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Note that successive presses of the ACCENT
key will switch
between the VOICE LEVEL and ACCENT
LEVEL modes.
Pan position
Now move onto the next job, the stereo position of the voice, by
pressing the JOB and 2 keys together. The display will now read:
>PAN
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Pressing the -1/МО and +1/YES
keys will move
the cursor
corresponding to the instrument's position in the stereo image.
Pitch and Pitch Shift
Now the pitch of the voice may be altered, along with an alternate
pitch (pitch shift), which may be used for emphasis. etc. Press
JOB and 3 together to access this mode.
>PITCH
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Use the -1/NO and +1/YES keys to shift the pitch up or down in
10-cent steps (100 cents = Е semitone) up to +1200 from the
original pitch or down to -1200 from the original pitch. Now you
can select the alternate pitch by pressing the green PITCH key.
The display will read:
Again, use the -1/NO and +1/YES keys to shift the alternate pitch
in semitone steps, up to 24 semitones either way. If, however, the
pitch setting and the alternate pitch setting added together ex-
ceed the voice's pitch limit (1 octave either way). a ! will be
displayed as the final character on the first line of the display,
meaning that no further pitch change is possible. To listen to the
alternate pitch, press the instrument key while holding down the
PITCH key. Note that successive presses of the PITCH key will
switch between the PITCH and PITCH SHIFT modes.
Polyphony
The next job is the setting of polyphony (more than one note
simultaneously) for the voice. Access this by pressing JOB and
4 together:
»POLY
OFF
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When POLY is OFF, only one note of this voice may be played
at one time, but for drum
rolls, cymbal
climaxes, etc, it is
sometimes a good idea to have POLY on. Set this by pressing the
+1/YES key. If the voice has POLY ON and you want it OFF, use
the - 1/NO key. If you want to listen to the effect of polyphony vs
monophony, pick a voice with a long decay (such as a cymbal),
and press the instrument key twice in quick succession. You will
notice that in monophonic mode, the second sound cuts off the
first, but in polyphonic mode, the two overlap.
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Effect/Detune
>EFFECT/D
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Ву pressing JOB and 5 together, the EFFECT/DETUNE
job can
be accessed. This alters the pitch at which a second voice similar
to the first, but detuned
is played when
the instrument
and
EFFECT keys are pressed together. Use the -1/NO and +1/YES
to alter the amount from | to 3. Listen to the effected sound (a
little similar to flanging) by pressing the instrument key together
with the EFFECT
key.
Effect expansion
Press the JOB and 6 keys together to access this last job. The
display will change to read:
Use the +1/YES key to turn the expand effect ON.
When the
instrument key is pressed together with the EFFECT key, you
will notice that the two detuned
voices are sent to the two
different sides of the stereo image, overriding the PAN setting.
To turn this effect off, press the -1/NO key.
You have now set up the bass drum with only a few key presses,
in much less time than it would take to set up a real bass drum to
your requirements. You can now repeat the process for all the
other instruments (except the bass, which we'll come to in a
while).
A short cut
As a short cut, you might like to notice that when you are in a job
in the VOICE EDIT mode, pressing different instrument keys
will display the VOICE EDIT settings for these instruments in
turn. As an example, let's look at the PAN settings for the toms.
Supposing you have ASSIGNed the voices of TOMs 6, 7 and 8
to the TOMI, TOM2 and TOM3 keys respectively (they could be
any instrument keys. of course, but these make the assignment
casy to remember). When in the VOICE EDIT mode, and the
PAN sub-job (JOB+2) has been entered, pressing the TOM] key
will display something like:
There's no need to go through the JOB procedure to set the PAN
settings for the other toms. Just press the TOM2 instrument key
(for instance, and the display will read:
Pressing the TOM3 instrument key will display the PAN setting
for the TOM 8 voice. In this way, pan settings, levels, etc, can be
assigned quickly and easily.
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