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The AMBIENT DESIGNER is a revolutionary approach to guitar-based
ambient sound design. There are six basic groups: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue,
Cyan, and White. Each group has a set of sounds loaded which can be
triggered by simply pressing a note on the keyboard. Click the LATCH
switch to engage Latch mode, which allows for the basic foundation of
sound design within Ambient Designer. Press a key to trigger a sound, that
sound will latch and continue to loop (a light will illuminate below the group
that a sound is triggered). Press the same key again to disengage the
looping sound. With this feature, one can trigger as many sounds as
possible within the six groups. Click the colored tab above each group to
load different groups, each with unique sounds. Click EDIT to bring up the
mixer page, which gives deeper mixing control for each triggered sound.
The triggered keys in that particular group will be illuminated by a light on
the bottom right of the channel. On the mixer page, the user can click the
REV button to reverse the sound of each channel. Use each channel’s fader
and pan for further customization. Click BACK to return to the main
Ambient Designer page.
The PHRASE BUILDER category is a simple approach to providing a user
pre-recorded, tempo-synced phrases with the ability to create custom
performances. The benefit of this approach is to allow a composer or
producer the freedom and confidence of creating a loop style performance,
without being confined by the limits of a pre-defined loop. Load a patch
from the category, trigger a group on the keyboard, and notice that each
key in the group transitions melodically. This is how a unique performance is
created. As the user plays the different groups mapped on the keyboard,
the text in the tab above the fader and Pan/Tune knobs changes. MIDI
SELECT allows for the automatic changing of text between groups.
GLOBAL FX, when switched on, allows for FX to be added to all groups.
Switching GLOBAL FX off will allow FX to be added solely to the selected
group, the group displayed in the tab to the right.
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