Quickstart. Eclipse Eclipse V4, CD8051
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Eclipse User Manual
Quickstart
Pressing keys is fine, but if that’s all you wanted to do you’d have been better off buying an infant’s “activity center”. No, the whole point is to get some of that Eventide goodness into your music, and that’s just what we’re gonna do now…
Hooking Up To the Outside World
The Eclipse will sum analog and digital inputs and will output both analog and digital signals at all times.
see the separate “Eclipse System Signal Flow” sheet for all the gory details
Analog Connections
Insert either an unbalanced 1/4-inch cable (at –10dB) or a balanced XLR cable (at +4dB) into one or both analog inputs
(see page 9)
. Such a signal could come from a mixer or a preamplifier. You can plug a guitar directly into the Eclipse, but you’ll have to crank the gain (
LEVELS
{IN GAIN}
). Even then, the signal may not be optimal. Instead, we recommend using a preamp or effects loop.
Connect balanced 1/4-inch or XLR cables to the analog outputs (both will be operational). These could lead to a mixer or an amplifier. Using an unbalanced 1/4-inch cable at the output will halve (-6dB) the output level.
see page 9
Digital Connections
OK, this is meant to be a
Quickstart
section, so we’re going to keep things as simple as possible. If something doesn’t make sense or if things aren’t working as you expect them to, go to page 24.
To input digital audio, first plug a cable into an appropriate port on the back panel. Next, select from
XLR
,
RCA
,
Optical
, or
ADAT
under
SETUP
DIG-
IN (DIG-IN)
. If you select
ADAT
, use the
{ADAT-IN}
soft key to select which two channels the Eclipse will process by repeatedly pressing the
{ADAT-IN} soft key. Next, you will probably want to set
SETUP
DIG-IN (CLOCK)
to
DigIn
.
All of the digital outputs send live signals
all of the time
! However, they only send
one
protocol. Select that protocol under
SETUP
DIG-OUT
FORMAT
. Under
(CS-TYPE)
select
Pro
if you are primarily interested in using the XLR digital outputs, and
Cns
if you are primarily interested in using the
RCA or optical (non-ADAT) digital outputs.
To output the ADAT protocol through the optical output, set
SETUP
DIG-
OUT (OPTICAL)
to
ADAT
. Then use the
(ADAT-OUT)
soft key to select which channels will receive processed audio (
Ch 1
or
Ch 2
), which will receive the signal supplied at the ADAT input (
Thru
), and which will be mute d.
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Choosing Effects
The Eclipse has a whole bunch of cool programs, and you can sort through them in a number of useful ways. Press
PROGRAM
CRITERIA (SORT
BY)
to select either
Number
or
Name
for numerical or alphabetical listings.
Press
PROGRAM
CRITERIA (SEARCH B)
to select either
Source
(if you’d like to sort effects based on what type of input they were designed for) or
Effect
(if you’d like to sort effects based on their underlying algorithms). We’ll ignore the other choices for now. Press the
PROGRAM
key to jump back
“up” a level.
Now use the
<
>
and
<
>
soft keys to hop between categories and the knob to scroll through programs within categories. When you see a program you want to load, just hit the
<LOAD>
soft key.
for more detail, see page 28
Altering the Effects
As soon as you load a program, you’ll be taken to the
HOT KEYS
area and presented with all of the most important parameters in said program. Most parameter types are self-explanatory, and there is a nice explanation of several of the more opaque parameter types on page 34. For now, we’ll explain the whole concept of the tempo and synchronized parameters.
Tempo
The Eclipse’s tempo feature is your ticket to a good time… Almost all the time-based parameters (LFO rates, delay times, etc.) in the Eclipse are synchronized to its tempo. Consequently, setting the Eclipse’s tempo to the tempo of the material you’re working with makes for very useful effecting. The tempo can be set five ways:
Tap the tap key
With
SETUP
TEMPO (TAP SRC) set to the factory default,
Internal
, simply tap the
TAP key at the tempo you’d like. You can adjust
SETUP
TEMPO (AVERAGE) to determine how many taps the Eclipse will consider in determining the tempo you tap.
Manual Entry With
SETUP
TEMPO (TAP SRC) set to the factory default,
Internal
, simply enter the tempo you’d like at
SETUP
TEMPO
(TEMPO)
.
Like most parameters in the Eclipse, you can
enter
a number with greater precision than the Eclipse will
display
. For instance, if you enter a tempo of 124.4 bpm (beats per minute), the display will only read
124
, but the
actual
tempo will be 124.4.
Foot Switch Control
Set
SETUP
TEMPO (TAP SRC) to
Foot Sw1 or
Foot Sw2 to control the tempo from the rear panel foot switch jacks. While not very accurate, this can still be useful because so many of the Eclipse’s parameters are controlled by the tempo.
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