Bastl Instruments v1.1 MIDI Looping Device User Manual

LIEKETSENG

Midilooper ke sesebelisoa se mamelang melaetsa ea MIDI (ho laola tlhahisoleseling mabapi le lintlha, matla le liparamente tse ling) le ho li loants'a ka tsela e ts'oanang, molumo oa looper o ka theola likotoana tsa molumo. Leha ho le joalo, loops ea melaetsa ea MIDI e lula sebakeng sa taolo, ho bolelang hore lits'ebetso tse ling tse ngata li ka etsahala ka holim'a tsona - ho feto-fetoha ha timbre, liphetoho tsa enfelopo joalo-joalo.

Since looping is one of the fastest and most intuitive ways of music-making, we made the controls of the Midilooper quickly accessible to encourage uninterrupted flow.
Midilooper can be synchronized either by MIDI clock or analog clock, or it can also run on its own clock (tap tempo/free running).

Midilooper e na le mantsoe a 3 ao e 'ngoe le e' ngoe e ka abeloang mocha o fapaneng oa MIDI, e e lumellang ho laola le ho lopolla likarolo tse 3 tse fapaneng tsa lisebelisoa. Lentsoe le leng le le leng le ka rekotoa, la khutsisoa, la fetisoa kapa la hlakoloa.

Midilooper also offers some basic processing of the recorded information: transposition, velocity locking and shifting, quantization, shuffle, humanization (random variations of velocity), adjusting the length of the loop, or doubling and halving of the playback speed.
Midilooper also offers some basic processing of the recorded information: transposition, velocity locking and shifting, quantization, shuffle, humanization (random variations of velocity), adjusting the length of the loop, or doubling and halving of the playback speed.

MIDI LOOPER V 1.0 ELEMOHALA LE HO REKHOTA MEFUTA ENA YA MELAETSA:

BALA LE HO FETOLELA MELAETSA YA NAKO YA SEBELE (HA ENA MIDI CHANNEL)

HLOKOMELA

Midilooper e mamela liteishene tsohle tsa MIDI ebe e fetisa melaetsa ea MIDI feela ka mocha oa MIDI o abetsoeng lentsoe le khethiloeng. Sebelisa likonopo A, B, C ho khetha lentsoe.

KHOKANO MOTHO

1. Connect any keyboard or controller that outputs MIDI to the MIDI Input of the Midilooper.
2. Connect the MIDI Out of Midilooper to any synth or sound module that receives MIDI.
3. (optional) Connect MIDI Out 2 of the Midilooper to another synth
4. Connect USB power to Midilooper

KELETSO: HO SHEBA HORE NA U FUMANA LITSEBISO TSA MIDI LENTSOE LA PELE PONTSHO LE TLA FINYA (FEELA HA SEBAPALI SE EMITSE).

EKETSENG LICHAKANE MIDI

You should know
In button combinations these buttons act as arrows:
REC = UP
PLAY/STOP = DOWN

Voice buttons A, B, and C select the voice. Select voice A by pressing the button and set up its output MIDI channel by holding FN+A+UP/DOWN. The display will show the MIDI channel number. Set the MIDI input channel on your synth to the same channel. If done correctly, playing notes on your keyboard should play these notes on your synth. If it does not, check the connections, power and MIDI channel settings on both the Midilooper, and your synth. Follow the same procedure for setting up voice B and C.

KELETSO: KA NTLHA ENA U KA BA LE HO KENYA STATIC OCTAVE OFFSET HO LENTSWE LA HAO (SYNTH E NNGWE LE E MONG O KA BATLA HO BAPALA KA OCTAVE E FAPANENG). HO ETSA SEO, penya FN+TRANSPOSE+VOICE+UP/DOWN

Getting MIDI feedback?

MIDI feedback can occur in some synths when using MIDI In and MIDI Out on the synth. Try disabling MIDI Thru and Local Control on the synth. In case you cannot or don’t want to do some of these you can activate the MIDI feedback filter on the Midilooper. While selecting the MIDI channel on the voice that is feedbacking, press the CLEAR button. This will turn on the MIDI FEEDBACK FILTER or in other words: disable the live playback on that particular channel, and only looped material will play back. Changing to any other MIDI channel will reset this feature to its initial off state.

