Elektron Sidstation - Manual (Page 3)

SIDSTATION
Owners Manual
3
Contents
USING THE UNIT SAFELY ....................................................................................................................................... 2
CONTENTS................................................................................................................................................................. 3
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................................................... 5
A WORD FROM THE CREATORS ................................................................................................................................... 5
T HE MOS6581 SID- CHIP .......................................................................................................................................... 5
F EATURES ................................................................................................................................................................. 5
CONVENTIONS IN THIS MANUAL.......................................................................................................................... 6
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF SIDSTATION................................................................................................................... 7
T HE S ID S TATION INTERFACE ...................................................................................................................................... 7
C ONNECTIONS AT THE REAR PANEL ............................................................................................................................ 8
CARE INSTRUCTIONS & IMPORTANT NOTES.................................................................................................. 10
A BOUT THE MEMORY ................................................................................................................................................ 10
A BOUT NOISE ........................................................................................................................................................... 10
QUICK START.......................................................................................................................................................... 11
USING THE SIDSTATION ....................................................................................................................................... 12
G ETTING AROUND AND BASIC EDITING ...................................................................................................................... 12
Zero menu selection.......................................................................................................................................... 12
T HE MENU SYSTEM ................................................................................................................................................... 12
Patch play mode................................................................................................................................................ 13
Direct Controllers and MIDI............................................................................................................................... 13
S YSTEM PARAMETERS ............................................................................................................................................. 13
MIDI settings and SYSEX patch dump menu (MIDI) ...................................................................................... 13
Synchronisation menu (Sync)........................................................................................................................... 14
SidStation patch memory control menu (Mem) ............................................................................................... 15
The ASID C64 song player ............................................................................................................................... 15
PROGRAMMING THE SIDSTATION ..................................................................................................................... 16
A NATOMY OF THE SYNTHESIS IN S ID S TATION ........................................................................................................... 16
P ATCH EDITING ........................................................................................................................................................ 16
O SCILLATORS .......................................................................................................................................................... 17
Waveform (Wave).............................................................................................................................................. 17
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)........................................................................................................................ 18
Envelope (Env) .................................................................................................................................................. 19
Pitch.................................................................................................................................................................... 20
Vibrato (Vib) ....................................................................................................................................................... 21
Waveform table (Tabl)....................................................................................................................................... 21
C OMMON PARAMETERS ............................................................................................................................................ 23
Direct controls (CTRL)....................................................................................................................................... 24
Local patch synchronisation (Sync).................................................................................................................. 24
T HE F ILTER .............................................................................................................................................................. 25
The filter type menu (Typ) ................................................................................................................................. 25
The filter envelope (Env) ................................................................................................................................... 26
Filter modulation (LFO)...................................................................................................................................... 26
L OW F REQUENCY O SCILLATORS (LFO) ................................................................................................................... 27
Editing the selected LFO................................................................................................................................... 27
The LFO mixer menu (Mixer)............................................................................................................................ 27
The LFO shape menu (Shape)......................................................................................................................... 28
The LFO modulation control source menu (CTRL) ......................................................................................... 29