ORIGIN – USER’S MANUAL 1 Information Contained in This Manual Is Subject to Change Without Notice and Does Not Represent a Commitment on the Part of ARTURIA
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USER’S MANUAL OORRIIGGIINN ARTURIA – ORIGIN – USER’S MANUAL 1 Information contained in this manual is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of ARTURIA. The hardware unit and the software product described in this manual are provided under the terms of a license agreement or non-disclosure agreement. The license agreement specifies the terms and conditions for its lawful use. No part of this manual may be produced or transmitted in any form or by any purpose other than purchaser’s personal use, without the explicit written permission of ARTURIA S.A. All other products, logos or company names quoted in this manual are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. © ARTURIA SA – 1999-2008 – All rights reserved. 4, Chemin de Malacher 38240 Meylan FRANCE http://www.ARTURIA.com ARTURIA – ORIGIN – USER’S MANUAL 2 PRODUCT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Frédéric Brun PROGRAMMING: Philippe Wicker (Lead Developer) Bruno Pillet Vincent Travaglini Cristian Kreindler Fabrice Bourgeois Kevin Molcard Niccolò Comin ELECTRONICS: Jérôme Dumas (Wave Idea) Laurent Baret DESIGN: Axel Hartmann (Design Box) Frank Rüffel (Rüffel) Klaus Weber Morgan Perrier SOUND DESIGN: Jean-Michel Blanchet (Lead 1) Menno Meijer Thomas Koot (Lead 2) Kevin Lamb Glen Darcey Ruff & Jam Tasmodia Katsunori Ujiie Richard Devine INDUSTRIALIZATION: Antoine Back Francesco d’Abramo (Asteel-Flash) Loïc Biarez (AV Trade) Gérard Buracchini MANUAL: Jean-Michel Blanchet Thomas Koot Houston Haynes Antoine Back Niccolò Comin SPECIAL THANKS TO: Charles Malka, Carl Conrad, Francis Martin (OSEO-ANVAR), Philippe Girard-Buttoz, Gilles Benhamou (Asteel-Flash), Cédric Veslot (AVNET), Christian Faure (Jessica), Denis Labrecque (Analog Devices), Frank Orlich, Athan Billias (Yamaha), Benoît Widemann, Christophe Martin de Montagu, Pierre Cossard, Gavin Burke, Mickael Le Goff, Emilie de Fouchecour, Amélie Serpolet, Dapeng Hou, Guillaume Piolat, Guillaume Tonck, Nicolas Bronnec, Bruno Minatchy, Julian McDole, Damien Vandenbeyvanghe, Olivier Mary, Raphaël Loyet, Florent Balestrieri, Joffrey Saboukoulou, Thierry Duquesnes, Benjamin Gross, Jean-Philippe Rykiel, Celmar Engel, Bryan Borcherds. ARTURIA – ORIGIN – USER’S MANUAL 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Special Message Section ....................................................................................9 1.1 Generalities ...............................................................................................9 1.2 Precautions ................................................................................................9 2 Introduction................................................................................................. 11 2.1 Origin overview ......................................................................................... 11 2.2 Check the latest update!.............................................................................. 11 2.3 TAE ® ...................................................................................................... 12 2.3.1 Aliasing-free oscillators ............................................................................ 12 2.3.2 A better reproduction of analog oscillator waveforms ....................................... 12 2.3.3 Direct filter circuit modeling ..................................................................... 14 3 Hardware settings ......................................................................................... 15 3.1 How to put the Origin synthesizer in a rack. ...................................................... 15 3.2 How to set the screen orientation. ................................................................. 15 4 Origin's user interface..................................................................................... 16 4.1 Front panel .............................................................................................. 16 4.1.1 Output section....................................................................................... 16 4.1.2 Input section ......................................................................................... 16 4.1.3 Joystick section ..................................................................................... 17 4.1.4 “Analog” section .................................................................................... 17 4.1.4.1 Oscillator section............................................................................. 17 4.1.4.2 Filter section .................................................................................. 17 4.1.4.3 LFO section .................................................................................... 17 4.1.4.4 Envelope section ............................................................................. 17 4.1.5 “Screen” section .................................................................................... 18 4.1.6 Sound Select section ............................................................................... 18 4.1.7 Mixer section......................................................................................... 18 4.1.8 Effects section....................................................................................... 19 4.1.9 Sequencer section .................................................................................. 19 4.2 The Origin Keyboard ................................................................................... 19 4.2.1 The Control Panel................................................................................... 20 4.2.2 The Key Mechanism................................................................................. 20 4.2.3 Pitch and Modulation wheels...................................................................... 20 4.2.4 Octave switches ..................................................................................... 20 4.2.5 Ribbon Control....................................................................................... 20 4.3 Rear panel ............................................................................................... 21 5 Connections................................................................................................. 22 5.1 Connecting the AC/DC power supply ............................................................... 22 5.2 Connecting Origin to headphones ................................................................... 23 5.3 Connecting Origin’s analog outputs to external audio equipment ............................ 23 5.3.1 Main Outputs......................................................................................... 23 5.3.2 Auxiliary Outputs.................................................................................... 23 5.4 Connecting Origin to digital audio equipment .................................................... 23 5.5 Connecting pedals and switches ..................................................................... 23 5.6 Connecting external MIDI equipment ............................................................... 24 5.6.1 Using Origin as a sound module .................................................................. 24 5.6.2 Using Origin as a MIDI controller ................................................................. 24 5.6.3 MIDI channel settings – Getting ready to play.................................................. 24 ARTURIA – ORIGIN – USER’S MANUAL 4 5.7 Connecting your computer............................................................................ 24 5.8 Connecting the audio inputs – INPUT jacks ........................................................ 25 6 The Origin structure....................................................................................... 26 6.1 Overview of the global structure of Origin ........................................................ 26 6.2 The Program preset .................................................................................... 26 6.3 The Multi preset ........................................................................................ 28 7 Quick Start .................................................................................................. 30 7.1 Turning on the power and adjusting the volume ................................................. 30 7.2 Adjusting the volume .................................................................................. 31 7.3 Demo playback.......................................................................................... 31 7.4 Playing Program presets............................................................................... 32 7.5 Editing the preset ...................................................................................... 33 7.6 Saving your Program ................................................................................... 34 7.7 Add a module to your preset ......................................................................... 35 7.8 Using the Minimoog template ........................................................................ 36 7.9 The Multi mode ......................................................................................... 40 7.10 Using the step sequencer ............................................................................. 41 7.11 Adding modulation with the Galaxy module....................................................... 44 7.12 The effects section..................................................................................... 45 7.12.1 Chorus................................................................................................