KHOKELA 'ME U KHETHE OCHE EA HAO MOHLOLI

There are several options of clocking the Midilooper.
You can select the clock source by FN+PLAY/STOP. The selection cycles in the following order:

1. MIDI Clock on MIDI Input (display arrow pointing to MIDI In)
2. Analog clock on Clock Input (REC LED On)*
3. MIDI Clock on Clock Input (REC LED blinking) – you might need MIDI to mini jack adaptor to use this option**
4. Tap tempo (Clear LED On) – tempo set by FN+CLEAR = TAP
5. Free running (Clear LED blinking) – no clock needed! The tempo is set by the length of the initial recording (as with audio loopers)
6. USB Midi – display says UB and LENGTH Led lights up

* If you are using an analog clock, you might want to adjust the DIVIDER.

** Beware that there are incompatible versions of the standard MIDI connector (5pin DIN) to 3,5mm (⅛ inch) TRS MIDI jacks adapters on the market. The variants developed during a period before standardisation of the minijack MIDI (around mid 2018). We comply with the standard specified by midi.org.

KELETSO: HO BONA HORE NA OACH OA HAO E SEBELE, U KA LEBELA LETHEO LA BOBELI PONTSHO HA SEBAPALI SE EMETSE.

LIEKETSENG KHOPO

Metronome Out – headphones metronome output.
Seta hape – makes the Midilooper go to the first step.
CVs or Pedals – 3 jack inputs which can be either used as CV inputs or as pedal inputs to control the Midilooper interface. The CVs can influence one, two or all voices.

Ho khetha haeba CV e sebetsa bakeng sa lentsoe tšoara konopo ea lentsoe metsotsoana e 5 ebe u sebelisa:
QUANTIZE button to activate the RETRIGGER
VELOCITY button to activate VELOCITY CV
TRANSPOSE button to active TRANSPOSE CV

Haeba ho se na mantsoe a behiloeng ho amohela CV ho jack eo, jack e tla sebetsa joalo ka pedal input.
RETRIGGER input will act as RECORD button
VELOCITY input will act as CLEAR button
TRANSPOSE input will cycle thru the voices

TIP: YOU CAN CONNECT ANY SUSTAIN TYPE PEDAL TO CONTROL THE RECORD BUTTON, CLEAR BUTTON OR THE VOICE SELECTION. YOU MIGHT NEED TO USE AN ADAPTER TO MAKE IT 3.5MM ( ”) INSTEAD OF THE MORE STANDARD 6.3MM (¼”).THE INPUTS RESPOND TO A CONTACT BETWEEN THE TIP AND THE SLEEVE. YOU CAN ALSO BUILD YOUR OWN PEDAL BY PUTTING ANY BUTTON CONTACT BETWEEN THE TIP AND THE SLEEVE OF THE JACK CONNECTOR. IT ONLY DETECTS TIP-SLEEVE CONTACT.

Connect Midilooper to your computer with a USB cable and look for it in your Midi devices. It is a class compliant USB Midi device so it will not need drivers on most computers. Use USB as input for the Midilooper for looping, use it to sync the Midilooper.
Midilooper also mirrors its output to USB so you can play your software synths.

ELA HLOKO: MIDILOOPER HASE USB HOST HA O KA KE U HLOLA MOLAOLI oa USB MIDI HO MIDILOOPER. USB MIDI E BOLELA HORE MIDILOOPER E TLA HLAHALA JOALOKA SESEBETSI SA MIDI K'homphieutha ea hau.

KHAHLILE

REKOTELA LEQEPHE

Press the RECORD button to “arm” the recording. The recording will start with the first received MIDI Note or as soon as you press the PLAY/STOP button.
To finish the loop press the RECORD button again at the end of the phrase. Now the LENGTH LED will light up green to indicate you have established a loop length. The length establishes itself automatically for all the voices.
You can change the length for each voice individually, or use the CLEAR function to establish the length by recording (see further).

KHAHLILE / HLAKOLA

Hang ha rekoto ea pele e phethiloe, u ka fetola lentsoe le ho rekota loop bakeng sa sesebelisoa se fapaneng, kapa u ka eketsa likarolo lentsoeng le le leng. Ho rekota ka switch ka mokhoa oa OVERDUB ho tla lula ho eketsa likarolo tse ncha. Leha ho le joalo, ka mokhoa oa OVERWRITE, lintho tse rekotiloeng qalong li tla hlakoloa hang ha bonyane molaetsa o le mong o tšoaroa le ho rekotoa.

HLAKOLA

Sebelisa konopo ea ERASE ha u ntse u bapala ho hlakola lintlha tse rekotiloeng feela ha konopo ea ERASE e ntse e ts'oaretsoe. E sebetsa bakeng sa lentsoe le khethiloeng.

