Drum tracks

When a track is set in Drum Mode (like the Drum and Per- cussion tracks), you can adjust the volume for each of the Drum and Percussion categories.

Kick V

Kick drums volume.

Snare V

Snare drums volume.

Tom V

Toms volume.

HiHat V

Hi-Hat volume.

CymbalV

Ride, Crash and other cymbals volume.

Percus1V

“Classic” percussion set volume.

Percus2V

“Ethnic” percussion set volume.

SFX V

Special effects volume.

Reset

You can reset the parameters’ value by keeping the SHIFT button pressed, while pressing the selected track VOLUME/ VALUE button. When you press the above combination, the Reset window appears:

RESET NO=Cancel

YES=Trk SHFT+YES=All

Press ENTER/YES to reset the currently selected track. Keep SHIFT pressed, and press ENTER/YES, to reset all tracks. Press EXIT/NO to abort and leave all parameters unchanged.

PAGE 15 - TRACK: MODE

This page lets you set the polyphony mode for each track. Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch between Song tracks 1-8, Song tracks 9-16, and back again.

Track:Mode

Poly Poly

Poly Poly

Poly Poly

Poly Poly

Track:Mode

Poly

Poly

Drum

Poly

Drum

Poly

Poly

Poly

Parameters

 

Drum

This is a Drum/Percussion track. No Master or

 

Octave Transpose applies to this track. You can

 

set a different volume for each class of percus-

 

sive instruments (“Page 14 - Track: Easy edit”

 

on page 98).

 

Song operating mode 99

 

Page 15 - Track: Mode

Poly

Tracks of this kind are polyphonic, i.e. they can

 

play more than one note at the same time.

Mono

Tracks of this kind are monophonic, i.e. each

 

new note stops the previous note.

Mono Right

A Mono track, but with priority assigned to

 

the rightmost (highest) note.

PAGE 16 - TRACK: INTERNAL/EXTERNAL

This page lets you set the Internal or External status for each track. It is very useful to let a Song track drive an external expander.

Use the TRACK SELECT button to switch between Song tracks 1-8, Song tracks 9-16, and back again.

Track:Int/Ext

Both Both

Both Both

Both External

Both Both

Track:Int/Ext

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

External

Both

Both

Parameters

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internal

The track plays the sounds generated by the

 

internal sound engine. It does not play an

 

external instrument connected to the MIDI

 

OUT.

 

 

 

 

External

The track plays an external instrument con-

 

nected to the MIDI OUT. It does not play the

 

internal sounds, thus saving polyphony.

 

When a track is set to “External”, a strings of

 

transmitted Control Change and Program

 

Change data is shown instead of the Program

 

name assigned to the track. In the following

 

example, CC#0 is the Control Change 0 (Bank

 

Select MSB), CC#32 is the Control Change 32

 

(Bank Select LSB), PC is the Program Change.

 

121- 3- 0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CC#0

CC#32

PC

Both

The track plays both the internal sounds and

 

an external instrument connected to the MIDI

 

OUT.

 

 

 

 

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