Eventide H8000FW User's Guide

Programming Manual for H8000, H7600, Orville and the DSP7000 families of Harmonizer® Brand Effects Proce

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 8 of 97 Release 1.3 Custom Interface There is one very special module that i

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 9 of 97 Release 1.3 The menu pages found in the factory presets were almos

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 10 of 97 Release 1.3 MODULES Modules are the magic that make the Harmonizer

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 11 of 97 Release 1.3 The Characteristics of Modules There are several char

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 12 of 97 Release 1.3 RESOURCES A resource is something that is needed for th

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 13 of 97 Release 1.3 Specifiers have the following features: • they are

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 14 of 97 Release 1.3 MOD OUTPUTS A mod output is used to pass a high perform

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 15 of 97 Release 1.3 WRAP UP OK, so that completes our birds-eye view of

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 16 of 97 Release 1.3 VSIGFILE System Requirements and Background Knowledge

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 17 of 97 Release 1.3 On the Harmonizer, ensure that MIDI is enabled and sy

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The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 18 of 97 Release 1.3 BASIC FUNCTIONS All right, so now you have Vsigfile co

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 19 of 97 Release 1.3 Connecting Modules To connect an input to an output s

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 20 of 97 Release 1.3 DISPLAY FUNCTIONS Now that you can add modules, we can

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 21 of 97 Release 1.3 Aligning Modules You can align a group of modules ei

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 22 of 97 Release 1.3 EDITING One of the benefits of using Vsigfile over the

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 23 of 97 Release 1.3 Context Dependent Menus By right clicking the mouse,

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 24 of 97 Release 1.3 SENDING PROGRAMS TO THE HARMONIZER Once you’ve constru

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 25 of 97 Release 1.3 After adding both modules, the screen should look sim

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 26 of 97 Release 1.3 First click on the head module’s userobject input 1 (th

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 27 of 97 Release 1.3 ADVANCED FEATURES The Specifier Display Some mentio

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 1 of 97 Release 1.3 Table of Contents GENERAL PRINCIPLES _____________

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 28 of 97 Release 1.3 Additionally, you can change the name of a module from

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 29 of 97 Release 1.3 • Here we see the four specifiers for the meter modu

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 30 of 97 Release 1.3 If you double click on the MODULE column, you’ll call u

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 31 of 97 Release 1.3 Repeating Fields The term “repeating fields” is easi

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 32 of 97 Release 1.3 Clicking on the button will add a repeating field to

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 33 of 97 Release 1.3 Editing “Special” Modules A select few modules requi

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 34 of 97 Release 1.3 Getting Programs from the Harmonizer In addition to cre

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 35 of 97 Release 1.3 Creating the User Interface In our first tutorial in

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 36 of 97 Release 1.3 Note that these equate to the title and SOFT KEY when t

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 37 of 97 Release 1.3 Parameter Adjusters “Parameter adjuster” modules hav

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 2 of 97 Release 1.3 Simple “Parameter Adjusters” 40 Menupages and Parameter

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 38 of 97 Release 1.3 Double clicking on the knob module in the Patch Instruc

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 39 of 97 Release 1.3 Refer to the separate User’s Manual on entering text

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 40 of 97 Release 1.3 Simple “Parameter Adjusters” There are seven simple “pa

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 41 of 97 Release 1.3 Knob module The knob module is the most popular inter

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 42 of 97 Release 1.3 Rfader Module The rfader module creates a graphic on th

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 43 of 97 Release 1.3 Textknob Module The textknob module creates a multipl

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 44 of 97 Release 1.3 All three graphical monitors will indicate when the con

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 45 of 97 Release 1.3 Menupages and Parameter Placement The use of menupage

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 46 of 97 Release 1.3 • A userobject output may be connected to multiple use

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 47 of 97 Release 1.3 If the userobject outputs are connected in a differ

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 3 of 97 Release 1.3 This manual covers H8000TM family, H7600TM, OrvilleTM

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 48 of 97 Release 1.3 TUTORIAL 2 -PRETTY IN DEPTH OK, now you’ve got just ab

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 49 of 97 Release 1.3 To keep things straight, let’s rename these modules.

