Manual - Kronecker (Clockwork Synthesizer)

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Support for Apple Silicon Mac

You can install this app on your Apple Silicon Mac(M1, M2...). Please note that this cannot be installed on an Intel Mac.

This app supports only AUv3 plug-in format. It can be used with AUv3-compatible DAWs. Other plug-in formats are not supported.

Important

Before using an AUv3 format plug-in in a DAW, launch the app as a standalone, to ensure that it initializes correctly.

If you have an AUv3 plug-in that does not appear in your DAW's AUv3 plug-in list, try the following steps

Delete the AUv3 plug-in app.
Restart macOS.
Reinstall the AUv3 plugin app.
Launch the standalone app for the installed app.

Basic Operation

Change selection by dragging

In the selection UI consisting of lamps and button(s), you can change the selection not only by using the button(s) but also by dragging.

The sound is not affected during selection by dragging. When you touch up, the drag selection will be reflected in the sound.

Finer Resolution for Dragging

By dragging horizontally, you can finely adjust the parameter values.

This function is not available when "Rotary Knob mode" is set to "Circular".

How to reset the parameter to the default value.

A quick double tap will restore the parameter value to its default value.

Rotary Knob mode

You can change the operation method of the rotary knob on the setting screen.

How to change which octaves are shown.

The keyboard displayed when running as a stand-alone App can be moved by dragging the keyboard scroll bar.

When running as a plug-in (AUv3), there is no keyboard.

Preset

When you first open the preset browser, you will see three folders: Factory, User and Program.

Factory: The Factory folder contains factory presets.
User: The "User" folder is where you can save your presets. Initially nothing is saved in this folder. When you import presets, they are also saved in this folder.
Program: The Program folder is a place to store presets that load when MIDI program changes are received. → Detail

Header Bar

Preset Browser

New Folder...: You can create new folders under the User folder.
Save As...: Save the currently loaded preset. Presets cannot be saved in the Factory folder.
New: Loads an initialized sound.
Recall: Recalls the sound that was loaded before opening the browser.
ALT: Displays a menu for editing the preset library.

Rename...: Rename the selected preset. Not available for multiple selections.
Export...: Export the selected preset. Not available for multiple selections.
Duplicate: Duplicate the selected preset. Not available for multiple selections.
Move: Move the selected presets.
Delete: Delete the selected presets.

Display order of presets

The display order in the preset browser is sorted in alphabetical order, with numbers from 0 to 9 first, then capital letters A to Z, and finally a to z. Therefore, you can sort the order by putting a number before the name.

How to export sound presets

You can share your presets with other users.

Press ALT button.
Select only one preset or folder you want to export.
You cannot press the Export button with multiple presets or folders selected. To export multiple presets at once, select a folder containing multiple presets and press the Export button. Exporting in this manner allows multiple presets to be exported as a single file and the preset files contained within to be imported at once.
Press Export button
You can export the presets to Mail, iCloud, etc. via Share Extension

How to import sound presets

You can save presets created by other users in your user presets folder.

You can import presets via the File App, Mail and other applications that support Share Extension.
Imported presets are automatically saved in the "User" folder.
The method of Send or Share to an application via the "Share Extension" is different for each application that holds the exported presets. Please check the instructions for each App. In the case of the File App, simply tapping on it will launch the standalone App and import it into the "User" folder.
Compressed files cannot be imported. Please import exported files without compression.

Programs Folder

In the "Programs" folder you can define which presets will be loaded when a MIDI program change message is received. The program number corresponds to the order of the sound preset in the "Program" folder.

You can sort the order of the program number by putting a number before the name. → Display order of presets

AUv3 host preset list

The presets stored in this folder can also be displayed in the preset list of the AUv3 host. On the settings screen, you can choose to display the factory presets or the contents of the program folder.

Basic control panel

When instantiated as a plugin, the Basic control panel can be opened using the knob button in the header.

The settings of the Basic control panel are saved in the sound preset.

Volume
Master Volume
ARP
Arpeggiator ON/OFF switch
MONO (Monophonic)
MONO mode limits the number of notes sounded simultaneously to 1.
- POLY
- MONO - Retrigger
  At the timing of the second note on, the Envelope enters the Attack phase, retaining its current value.
- MONO - Legato
  The Envelope continues to run after the second note-on.
Hold
Keyboard Hold ON/OFF

→ You can switch the mode of the keyboard hold function on the setting screen.
Glide
adds a sliding pitch transition between notes that are played consecutively.
Pitchbend Range
Specifies the Pitch Bend Range in semitones.
Octave
can transpose pitch up or down in one-octave steps.

Global Settings

You can open the settings screen by tapping the gear icon on the top right of the screen.

NOTE: On the plug-in mode setting screen, only the items that can be set are displayed. This image is the setting screen when launched as a standalone app.

MIDI Panic (All Note Off)
When notes get stuck, you can kill all notes currently playing by tapping this button.
Master Volume
This setting is not affected by changing the sound preset.
Master Transpose
This setting is not affected by changing the sound preset.
Setting range: -12 semitones to +12 semitones
Master Tune
This setting is not affected by changing the sound preset.
Setting range: -100 cents to +100 cents
Microtuning
You can change the equal temperament tuning scale to a different tuning.

You can set how much the 12 notes within an octave are shifted from the mean in 1-cent increments. Each note has a tuning range of -100 to +100 cents, and this tuning is repeated for each octave.

The tuning set here can be saved for use in other presets. The file is saved in a proprietary format. Files in other formats cannot be imported.
Maximum Polyphony
Lower maximum polyphony setting will reduce the CPU usage.
Sync Method (Available when launched as a standalone app)
- Internal
- MIDI
You can set the synchronization method of the arpeggiator and sequencer.
Tempo (Available when launched as a standalone app)
When the synchronization method is internal sync, you can change the tempo of the arpeggiator and sequencer.
Timing
Adjusts the beat shift when synchronizing tempo.
Audio Buffer Size (Available when launched as a standalone app)
The audio buffer size affects the amount of latency and the CPU usage. Higher setting will reduce crackling noise at high CPU usage, but also cause more latency.
Background Audio (Available when launched as a standalone app)
If background audio is enabled, this app will consume battery power significantly even if other apps are running or if your screen is turned off.
MIDI Input Ports (Available when launched as a standalone app)
You can set which MIDI input port to receive.
MIDI Input Channel (Available when launched as a standalone app)
When the OMNI is OFF this app will receive only on the currently selected channel.
Bluetooth MIDI Device (Available when launched as a standalone app)
You can connect Bluetooth MIDI compatible controllers.
MIDI Mapping - File
You can save/load MIDI mapping settings.
MIDI Mapping - Takeover Mode
- None
  As soon as you operate the MIDI controller, it will be reflected to the parameter. If the MIDI controller value and the parameter value are different, the parameter value will jump.
- Pickup
  If the MIDI controller value is different from the parameter value, the parameter value will not be changed until the MIDI controller value crosses the currently set parameter value. However, even in this mode, if the MIDI controller is operated when the parameter value is out of the range set by the MIDI mapping, the set parameter value jumps to the boundary value of the range.
Include the arpeggiator settings in the sound preset file
- When Saving:
  ON: Save the arpeggiator settings in the sound preset file.
  
  OFF: Save the sound preset file without including the arpeggiator settings.
- When Loading:
  ON: If there are arpeggiator settings in the sound preset file, it will be loaded. If there are no arpeggiator settings in the sound preset file, the current arpeggiator settings will not change.
  
  OFF: Even if there are arpeggiator settings in the sound preset file, it will not be loaded.
Include the MIDI mapping settings in the sound preset file
- When Saving:
  ON: Save the MIDI mapping settings in the sound preset file.
  
  OFF: Save the sound preset file without including the MIDI mapping settings.
- When Loading:
  ON: If there are MIDI mapping settings in the sound preset file, it will be loaded. If there are no MIDI mapping settings in the sound preset file, the current MIDI mapping settings will not change.
  
  OFF: Even if there are MIDI mapping settings in the sound preset file, it will not be loaded.
Include the microtuning settings in the sound preset file
- When Saving:
  ON: Save the microtuning settings in the sound preset file.
  
  OFF: Save the sound preset file without including the microtuning settings.
- When Loading:
  ON: If there are microtuning settings in the sound preset file, it will be loaded. If there are no microtuning settings in the sound preset file, the current microtuning settings will not change.
  
  OFF: Even if there are microtuning settings in the sound preset file, it will not be loaded.
Knob Mode
How to operate the knob Switches between linear mode and circular mode.
Keyboard Size (Available when launched as a standalone app)
Sets the width of the keyboard.
Keyboard Style (Available when launched as a standalone app)
- Piano
- Flat
Keyboard Scroll Bar Position (Available when launched as a standalone app)
Sets the position of the bar for side-scrolling the keyboard.
Display in a pop-up window (Available when launched as an AUv3 plugin)
Set whether to use pop-up display when running as AUv3. If this is set to OFF, the screen will not close even if you interact with the UI of the host app. Turn it off if you want to adjust the tone while playing the keyboard of the host app.
Keyboard Hold Mode: Reset/Toggle
- Reset mode:
  When one or more keys are pressed while no keys are pressed, the held notes are released and the newly pressed notes are held. Hold notes can be added by pressing keys while holding down the keys. This mode is useful for keyboardists using the arpeggiator by repressing chord keys.
- Toggle mode:
  Toggles Hold Note on/off each time you press the keyboard.
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Arpeggiator

You can open the settings screen by tapping the musical note icon on the top right of the screen.