HO HLAKOLA LEKOKA LE HO ETSA LE NCHA

Ho hlakola loop ea lentsoe le khethiloeng, tobetsa konopo ea HLAKOLA hang. Sena se tla hlakola lintho tsohle tse rekotiloeng, ha se ntse se seta bolelele ba loop. Ts'ebetso ea ho hlakola e tla "hlomella" ho rekota.

Tobetsa konopo ea HLAKOLA habeli ho hlakola mantsoe ohle, seta bolelele ba loop bocha, emisa sebapali ebe u tšoara rekoto. Macro ena e tla lokisa Midilooper bakeng sa loop e ncha ka boitšisinyo bo le bong.

TS'ELISO MOLAPO

THOLA

Tšoara konopo ea CLEAR 'me u tobetse likonopo tsa lentsoe ka bomong ho HOLISA le HO LUTSA mantsoe.

MOEKETSI KHETHA

Lilou tse rekotiloeng tsa mantsoe ohle a 3 ke mohlala. Ho fetola lipakeng tsa lipaterone tse 12 tse fapaneng, tšoara konopo ea PLAY ebe u tobetsa e 'ngoe ea likonopo tsa lentsoe ho khetha e 'ngoe ea lipaterone tse tharo. Ho na le lihlopha tse 'ne tsa lipaterone tse tharo le ho fihlella lihlopha tse fapaneng tsa paterone tobetsa e' ngoe ea likonopo tse 'ne tse nyane (LENGTH, QUANTIZE, VELOCITY, TRANSPOSE) u ntse u tšoere konopo ea PLAY.

POLOKO MATS'OANE

Ho boloka dipaterone tsohle tobetsa FN+REC. Lipaterone li bolokiloe ka litlhophiso tsena: quantize, shuffle, humanize, velocity, length, stretch. Litlhophiso tse ling tsohle tsa lefats'e li bolokoa ka bo eona (Khetho ea oache, liteishene tsa MIDI jj.)

TLHALOSA

Ho ts'oara TLHOKOMELISO le ho tobetsa li-toggles tsa REC lipakeng tsa UNdo kapa REdo Liphoso li kanna tsa etsahala mme haeba li etsa joalo ho na le e 'ngoe ea Hlakola ho u pholosa. Etsolla morao ketso ea morao-rao. Ekaba ho rekota, ho hlakola kapa ho hlakola. REdo e tla khutlisa UNdo ea morao-rao kahoo o ka sebelisa tšobotsi ena ka boqhetseke haholoanyane. Bakeng sa mohlalaample ho kenya lesela le lecha la overdub e tlose mme o e kenye hape.

RETS'ELISITSOE MAKHOPO

BELELE

The LENGTH of your loop can be changed either globally: LENGTH+UP/DOWN or per voice: LENGTH+VOICE+UP/DOWN. The display will show how long the loop is (in beats). Adjusting Length will change in increments of 4 beats 1 bar.
To make finer increments TAP and HOLD LENGHT + UP/DOWN to change the Length in increments of +/- 1.

Ho rekota loop ea pele ho tla lula ho lekanya bolelele ba loop ho bar (4 beats). Recorded Looplength e ka ba telele ho feta 256 beats. Ke ponts'o feela e ke keng ea hlahisa linomoro tse fetang tseo. Ho tobetsa LENGTH ntle le hore lupu ea pele e thehoe (Leseli la LENGTH le tima) ho tla nka Length e sebelisitsoeng ho qetela ebe e e seta.

QOLELANG

Quantize e hokahanya lintlha tsa hau tse rekotiloeng ho grid. E BULE kapa HO TLOA ka ho tobetsa hanngoe feela konopo ea QUANTIZE.

The amount of QUANTIZE can be changed either globally: QUANTIZE+UP/DOWN
or per voice: QUANTIZE+VOICE+UP/DOWN.
The number on the display represents the type of grid to which the recorded material will be quantized.

VELOCITY

Activating VELOCITY will filter the velocity of all recorded notes and make it a static value.
The value of VELOCITY can be changed either globally: VELOCITY+UP/DOWN,
or per voice: VELOCITY+VOICE+UP/DOWN.
Tip: If you go with velocity below “00” you will get to “NO” for “normal” or “no-change” of velocity. This way, only certain voices can be affected by VELOCITY.

Phetolelo

In Transpose mode, the recorded material can be transposed via live input on your keyboard. The Transpose mode is accessed by pressing the TRANSPOSE button and exited by pressing any of the voice buttons.
To select which voices are affected by the Transpose mode hold down TRANSPOSE and press the voice buttons to activate/ deactivate its effect per voice.

