ConductiveLabs NDLR
Drone
The Drone can play up to three notes: root, 5th and octave.
The combinations are:
- root
- root + octave
- root + 5th
- root + 5th + octave
Trigger
The Drone note(s) can be triggered in one of two ways. Root mode or Chord mode.
Root mode
Root mode is designated by a ‘play’ triangle in the Drone sub window.
When the Drone is played (turned on) the root note (+ 5th and/or octave) will remain playing until the Drone is turned off.
The Drone note(s) will NOT change when different chord degrees are selected.
If the Drone trigger has a cadence selected then the note(s) will retrigger on the cadence rhythm. The cadence rhythms are:
- no cadence
- on one
- on one & two
- on one & three
- on two & four
- on one through four
- on one of three
- on one of five.
Chord mode
Chord mode is designated by a row of circles in the Drone sub window, these resemble the chord buttons.
When the Drone is played (turned on) the root note (+ 5th and/or octave) will remain playing until the Drone is turned off.
If a different chord degree is selected the Drone note(s) will change and be based on the root of the chord (NOT the root of the Key).
If the Drone has NO cadence selected (empty boxes) the note(s) will trigger based on the Pad Quantization value in Setting menu 3.
If the Drone trigger has a cadence selected then the note(s) will retrigger on the cadence rhythm. The cadence rhythms are:
- no cadence
- on one
- on one & two
- on one & three
- on two & four
- on one through four
- on one of three
- on one of five
- down of one & up of two & up of three & up of four
- up of two & up of three & down of four
- down of one & up of two & down of three & down of four.
Quantization
- The Drone default is set to trigger on the downbeat of 1.
- The Pad is default quantized to 1/4 notes.
- The Motifs notes change immediately.
You can set the drone trigger to play on chord trigger (5 dots) and no beats played (all squares empty).
With quantize turned off, everything changes the instant you hit one of the chord buttons.
MIDI clock
Turning off midi clock out is located in the global settings menu.
To enter press and hold [shift + menu] and powercycle the NDLR it will load in the global settings menu.
Press motif 1 to toggle the clock out setting, then press panic/motif1/2 toggle at the upper center-right of the unit.
Factory reset
To do a Factory Reset:
- Unplug The NDLR from USB.
- Hold the Shift and Menu buttons while plugging in USB.
- Press the PAD button to reset. This will set everything to out of box condition.
- Press the Motif 1/2/PANIC button to exit.
Editor
Videos
Loopop review: What is NDLR?
Resources
NDLR Forum: https://conductivelabs.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=1