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Tack
User guide

Mode mapsCheat sheetManual

Cheat sheet

Every key, hold and dial on one page. It prints on one landscape A4 sheet from the browser. The mode maps take one mode at a time.

The FM-1 panel with Tack Encoders top left, the screen, K1 to K4 and the twelve buttons top right, and the keyboard below: seven voice keys, ROLL, MONO, POLY and COPY on the black keys, the sixteen steps on the white keys. MASTER volume SELECT tempo · row PRESETS kit ALGORITHM morph K1 pitch K2 filter K3 decay K4 volume OCT- OCT+ bar · row · octave TACKSEL held 1 s: help FX SEL ENV LFO EDIT GLO HOME SAVE ARP SEQ PLAYSTOP REC D1 D2 D3 SN CY CH OH ROLL MONO POLY COPY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 white keys: steps 1–16 of the bar · with SEQ held, patterns 1–16
D1–D3 drums SN snare CY cymbal CH OH closed and open hat ROLL held: roll the voice MONO Frankensound POLY held: morph target COPY held: copy a pattern

Pages press again: next screen

HOME
Overview: all seven lanes and the patterns. K1–K4 are the voice's pitch, filter, decay, volume.
SEQ
One voice in detail: the bars view, again for the note view.
EDIT ENV LFO
The voice's sound, three rows of four. The dials start on the middle row. EDIT has two screens.
SELECT
On a sound page, FX or GLO's settings: picks the row on K1–K4, until the page changes.
OCT+ / OCT- held
On those pages: the top or bottom row, while held.
FX
Black keys send voices to the FX. Type, mix, two settings; the row below for the rest.
GLO
Mixer, then settings, then mixer again.
ARP
The selected lane: its Lane, Euclid and Vel shape screens in turn.
SEL held 1 s
What SEL does on this page.

Steps and locks

white key
Set or clear a step, on release.
OCT- / OCT+
Show the bar before or after.
step held + K1–K4
Lock those values on the step, up to eight.
step held + ALGORITHM
Nudge, in 24ths of a step.
step held + PRESETS
Chance.
step held + black key
Recurrence: black keys 1–8 are passes, and a tap takes one out or puts it back. One held and another pressed: a cycle that long, key 1 pressed second every pass.
step held + EDIT
Clear the step's locks.

Lanes

SEL + white key
That step is the lane's last. A voice key held does the same.
SEL + OCT+ / OCT-
A bar more or less. A new bar copies the one before.
SEL + EDIT 1 s
Clear the lane.
ARP Lane
K1 length · K2 direction · K3 speed · K4 start. ALGORITHM nudges the lane.
ARP Euclid
K1 length · K2 hits · K3 rotation · K4 puts the lane back.
ARP Vel shape
K1 rhythm · K2 centre · K3 amount · K4 shifts it later. Off restores.

Voices and mixer

voice key
Select the voice and play it.
ARP + voice key
Mute or unmute.
SEQ + voice key
Select without playing.
ROLL held
Roll the selected voice. Rate on GLO's settings, the row below.
GLO mixer
Strips with level, meter and pan. K1 level · K2 pan · K3 FX send · K4 drive.
SEL + voice key
On the mixer: solo, and again to lift it. Not saved.
GLO settings
K1 tempo · K2 shuffle · K3 rate · K4 bits. The row below: USB audio, MIDI clock, preview, roll rate.

Patterns and song

SEQ + white key
Pattern 1–16. Running, it changes at the end of the longest lane.
SEQ + several
A chain, which loops until you pick one pattern.
COPY + white key
Copy this pattern onto that one.
SEQ + ARP
The song: white keys fill the rows. K1 row · K2 pattern or end · K3 repeat ×1–16, or stop / loop on the end row · K4 song on.
SEL + K1
On the song page: right copies the row, left removes it.
COPY tapped
On the song page: the playing chain into the rows.

Kits

PRESETS
Step through the bank. Back past the first: the init kit. A fast spin loads where it stops.
edited kit
A star after its name on HOME. Turned away from, it is kept: turn back onto it for your edits, and once more for the bank's.
SEL + PRESETS
Mutate the kit. Turning back retraces the walk.
SEL + ALGORITHM
Mutate the selected voice.
SEL + HOME 1 s
Reload the kit as the pattern was last saved.

Frankensound MONO

A kit made from up to four, a section of each voice from each. It is your kit: edit and save it as any other.

K1–K4
The parent kits: random, none, this kit or one from the bank. K1 starts on this kit and the rest on random, which draws a kit for each combo.
PRESETS right
A new combo, heard at once.
voice key + PRESETS
A combo of that voice alone, the others as they are.
PRESETS left
Back through the combos. At 0, the kit from before.

Morph

Each pattern has a target of its own, and morph blends the kit towards it.

ALGORITHM
How far: kit at 0, target at 127. Also CC 1 on channel 1.
POLY + K1–K4
Set the target's value. The dials show the target while held.
POLY + PRESETS
Copy a bank kit in as the target. NONE drops it.
SAVE, K4 blend
Keep what you hear as a kit in the bank.

Detail views SEQ

bars view
A key, SEL or SELECT picks a step. K1 velocity · K2 nudge · K3 flam · K4 chance.
note view
All 27 keys play the voice, F3 to G5; OCT moves them. K1 note · K2 velocity · K3 how hard keys write · K4 step on.
REC, note view
Keys write: stopped step by step, running live.

Play and save

PLAY · REC
Start and stop · live recording.
meter
By the tempo: the mix after MASTER. Its last segment is red once the mix reaches full scale, however low MASTER is. The triangle over it is MASTER.
SELECT
Tempo, on pages with no rows. With SEL held: shuffle.
SAVE
Shows what it will save; again to write. K4 pattern, blend or kit · K1 or SELECT the slot.
SEL + SAVE
Write the changes at once.
MIDI in, ch 1
Notes 60–66 play the voices. Notes 0–15 or Program Change pick a pattern. MIDI clock: K2 on the row below on GLO's settings.