modulated. It should also be used when
a hard lock between the looper and the
clock divider is required in any modes
of operation.
RST in section CLOCK — resets the
clock-divider and looper. Its function is
to align the divider and loopers. Trigger-
ing this function prior to recording so
that loopers synchronize to the clock-di-
vider is recommended.
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CLK pin
Inputs to a loopers individual clock
source.A pulsing signal, applied to these
pins will cause replacement of the hard-
wired clock with that individual one. The
full length of a looper is comprised of
128 clock impulses. The CLK pin is sen-
sitive and responsive to touch! Applying
a voltage through the body to these pins
will cause displacement of the loop. It
can be used as a loop altering effect. If
happy accidents are not desired, it can
be covered with pieces of the insulating
tube.
MIDI
LRN (Learn)
Buttons allow learning of incoming midi
signals and midi channels from the midi
DIN input on the back panel. By press-
ing the learn button next to a knob or
a channel then turning a knob/key on
your midi controller assigns Pulsar-23’s
drum channels/knobs/functions for ex-
ternal midi control. Drum channels and
the internal MIDI to CV converter auto-
matically identifies if a key or a knob was
activated. It makes a unique possibility
to control drum channels by continuous
controllers that give flexible control over
the channel’s attack, sustain, decay by a
simple drawing of the controller behavior
in a DAW.
This feature provides access for a DAW,
external sequencer or midi controllers to
perform detailed and complex automa-
tion over Pulsar.
MIDI CV
4-channel MIDI to CV converter.
If MIDI channel assigned to the bass
sound generator and MIDI channel as-
signed to the MIDI to CV converter num-
ber 1 are equal,the output 1 (marked KTR
—key tracking) will generate key-track-
ing signal according to input bass notes.
To make this assignment while holding
LRN button of the 1st MIDI to CV output
press any key on the keyboard assigned
to the bass channel.
For synchronization of the clock-divider
and the looper to an external MIDI signal,
set INT MIDI switch of CLOCK section to
MIDI position.
SHAOS
SHAOS is a unique and flexible pseu-
do-random generator based on shift
registers.
63-16-217—pseudo-random sequence
length selector. The length can be 63, 16
or 217 steps.
CLK — Clock input to synchronize the
pseudo-random generator to an external
source e.g. the clock-divider.
S/H—Input for the clock to sample and
hold. On the outputs marked “S/H” will
output synchronized signals with the
rising edges of the incoming CV signal.
Outputs DIR works independently from
LOOPER /RECORDER
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ADD — record notes into the looper.
2
DEL — erase notes in the looper.
In Record Mode:
• ADD—worksinoverdubmode
• IfholdingdownDELandpressingADD,
then erase and record are activated at
the same time so you have a kind of
punch-in mode.
In Play Mode:
• ADD—Playoverapre-recordedse-
quence or trigger sounds without al-
tering the recording.
• DEL—Mutenoteswithoutalteringthe
recording.
REC.CONT Module (Recorder Control)
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BANK—is a multi-functional button
4
L— is a multi-functional button
5
M— is a multi-functional button
• Press-HoldingtheBANKbuttonwhile
pressingADDorDELofonefromfour
drum channels will select 1 of 4 avail-
ablebanksofloops.Eachbankcon-
tains 4independent loops (one for
each drum channel).
• Press-HoldingtheBANKbuttonand
pressingADD+DELofonefromfour
drum channels will select a new bank
of loops while copying content from
the previous bank to the selected
one “on the fly” ie during a real-time
playing. Pressing these buttons com-
bination once again will continue this
copying from the current point. It al-
lows creating cool punch-in recordings
from one bank to another.
Сopying will be performed only on
those channels where the recording
mode is turned on.
• PressingtheBANKbutton+L(STOP)
stops a looper from playing.
• Ifpress-holdingtheBANKbutton+
M(START)andpressingADDorDEL
on one of the channels, the looper will
begin playback from 1 of 8 designated
sections.Eachchannellooperisdi-
vided into 8 equal partitions eg: sec-
tions.The8ADDandDELbuttonson
4 channels represent the 8 sections/
partitions linked to it.
• If press-holding BANK+L+M and
pressingADDorDELononeofthe
channels will perform quantisation of
this channels by 16”.
In Record Mode:
L and M control velocities of recorded
notes.
L — Low Velocity
M — Medium Velocity
L+M — High Velocity
In-Play Mode:
L and M change the velocity of previously
recorded notes.
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LRST (Looper ReStarT)
Applying positive voltage to this pin will
trigger a restart of a looper. A common
purpose for this pin is to sync-lock the
looper to the clock-divider. In a typical
scenario, LSRT should be connected to
the 0.25 value pin of the clock-divider.
Connection of LSRT to a smaller divider
value (0.5 1 2 4 ,etc) shortens a loopers
length. This connection, synchronization
should be used if the clock rate is to be
