ZETA Music Systems ZMC-200 manual Utility Mode

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UTILITY MODE

To activate UTILITY MODE, press the UTIL button on the front of your ZETA SYNTHONY II. The LED next to the UTIL button will be lit.

UTILITY PARAMETERS

Utility Mode controls the appearance of information in your display.

This mode also controls the load and save functions via MIDI (SYSEX), so that you can save all of your valuable presets and parameters to a floppy disk using the appropriate communications software. Owners of the ZETA SYNTHONY II will find here numerous settings for drum sequences and programmable digital effects.

DISPLAY

Control instrument and the LCD display (TUNING, LEVEL)

Here you decide which instrument in PRESET MODE you want be shown in the bottom half of the display:

TUNING

With this setting selected, the bottom half of your ZETA SYNTHONY II’s LCD display shows a instrument tuner, that can be used during play to check and correct the tuning of your input instrument. Tune each string so that the arrow points to the middle of the scale. If the Tune Base Parameter is set to 0 (zero), the middle point on the tuning scale in the display represents the standard tuning calibration of 440 Hertz.

LEVEL

With this selection, instead of a tuner, you see a VU (LEVEL) meter in the bottom half of the display. The small vertical bars represent the present levels of each of the six strings of your instrument. The higher the bar, the louder the string.

PRESET NAMES

Display of sound presets (patches) (NUM, GM, XG)

Your ZETA SYNTHONY II has the ability to display selected presets in various forms:

NUM

All sound presets (patches) will be displayed in their numeric form in their given MIDI bank. A MIDI bank contains 128 preset numbers. It is possible to split MIDI banks using MSB (most significant byte) and LSB (least

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