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DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY
ManufacturerÕs Name: Digitech
ManufacturerÕs Address: 8760 S. Sandy Parkway
Sandy, Utah 84070, USA
declares that the product:
Product Name: RP-12
Product Options: All (requires a Class II power adapter that conforms to the require-
ments of EN6005, EN60742, or equivalent).
conform to the following Product Specifications:
Safety: EN 60065 (1993)
IEC 65 (1987) with Amendments 1, 2 & 3
EMC: EN 55013 (1990)
EN 55020 (1991)
Supplementary Information:
The product herewith complies with the requirements of the Low Voltage Directive
73/23/EEC and EMC Directive 89/336/EEC as amended by Directive 93/68/EEC.
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Digitech
President of Digitech
8760 S. Sandy Parkway
Sandy, Utah 84070, USA
Effective October 17, 1996
European Contact: Your Local DigiTech Sales and Service Office or
International Sales Office
3 Overlook Drive #4
Amherst, New Hampshire 03031, USA
Tel (603) 672-4244
Fax (603) 672-4246
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Table Of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Lithium Battery Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Section 1 - Startup Supplying power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Line Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Front Panel Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Pedalboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Display Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Program Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Parameter Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Effect Library Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Global Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Main Output Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Continuous Control Pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Rear Panel Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Right Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Left/Mono Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Headphone Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
AC Line Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
MIDI In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
MIDI Out / Thru. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
MIDI and Audio Setups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Section 2 - Basic Operations Program Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Tuning with the RP-12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Changing the Tuning Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Assigning Programs to Footswitches . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Assigning Parameters to Footswitches . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Section 3 - Programming Using the Function Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
More Special Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The Effects Library Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
About the I / O Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Modifying Factory Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Basic Program Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Selecting an Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Naming Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Storing Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 4 - Effects and Parameters About the Effects Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Analog Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Equalizers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Cabinet Emulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Reverbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Gated Reverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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