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.

Delete a chop point
Make sure that the Chop touch button is black, and that you have selected the chop point, that
you want to delete.
Touch the Func touch button, to enter the graphical functions page.

Now touch “Delete Chop”. LD3 will now jump back to the graphical edit page, and the previously
selected chop point will have been removed.
To delete the next chop point, follow the same procedure, but touch “Delete Chop At Endpoint”
on the functions page instead.

Saving the chop points
After you have edited, added and deleted chop points, you must save these changes, in order to
keep them.
This is also done from the graphical functions page.
Simply touch “Save Chop Points”. LD3 will now save your edits, and return to the graphical edit
page.

Creating a new sampling from a portion of the selected sampling
If you want to completely remove unused start and/or end portions of a sampling, use a portion of
the sampling for a loop, or just wants to copy the whole sampling to another sample bank, you can
use this function.
First, set the start and the end points, of the portion of the sampling, that you would like to copy,
OR select a chop, it this is what you would like to copy.
Go to the functions page.

Touch “Save As New Sample”. A new page will now open. Select the sample bank, that you would
like to copy the sampling/portion of the sampling to, by touching the A, B, C or D touch button.
LD3 will write “Saving Sample...”for some time, and then it will jump back to the functions page.

Part Trigger Note Modulation
On the Synth>Trig page, a few extra parameters has been added, to make it possible to modulate
the trigger note.
The trigger note is the note that is played back, when you hit a trigger button. This can now be
modulated by any modulation source, so that it is possible, to make this change, to play back a
different note, every time you hit the trigger button.
This is also the note that is sent via MIDI out, when a part is set to external, and you hit the trigger
button.
And finally this is also the note, that is sent to the internal synth or to MIDI out, when a part is
triggered by a CV input.
So it is now possible to set one CV input up to trigger the part, and use another CV input to
modulate the trigger note, for CV/Gate to MIDI conversion.

Negative Modulation Sources Select
When tuning an edit knob, to select a modulation source, only the positive modulation sources
can now be selected. This is done, in order to half the number of selectable sources, to make
modulation source selection a bit simpler.
To make a modulation source negative (or inverted), simply touch the parameter.

Part Select and Mute
It is now possible, to latch the part select and mute functions, so that you will not have to hold
down the Func/Mute or Steps/Part buttons, while pushing a step button, to select or mute a part.
For this purpose, a new common settings page has been created. This has been named “COM2”,
and can be entered from the MOR page:

Touch COM2 to enter this page:
Here you can, by rotating Edit Knob 1, set the Part/Mute buttons to:
-Hold: You will have to hold the Func/Mute or Steps/Part buttons, while pushing a step button, to
select or mute a part.
-Latch: When pushing and releasing either the Func/Mute or the Steps/Part buttons 2 times, the
button will start to flash, and you can select or mute parts, by pushing the step buttons. It is still
possible to select and mute parts, by holding any of these buttons.

Controller Track Realtime Recording
This feature has been changed a bit, to make it easier to use.
In earlier firmware versions, if the sequencer was running, and in rec mode, when a controller
track was set in rec mode, it would immediately go into rec mode, and only record from the
position it was at, when rec was initiated, to the end step of the controller track.
Now, when a controller track is set to rec mode, it will only be record ready, and nothing will be
recorded, until step 1 of the controller track is played back. Then it will switch to rec mode, and
record until the end step of the controller track is passed, where it will switch recording off.
Rec ready mode is indicated by yellow touch buttons with red text: