CHERRY AUDIO Mercury-6 Manual de usuario
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Getting Started
Mercury-6 is a meticulous recreation of the Jupiter-6 analog polyphonic
synthesizer, originally released in 1983. Sandwiched in Roland's product line
between the earlier Jupiter-4 and Jupiter-8 polysynths, it suffered from
"middle child syndrome," but has gone on to be one of the most coveted of
the classic Roland poly synths. The original instrument was marketed as a
slightly more affordable version of the flagship eight-voice Jupiter-8, whereas
the Jupiter-6 had six voices.
Though similar in appearance and feature set, the Jupiter-6 sounded
considerably different from the Jupiter-8. Most significantly, unlike earlier
Roland poly synths with lowpass filters plus a simple non-resonant highpass
filter, the Jupiter-6 featured a true multimode filter with a 24 dB/oct lowpass,
24 dB/oct highpass, or 12 dB/oct bandpass modes. Overall, this filter design
had a more aggressive sound than earlier Roland polysynths, making the
Jupiter-6 a natural for cutting-edge techno and electro styles (it also loves
distortion when its resonance is cranked up!).
Mercury-6 User Guide
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The original Jupiter-6 was one of the first analog polys with a fully
independent split keyboard mode as well. We've expanded the split mode
and added a layer mode for huge stacked sounds, and with polyphony
extended up to 16-notes, Mercury-6 won't run out of voices like the original.
We've added a flexible effects section with awesome sounding distortion,
phaser, flanger/chorus, delay, and reverb sections, as well as extended LFO
functionality, and more. If you've always pined for a Jupiter-6, you're gonna
love Mercury-6!
Pre-Purchase Demo Mode
If you haven't purchased the full version of Mercury-6, it will run in demo
mode. All functions will work, but inharmonic tones will occasionally sound
(the LED next to
Demo
in the top toolbar will illuminate when the ugly tones
are sounding). We've also added a handy button to make purchasing easy, so
you've got no excuse! As you might expect, all the demo stuff disappears
once Mercury-6 is purchased.
Technical Assistance
Cherry Audio's unique online store and automatic updating should make
operation a smooth experience, but if you run into any issues or have
questions, you can discuss issues online at the Cherry Audio Forums, or
communicate directly with our dour and irritable outgoing and friendly tech
support staff at https://cherryaudio.kayako.com/.
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Top Toolbar and Preset Browser
The purple strip at the top of the Mercury-6 interface is where you’ll load,
save, and create sound presets. It also contains utility functions such as
undo/redo, UI zoom and
Focus
controls, under-the-hood settings, and more.
Let’s go over them:
New- Opens a new blank patch preset. If an unsaved patch is currently open
or you’ve modified an existing saved patch, a dialog asks if you’d like to save
the patch in its current state. This greatly reduces the possibility of losing an
edited unsaved patch.
Save- Use this to save patches. There are a couple of levels of hierarchy:
Collection- This is the top level of organization, and contains entire
“sets” of presets. The
Mercury-6 Presets
are the main included collection.
We also include a
User Presets Collection
for storing your own presets, but
you’re free to create your own collections. To create a new collections,
click in the
Collection
text field (where it says
User Presets
above) and
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type a name. User-created sounds can be freely saved to any collection;
we like to keep ‘em separated for organizational purposes.
Categories- Within each
Collection
are a number of sound categories. As
with collections, you’re free to create as many categories as you like. To
create a category, click in the
Category
text field of the
Save
dialog
window and type a new category name.
Patch- A patch is an individual sound. To save a patch, simply type the
name in the
Name
field and click
Save
.
Keywords- You can add descriptive words such as “huge,” “noisy,”
“poly,” etc., to patches to make them appear when terms are typed in the
Search
field. Use commas to separate multiple keywords entries.
Browsing Patches- Patches can be browsed by clicking the <
Select Preset
>
field. To select a preset collection, click in the area that says <
All
Collections
> or on the downward-facing arrow next to it.
Clicking on the left-side categories narrows down which patches are
displayed.
<All Presets> will show presets from all collections and categories.
<Recent> displays recently used presets.
Refresh- This is the circular arrow button to the right of the downward
arrow; clicking this checks the Cherry Audio server for new or updated
presets.
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Pin
-
Clicking the push-pin icon locks the patch selection list open, allowing
fast and easy browsing and auditioning of patches. Click the icon again to
disable pin mode. when in pin mode, the up and down arrow keys can be
used to select patches.
Preset
- Step Back/Forward Arrows
- These step to the previous or next
preset. macOS [⌘+left/right arrow key] or Windows [CTRL+left/right arrow
key] will navigate through presets back and forth in the currently selected
collection/category.
Undo/Redo- These circular arrows will undo or redo the last action. It
remembers many steps, so if you really loused something up, keep on
clickin'...
Settings
-
This is where user preferences for user interface, audio interfaces,
user account, and more are configured. See the Settings section for full
information.
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Importing Presets with drag-and-drop
Presets can be imported singly or en masse (as a single compressed ZIP file)
simply by dragging and dropping from the desktop anywhere on the user
interface.
If a single .*preset file is dragged and dropped, the sound is immediately
loaded and the standard Save Preset dialog appears; this lets you save the
sound to the instrument's preset browser. Note that you don't have to save
the sound to preset browser; if you just want to hear and play the sound,
click the Cancel button in the Save Preset dialog - the sound will still be
loaded.
