Befaco Percall User manual

PERCALL
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P E R C A L L P O W E R & I N T R O
P O W E R I N G T H E
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T H A N K S F O R P U R C H A S I N G A M O D U L E F R O M B E F A C O !
B E F O R E Y O U P L U G T H I S M O D U L E I N . . .
1. Disconnect your cabinet from the mains.
2. Triple check the power cord polarity. The coloured line on the cable
(pin number one) is the -12V rail.
3. If you plug the module backwards you might burn it out and
unfortunately this is not covered by the warranty.
4. If you have any questions about this product please send them to:
[e-mail]
I N T R O D U C T I O N P E R C A L L
Percall is a percussive oriented module that will shape four different sound sources into percussive sounds.
Percall has four VCAs with dedicated decay envelopes and a mixer, so you can prepare a percussion submix.
The strength input will provide extra dynamics to the sounds!
To round up the module, audio inputs are normaled from one to two and from three to four, spicing them up
with choke control. This allow to create open and closed Hats or kind of side-chained baselines with your kick!
M O D U L E
R E F E R E N C E PA N E L O V E R V I E W
1. Audio Inputs
They are normalized in pairs.
That means what you plug on IN
1 also goes to IN 2 until you plug
a cable on IN 2. Same for IN 3 to
IN 4.
2. Trigger Inputs
3. Volume Controls
4 & 8. Decay Controls
They control the tail of the
envelopes. Both are added
together.
5. Envelope Outputs
Envelope range: 0-10v.
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6. Strenght Input
This is an amplitude+decay CV
control, shared by all four
envelopes. It is normalized to 10v
so when it is not used, envelopes
have maximum strength.
7. Choke Controls
When active (up position),
channel 1 kills 2 and channel 3
kills channel 4. It is often used to
simulate mutually exclusive drum
sounds like open/closed Hi-hats.
9. Audio Outputs
Channels 1 to 3 are summed at
channel 4, so 4 acts as a master
mix out. Channels 1 to 3, get
removed from the mix, as soon
as a jack is plugged at their INs.

P E R C A L L R E F E R E N C E
F U N C T I O N A L
B L O C K S
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I N T E R N A L S T R U C T U R E
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As you can check on the diagram above, PercAll is based on four identical channels.
Each channel has a VCA circuit, which is internally controlled by a Decay Envelope circuit. This
envelope is fired via its TRIG Input and the time of the decay can be either controlled manually or
CV via its dedicated CV Input.
The module counts with two Choke circuits for channels 1-2 and 3-4.
When Choke switch is activated (Switch on top position), the TRIG signal of the first channel mutes
second channel's envelope. The obvious application to this is to make open-close hi-hat patterns
but we encourage you to get creative on this a try more stuff.
The Strenght input is a macro CV Input that affects to all envelopes amplitudes at the same time.
As the ratio of the envelope is constant, the falling time will be affected depending on the signal
plugged in, as well as the amplitude of the sound. This emulates the behaviour of a real
percussive instrument, where the release time depends on the energy applied to the membrane.
The audio Output of every channel is summed on a final mixing stage at Out 4. Inputs 1 to 3 are
normalized, so they will be taken out of the mix if you use that individual output.

P E R C A L L E X T R A S
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M I S C E L A N E A S P E C S & C R E D I T S
* Size: 12HP
* Depth: 32mm
* +12v: 75mA
* -12v: 56mA
Designed with care and love by the Befaco Team.
Thanks a lot to all beta testers and friends that tried the module and
provided loads of valuable information!