DIP-12

DIGITAL INVERSION PROCESSOR

16 BIT · 44.1 kHz

POWER

INPUT

OUTPUT

INVERT

HITS / GAPS

UP / DOWN

LIGHT / DARK

NOTE / NOISE

ATTACK / SWELL

LOUD / QUIET

DRY / WET

DIP-12 DIGITAL INVERSION PROCESSOR

OPERATOR'S GUIDE (ENGLISH) SHEET 1 OF 2 DOC. NO. 12-OG-86

PLEASE KEEP THIS SHEET WITH THE UNIT

1. INTRODUCTION

Thank you for purchase of DIP-12. This unit performs inversion of a sampled sound by digital method, in seven properties. The sound is not changed by the user. It is turned over. Please read with care before operation is attempted.

2. SPECIFICATION

SAMPLING	12 BIT, 31.25 kHz, ONE CHANNEL
MEMORY	768 KB IN TWO BANKS. BANK A: THE ORIGINAL. BANK B: THE WORK. 8.4 SECONDS EACH.
INPUT	WAV, AIFF, MP3 ARE ACCEPTED BY THE DRIVE. LONGER SOUNDS ARE CUT AT THE END OF MEMORY.
OUTPUT	12 BIT, 44.1 kHz. THE SOUND IS WRITTEN AS HEARD, WITH WIDE AND WET, AT ITS FULL LENGTH. LEVEL IS BROUGHT TO MAXIMUM.
DISPLAY	16 CHARACTERS, 2 LINES, FLUORESCENT
POWER	100 V AC 50 / 60 Hz. 18 W.

3. OPERATION

Insert disk at INPUT, or drop the sound anywhere on the unit. Both banks are loaded. Display shows READY, and under it LENGTH of the sound in seconds. If the sound is longer than memory, display shows MEM FULL and the end is lost. This is normal.
If memory already holds a sound, the unit asks before reading a new disk. The LOOP lamp flashes. Press LOOP to read it: both banks are loaded and the work in bank B is lost. Press RESET to keep the sound in memory. Any other key is not an answer. The display shows INVALID, the question is cancelled and the sound in memory is kept.
Press PLAY to hear bank B from the start. Press again to stop. LOOP latches repeated play.
Press any INVERT key. The named property of the sound is turned over. The lamp above the key shows the key pressed last. The display shows the key and counts the operations.
Each operation passes the sound through the converter again. Repeated operation causes wear of the sound, as with tape. This is by design and is not a defect. Pressing one key two times does not restore the sound.
Hold A / B (or the space bar of the host) to hear bank A. Display shows BANK A. Release to return to bank B.
RESET copies bank A into bank B. There is no other way back. Please consider before pressing.
WIDE makes a two-channel image from the one-channel sound, for the output only. The banks are not changed.
WET mixes bank A under bank B, for the output only. At B, bank B alone is heard. At A, bank A alone. Between, both, in the proportion shown. While the slider moves, the display shows WET and the proportion of bank B. The banks are not changed.
To write the result, drag the OUTPUT drive to the desk, or into the host application. Pressing the drive writes the disk to the download place of the host instead. The disk is written as it is heard: with WIDE, and mixed by WET. To write bank B alone, set WET to B.

4. INVERT KEYS

GATE	Hits and gaps exchange. Where there was a hit there is a gap. Where there was a gap, the hit before it repeats.
PITCH	Notes above the key centre go below it, by the same distance, and notes below go above. The sound may become longer or shorter.
TONE	Bright becomes dark and dark becomes bright. The notes are not moved. Please do not adjust the receiver.
GRAIN	The note part and the noise part of the sound exchange levels.
ENVELOPE	Each note is played from its end to its start.
ACCENT	Loud notes become quiet, quiet notes become loud.
SPACE	The sound is removed and the room it was in remains.

When a key finds nothing of the named property in the sound, it acts anyway and the display reports it, for example NO HITS - FORCED. The result is still a result.

5. DISPLAY MESSAGES

NO DISK INSERT DISK	No sound is loaded.
LENGTH 8.3 SEC	Length of the sound loaded. It is shown until the first operation.
READY	Waiting for a key.
BANK A	A / B is held. Bank A is heard.
WET 70%	The WET slider is moving. 100% is bank B alone, 0% bank A alone.
MEM FULL	The sound was cut to fit memory.
READ ERR	The disk could not be read. It is returned by the drive. Try another sound.
READ NEW DISK? LOOP=YES RST=NO	A new disk is in the drive and memory holds a sound. The unit waits for an answer.
INVALID CANCELLING...	The key pressed was not LOOP or RESET. The new disk is not read.
FLAT - FORCED	ACCENT found all notes at one level and exchanged beats instead.
NO ONSETS-FORCED	ENVELOPE found no notes and reversed in fixed pieces.
NO HITS - FORCED NO GAPS - FORCED	GATE found only gaps, or only hits, and chose for itself.
NO PITCH-FORCED AT ROOT - FORCED	PITCH or GRAIN found no note to work from and used a fixed one.
NEUTRAL - FORCED	TONE found the sound not bright and not dark, and made it darker.

6. CAUTION

Do not clean the keys with solvent. Memory is lost at power off. Nothing is kept, except settings made in service mode. The unit contains no user serviceable parts. In case of trouble, please return the unit to the dealer with this sheet.

ERRATA SHEET 2 OF 2 INSERTED AT SHIPMENT

Section 3, item 5: the wear is heard after about five operations and is strong after twenty. The sound after many operations is also a result.
Section 6, "service mode": this mode is for the service technician. It is entered by applying the 1 kHz reference tone from the alignment tape (sine wave, 3 seconds or more, clean) to INPUT. Settings made in service mode are retained after power off. The operator should not attempt this.

SERVICE PANEL. NOT PART OF THE UNIT. BPM OVERRIDE ONSET SENS GATE PANEL WEAR TONE MIDDLE DIP-16 STEREO FLIPS

THE PAGE (MILESTONE 23): THE SCALE THE RACK IS AT.

DIP-24 (REV C) IN THE RACK, AS ITS SERVICE DISK PUTS IT THERE (MILESTONE 22). WITH SVC BIT, THE RACK IS A LOOP. CODEC

REV C ON THE BEAT (MILESTONE 15). FROM THE NEXT PRESS. GATE ENVELOPE

REV C ACCENT PER BAND, BY ATTACK (MILESTONE 16). FROM THE NEXT PRESS. OVER FULL SCALE

REV C PITCH SNAPPED TO THE SCALE, FORMANTS KEPT (MILESTONE 17). FROM THE NEXT PRESS. PITCH CHORDS

REV C SPACE THROUGH SAMPLED ROOMS, MODELED (MILESTONE 18). FROM THE NEXT PRESS. SPACE

REV C TONE AND GRAIN (MILESTONE 19). FROM THE NEXT PRESS. TONE GRAIN