Transposition will apply relatively to a root note. To select the root note, hold the TRANSPOSE button and play a MIDI Note via the MIDI Input (DOTS will light up on the display to indicate that the root note has been set).
When the root note has been selected, pressing notes on the keyboard will be transposing recorded material for the selected voices relative to the root note. The last pressed note will stay in effect.
Exiting the Transpose mode will remove the transposition but the root note will be remembered.

ELA HLOKO: HORE MOKHOA OA HO FETOHA HO SEBELISA BOHLOKOA LE LE NNGWE LA LENTSWE LE LOKELA HO SEBEDISWA MME HO KHETHWA MOTSO.

OTLALA

Stretch can make the recorded loop play at quarter, third, half, double, triple or quadruple speed.
Press: FN+LENGTH+UP/DOWN to change the stretch.
It applies only to the selected voice and it will become active at the moment you release the buttons.

TS'OALANG

Shuffle e eketsa tieho ho lintlha tse ling tsa bo-16 ho fihlela phello ea swing. Tobetsa: FN+QUANTIZE+UP/DOWN ho lokisa bongata ba Shuffle. Litekanyetso tse ntle li lieha motsotsoana o mong le o mong oa bo-16 ka liperesente tse behiloengtage to achieve a swing effect. Negative values add respective amounts of random timing delays to all sent MIDI messages to achieve a more human timing feel.
It applies only to the selected voice and is rendered after the Quantize.

SEBELISA MOTHO

Botho bo fetola lebelo la lintlha tse bapaloang tsa MIDI. Etsa: FN+VELOCITY+UP/DOWN ho beha lipalo tse fapaneng tsa Humanize.

The higher the amount, the more the VELOCITY gets randomly affected.
It applies only to the selected voice and is rendered after the Quantize.

SEBELETSA

You might also want to add a static octave offset to your voices. Each synth can play in a different octave, or you might want to change this performatively.
Perform: FN+TRANSPOSE+VOICE+UP/DOWN to change the Octave offset per voice.

TAOLI KA NTLE

RETS'ELISITSOE

Retrigger input e tla tsosolosa enfelopo ka ho romela Note Off le Note On ka tatellano bakeng sa lintlha tse tsitsitseng le Note On le Note Off bakeng sa sete ea ho qetela ea lintlha tse bapaloang ka legato. Sena se tla sebetsa ho lintlha tsohle tse bapalitsoeng ho legato le ka mor'a hore li lokolloe. "Ho bapaloa ka legato" ho bolela hore hafeela u ntse u koahela qetello ea ntlha e le 'ngoe ka ho qala e' ngoe, kapa ho fihlela u lokolla lintlha tsohle, Midilooper e tla hopola lintlha tsena kaofela joalokaha li bapaloa ho legato. Ka mantsoe a bonolo, haeba u bapala le ho lokolla chord ebe u sebelisa Retrigger - lintlha tseo li tla tsosolosoa. Retrigger e ka sebelisoa ho lentsoe le le leng, tse peli, kapa kaofela. Sheba Lihokelo tse ling mabapi le mokhoa oa ho abela lipehelo tsa CV.

VELOCITY CV

The Velocity CV input adds to the Velocity value of the live-played, recorder or retriggered notes. This can be used in conjunction with the Velocity feature or simply to add accents to certain notes. The Velocity CV can be applied to one, two, or all voices.
See Further Connections on how to assign the CV inputs.

FETOLELA CV

The Transpose CV input adds to the Note value of the recorded material. The input is scaled volt per octave. This can be used in conjunction with the Transpose or Octave feature.
The Transpose CV can be applied to one, two, or all voices.
See Further Connections on how to assign the CV inputs.

RETS'ELISITSOE

Ho kenya Reset ho tla etsa hore Midilooper e ee mohato oa pele. E ke ke ea bapala mohato, leha ho le joalo. Ke oache feela ea mohloli oa oache e khethiloeng e tla bapala mohato oa pele.

MOAROAI

Khetho ena e u lumella ho nyolla / theola tempo ea hau ea ho kenya ho tsoa ho kenyelletso ea oache ea analog. Tobetsa FN+ERASE+UP/DOWN ho fetola divider. Oache e tloaelehileng haholo ke lintlha tse ling le tse ling tsa 16, leha ho le joalo, e kanna ea ba kapele joalo ka lintlha tsa 32 kapa butle joalo ka lintlha tsa 8 kapa 4. Pontšo e bontša nomoro e khethiloeng. Ha "01" e khethiloe, sebapali se tla ntlafatsoa feela ka lebelo la oache ea analog. Sebelisa khetho ena ha u sebetsa ka oache e sa tloaelehang.