Compressed zip files containing multiple sounds can also be drag and
dropped onto the UI. This works the same as with single sounds, but instead
of the Save Preset dialog, you'll see the Import Preset Collection dialog. The
presets will be added as a new collection and available in the categories for
which they were tagged.
Zoom Magnifying Glass
-
Click to resize the Mercury-6 interface. Selecting
100%
returns the user interface to native size.
MIDI Tab
-
Opens the MIDI controllers tab for configuring internal and
hardware MIDI controls. See the MIDI Controllers Setup and MIDI Tab
section for full information.
! (MIDI Panic)
- Click to send an all-notes-off message in case of, "why
won't this thing stop making noise?!?" stuck-note incidents.
Tempo (Standalone Version Only)- Displays Mercury-6's current internal
tempo setting. Mercury-6's internal tempo affects LFO-1 and LFO-2 rates,
arpeggio rate, and the delay effect's time when the corresponding
Sync
controls are toggled. The tempo setting can be changed by moving the
mouse up and down anywhere in the tempo section, or by double-clicking
the number and entering the desired BPM value.
The tempo display only appears in the standalone version of
Mercury-6. VST, AU, and AAX plug-in versions receive tempo data
from their host DAW app.
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QWERTY Musical Typing Keyboard- Opens an onscreen keyboard allowing
a standard QWERTY computer keyboard to be used for playing music notes.
For more information, see QWERTY Musical Typing Keyboard (MTK)
section.
Oversampling Quality (Q)- The Q button sets Mercury 6's internal
oversampling rate; the higher the setting, the better audio fidelity will be,
with the caveat that more computer processing power will be required.
Internal processing can be set to
1x
(same rate as the current sample rate of
the host DAW or in the
Settings>Audio/MIDI
window for the standalone
version) or to
2x
,
3x
, or
4x
the current sample rate. The sample rate is
downsampled at the instrument output stage to match the current host
sample rate.
For example, if the current DAW/instrument sample rate setting is 48 kHz,
and oversampling is set to 2x, Mercury 6's internal processing runs at 96
kHz, and is then reduced back to 48kHz at the output stage.
When oversampling is set to any multiple greater than
1x
, the
Q
button
glows yellow.
Dependent on a number of factors (audio system D/A converter quality,
monitor speakers, the nature of the current Mercury-6 patch, etc.), you may
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not hear a big difference with higher settings. Generally speaking, audible
differences may be noticeable when using sounds with a great deal of high
harmonics.
Help- Clicking this launches your web browser and opens the help document
you’re currently reading, which is a really meta concept.
Mercury-6 logo (upper-right corner)- Clicking this displays “about”
information, and shows the version number and current registered user ID.
Focus Button
If you're using a tiny laptop, the user interface can potentially be hard to see.
With this in mind, the
Focus
button conveniently blows up Mercury-6's view
to roughly twice its normal size within the current window size. Unlike the
Zoom
"magnifying glass" function,
Focus
doesn't affect the current window
size. By default, the patch panel section fills the current window, but the
view can be scrolled vertically and horizontally with a mouse wheel, track
pad, or Apple Mighty Mouse finger-scrolling
.
Or if you're the last person on
earth using a single-button mouse, scroll bars will appear at the window
edges when in
Focus
mode. (Drop us a line from your SBC Global email
account, umkay?)
Using
Focus
mode couldn't be easier - just click the
Focus
button the top
menu bar. To return to standard view, click
Reset
. There's also a superfast
key shortcut - on Mac, hold the ⌘ [COMMAND] key and click the mouse; in
Windows, hold the [OPTION] key and click the mouse. Focus can be reset
with the same key shortcuts.
Preset List Right-Click Functions
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Show File-
This displays the selected preset in the Mac or Windows folder
containing it. This is useful for backing up or sending a preset file to another
user.
Show In Original Category
-
Selects the preset within its category, i.e. the
category will highlight in the left preset menu. The
Show In Original Category
command only displays if the preset was selected within the <
All Presets
>,
<
Favorites
>, or <
Recent
> categories.
Favorites- Favorited presets will show in when the <Favorites> category is
selected. A star will display next to the preset name. Right-click on the preset
and reselect
Favorite
to un-favorite it. (Or say something nasty about its
mother.)
Delete
-
Deletes the selected preset.
Restore Factory Preset
-
If one of the factory (i.e. not user) patches is
edited and saved, selecting this command restores the patch to its unaltered
"factory" setting. This menu will be grayed-out for user bank patches.
Restore All Factory Presets From 'Mercury-6 Presets'
-
If any patches
from the "factory" Mercury-6 bank are edited and saved, selecting this
command restores
all
of them to their unaltered "factory" setting.
Restore All From Factory
-
If any patches from the "factory" banks are
edited and saved, selecting this command restores
all
of them to their
unaltered "factory" setting. At the time of writing, the Mercury-6 bank
mentioned above is the only factory bank, so this function and the
Restore
All Factory Presets From 'Mercury-6 Presets'
above have the same effect.
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VCO Section
VCO Mod
LFO-1 - Adds frequency modulation from the LFO (low-frequency oscillator)
section immediately to the left of the VCO.
Env-1- Adds frequency modulation from envelope generator 1. This allows
oscillator sync sweep sounds when oscillator sync is engaged.
VCO-1 / VCO-2 buttons- These determine which oscillator receives
modulation when the
LFO
and
Env-1
sliders are turned up. Either or both
buttons can be engaged.
PWM
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