OWNER'S MANUAL
MIDI SOUND GENERATOR
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
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Introduction
Main features of this unit
IMPORTANT NOTES
CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Try out the unit
(Quick start)
Chapter 3. System Effects
Chapter 5. Convenient functions
Chapter 7. MIDI and the unit
Chapter 6. Using the unit with
a personal computer
Chapter 8. Appendix
Front and rear panel
■Front panel
■ Rear panel
Try out the unit (Quick start)
■Connect a MIDI keyboard and play the sounds
●Turning the power on or off
❍Turning the power on
1. Before you turn the power on, check the following points
Turn on the power of this unit and your MIDI equipment
Turn on the power of your audio system
■Try out the various sounds
■Try out the buttons of the unit
●Transpose the pitch
■Apply effects to the sound
■Tuning to other instruments (Tuning)
ALL >M. Tune:
■Headphones
■Audio input jacks / Audio input volume
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Parts and parameters
■Parts and sounds
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❍To select the same sounds as the SC-55/SC-55mk
❍To select the same sounds as the SC-88
●Selecting Variation sounds
3. Simultaneously press both INSTRUMENT [l ] [r ] buttons to enter
Variation select mode
A01 000/Piano
4.Press INSTRUMENT [l] or [r] to change the Variation number
A01 008/Piano 1w
To exit Variation select mode, simultaneously press both the INSTRU- MENT
A01 001+Piano 1w
A01 001 Piano
A01 001#"Piano
●Reading the Instrument numbers and Variation numbers
●Part Channels
Procedure
2.Use the PART [l] [r] buttons to select the Part whose channel you wish
to change
3.Use the MIDI CH [l] [r] buttons to set the MIDI channel of the Part
●Which MIDI IN will be used by each Part
●How simultaneous note numbers and Voices are related
●Concerning legato-enabledsounds
■Part parameters for performance
A01 >Part Mode: Norm
●What each parameter does
❍LEVEL (Volume level): 0 —
❍PAN (Panning): Rnd, L63 — 0 — R63
❍KEY SHIFT: -24— ± 0 — +24: semitone
steps, 2 octaves
❍M/P Mode (Mono/Poly Mode): Mono/Poly
❍Fine Tune: -100.0— +100.0 cent
❍Rx Bank Sel (Bank Select Receive Switch): On/Off
❍Rx NRPN (NRPN Receive Switch): On/Off
❍Velo Depth (Velocity Sensitivity Depth): 0 —
❍CC1 C.Number (CC1 Controller Number):
1 —
❍OUT Asgn (Output Assign): OUT-1/2/2L/2R
❍S.Tune C - B (Scale Tuning C - B):
-64— +63
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■Part parameters for sound editing
(Example) Vibrato editing display
A01 Vib. |+20|± 0|± 0|
Vibrato
❍Vibrato Rate: -64— +63
❍Vibrato Depth: -64— +63
Filter
❍Cutoff Freq (Cutoff Frequency): -64— +63
❍Resonance: -64— +63
Envelope
❍Attack Time: -64— +63
❍Decay Time: -64— +63
■Setting parameters common to all Parts
●How each parameter works
❍LEVEL (Master level): 0 —
❍PAN (Master Pan): L63 — 0 — R63
❍KEY SHIFT (Master Key Shift): -24— ± 0 — +24 semitone steps, 2 octaves
❍MUTE (All Mute): On/Off
■System parameter settings
A01 %Prevw
Note: A4
%Display: Type1
%Peak Hold:Type1
%LCD Contrast:
■Using Patches
ALL 001 RB START
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■Creating a Drum Set (Drum Edit)
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AD1 001 C#3 CrshCym1
5.Use the INSTRUMENT [l] [r] buttons select the Drum Instrument you
wish to edit
6.Use the front panel parameter buttons to modify the parameter values
7. To return to the previous display, simultaneously press both the
●Using Chorus and Delay
●About the Assign Group
System Effects
■How the effect section of the unit is organized
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■System Effect settings
●Equalizer parameter functions
❍EQ Gain (Low): -12— 0 — +12dB
❍EQ Gain (High): -12— 0 — +12dB
❍EQ Low Freq (Equalizer Low Frequency): 200/400 Hz
❍EQ High Freq (Equalizer High Frequency): 3/6 kHz
●When you want to adjust the system effect for all Parts
2.Press the button of the effect you wish to adjust
DELAY
●When you want to adjust the system effect for each Part
2.Use the PART [l] [r] buttons to select the Part you wish to modify
ALL >Reverb: Hall2
ALL >Reverb: Plate
●Reverb parameter function
❍Reverb (Reverb Type)
❍Rev Charac. (Reverb Character) 0 —
❍Rev Pre-LPF(Reverb Pre Low Pass Filter) 0 —
❍Rev Level (Reverb Level) 0 —
●Chorus parameter function
❍Chorus (Chorus Type)
❍Cho Pre-LPF(Chorus Pre Low Pass Filter)
❍Cho Level (Chorus Level) 0 —
❍ChoFeedback (Chorus Feedback Level)
●Delay parameter function
❍Delay (Delay Type)
❍Dly Pre-LPF(Delay Pre Low Pass Filter)
❍Dly Time C (Delay Time Center) 0.1ms —
1.0s
Insertion Effects
Insertion effect settings
●Different effect types
❍Effects that modify the tone color (filter type)
❍Effects that distort the sound (distortion type)
❍Effects that modulate the sound (modula- tion type)
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❍Effects that affect the level (compressor type)
❍Effects that broaden the sound (chorus type)
❍Effects that reverberate the sound (delay/reverb type)
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❍Effects that modify the pitch (pitch shift type)
❍Others
❍Effects that connect two types of effect in series (series 2)
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❍Effects that connect two types of effect in parallel (parallel 2)
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■Using controllers to modify effect parameters
ALL >EFX C.Src1: Off
