Chapter 4
General
Overview
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INTRODUCTION
TO
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The
Cyclone
is a high perfonnance, real-time, programmable, perfonnance-oriented
arpeggiator. That sounds neat, but what does it do exactly? The answer to that question
occupies the remainder
of
this manual. In other words, there
is
lot going
on
in this box!
We will
try to make things easier
by
developing an understanding
of
what is going on by
starting all the way from scratch.
The meaning
of
"arpeggio"
in
its most basic sense
is
"The playing
of
the tones
of
a chord
in
rapid succession rather than simultaneously." This
is
exactly what
is
performed by a
typical electronic arpeggiator: You play the chord from your keyboard and the arpeggiator
will play the tones one after
the other as rapidly as you like and
will
continue to repeat the
tones as long as you hold the chord. There aren't usually too many things to control. The
main ones are:
•
TEMPO
- How fast the notes should be played
• ORDER
- When playing the notes, in which order should they be played? Typical
options include:
Stan
with the lowest pitch followed
by
higher and higher
pitches, start with the highest pitch and
go
down,
or
go up then down. l\'Jany
nrpeggiators can also play the tones
in
the order that you played the keys in the
chord (or backward
or
forward then backward, etc.).
Unpacking
&
Hookup
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