1010music Bitbox Micro 2.2 User manual

Pads Screen
PRESET NAME
Touch to load and save presets.
CLOCK
Beats : bars
PROGRESS BAR
Bar is white when waiting for
quantization break to start playback.
SELECTED PAD
Touch a pad or turn a knob
to change selection.
STOP BUTTON
Touch once to stop
playback of pads.
KEYS BUTTON
Touch to play selected
pad with on screen
keyboard.
PADS
Touch to
trigger.
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SETUP
1. Insert the microSD card into the MICRO SD slot, notched edge away
from the screen.
2. Connect the narrow end of the ribbon power cable to the module, with
the red side of the cable on the side of the header with a white bar.
3. Turn off your Eurorack then connect the wide end of the ribbon power
cable to the Eurorack +12V power supply, with the red side of the cable
aligned with pin 1 or the -12V pins on the power supply bus.
4. Mount the module into the rack and then power it up.
5. After boot up, the bitbox micro displays the Pads screen with a grid of
WAV les loaded from one of the presets provided on the microSD
card.
6. Connect Out 7 and Out 8 to your mixer or speakers.
OVERVIEW
When bitbox micro powers up, you see the
Pads Screen. Touch a pad to trigger it.
Push the Home and Tools buttons to cycle
through the other screens. Push the
arrow buttons to view more or less detail
about the selected element. Turn the
knobs to select elements and assign
values.
Pads Settings More DetailLess Detail
Mixer Input
FX Output
Ribbon Cable
Orientation
Bitbox Micro 2.2 Quick Start Guide
NOTE:
■ The bitbox micro does not automatically save your changes. Any unsaved
changes will be lost when you load a preset or power down the module. Touch
the Preset Name and then touch Save to commit the changes to the preset.
The bitbox
micro requires
400mA on the
+12V rail only.

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CONFIGURE A PAD
Push the Right Arrow button from the Pads screen to drill into the Waveform and
Parameters screens.
PARAMETERS
PAGE
Touch to change.
PARAMETERS
Top knob
selects a
parameter,
bottom knob
changes the
value.
MODULATION
SLOTS
Push the right
arrow button to
congure.
PAD
GRID
Touch to
choose a
dierent
pad.
PLAYBACK RANGE
(Pink) & LOOP
POINTS (White)
Turn the top knob to
select an end point to
control. Turn the bottom
knob to set the end
point’s position.
END POINT: VALUE
The name of the
selected end point
and it’s current value.
PLAY
Touch to
trigger the pad.
WAVEFORM
Pinch to zoom.
Drag to scroll.
WAV FILE NAME
Touch to load a dierent
WAV le.
PAD MODE
Touch to change.
Parameters
Icon Pad Mode Description Reverse
Playback
Beat
Sync
Set Loop
Points
Play
Slices
Sample Use to play single notes, free playing audio
samples or drum hits.
Multi-Sample Spread a list of wav les across the keyboard
to get more realistic instrument pitch
shifting or to map different sounds to each
key on the keyboard.
Clip Use for synchronized loops and quantized
playback, e.g. drum loops and guitar tracks
between one and eight measures long.
Slicer Use with a WAV le with different sections
that you want to trigger independently.
Granular Generate new sounds from your samples.
The sample is played back in small portions
about 10 to 200ms in length, called grains.
New Rec Use to start recording a new WAV le or
clear a WAV from a pad.
New Multi Use to start recording a new set of WAVs for
use in multi-sampling.
SELECT A PAD MODE
Touch the Pad Mode button on the Waveform screen to select one of the following pad
modes:
Waveform

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RECORD A WAV FILE
1. Congure the Inputs to Receive Audio:
▪Push Tools twice to go to the Input screen. The input grid maps to
the array of input ports below the screen.
▪Turn the bottom knob with input 1 selected to choose Audio.
Repeat for input 2.
▪Plug the recording source into Inputs 1 and 2.
2. Push Home. Select an empty pad and press the Right Arrow button
to display the Load and Record screen.
3. Use the knobs to select parameters and assign values.
4. Touch the Rec button. The bitbox micro will start recording. The
timing of the recording can be synchronized with the clock by using
the Rec Quant parameter. Recording will start when a signal is
received if you set the Threshold parameter to On.
5. Touch the Stop button to end recording. If you congured a recording
length, bitbox micro will stop recording when the target length is
reached. The le will be saved in a folder with the same name as the
preset under the \Presets folder on the microSD card.
INPUTS AND OUTPUTS
The bitbox micro has 8 input and 8 output ports. By default, all inputs are set to Gate mode.
Outputs 7 and 8 are congured as the main audio outputs, playing audio routed to buses
Out1 and Out 2 with FX applied. Push Tools to access the Inputs and Outputs screens, then
turn the bottom knob to change the setting for the selected port.
Connection Port Conguration Options
Inputs 1 – 2: Gate, CV, Clock, Audio
Inputs 3 – 8: Gate, CV, Clock
Outputs 1-8: Assignable to Audio Buses Out1 - Out8, Out 1+FX and
Out 2+FX.
A gate signal on a Gate input will trigger the corresponding pad. Connect a controller to the
MIDI In port to trigger pads and modulate parameters.
Load and Record
Input
CLEAR A PAD
1. Select a loaded pad and push the Right Arrow button to display the Waveform screen.
2. Touch the Pad Mode icon to the left of the WAV le name at the top of the screen and
then touch New Rec. You will now see the Load and Record screen.

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EFFECT
INDICATOR
The blue
triangle
indicates an
eect has been
applied.
EFFECT
PARAMETERS
The top knob
selects a
parameter, the
bottom knob
changes its value.
PADS
Select a pad,
then turn the top
knob to adjust the
Delay send, and
the bottom knob
to adjust the
Reverb send.
SELECTED
EFFECT
Touch to select an
eect. Touch the
Right Arrow button
to access the
settings for the
selected eect.
EFFECT METER
The send amount
for the selected pad.
Effects Delay
Parameters
Tools
ADJUST THE EFFECTS
Push the HOME button twice to access the Effects screen. Here you can adjust the effect
send for each pad to each effect.
ADJUST THE MASTER VOLUME
1. Push the Tools button to open the Tools screen.
2. Turn the top knob to select the MasterVol parameter.
3. Turn the bottom knob to adjust the volume.
LEARN MORE
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CONTROL THE MIX
Push the Home button to access the Mixer screen. Here you can adjust the level and pan for
each pad. Push the Right Arrow button to switch to Mute mode.
Mixer
LEVEL
Turn the top
knob to adjust.
PAN
Turn the bottom
knob to adjust. Mixer - Mute
Mode
PAD
Touch to
toggle mute
state.
MUTED
PAD
Red pads
are
muted.