Sonic Charge Bitspeek RE User Manual
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EXT IN
, the internal synthesizer in
Bitspeek
will be disabled and the external signal
will be processed by the formant filter instead. There is a built-in pre-emphasis
stage that boosts higher frequencies to prevent the result from becoming too
"muddy".
AUDIO OUT
The output signal. If you have connected both input channels
(or external input
channels)
you would normally want to connect both outputs as well.
Bitspeek
will
not automatically mix or split signals from stereo to mono or vice versa.
GATE IN
The gate input is most often used together with
NOTE IN
to control
Bitspeek
from a
CV source such as the Matrix Pattern Sequencer.
GATE IN
and
NOTE IN
works
both with
KBD MODE
disabled and enabled. When
KBD MODE
is enabled,
Bit-
speek
will only produce audio when the gate CV signal is high.
Regardless if
NOTE IN
is connected or not, the gate input can be used to force
triggering new "frames". Set
FRAME RATE
to 0 to use this feature.
NOTE IN
This CV input lets you control the pitch of the built-in synthesizer
(and also of the
NOTE and PITCH CV outputs)
. Just as with KBD MODE you normally want to turn
TRACKING
down to 0% when connecting NOTE IN.
PITCH IN
PITCH IN
is a pitch adjustment input with scalable range. Unlike
NOTE IN
, this in-
put is bipolar and it is not "quantized" to semitones. You can use it to add modula-
tion to the synthesized pitch or to hook up one
Bitspeek
to another to follow the ex-
act same pitch.
GATE OUT
This output works both as a gate signal
(to trigger other synths, etc.)
and as an en-
velope follower. The output is logarithmic with respect to the input amplitude
(unlike
the VOICE and NOISE outs, which are linear)
. In other words this output works as a
dB measurement and the range is -36 to 12 dB. When connected to the gate input
of a synth in Reason, the synth will trigger a voice when the signal raises above ap-
proximately -35.5 dB and the device will release the voice when it drops below
again.
NOTE OUT
This output will transmit the pitch of the analyzed signal. The output is scaled, offset
and quantized to the standard CV note range in Reason. This makes it easy to wire
a synth to play along with
Bitspeek
. Just connect the
GATE
and
NOTE
out to the
synth and set it to "monophonic legato" mode. Route the audio of the synth back
into
EXT IN
on
Bitspeek
and you have rolled your own flavor of robotic speech.
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