Getting Around and Altering Parameters. Eclipse Eclipse V4, CD8051
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Eclipse by means of a single cable that supplies power as well as a communication path. A normal “5 pin” MIDI cable can be used as a standard MIDI input.
Out The Eclipse sends MIDI messages to other devices via the Out port.
MIDI messages are also sent out the serial port if it is “enabled.”
Thru Any MIDI information received at the MIDI In port is echoed directly to the
MIDI Thru port regardless of the Eclipse’s configuration (as long as the
Eclipse is powered up).
With the Memory card removed, the
BUSY
LED on the front panel illuminates whenever a
MIDI message is received at the MIDI In port. Note: If the serial port is “enabled” and MIDI is “enabled,” a command received over either the serial port or the MIDI In port causes the port not receiving the command to be ignored until the command is complete.
for MIDI Setup, see page 48
K) Remote Power In
Power supplied at this jack is sent “down” the MIDI In port’s pins 6 and 7. Use a
suitable
MIDI pedal board and connect its “wall wart” (external power supply) to this jack. Use a
"7 pin" MIDI cable between the Out port on the board and the In port on the Eclipse. Power will be remotely supplied to the MIDI pedal board.
L) Foot Pedal Jacks 1 & 2
Stereo 1/4-inch connectors. The sleeve is ground reference, the ring is a +5 volt (source), and the tip is an analog signal between 0 to 5 volts input to the Eclipse. Connect either foot switches, foot pedals, or control voltage sources to these inputs to modulate parameters or to trigger events (including remote program loads, see page 48).
To set up the foot pedal jacks, see page 49
Getting Around and Altering Parameters
At any given time, the Eclipse is doing a whole bunch of “stuff.” Unfortunately, you can’t look at all that
“stuff” in one fell swoop.
We could have arranged things otherwise, but we figured you’d rather not devote twelve rack spaces to the Eclipse display where you really only need one!
As a compromise, we’ve created a number of “windows” on its inner-workings. We call them “areas.” Inside each area are parameters that can be selected by using the “soft keys” below the display. Once a parameter is selected, you can alter its value with the knob or the keypad. Let’s look at this in a little more depth, shall we?
The “Areas” (e.g. – Levels, Program, Setup, etc.)
Each area has a dedicated key and an LED that illuminates when you’re “in” that area. For example, pressing the
LEVELS
key illuminates its LED and changes the display to show the
LEVELS
area parameters. Press the
LEVELS
key again to see even more parameters! Here’s a list of areas and the sorts of things you can view in each:
LEVELS
Input and output levels at different points along the signal path along with master wet/dry controls and coarse signal flow controls.
see page 21
PROGRAM
Utilities for sorting, loading, and saving programs.
see page 28
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HOT KEYS
A real help for speedy sessions! All of the most important parameters for factory programs are found here, and you can assign parameters from any
other
area here for quick access.
see page 33
PARAMETER
Parameter adjustments for the effects running on each of the Eclipse’s effect blocks, effect block bypassing, program loading, routing, and modulation block (
<EDIT MOD>
) controls.
see page 33
SETUP
Catchall for system level functions such as display brightness, digital rates and sources, MIDI setup, and lots of other cool stuff.
Understanding the Display and Soft Keys
The Bottom Line of the Display
The display shows two lines of text. The top line is typically dependent on the bottom line, so let’s talk about the bottom line first. As you can see from the screen to the right, there are (typically) four bracketed phrases along the bottom.
Press the
LEVELS
key on your Eclipse until you see the same screen.
Pressing the soft key below a bracketed phrase highlights that phrase and allows you to adjust the parameter associated with that phrase. From now on, we’ll just treat those phrases as if they were actually the soft keys like so: “press
{IN GAIN}
.”
Pressing
{IN GAIN}
results in the screen to the right (try it!).
Notice that the top line contains the parameter associated with
{IN GAIN}
.
Turning the knob or using the keypad (with the
ENT
key) alters that parameter (try it!). …but we’re getting ahead of ourselves. There are four kinds of brackets around soft keys, and each denotes something different.
{curly braces} are for “ganged” parameters. Pressing the soft key more than once cycles through the gang. First the parameters are linked, then just one is adjustable, then just the other is adjustable, then both are linked again, and so on. Try this on
LEVELS
{IN GAIN}
i.e., the
{IN GAIN}
soft key in the
LEVELS
area
.
<angled brackets> indicate that pressing the soft key will perform an action, such as triggering an LFO. Here, pressing
PARAMETER
<FXA: ON>
bypasses effects block A. Then pressing
PARAMETER
<FXA:OFF>
“un-bypasses” it. sub-menu indicates that more soft keys “hide” beneath this one.
Pressing a sub-menu
changes the screen entirely as different soft keys are displayed.
(A
menu
is a list of choices, as in a restaurant, so a
sub-menu
is a menu one or more levels down.)
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