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Eventide
Eclipse
User Manual
Part number: 141045 Manual Release 1.10 9 October, 2001
2001 Eventide Inc., One Alsan Way, Little Ferry, NJ 07643 USA
Harmonizer is a registered trademark of Eventide Inc. for its audio special effects devices incorporating pitch shift.
Eclipse and UltraShifter are trademarks of Eventide Inc.
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Eclipse User Manual - Contents The How’s and Why’s of This Manual ........................................................................................................................3 OVERVIEWS, BASIC INFORMATION, AND QUICKSTART .......................................................4 THE BIG PICTURE – A MUST READ..........................................................................................................................4 KNOBS, KEYS, AND JACKS ..........................
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Eclipse User Manual - Contents Naming Things – The Mechanics .............................................................................................................................. 29 PARAMETERS.............................................................................................................................................................. 30 Hot Keys .............................................................................................................................
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Eclipse User Manual The How’s and Why’s of This Manual Of course you have more exiting things to do than to read this manual. For one thing, you have a fabulous new Eclipse waiting to effect all those sounds so badly in need of effecting. While the Eclipse is engineered for intuitive, user-friendly operation, reading this manual, either in part or in whole, will help clarify and illumi- nate its vast array of powerful features. Here’s how we’ve made that as painless a process as possible: •
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Eclipse User Manual Overviews, Basic Information, and Quickstart You bought a serious piece of machinery, friend. A benefactor of Eventide’s venerated Orville and H3000 line of effects processors and a quarter century of Eventide’s digital audio excellence, the Eclipse boasts… • The world’s richest sounding and widest array of effects • A global tempo feature that synchronizes LFOs, delay times, and other time-sensitive parameters to the music being processed • Two configurable effects
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Eclipse User Manual • All of the levels and signal selection outside the DSP is addressed in the LEVELS area and the SETUP area. Refer to the “Eclipse System Signal Flow” sheet provided in the pocket of this manual to “look” at the signal flow outside the DSP. You cannot save these settings as parts of programs. • All of the routing and levels inside the DSP are addressed in the PARAMETER area. Refer to the “Pro- gram Signal Flow” sheet provided in the pocket of this manual to “look” at the
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Eclipse User Manual 9) Knob Turning the knob changes parameter values. 10) Meter Displays the signal level at various points throughout the signal path. It’s useful both for optimizing sound quality (you always want a high signal short of clipping) and for troubleshooting. You can alter the point in the signal flow at which the meter is “inserted” by pressing LEVELS meter (source). ! see page 19 11) OVERLOAD This LED lights to let you know that the signal being moni- tored by the mete
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Eclipse User Manual The Back Panel A) AC Port Connect an IEC standard 3-prong AC power cord here. The center post is chassis ground. B) Analog Audio Inputs The Eclipse’s analog inputs accept either unbalanced 1/4-inch connec- 2 1 tors or balanced XLR connectors. Pin #1 is ground, pin #2 is positive 1/4" phase (hot), and pin #3 is negative phase (cold). To “unbalance” the XLR jack, use both pins #1 and #3 as ground and use pin #2 as 3 “hot.” If either pins #1 or #3 are unconnected, you wil
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Eclipse User Manual F) RCA Digital Interface Use these connectors to hook up the Eclipse to CD players, DAT recorders, and other audio gear using RCA connectors. The connectors are two-conductor RCA jacks. Your plug should have the shield connected to the sleeve with the single shielded conductor connected at the tip. To select the RCA input as the digital source, go to SETUP DIG-IN (DIG-IN). Set SETUP DIG-IN (CLOCK) to DigIn as well. The RCA output is always active, but the format of th
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Eclipse User Manual Out The Eclipse sends MIDI messages to other devices via the Out port. MIDI messages are also sent out the serial port if they are “enabled.” Thru Any MIDI information received at the MIDI In port is echoed di- rectly to the MIDI Thru port regardless of the Eclipse’s configura- tion (as long as the Eclipse is powered up). With the Memory Card removed, the BUSY LED on the front panel illuminates whenever a MIDI message is received at the MIDI In port. Note: If the ser
