Introduction
Thank you very much for purchasing/consider to purchase a Fuzion Music WorkStation.
The goal with Fuzion was to design a workstation that was fast and intuitive to compose music
with.
Unlike many other music workstations, Fuzion does not work in different ”modes”. On Fuzion you
can edit a Synth sound, jump to the sequencer and record or edit, edit the effects, everything while
the sequencer keeps running. You do not have to switch between different modes, where you can’t
edit the sounds in one mode, and can’t record a sequence in another. On Fuzion ALL parameters
and functions are accessible at ANY time!
The first thing I designed, was its sequencer. This has 16 tracks, that each can be set to control
Fuzion's internal sound engine, or any MIDI gear connected to its 2 MIDI outputs, can have
separate lengths up to 128 bars, can have separate quantize/clock settings, changable on the fly,
while the sequencer is running, has a Note Randomizer for each track, and a global Swing
sequencer. Tracks can be recorded either in real time, grid mode, where you insert notes in a piano
roll style window, or step insert mode, where a pointer can be moved around on the piano roll, and
it places all received events at the position of this pointer. All MIDI events, like notes, CC's,
aftertouch and program changes can be recorded.
It is also possible to record 8 Audio Tracks into the sequencer. A kind of pattern based harddisk
recording.
For editing the recorded MIDI events, different methods are available, depending on the type of
event, you want to edit. I early learned, that editing notes in a piano roll, that might work on a
computer, did not really work as an intuitive method on this little box. Therefore I engineered the
"Bars" edit method, where notes, velocity values, lengths and positions are presented as "bars" that
changes colour when the notes are played back, and that can be edited using knobs, in a kind of
analogue sequencer style fashion. I think that this system works really well for experimenting with a
composition.
When editing MIDI CC's and aftertouch events, these are presented as values in a frame, one bar at
a time. 8 of these values can be edited at a time, and the selected values are presented as the same
kind of bars used in the note edit system (just slimmer), and can be edited using knobs.
When editing program changes, these are presented on an event list.
It is possible to copy events between tracks and presets, and to erase specific events, a whole track,
or the whole sequence.
A song mode are also available, with which it is possible to arrange presets and track mutes in up to
128 song steps.
The next thing I designed was the synthesizer engine. This was designed to be flexible with many
sound possibilities, while at the same time being easy to tweak. It has one screen per module (one
for the oscillator, one for the filters and so on...), and each module can be selected by the push of a
button. Furthermore a "Sound Finder" was engineered, that makes it easy to audition and import
sounds from any other preset, to the one you are working on now. A Fuzion oscillator can be a