Examples of using effect controllers
●Using Control Change 16 to modify the Drive value of 6: Distortion
●Using Control Change 16 to modify the Speed value of 9: Rotary
●Using Control Change 16 to modify the Wah Man value of 50:GTR Multi3
Convenient functions
■Create and save a sound (User Instrument)
032 Gt.Harmonics
A01 Vib. |+20|± 0|± 0|
5. Simultaneously press [USER INST] and [SELECT]
A16 Write UI 64/032
6. When you press [ALL] the sound will be stored
■Creating and saving an Insertion effect (User Effect)
■Creating and saving a Patch (User Patch)
Make the desired settings for the parameters of Parts A01 and A02
●Saving a User Patch
2. Press the [ALL] button to make the button indicator light
3. Simultaneously press [USER INST] and [SELECT]
U01 -USERPATCH01
■Saving a Drum Set you created (User Drum)
SET 065*ˇSER DRUM1
SET 066*ˇSER DRUM2
AD1 001 C#3 CrshCym1
❍Storing an individual Drum Instrument (procedure 1)
AD1 Write UD D#3/65
5. To store the data, press [ALL]
❍Storing an entire Drum Set (procedure 2)
4-2.Tostore the entire Drum Set, simultaneously press EFX VALUE [l] [r]
buttons
AD1 Write U.DRUM 65
4-1
■Copying or Exchanging settings between Parts / Initializing Part settings
Use PART [l][r] to select the source Part
Use the following procedure
4. To execute the specified operation, press the [ALL] button
■Recording all settings on a sequencer
●Transmitting Individual Data
❍Transmission procedure for Part parameters
❍Transmission procedure for parameters common to all parts
1. Part parameters:
Press the [ALL] button to make the indicator dark
❍Transmission procedure for Insertion Effect parameters
1. Press the [EFX] button to make the indicator light orange
3. Press EFX TYPE [l] or [r], and the Effect Type will be displayed. At this
4. Press EFX PARAM [l] or [r], and the effect parameters will be displayed
Draw pictures or characters in the display (Frame Draw)
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■Creating compatible data for the unit / SC-88
1.Hold down [SELECT], and press [ALL]
2.To turn off SC-88-compatibilitymode, hold down [SELECT] and press [ALL]
■Selecting the CM-64sound map
Part settings
Settings for all Parts
●Differences between the CM-64and the unit
1. How the sounds change
2. Exclusive data
■Using the unit as two sound modules
>M. Tune:
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■Initialize
Using the unit with a personal computer
■Connections with your computer
Types of computer cable
4. Turn power of this unit on
●Connections with MIDI connectors
●MIDI data transfer with the computer
❍When the computer switch is set to PC-1, PC-2or Mac
❍When the computer switch is set to MIDI
●Connecting another MIDI sound source to the unit
When using another sound source to play data received at the computer connector
❍When using another sound source to play data received at MIDI IN A
■Using MIDI messages to select sounds
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●Using MIDI messages to select Drum Sets
Exclusive data addresses
MIDI and the unit
■About MIDI
■MIDI messages that can be received by the unit
Hold (1) (control change number 64) ✩
Sostenuto (control change number 66)
Soft (control change number 67)
Reverb Send Level (control change number 91)
Chorus Send Level (control change number 93)
❍All Sounds Off
❍All Notes Off ✩
❍Reset All Controllers ✩
❍Active Sensing
❍System Exclusive messages
■Device ID number settings
ALL >Device ID:
■MIDI message routing settings and switches
%IN B Sel.:Rear
❍OUT/THRU (MIDI OUT/THRU Select) OUT/THRU
❍In Mode (Input Modes)
Standard, X-connect,Merge → A, Merge → B, A only
Standard
X-connect(Cross connect)
Merge → A
Standard
Merge ->A
Merge ->B
A only
ALL >Rx GS Reset: On
ALL >Rx GS Reset: Off
●How each switches works
❍MUTE Lock (Mute Lock) On/Off
❍EQ Lock (Equalizer Lock) On/Off
❍Rx GM On (GM System On Receive Switch) On/Off
❍Rx GS On (GS Reset Receive Switch) On/Off
>Rx Bank Sel: On
●Using NRPNs with GS Sound Modules
●When song data plays back with the wrong sounds
●Using screen display data for the SC-55series
●Using Aftertouch
●Using MIDI to control the depth of a System Effect
Appendix
■Troubleshooting
●Sound is distorted
●Pitch is incorrect
●Sound is wrong
●Sounds are interrupted
●Able to play only from either MIDI IN A or MIDI IN B
■If a message appears
■Computer cable wiring diagrams
■Parameter list and operations
●Effects
●Drum edit
●User edit
●MIDI-related
●System functions
●Other functions
■Instrument list
Guitar
Bass
Strings/orchestra
Brass
Reed
Pipe
Synth lead
Synth pad, etc
Synth SFX
Ethnic, etc
Percussive
SFX
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SC-55MAP (CM-64Sound Map)
■Drum set list
Native Drum set (1)
Native Drum set (2)
Native Drum set (3)
Native Drum set (4)
Native Drum set (5)
Native Drum set (6)
Native Drum set (7)
SC-88Drum set (1)
SC-88Drum set (2)
SC-88Drum set (3)
SC-55Drum set
SFX set , CM-64 /32L Drum set
■Effect list
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■Effect data table
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■Preset Patch list
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■MIDI implementation
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MIDI Implementation Chart
■ INDEX
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Apparatus containing Lithium batteries
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE STATEMENT
Specifications
●Number of parts
●Maximum Polyphony
●Internal Memory
●Effects