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 50 of 97 Release 1.3 • Finally, we’ll want (though we don’t need) a “Sweep”

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 51 of 97 Release 1.3 Feedback Add a percentknob module and connect its con

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 52 of 97 Release 1.3 Wave Add a textknob module and connect its control outp

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 53 of 97 Release 1.3 Double click on the hmonitor monitor and change the s

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 54 of 97 Release 1.3 Select the Send command under the Midi menu to upload

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 55 of 97 Release 1.3 Connect: • DSP input 2 to inputs 1 on both the seco

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 56 of 97 Release 1.3 INTER-DSP COMMUNICATION FOR H8000,ORVILLE H7600 users

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 57 of 97 Release 1.3 SUPERMODULES A “Supermodule” is a module which is its

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 4 of 97 Release 1.3 GENERAL PRINCIPLES OVERVIEW This section will describe

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 58 of 97 Release 1.3 Cool. Now we need to be able to control our compre

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 59 of 97 Release 1.3 Next, add a menupage module and connect the userobjec

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 60 of 97 Release 1.3 Now we’ll create a Supermodule! Select all the modul

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 61 of 97 Release 1.3 Now we will create a two channel version of our compr

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 62 of 97 Release 1.3 FILE FUNCTIONS As you’d expect, you can save and load t

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 63 of 97 Release 1.3 • The Print command prints opens the dialog box show

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 64 of 97 Release 1.3 PATCH EDITOR GET COMFORTABLE BY DOING Let’s make a pat

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 65 of 97 Release 1.3 scrolling through groups first. To do the latter, pr

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 66 of 97 Release 1.3 The display to the right shows the ducker highlighted,

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 67 of 97 Release 1.3 The IN and OUT “Modules” H8000 family and Orville

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 5 of 97 Release 1.3 Much complication will now be heaped upon the above t

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 68 of 97 Release 1.3 THE PATCH EDITOR AREA DISPLAY When the PARAMETER key i

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 69 of 97 Release 1.3 Front Panel Controls There are several controls used

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 70 of 97 Release 1.3 The Patch Editor Area SOFT KEY Functions In the Patch

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 71 of 97 Release 1.3 The right-most SOFT KEY provides display mode control

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 72 of 97 Release 1.3 If you press the <aud only> SOFT KEY to go to the

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 73 of 97 Release 1.3 As this is an audio output, the screen mode will auto

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 74 of 97 Release 1.3 Example: To break the connection between the two delay

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 75 of 97 Release 1.3 Most modules will create a menu page in the PARAMETER

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 76 of 97 Release 1.3 THE <MODIFY> SOFT KEY The <modify> SOFT KEY

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 77 of 97 Release 1.3 KNOB Mode If the KNOB mode reads (select), spinning t

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 6 of 97 Release 1.3 Different Kinds of Signals To achieve the goals set o

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 78 of 97 Release 1.3 “Fine,” you say, “but it seems simpler to do stuff like

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 79 of 97 Release 1.3 Modifying Complex Modules Some modules have specifier

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 80 of 97 Release 1.3 INTER-DSP COMMUNICATION FOR H8000 AND ORVILLE Control

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 81 of 97 Release 1.3 CREATING THE USER INTERFACE The Patch Editor automati

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 82 of 97 Release 1.3 To the right is a composite of the <modify> menu

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 83 of 97 Release 1.3 Interface Modules Control inputs are used to send a p

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 84 of 97 Release 1.3 The actual text used for a parameter and the way change

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 85 of 97 Release 1.3 would be displayed on a menu page in the PARAMETER ar

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 86 of 97 Release 1.3 Resolution The resolution specifier controls what minim

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 87 of 97 Release 1.3 Simple “Parameter Adjusters” There are a number of s

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 7 of 97 Release 1.3 HOW A PROGRAM INTERFACES WITH THE PARAMETER AREA Simp

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 88 of 97 Release 1.3 The 8 char name is used only if this module’s userobjec

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 89 of 97 Release 1.3 Vfader Module The vfader module creates a graphic on

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 90 of 97 Release 1.3 • For vmonitor and hmon, the tag specifier is used to

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 91 of 97 Release 1.3 MENUPAGES AND PARAMETER PLACEMENT The use of menupage

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 92 of 97 Release 1.3 • When a module with a userobject output from the “del

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 93 of 97 Release 1.3 • Go back to the basic Patch Editor area by pressing

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 94 of 97 Release 1.3 • So that we can differentiate this menupage module fr

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 95 of 97 Release 1.3 • Return to the PARAMETER area and observe the menu

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 96 of 97 Release 1.3 PARAMETER PLACEMENT ON A MENU PAGE Menu page design may

The Harmonizer® Programmer’s Manual © 1999-2008 Eventide, Inc. Page 97 of 97 Release 1.3 If the userobject outputs are connected in a differen