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programmed per track and controlled by external CV, for interesting oset or syncopation eects without using the
clock divider or track length parameters. When the page is active, you can move the slider and watch the display
to program a specic number of repeats for each step. When you are not moving the sliders while this page is
selected and the sequencer is running, the display will show a live countdown of the remaining repeats. The value
for the number of STEP REPEATs you can program is between 0 – 7.
MODIFIER BUTTONS:
The Modier buttons allow for changing the function of other buttons. To use a Modier, hold the Modifying
button down while pressing the appropriate button for your desired function.
INIT
The INIT button initializes sequence parameters to their zero or default positions. You can INIT any page by
holding the INIT button and pushing the desired page button. You can initialize an entire track by holding INIT
and pushing the desired TRACK button. Holding INIT and pressing the LOAD button will cause the entire loaded
sequence to be cleared.
SHIFT
The SHIFT key adds alternate functionality to other buttons or sliders. Hold SHIFT and press the CLOCK button
labeled MODE to disable the operation of the large clock rate knob, for live performance convenience.
Hold SHIFT + ENCODER while pressing a RANGE button to increment or decrement the currently playing
preset. Unless in Random transport mode, the preset will change when the sequence reaches Track 1’s reset point.
Hold SHIFT + ENCODER while moving a slider on any page to set all steps on that page to that slider value, as
if you were moving all 16 of them at once.
RANDOM
Hold RANDOM and press any PAGE key to randomize its slider values. The same can be done with a TRACK
SELECT button to randomize an entire TRACK’s basic parameters. When RANDOMizing a track, hold down the
SHIFT button as well, to cause a deeper randomization across all pages (including CV destinations).
If you hold down INIT and RANDOM while pushing the CV page key, this will cause a "subtle randomization" of
note values within a narrow range of the programmed value. Hold RANDOM and press the LOAD button to load a
random sequence from the MEMORY.
CV A/B - ASSIGNABLE CONTROLLERS
The two external A/B inputs combine with the action of the large manual controls to modify selected parameters
of the sequence. The Stillson Hammer expects voltages in the range of 0 to +5V. Voltages outside of this range will
not damage the unit, but will have no eect on the sequence. The two external A/B channels must be programmed
by holding down either of the two buttons. While holding down the buttons, move the sliders to program the value
for each step. Think of the sliders in this mode as “attenuators per step”, where the incoming CV (or manual control
value) will be multiplied by the slider value before being sent out to the selected destinations. Each track can
have very dierent CV programs all sharing the same two control sources, so a single preset can provide hours of
performance variation if appropriately programmed.
To assign the controller to a destination, hold down the CV A or B buttons, and press a PAGE button so the
destination button lights up green. To assign to the the Extended Parameters, hold shift while also holding the
CV A or B button and pressing the page key, as if you are selecting the parameter itself. Extended parameters
will light red in the CV view. The manual control on CV channel B is bipolar: the center position is zero, turning it
counterclockwise subtracts from the page's programmed value, and turning it clockwise adds to the value.
