SP Studio Systems SP-12 manual 3J Jumping to a SUB-SONG, 3K Programming Trigger Outputs

CREATING A SONG

3J JUMPING TO A SUB-SONG

At any point in a song, you may jump to another song. This song will play through in its entirety, at which point you will return to the first song at the same point at which you left it. To jump to a Sub-song:

1.When you reach the song step where you want to go to the Sub-song, press SUB-SONG. The display will ask you for the song to which you want to jump.

2.Key in the desired song number. When the display confirms your choice, press ENTER.

Note: A song could consist entirely of sub-songs. For example, one “song” could be programmed to be a first verse, another “song” a second verse, a third “song” an instrumental, and so on. You could create a song that would simply jump to the desired sub-songs in order to create a complete song. This technique is very handy when arranging a song; you can easily shuffle around verses, choruses, intros, and solos to see which order works best.

Note: If you jump to a sub-song that calls another sub-song, you will not be able to return to the original song. For example, if song A calls song B which calls song C, song A will play up to the point where it jumps to song B. Then, song B will play up to the point where it jumps to song C. When song C has finished playing, it will return to song B. Song B will then play all the way through without returning to song A.

3K PROGRAMMING TRIGGER OUTPUTS

You may program the SP-12 to output trigger pulses during the course of a song. This technique allows the SP-12 to generate pulses every quarter note, quarter note triplet, eighth note, eighth note triplet, sixteenth note, sixteenth note triplet, thirty- second note, or thirty-second note triplet. These pulses appear at the MET OUT jack on the back), and can drive arpeggiator inputs on synthesizers, sequencers, and other drum units for synchro-sonic effects. Best of all, unlike other units where these pulses start when the song starts and end when the song ends, you can program any of the six pulse options to occur at any point in the song; you can even program a 24 pulses-per-quarter-note (pqn) output instead of the above-mentioned trigger pulses for slaving other instruments (such as the Drumulator and Emulator) to the SP-12. Here’s how to do all these things:

1.When writing out the order of steps for the song, allot one step for each place you want the trigger pulses to begin, change to a different rate, or stop.

2.Make sure you are in song edit mode. At the song step immediately prior to where you want the pulses to begin, change, or turn off, press TRIGGER. If you have already programmed a song and want to add a trigger step, insert a song step and then press TRIGGER. The display’s lower line will probably indicate the default setting of Click trigger pulses (TrClick). The Right Arrow and Left Arrow buttons step through the various trigger options: 0ff, 1/14 (quarter notes), 1/lIt (quarter note triplets), 1/8 (eighth notes), 1/8t (eighth note triplets), 1/16 (sixteenth notes), 1/16t (sixteenth note triplets), 1/32 (thirty- second notes), 1/32t (thirty second note triplets), and Click (24 pqn).

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