Quickstart
GIO-1 on one page: every control, page, effect and song.
Start
- Switch on: Feel plays from its intro.
- PRESETS: another song, from the top.
- White keys: play the lead, always in key. Three notes and a pause: it answers, and keeps your line as its theme.
- Black keys: an effect while held. FX: each press the next instrument's echo and reverb (Bass, Pad, Lead, Drums, then Space), the white keys playing all sixteen effects meanwhile.
- SEL: the next section. A tap on REC: stay in this one.
- EDIT: the bassline (a white key picks a step, KNOB 2 its note); again: the section's chords; again: the drum grid (a white key a step on or off).
- ENV, KNOB 2: open the bass filter.
Controls
| White keys | The lead, a step of the scale each; the chord's notes lit |
| Black keys | Effects while held: Throw, Tape stop, Swell, Low-pass, High-pass, Sweep, Phaser, Freeze, Stutter, Drop, Roll |
| PLAY | Play / stop (the song from the top) |
| REC | Tap: hold the section. Held: the effects grid |
| EDIT | The edit pages: Bassline, Chords, Drum grid |
| SEL | The next section, on the next bar |
| FX | Each press pages through the echo and reverb settings of the Bass, Pad, Lead and Drums, then Space, then round again; on every one, the white keys play the 16-effect grid live |
| OCT− / OCT+ | The bass's octave |
| ALGORITHM | The bass pattern: Song, Pump, Pump 16, Arpeggio, Gallop, Octaves, Slow |
| PRESETS | The song (each keeps its settings) |
| SELECT | Pages. With HOME held: tempo 80–150 |
| SAVE | Save. Held 1.5 s: the song's recipe again |
Pages and knobs
| Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song (HOME) | Tempo | Evolve | Motion | Arrange |
| Mixer (HOME ×2) | Bass | Pad | Lead | Drums |
| Bass (ENV) | Level | Cutoff | Resonance | Decay |
| Bass FM (ENV ×2) | Voice: Analog, FM | Cutoff / Ratio | Resonance / FM depth | Decay / FM decay |
| Lead (ARP) | Level | Voice | Busy | Glide |
| Lead 2 (ARP ×2) | Echo | Reverb | Octave | Tone |
| Pad (LFO) | Level | Colour | Bright | Phaser |
| Drums (SEQ) | Level | Fills | Hats | Swing |
| Bass FX (FX) | Echo | Reverb | Time* | Feedback* |
| Pad FX (FX ×2) | Echo | Reverb | Time* | Feedback* |
| Lead FX (FX ×3) | Echo | Reverb | Time* | Feedback* |
| Drums FX (FX ×4) | Echo | Reverb | Time* | Feedback* |
| Space (FX ×5) | Echo | Time* | Feedback* | Reverb |
| Setup (GLO) | Key | Tune | MIDI out | Lights |
| MIDI (GLO ×2) | MIDI out | Channels | Clock | Clock out |
| Mirror (GLO ×3) | Mirror on/off | |||
| Bassline (EDIT) | Step | Note | Accent | Length |
| Chords (EDIT again) | Chord | Root | Type | Bars |
| Drum grid (EDIT 3 times) | Drum | Step | Level |
* One echo for all: Time and Feedback are the same on every page. On the FX pages, Echo and Reverb are that instrument's own.
Effects
FX or REC held: white keys 1–16, each while held.
Echo1Throw2Time x23Tape stop4Swell
Filter5Low-pass6High-pass7Sweep8Phaser
Space9Reverb10Wash11Freeze12Stutter
Moves13Drop14Gate15Octave16Roll
Presets
| Preset | BPM | Key | The form |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Feel | 126 | C | Intro (bass, hats) · Verse (C) · Chorus (C–E♭–F–G) · Shift (on B♭) · Verse · Chorus · Break |
| 2 Gio | 113 | A minor | Click (hats on the beat) · Arpeggio · Disco (Am–Em) · Strings (Am–F) · Fills · House |
| 3 Mutant | 123 | F minor | Dawn (the pad alone) · Sequence · Groove · Theme (Fm–D♭) · Bridge (B♭m–Fm) · Theme |
| 4 Heaven | 130 | A♭ | Slow ×2 (half time, A♭–E♭–Fm11–E♭) · Lift · Fast (A♭–E♭–B♭–A♭) · Vamp (Fm11) · Fast |
| 5 TickTock | 126 | C, then E♭ | Intro · Verse (G–F) · Pre (Am–Dm–G–C) · Chorus (G–Em7–G) · Turn (C–E♭) · the same a minor third up · Outro |
| 6 Energy | 123 | C minor | Intro · Groove (Cm) · Lift (A♭–B♭) · Groove (Cm–B♭) · Break · Build |
| 7 Fly | 126 | A minor | Liftoff · Theme (Am–F–G) · Drift (Am–Dm) · Theme · Space |
| 8 Lover | 130 | C minor | Intro · Verse (Cm–B♭) · Hook (A♭–B♭–Cm) · Robot · Hook |
| 9 Express | 128 | D minor | Intro (the bass alone) · Drive · Strings · Theme (Dm–B♭–C) · Pursuit · Theme · Run |
Handy to know
| Help | Hold any button a second: a card says what it does |
| MIDI | Out on USB: bass, pad, lead, drums on 1, 2, 3, 10 (or 4, 5, 6, 11). Clock from Internal, USB or TRS |
| Update mode | REC held while switching on |
| Calibration | OCT− and OCT+ held while switching on |
| Emulator keys | White Q–I A–K, black 1–-, P PLAY, O REC, Esc HOME, Z X OCT, ↑ ↓ SELECT |