The arpeggiator rhythmically disperses MIDI signals from the host app or pressed chords from the on-screen keyboard. If you input a single note, the input single note will be repeated. When multiple notes are input at the same time, they are rhythmically dispersed as an arpeggio. Unless you use the "Hold" function, the arpeggiator will work only between note ON and OFF.

Arpeggiator ON/OFF Switch (button on the top left)

Switches the arpeggiator on/off.

Step Length

Adjust the number of steps. The arpeggiator will repeat the range of steps specified here.

Style

Sets the style of the arpeggiator.

Swing

Adjust how close to a perfect shuffle beat. The Swing parameter is only valid when the Rate parameter is set to 16th note.

Loop Length

The arpeggiator cycles through the pressed notes in the order set in Style. This parameter sets how many triggers to return to the first note.

Example 1

Notes held	C,E,G
Loop Length	8
Result	CEGCEGCE/CEGCEGCE/...

Example 2

Notes held	C,E,G,B
Loop Length	3 (less than the number of notes held)
Result	CEG/CEG/CEG/CEG/CEG/... The fourth note, B, does not appear in the arpeggio.

Octave

Sets how many octaves the arpeggiator will cycle through the held notes.

Rate

Sets the trigger speed of the arpeggiator.

Accent

Adjusts how strongly "Accent" affects.

Gate

Adjust gate time.

Staccato

Adjusts how strongly "Staccato" affects.

KeySync

When this setting is on, the arpeggiator's playback position returns to the beginning at note-on. When this setting is off, the arpeggiator's playback position is synchronized to the host app's beat position.

Sequencer

On/Off: If set to "On", the arpeggiator will trigger a note at that timing. If "Off" is set, the previous note will be extended.
Glide: If "On" is set, the pitch will be smoothly connected from the previous note. The speed of this pitch movement follows the "Glide" setting in the Basic control panel. If the Glide knob is set to zero, there will be no Glide effect.
Octave: If "On" is set, the note at that timing will be triggered one octave higher.
Accent: If “On” is set, the note at that timing will be triggered with high velocity value. How much to change depends on the "Accent" knob above.
Staccato: If "On" is set, the note at that timing will be triggered with short gate time. How much to change depends on the "Staccato" knob above.

Program Mode

The program row can be used when the style is set to "Program". It specifies which of the held notes on the keyboard will be played.

The upper row sets the number of the note to be played counting from the top of the note-on state, and the lower row sets the number of the note to be played counting from the bottom.

Imagine a style of playing in which the left hand holds the chord and the right hand plays the melody-like moving notes that appear in the arpeggio. If there is a way to count from the top, there is always a way to include the notes added by that right hand in the arpeggio. With the counting from the bottom method, it is impossible to locate the notes held by the right hand because the left hand does not know how many notes it will hold. Therefore, there are two ways to count from the top and two ways to count from the bottom.

When seven or more notes are held down, no notes other than five from the bottom and two from the top can be included in the arpeggio.

Example

When you hold down C3,E3,G3,B3,C4 keys, C3 is 1st note, E3 is 2nd note, G3 is 3rd note. B3 is 4th note. C4 is 5th note.

File

Arpeggiator settings can be saved separately from sound presets. The saved arpeggiator settings can also be used with other iceGear synthesizers.

MIDI Mapping

You can assign the MIDI controller knobs to the parameters.

MIDI Learning Mode

Enter MIDI learning mode by tapping the MIDI Learn button.
Touch the on-screen control you wish to map.
Adjust the slider or knob on your MIDI controller. (MIDI CC)
Repeat above steps as required.

MIDI Map Setting Panel

In MIDI learning mode, Press and hold the knob or other control to open the setting panel.

To delete the assigned MIDI mapping, tap the control several times.

In the "MIDI 1.0 Control Change Messages" defined by the MIDI Association, controller numbers 120-127 are reserved for channel mode messages. Parameters cannot be mapped to these controller numbers reserved for channel mode messages.

MIDI Map Range Setting

The value given by the MIDI controller can be changed to a different value.

Save MIDI Mapping

You can save the created MIDI mapping from the setting screen.

