User Guide
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Designed and built by Reason users with over ten years experience in the software, Ammo provides a set of unique modulation tools, including features never seen before in Reason, including multiple oscillator sync modes, and dual-mode/dual-slope lag controls to independently smooth abrupt voltage changes of the up and down waveform slopes.
Ammo 1200BR features
- Four audio oscillators
- 135 preset waveforms provide easy-to-use, predictable but complex modulation curves, and a random stepped wave
- Massive native frequency range from 0.001 Hz to 8,372 Hz, plus 31 tempo sync speeds from 32/1 to 1/128T
- Select “always on” oscillator output, or retriggered keyboard control, including a built-in 6-stage amp envelope
- 360° phase adjustment
- Invertible waveform depth control
- Set portamento time per oscillator with legato - play Ammo like a Theremin!
- One-shot mode plays a selected waveform once per gate
- Apply a single “Master” rate (Oscillator A) to control rates all other “Slave” oscillators (B, C and D)
- Choose from three oscillator synchronisation modes, Hard, Soft Phase or Soft Overlap, to sync slave oscillators to the master oscillator
Voltage Processing Matrix
- Add or subtract all four oscillators with each other, individually per oscillator output
- Lag controls: for the first time in Reason use separate lag control (slew limit) for the up and/or down stages of the waveform, and choose whether the slew limiting should be linear or logarithmic
- Lag controls can be used as low-pass filters
- Fine-tune the output level with a master channel output adjustment
- Crossfade an oscillator with summed inputs from other oscillators, or select to sum by itself
- Positive and negative waveform value indicators for each output
- Four CV rate outputs per channel
- One audio output per channel
- Send button to route signals through the Battery Low Frequency Ordnance Processor
Battery Low Frequency Ordnance Processor
- Process four channels of external audio, and/or the Ammo oscillators through it’s built-in chain of module
- Sample & Hold, with noise modulation, with a separate square wave oscillator per channel to set the S&H rate
- Comparator outputs either the highest, lowest or difference value of each input pair per sample batch for near-instant waveform switching to create brand new, fluid waveforms
- Advanced proprietary electro-switch can modulate the input waveform with itself, extra LFOs, or it’s paired oscillator channel. Features four additional CV-rate LFOs with 25 waveforms, which can additionally be used via ReARM either internally, or made available to output via extra CV Outputs
- Attentuator with Scale (an extra waveform depth control), Shift (+/- voltage with no scaling, for bipolar to unipolar conversion) and a soft Limiter (0 dB)
- Envelope mode switcher: set the envelope to use Charlotte’s CF mode instead of standard Reset
- Set ReARM internal CV-rate FM from exponential to linear. (Audio-rate FM is currently available as exponential only)
- Choose linear or logarithmic modes independently for lag up and lag down controllers
- Electro-Switch pulse width adjustment allows you to individually set the pulse width for the each of the Electro-Switch LFOs for shuffle effects
Re-ARM: Remote Analogue Routing Matrix
- Quickly set up performance controllers for Pitch Wheel, Mod Wheel, Aftertouch and Expression to major Ammo targets
- Use the Internal Routing Matrix to direct up to four sources to three targets each. Includes all the major targets plus deeper control possibilities, with an automatable Off/On switch for each row of sources
- Audio rate FM and AM available from the next adjacent oscillator
- Adjust the sensitivity of Re-ARM sources to rate modulation - a 7th, one or two octaves, or full range (26 octaves)!
- An “extra” set of four CV inputs and outputs are available
- Further targets are available in the Performance section
- The Internal Routing Matrix features many more selectable sources and targets from the Battery section
Designed by Jiggery-Pokery Sound,
Coded by Pitchblende Ltd
Updates
2.0.0
- Codebase updated to SDK2.5 (Reason 9+ only)
- ReARM modulation bus now uses fully sub-grouped custom display pop-up menus for vastly improved and faster programming
- Fixed issue with one-shot outputting incorrect value at slow rates
- Amended several waveform graphics to better reflect final value for one-shot hold (at default 0° Phase)
1.2.2
- One-shot will now correctly reset waveform if envelope has long release time
1.2.0
- Vastly improved startup performance should clear “Song too slow” errors on songfile loading.
- Oscillator Envelopes are now turned on by default to prevent patch browse noises that were caused by the free-running oscillators
1.1.5
- Fixed rare property notification issue at startup
- Fixed crash when connecting C CV Out to C Env I
1.1.1
- Adjusted waveforms 42–45 to a more useful exponential half-range
- Fixed sample error on waveforms 77–78
- Disabled playhead sync when using One-Shot Mode, where it is not required
- Improved behaviour of waveform 136 (random) in Tempo Sync Range: set Phase to 360° and use Rate control only. Note that there are still two samples per cycle, so set the Rate to half what you require for a single sample value
- New patches
1.1
- Added separate Comparators to B and D channels
- Added a depth control for Electro-Switch
- Added Semitone and Cents ranges to Oscillators A–D for quick precision tuning at audio rates
- Improved inverting knob behaviour
- Fixed synchronisation to playhead in tempo sync ranges
