

FIVE12 QV-L FIRMWARE README

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FIRMWARE UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS:

- Copy QVL.BIN to an SD Card.
- Install the SD Card to the back of the QV-L.
- Hold TrigA while powering up.
- Once you get to the Booloader screen, press TrigB to update the Firmware.

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BACKPLANE CONN TO VECTOR:

To connect the Vector and the QV-L via the backplane, use the 8 pin ribbon cable provided with
the QV-L to connect the 8 pin header J28 on the Vector to the matching header J5 on the QV-L,
red stripe UP on both modules.

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KNOWN ISSUES:

- No MIDI Communication between Vector and QV-L yet.
- The secondary LFOs (2 & 4) are drawn with 'dotted' lines, which may jitter a bit.


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V2 FEATURES:

  FLAT MODE UI:

  The UI has been re-organized so that the menu system is never more than 3 pages deep, e.g. much flattened.

  As before, the main screen shows an overview of everything, with 6 performance controls.

  To edit the settings for any of the 4 LFOs, push buttons 1-4. Push again to edit the matching output,
  and once more for modulation settings. A fourth push will take you back to the LFO edit screen. To exit
  those pages, push and hold button 1.

  Presets / Prefs are pretty much the same: Push the two middle buttons (2 and 3) at the same time to get to
  the Presets page.  Push button 3 to get to the 1st Prefs page, then again for the 2nd page.  Note that Clock/Sync
  settings are now in Prefs.

  To get to Envelopes, Main Screen customization, and reset/envelope trigger settings, push buttons 1 & 2 at the
  same time to get to A-side settings: Envelope A, Custom A & Resets. Or push buttons 3 & 4 for Envelope B, etc.  When in
  either of the A-side / B-side sub-menus, pushing buttons 2, 3 or 4 flips between the two pages, button 1 exists to the
  main screen.

  UPSIDE-DOWN UI:
  There is now a preference for a reversed UI, so you can use the QV-L mounted upside-down in your case.  In this mode,
  all buttons, ins and outs are reversed as well. 

  ENVELOPES:
  - EGs now support an ADSR mode
  - EGs now support two Slope types: LINear and LOG.
  In LOG mode, EGs are now suitable for Audio VCAs and Filter cutoff modulation.  They are not quite
  as fast as analog envelopes, but work for most situations.

  OUTPUTS:
  There are two new output modes: E1L1: 'EG 1 * LFO 1' and E3L3: 'EG 3 * LFO 3'.
  These modes allow you to output both an Envelope and an LFO via one CV out. In this output mode,
  the output controls for Op, Offset and Level are applied to the LFO, then it is multiplied with the EG.
  This output mode is particularly useful controlling a filter with only a single CV input.
  


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RELEASE NOTES:


V2 BETA2:
  - finished revsersing CV ins and outs.
  - fixed some navigation issues w/ the Flat UI.

V2 BETA1:

  - added 'flat' mode UI. 
  - added 'upside-down' mode UI.
  - added ADSR envelopes and LOG slope EGs.

  see FEATURES above for details on these new items!