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Eclipse User Manual PARAMETER Parameter adjustments for the effects running on each of the Eclipse’s effect blocks, effect block bypassing, program loading, routing, and modulation block () con- trols. ! see page 30 SETUP Catchall for system level functions such as display bright- ness, digital rates and sources, MIDI setup, and lots of other cool stuff. Understanding the Display and Soft Keys The Bottom Line of the Display The display shows two lines of text. The top line i
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Eclipse User Manual (parentheses) are for straightforward parameters. Here we see LEVELS (WET/DRY). ^_BACK This special soft key sends you “up a level.” Here we see PARAMETER after the PARAMETER key has been pressed a few times. Pressing ^_BACK sends us “up” to the normal PARAMETER area screen. Before we move on to the top line of the display, we should point out a little graphic you may notice on the bottom right corner of the screen. It’s a number next to a right pointing
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Eclipse User Manual Quickstart Pressing keys is fine, but if that’s all you wanted to do you’d have been better off buying an infant’s “activity center” from a second-hand store. No, the whole point is to get some of that Eventide goodness into your music, and that’s just what we’re gonna do now… Hooking Up To the Outside World The Eclipse will sum analog and digital inputs and will output both analog and digital signals at all times. ! see the separate “Eclipse System Signal Flow” she
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Eclipse User Manual Choosing Effects The Eclipse has a whole bunch of cool programs, and you can sort through them in a number of useful ways. Press PROGRAM CRITERIA (SORT BY) to select either Number or Name for numerical or alphabetical listings. Press PROGRAM CRITERIA (SEARCH B) to select either Source (if you’d like to sort effects based on what type of input they were designed for) or Effect (if you’d like to sort effects based on their underlying algorithms). We’ll ignore the other
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Eclipse User Manual MIDI Clock Set SETUP TEMPO (TAP SRC) to Midiclock to control the tempo from a MIDI sequencer connected to the Eclipse’s MIDI input. MIDI Control Numbers Set SETUP TEMPO (TAP SRC) to CC xxx (where xxx is some number between 1 and 127) to control the tempo from MIDI control information on the channel selected at SETUP page 2 MIDI (CHANNEL) (Omni responds to all channels). This is useful for the same reasons Foot Switch Control is useful. When you save or update a pr
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Eclipse User Manual Too much distortion? Select the (FUZZ) soft key and use the knob to select out. Press the HOT KEYS key again to access more soft keys. Need more funk? Select (SENS) and use the knob to tune in the “good stuff”! OK, let’s load a different program that has an LFO so we can check out the Eclipse’s tempo feature. Go back to the PROGRAM area and press the < """" > soft key until the left side of the display reads Programs-All. Use the knob to select Dual Modfilter and then
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Eclipse User Manual grams. To prove it, load the program CombDelays. Should you peek back at the LFO’s (T_RATE), you’ll find it hasn’t changed. Now go to the HOT KEYS area and set (M_COMB) to 0 %. To assign the modulation block’s LFO to this parameter, hold down its soft key until the page shown to the right appears. Select and then set (SOURCE) to LFO#1. Trippy! You can change the depth of the effect with (SCALE). To disconnect modulation, simply set (SOURCE) back to off. !
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Eclipse User Manual Tutorial 2: Creating a Program “from Scratch” and Assigning a Hot Key A bit of background: all of the Eclipse’s programs are built on a hundred or so “algorithms.” A single pro- gram can contain one or two algorithms connected in series, parallel, or variations thereof. All of these raw algorithms are stored in factory programs 100 through 499 and are diagramed in the separately provided “Eclipse Algorithm” document. The process of creating a program “from scratch” involv
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Eclipse User Manual Operation …don’t touch the sides! You remember “Operation”: the childhood game where you pull plastic bones and other parts out of a little cardboard man? No? Oh well… Mounting and Handling Normally, you should have the Eclipse rack mounted in a standard 19-inch rack. If you take it on the road, support it from the rear as well. Keep the Eclipse well ventilated, dust-free, dry, and, like Little Bear’s por- ridge, neither too hot nor too cold. Don’t play catch with the
