These tutorials were written to make you find your way into the secrets of your C15 synthesizer quickly and easily. Please consult the Quickstart Guide or the User Manual to learn everything about the basic concept and setup of your C15 before using these tutorials. Please also consult the User Manual any time to delve deeper into the capabilities of the C15 synthesis engine, and to learn about all the details of any of the parameters of the instrument.
A tutorial will teach you basic aspects of the C15’s concepts as well as the various components of the sound engine, and how they interact with each other, in a hands-on manner. It is an easy way to familiarize yourself with your C15, and a starting point for your sound design work on the instrument it is, too.
If you feel like learning more about the details of a specific parameter (e.g. value ranges, scaling, modulation capabilities etc), please refer to chapter 8.4. Parameter Reference
of the User Manual at any time. You can use the tutorials and the User Manual in parallel.
The tutorials use the front panel of the instrument. In case you would rather like to work with the Graphic User Interface, please refer to the Quickstart Guide or chapter 7 User Interfaces
of the User Manual first to learn about the basic concepts of the GUI. After this, you will be able to easily apply the programming steps described and transfer them from the hardware panel to the GUI.
These tutorials describe fairly simple programming examples you can follow step by step. You will find lists boasting programming steps and figures that show the C15’s user interface state. To make things perfectly clear, we make use of specific formatting throughout the entire tutorial.
Buttons (Section) that need to be pressed are formatted in yellow. The name of the section follows in (brackets). The Encoder is labelled the same way:
Sustain (Envelope A) … Encoder …
Secondary parameters that can be accessed by repeatedly hitting a button are labelled in yellow italic: Asym
Data values are yellow and in square brackets: [60.0 %]
Controllers, as the Ribbons and Pedals, are labelled in yellow Capitals: PEDAL 1
Programming steps to be performed are indented to the right and marked with a triangle, like this:
Notes on the previous programming step are even more indented to the right and marked with a double slash: //
This will look e.g. like this:
Every once in a while, you will find some notes of particular importance (at least we believe so...). They are marked by an exclamation mark (which looks like this:
Please note that there is …
Sometimes, you will find some explanations within a list of programming steps. They provide a little more in-depth knowledge and are called Excursions
. They look like this:
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Here and there, you will find short recaps – they look like this:
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Before starting, it is crucial to understand some basic conventions of the front panel – more on this in the Quickstart Guide:
Sub Parameterscan be accessed by pressing the button multiple times.
The images on the next page show the Edit Panel and one of the Selection Panels of the Panel Unit, and the Control Panel of the Base Unit.