HLOKOMELA: Oache ea ANALOGO E PHAHAMETSOE KA HARE HO FIHLELA MIDI CLOCK (24 PPQN = PULSES KA KOTA TLHOKOMELISO) LE HO BEA SEAROHISI HO TLA SUSUMETSOA HO EKETSEHILENG BOITŠOARO BA QUANTIZE LE LIPEKENG TSE LING TSA NAKO.

Sheba Hokela 'me u khethe mohloli oa oache oa hau ho fumana lintlha tse ling.

TAOLE PEANA

The user interface can be controlled by foot pedals.
See Further Connections on how to use external pedals.

LOOPING CCs LE PITCH BEND LE A AFTERTOUCH

Control Change and Pitch Bend and Aftertouch (channel) messages can be recorded and looped as well. As with MIDI Notes, the Midilooper will listen to these on all channels and forward them / play them back only on the channels assigned to its voices. The overdub/overwrite mode does not apply to these messages.
Once the first CC of a certain number is received, the Midilooper will remember when it was tweaked, and it will start recording the loop for this CC number. Once it finishes the loop and comes to the same position in the loop as the first CC of that number, it will stop recording the CC and will start the playback of the recorded values.
After that point, any newly arriving CC will act as the first CC and will start the recording until a full loop is reached.

Sena se sebetsa ka ho bapa le linomoro tsohle tsa CC (ntle le li-CC tse khethehileng: ts'ebetso ea pedal, lintlha tsohle li tima joalo-joalo).

KELETSO: BAPALA/ETSA+HO HLAKOLA = HLAKOLA FEELA CCS BAKENG SA LENTSOE LE KHETHENG.

Maikutlo a ho rekota ha Pitch Bend le Aftertouch a tšoana le a li-CC.

LIEKETSENG FIRMWARE

The firmware version is shown on the display in two following frames when you start up the device.
If shown as F1 and then 0.0 read it as Firmware 1.0.0
The latest firmware can be found here:
https://bastl-instruments.github.io/midilooper/

Ho ntlafatsa firmware, latela mehato ena:

1. Hold down the Velocity button while connecting the Midilooper to your computer via USB
2. The display shows “UP” as for firmware update mode, and MIDILOOPER will show up as an external DISC on your computer (mass storage device)
3. Khoasolla firmware ea morao-rao file
   (file lebitso midilooper_mass_storage.uf2)
4. Kopitsa sena file ho disk ea MIDILOOPER khomphuteng ea hau (Lebelo la LED le tla qala ho panya ho netefatsa katleho)
5. Safely remove (eject) the MIDILOOPER disc from your computer, but do NOT disconnect the USB cable!
6. Press the Velocity Button to start the firmware update (the LEDs around the Velocity button will blink, and the device will start up with the new firmware – check the firmware version on the display on startup)

MIDI TŠEBETSO THAKO

AMOHELA

On all channels:
Note On, Note Off
Sekoti se koaloang
CC (64=sustain)
Channel mode messages:
Lintlha Tsohle li Tlohile

MIDI Real Time Messages:
Clock, Start, Stop, Continue

PHETHISO

On selected channels:
Note On, Note Off
Sekoti se koaloang
CC

MIDI Real Time Messages:
Clock, Start, Stop, Continue

MIDI THRU

MIDI Thru ea MIDI Real Time Melaetsa - ha feela MIDI Clock e khethoa e le mohloli oa Clock.

HLOKA EXAMPLE

HLOKA EXAMP01

NO CLOCK SOURCE – FREE RUNNING MODE
LOOPING MIDI FROM A MIDI CONTROLLER

HLOKA EXAMP02

SYNCED BY MIDI CLOCK
LOOPING MIDI FROM MORE COMPLEX INSTRUMENT LISTENING TO METRONOME ON HEADPHONES

HLOKA EXAMP03

SYNCED TO DRUM MACHINE VIA MIDI CLOCK (VIA TRS JACK)
LOOPING MIDI FROM A MIDICONTROLLER
CONTROLLING LOOPER WITH FOOTPEDALS

HLOKA EXAMP04

SYNCED TO ANALOG CLOCK FROM MODULAR SYNTHESIZER
LOOPING MIDI FROM A KEYBOARD SYNTH
CONTROLLED BY CVS AND TRIGGERS FROM A MODULAR SYNTH

HLOKA EXAMP05

SYNCED BY USB MIDI CLOCK
LOOPING MIDI FROM LAPTOP
LISTENING TO METRONOME ON HEADPHONES

Eya ho www.bastl-instruments.com for more info and video tutorials.

Litokomane / Lisebelisoa

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