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Electra One is a MIDI controller that lets you modify sound parameters, monitor MIDI messages, and run Lua scripts. It supports up to 32 synthesizers, 12 presets, and 2 MIDI devices.
- FAQ
Getting to know the Electra One. Let us introduce you to the...
- About Us
Electra One is the first product we designed and built...
- Learn Electra One
Learn Electra One brings a range of tutorials to help users...
- Hardware overview
Electra One is a MIDI controller, a USB host, and a MIDI USB...
- Documentation
Electra One is a MIDI controller, a USB host, and a MIDI USB...
- FAQ
Learn how to use Electra One, a versatile MIDI controller that can send and receive MIDI messages, run Lua script, and control multiple devices. Explore the cloud-based Preset library, Patch editor, and Toolbox to create and manage your own presets and patches.
Electra One is the first product we designed and built together. It combines hardware and software, a love for music, and a pragmatic engineering approach.
Learn Electra One offers a range of tutorials to help users effectively use the Electra One controller and the associated suite of applications. Users can upload preset snippets, review and experiment with them, and learn about control types, values, display, communication, and projects.
- # Panel Layout and Connectors
- # Connecting Electra
- # Rear Panel Buttons
- # Switching Electra One on and Off
# Front panel
The front panel is the place where you interact with Electra One. A large touch-sensitive LCD displays all the controls and allows you to modify their values with a touch. 12 touch-sensitive knobs are assigned to on-screen controls and allow you to change values as well. The rubber buttons are here to navigate within Electra's pages, presets, sections, and windows. 1. Touch-sensitive display 2. Touch-sensitive 360-degree knobs. They are referred as KNOB1 (top-left) to KNOB12 3. [SECTION 1]but...
# Back panel and connectors
The back panel serves two purposes. It is the place to connect your gear and the computer. There are also buttons to reset Electra and initiate the firmware update. 1. [UPDATE]button 2. [RESET]button 3. port 4. port 5. port 6. port 7. port 8. port Ports , , , are often referred as to
# Display layout
The display is the place where all the magic happens. It displays controls assigned to the synthesizer parameters as defined in the currently loaded preset. The display also provides information about activity on the ports, currently selected preset and page, and memory usage. The controls are organized in 6 x 6 grid, giving you access to 36 controls per page. 1. Status bar with MIDI port activity indicators 2. Active section of controls 3. Inactive sections of controls 4. Bottom bar with the...
# A basic setup
Electra can be connected to your studio setup in many ways. For the start, the following configuration is ideal: In this setup, Electra can control sound parameters of the synthesizer connected to port. You will see Electra' USB Device ports on the connected computers, we refer to them as . These ports can be used to send and receive MIDI messages to and from the synthesizer. It means Electra acts here as a MIDI controller as well as a MIDI USB interface. There are three...
# A complex setup
To illustrate Electra's capabilities let's take a look at a more complex setup: Here we connect more gear to the ports. Next to that, the Master keyboard is connected to Electra’s port. In this setup, you can have full bi-directional control over two hardware synth modules. The MIDI messages generated by the Master keyboard are automatically forwarded to both ports and to the ports. MIDI messages generated by turning the knobs are being merged to the...
The Reset and Update buttons are here to help you out when you get into a tricky situation. As these should be very rare events, the buttons are recessed and can be reached with a pen or with another thin object.
Electra One starts up immediately after it is connected to the USB power. It does not matter whether it is connected to a computer or a USB power adapter. The controller can be switched to the standby mode by pressing and holding the [MENU] button and pressing the [SECTION 3] button after the [MENU]button is held down at least for 3 seconds. Subseq...
Electra One is a MIDI controller, a USB host, and a MIDI USB interface capable of streamlining your entire music production process. We hope Electra One will do the job you bought it for! 1. Create your Electra One account. Open Chrome or Edge browser and go to https://app.electra.one/register to create your Electra One account.
The Electra One MkII is a small desktop device that can be customized to control any MIDI equipment, from DAWs to old synths. It has a touchscreen, rotary pots, buttons, and USB and MIDI ports, and can run up to 12 presets concurrently.
