PULSE
WIDTH

Tipt p

Audi o

loop start end

MASTER
KNOB

CYCLE
BUTTON

DECAY

ACCENT

BD OUT

GATE IN

ACCENT IN

TONE

Tiptop

Audio

LEVEL

BD808

Tiptop

Audio

LEVEL

SNAPPY

ACCENT

SD OUT

GATE IN

ACCENT IN

SD808

TONE

MIX

PRESETS
AND BANKS

1

5

2

6

3

7

4

8

3.4.Now that we got a beat going, lets save it, press and hold P1 until the display

says SAVE. That's it, this sequence and cycle length are now stored in preset 1.
The display will show P1B1, this is Preset 1 at Bank 1 (assuming you are in
bank 1)

Lets continue the Riot, turn knob 6 and set it to 13, set knob 7 to 17. Now
lets save this into preset 2, press and hold P2 till the display say SAVE. That
sequence is now stored in preset 2. Now try toggling between P1 and P2 as
you like. To finish this patch, lets clear everything, press and hold RST/CLR
button, the Riot will clear all the settings so you can start from scratch again.
The presets are still saved if you want to load them. Clear is great if you feel
you just want to experiment with stuff, you can always hit Clear at any time
to clear it all up and start from scratch.

Riot Patch 3: OK this thing is really crazy, give me more

6

MUTE/

SEL A

MUTE/SEL1

MUTE/SEL2

MUTE/SEL3

MUTE/SEL4

MUTE/

SEL B

MUTE/

SEL C

MUTE/

SEL D

HOLD ON POWER-UP

TO LOAD USB

+

+

+

+

Trigger Riot

A

1

2

3

B C D

4

3

2

1

4

A B C D

IN

CLOCK

OUT

INDEPENDENT

/MATRIX

IN RESET

OUT

TAP

TEMPO

P1 P2 P3 P4

B1

beat
sync

B2 B3 B4

BPM/

CYCLE

RST/CLR

BOSS

reset F/L

clock source

DinSync

DIVIDEMODE STEPS PROBABILITY SPEED

TIME

SHIFT

CLOCK

SHIFT

PULSE
WIDTH

Tipt p

Audi o

loop start end

MASTER
KNOB

1

5

9

2

6

10

MUTE ROW 1

MUTE ROW 2

MUTE ROW 3

Module used:

Trigger Riot
BD808
SD808
HATS909

DECAY

ACCENT

BD OUT

GATE IN

ACCENT IN

TONE

Tiptop

Audio

LEVEL

BD808

Tiptop

Audio

LEVEL

SNAPPY

ACCENT

SD OUT

GATE IN

ACCENT IN

SD808

TONE

+

+

TUNE

FM

modulationsource

RAW

CH GATE

OH GATE

FM/AM

LEVEL

ACCENT

HATS OUT

VC-TUNE

ACCENT IN

CV IN

Tiptop

Audio

CH DECAY OH DECAY

AM

909

hats909

MIX

3

7

4

8

11 12

MODESMODE SELECT BUTTON

Lets start again by connecting OUT 1 to BD808, OUT 2 to SD808 and lets
patch OUT 3 to Open Hi-Hats 909. Lets press and hold RST/CLR button to
make sure we start from scratch..

Lets set Knob 1 to 4, Knob 5 to 8, and knob 9 to 4. All three sounds will play.
You will notice that the hats hit right on the bass drum, because both are set
to 4. Click on the MODE button few times ‘til you get to CLOCK SHIFT, now
turn Knob 9 to shift the hats hits, set it to 2, you have just shifted this
trigger by two clock cycles.

Click on MODE again to get back to DIVIDE, turn Knob 10 to 32, you will
notice a break in the hats, this is done by overlapping the trigger with a long
gate pulse. Click on MODE to get to PULSE WIDTH, turn Knob 10 to set a
pulse width of 0, you will notice as you do that how the overlapping gets shorter
and more triggers that were covered by the long pulse show up again. As you
can see the Trigger Riot is both a Gate and a Trigger Sequencer combined
and the interaction of the two can be creative.

1.

2.

Riot Patch 3, OK this thing is really crazy, give me more Continued...

To Summarize you just did the following:

Set divisions to all 3 sounds
Clock Shifted the hats triggers
Added a long gate using a Division to overlap some triggers
Use Pulse Width to shorten the long gate and uncover the triggers below it.
Use Time Shift to move the hats triggers off the main clock grid.

Save to Preset 3
Awareness of the Matrix mode on OUT A and OUT B

Clear all

7

MUTE/

SEL A

MUTE/SEL1

MUTE/SEL2

MUTE/SEL3

MUTE/SEL4

MUTE/

SEL B

MUTE/

SEL C

MUTE/

SEL D

HOLD ON POWER-UP

TO LOAD USB

+

+

+

+

Trigger Riot

A

1

2

3

B C D

4

3

2

1

4

A B C D

IN

CLOCK

OUT

INDEPENDENT

/MATRIX

IN RESET

OUT

TAP

TEMPO

P1 P2 P3 P4

B1

beat
sync

B2 B3 B4

BPM/

CYCLE

RST/CLR

BOSS

reset F/L

clock source

DinSync

DIVIDEMODE STEPS PROBABILITY SPEED

TIME

SHIFT

CLOCK

SHIFT

PULSE
WIDTH

Tipt p

Audi o

loop start end

MASTER
KNOB

1

5

9

2

6

10

MUTE ROW 1

MUTE ROW 2

MUTE ROW 3

DECAY

ACCENT

BD OUT

GATE IN

ACCENT IN

TONE

Tiptop

Audio

LEVEL

BD808

Tiptop

Audio

LEVEL

SNAPPY

ACCENT

SD OUT

GATE IN

ACCENT IN

SD808

TONE

+

+

TUNE

FM

modulationsource

RAW

CH GATE

OH GATE

FM/AM

LEVEL

ACCENT

HATS OUT

VC-TUNE

ACCENT IN

CV IN

Tiptop

Audio

CH DECAY OH DECAY

AM

909

hats909

MIX

3

7

4

8

11 12

MODESMODE SELECT BUTTON

3.

4.

Click on MODE to get it to TIME SHIFT, time shift lets you shift the triggers in
mini clock steps, we like to call it clock particles. It shifts the trigger back or
forth in time relative to the master BPM clock, turn Knob 9, as you turn it you
will start hear how it shifts off the grid, getting swingy. Press and hold P3 to
save it to preset 3.

Have you noticed that the lights on OUT A and B also flash? This is because you
are in Matrix mode. In Matrix mode, not only do the horizontal rows get
summed up, but also vertical rows. So on OUT A you have a sum of triggers
coming from Knob 1, 5 , 9, and 13, or in this example the triggers of the Bass
drum, Snare and Hats combine. Interesting right? Now, patch those to
something; when you finish press and hold RST/CLR to clear.