Antares ATR1a Hardware user manual

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To select a Program, move the cursor to the Program Number field and use
the data knob to choose the desired Program.
If the Program Mode Main Screen is displayed and MIDI Program Changes
are enabled in the SYSTEM menu, a MIDI Program Change command of 1–
50 will select the corresponding Program.
If the Program Mode Main Screen is displayed and the Foot Switch is set to
STEP in the SYSTEM menu, pressing the foot switch will step to the next
higher numbered Program.
To move to Song Mode (see below),...

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Each Song Step must contain one of the following items:
ITEM CODE MAIN SCREEN STEP DISPLAY
0 (no program)
## (Program number) the program name
B (B bypass)
 link)
Please note:In the Song Mode main screen, the Cursor buttons can be used to move
the cursor to the YY field and the data knob can then be used to select
any Song Step and display the item programmed for that step. How-
ever, when the MIDI increment message or the foot switch step func-
tions are used, the Song Steps may not necessarily...

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Speed Page
The first edit page displayed is the SPEED page:
Program:XX Speed
(0 is fast): yy
The SPEED control determines how rapidly pitch correction is applied to
the incoming sound. Values range from 0 to 25. A value of zero will cause
instantaneous changes from one tone to another and will completely
suppress a vibrato and any purposeful expressive pitch variations (note
that any related volume changes will remain). Values from 6 to 10 are
typical for vocals. Higher values allow more vibrato and...

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Now simply play the melody to be corrected from your keyboard or
sequencer. Tempo and rhythm don’t matter, so take your time and make
sure you don’t play any wrong notes. As each note is played, its name
appears in the top line of the display. Assume, for example, that your
melody starts with D

, B, and then A. After playing those notes the display
would look like this:
xx:    D#       A  B
Press PAGE when done
When you have played the entire melody, press the PAGE button to end
the process and...

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This page allows you to specify the scale notes to which the ATR-1a tunes
the input sound. If you have used the Make Scale From MIDI function
described above, the notes input via MIDI will already appear on the page
and can be further edited here. There are 12 notes in this scale, i.e. C, C #,
…etc. Each note in the scale can be set to one of three states:
Tune (i.e., the note name appears in the display, but the “By:” field under
the note is blank): When the input is near a note set to Tune, the...

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This phrase is in D Major and, if all the pitch errors were no greater than
about 49 cents, would work fine with a standard D Major scale (D, E, F
, G,
A, B, C
). However, the pitch error of three semitones at the end of the
last note is so large that with B and C
 present in the Scale, as the pitch
fell, the ATR-1a would see first C
 and then B as the target pitch and
therefore allow the error to remain. With C
 and B removed from the Scale,
the ATR-1a continues to see D as the target pitch for the...

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Program Name Page
This page allows you to name each of your Programs. Typically, you would
name the program after the scale that it contains. Alternatively, you could
name it after the song or portion of a song in which it’s used. Do whatever
helps you best remember what you had in mind when you created the
Program.
Program:XX
Name:aaaaaaaaaaaaa
To enter the name, place the cursor under each character space and use
the data knob to select the appropriate character. Names may be a maxi-
mum of 13...

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To edit a specific Song, you must first select that Song as the current Song.
Do that by calling up the appropriate Song number on the Song Mode
Main Screen. Then, press the PROGRAMS button (the red LED under the
PROGRAMS button will light). The number of the Song being edited will
always appear in the top left corner of the various Song Edit pages.
When editing a Song, you progress from one edit page to the next by
pressing the PAGE button.
When you are finished making changes, press the PROGRAMS...

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 (Link)When a Song Step containing a Link item becomes active, any
Song Steps in the remainder of the current Song are ignored and the ATR-
1a moves immediately to the next Song (in numerical order). If Song Step
#1 of the new Song contains a “0” (No Program) item, the Song moves
forward to the next non-”0” Step.
Use Link when your Song requires more than 15 Steps.
0 (No Program)Song Steps containing a No Program Item are ignored
when stepping through a Song using either the Foot Switch or MIDI...

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Song Name Page
This page allows you to name each of your Songs.
Song:XX
Name:aaaaaaaaaaaaa
To enter the name, place the cursor under each character space and use
the data knob to select the appropriate character. Names may be a maxi-
mum of 13 characters.
The following characters are available for naming (in this order):
(space) (UPPER CASE LETTERS) (lower case letters) – . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 !
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