Synthesizer Parameters

Clockwork

In this section you can set the trigger speed for emitting sound particles.

Sync: Specifies whether or not to synchronize the trigger speed with the tempo. If OFF is specified for the SYNC parameter, the trigger speed is the value of the speed parameter modulated by ENV, LFO and Velocity.
Speed: Trigger speed
- Velocity: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the velocity.
- ENV: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the ENV.
- LFO: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the LFO.
ENV
- Attack: Adjusts the attack time.
- Decay: Adjusts the decay/release time.
LFO
- Rate: Adjusts the rate of the LFO.
- Wave: Adjusts the waveform of the LFO.

Emitter

Emitter Selector

Selector: These buttons select the emitter that can be edited from the panel.
On/Off: You can turn the individual emitter off and on.

Emitter - Pitch

Pitch: Adjusts the pitch of sound particle.
- ENV: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the ENV.
  - Velocity: This allows velocity to affect the ENV depth.
- LFO: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the LFO.
  - Velocity: This allows velocity to affect the LFO depth.

Emitter - ENV and LFO

ENV (Envelope Generator)
- Attack: Adjusts the attack time.
- Decay: Adjusts the decay/release time.
LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator)
- Rate: Adjusts the rate of the LFO.
- Wave: Adjusts the waveform of the LFO.

Emitter - Lowpass Filter

Cutoff: Adjusts the cutoff frequency of the filter.
- ENV: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the ENV.
- LFO: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the LFO.
- Velocity: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the velocity.
Resonance: Emphasizes the cutoff frequency.

Emitter - Amplifier

Envelope Generator (ENV)
- Attack: Adjusts the attack time.
- Decay: Adjusts the decay time.
- Sustain: Adjusts the sustain level.
- Release: Adjusts the release time.
Level: Adjusts the amplifier volume.
Velocity: Adjusts how the amplifier gain scales with velocity.

Emitter - Resonator

Selector: Specifies to which resonator the output of the emitter is sent.

Emitter - Particle Trigger

These buttons specify in which step the particle is triggered.

Particle

Particle - FM - Pitch

ENV: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the ENV to the pitch.
- Velocity: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the velocity to the ENV.
LFO: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the LFO to the pitch.
- Velocity: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the velocity to the LFO.

Particle - FM - ENV and LFO

ENV (Envelope Generator)
- Attack: Adjusts the attack time.
- Decay: Adjusts the decay/release time.
LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator)
- Rate: Adjusts the rate of the LFO.
- Wave: Adjusts the waveform of the LFO.

Particle - FM

Depth: Adjusts the frequency modulation depth.
- ENV: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the ENV to the FM depth.
- LFO: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the LFO to the FM depth.
- Velocity: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the velocity to the FM depth.
Ratio:

Particle - FM - Amplifier

Level: Adjusts the amplifier volume.
ENV: ENV or Gate
LFO: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the LFO.
Velocity: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the velocity.

Particle - Amplifier - Envelope and LFO

ENV (Envelope Generator)
- Attack: Adjusts the attack time.
- Decay: Adjusts the decay/release time.
LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator)
- Rate: Adjusts the rate of the LFO.
- Wave: Adjusts the waveform of the LFO.

Particle - Noise

Type: WhiteNoise / PinkNoise / BlueNoise / PitchedNoise /Digital Noise(8 Bit Noise)/Glitch Noise
Level: Adjusts the noise volume.
ENV: ENV or Gate
LFO: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the LFO.
Velocity: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the velocity.

Resonator

Pitch: Adjusts the pitch of the resonator.
- ENV: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the ENV to the Pitch of resonator.
- LFO: Adjusts the depth of modulation applied by the LFO to the Pitch of resonator.

Filtered Delay

Send: Adjusts the amount of signal sent to the delay.
Time Left/Right: The numbers represent time delay in 16th notes. You can change the tempo setting in the global setting screen.
Modulation: Adjusts the depth of the delay time modulation.
Rate: Adjusts the rate of the LFO for delay time modulation.
Feedback: Adjusts the feedback amount.
Hi Damp: This setting makes the delay sound softer.
HPF: Adjusts the high pass filter frequency.
Cross: Adjusts the cross-feedback amount.

Filter (Low Pass Filter)

Mix: Adjusts the mix of dry and wet signal.
Cutoff: Adjusts the cutoff frequency of the filter.
Modulation: Adjusts the depth of the modulation.
Rate: Adjusts the rate of the modulation.
Resonance: Emphasizes the cutoff frequency.
Drive: Adjusts the overdrive intensity.