Gotharman Little deFormer 3 Technical manual

Gotharman’s Little deFormer
3
Granular Workstation
Update Manual 9.45

-Graphical sample editing has been added. Page 3
-The Part Trigger Note can now be modulated, making CV/Gate to MIDI and other things possible.
Page 16
-Now only positive modulation sources can be selected by an edit knob. You will have to touch the
parameter, for negative modulation. Page 17
-Part Select and Mute buttons can now be latched, so that you don’t have to hold these, to select
or mute a part. Page 18
-Controller track realtime recording are now always initiated when step 1 of a track is passed.
Page 20
-“Esc” button has been added on the preset select page, so it is easier to exit, if you do not want to
change the preset anyway. Page 23
-Roland JD-XA MIDI filtering has been removed. Since JD-XA is transmitting MIDI messages on
several MIDI channels at the same time, LD3 was filtering out the extra MIDI messages, that were
the same as the previously received ones. Unfortunately this system would also filter out MIDI
notes, if LD3 in multi-timbral mode, were receiving the same notes on 2 different channels.
Therefore it was removed.
I really enjoyed, using my JD-XA as a master keyboard, but if it doesn’t work as this, it doesn’t
work.
Bug Fixes:
-When the sequencer was set to external sync, and realtime recording were initiated, LD3 would
start a 2 bar count-in. It will now no longer do this.
-Step recording of controllers would not always work, if the sequencer was stopped. This has now
been fixed.

Graphical sample editing
On the Sample Edit page, the touch button previously named “Func”, has been renamed to
“Grap”.
Touching this will enter the graphical sample edit pages.
On the graphical sample edit pages you can add and remove chop/loop points and select a portion
of a sampling, to be saved as a new sampling.
It has also been made easier, to set loop points in long samplings, by making it possible, to save
the selected end point as a chop/loop point.

From the Sample Edit page touch Grap, to enter the graphical edit page:
On this page, you will see a graphical presentation of the selected sampling. Chop points are
indicated as vertical blue lines, and the sample zero point is indicated as a horizontal red line.

By touching anywhere on the screen, or by rotating Edit Knob 1, you can select a start point. This is
indicated by a vertical green line.
By rotating Edit Knob 4, you can zoom in and out.

By touching the End touch button, so that it turns black, the screen will now be focused on the end
point, which is indicated as a vertical red line. When you touch the screen now, the red line will
move, indicating that the end point is selected. It is also possible to change the end point, by
rotating Edit Knob 1.
If you touch the Play touch button, the sample will play back from the start point to the endpoint,
and then stop.
If you touch the Loop button, so that it turns black, and then touch the Play button, the sample
will play back from the start point to the end point, and then loop back to the start point, and play
back the selected piece again, until Play or Loop is touched again, so that any of these turns grey.

Selecting and edit chop points
Touch the Chop touch button, so that this becomes black.
Now, when you touch the screen, you will select a chop point. The line indicating the chop point
will turn dark blue, when it is selected.
Rotate Edit Knob 1 to adjust the chop point. Rotate Edit Knob 4 to zoom in and out.
If you touch the Play touch button, the sample will play back from the selected chop point to the
next chop point, and then stop.
If you touch the Loop button, so that it turns black, and then touch the Play button, the sample
will play back from the selected chop point to the next chop point, and then loop back to the
selected chop point, and play back the selected piece again, until Play or Loop is touched again, so
that any of these turns grey.
By touching the End touch button, so that it turns black, it is possible to adjust the next chop point,
which is also the end point of the selected chop, by rotating Edit Knob 1.

Adding a chop point
Make sure that the Chop touch button is grey.
Set the start point, where you want the chop point to be, either by touching the screen, or by
rotating Edit Knob 1.
Touch the Func touch button.

Now you will enter the graphical function page:
Touch “Add Chop”. LD3 will now jump back to the graphical edit page, and a chop point will be
added at the selected start point.

Adding a chop point at the selected end point
If you wish to create a loop, for instance for use with the sustained loop feature, you will adjust
the start and endpoints, until the loop sounds as intended.
Then you will save the start point as a chop point.
In order to make the loop work, you will though also need to save the selected end point as a chop
point.
To do this, you must enter the graphical function page again:
Touch “Add Chop At Endpoint”. LD3 will now jump back to the graphical edit page, and a chop
point will be added at the selected end point.