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Basics
Section
An Overview of the S30
In this section, an overview of the many features of the S30 is given.
The S30 hardware is made up of a number of sections, as shown in the following diagram.
Controller Section
This section consists of the keyboard, Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels, Control Sliders, Assignable
knobs and so on. The keyboard itself doesn’t generate sounds, but instead sends note, velocity and
other information to the synthesizer’s tone generator section when you plays notes. The controllers
also send changes. Information from the keyboard and controllers can be transmitted to other
external MIDI devices through the MIDI OUT connector.
Sequencer Section
This section can be used to play back Standard MIDI Files held on Memory Card. The contents of
Tracks 1 to 16 correspond to MIDI channels and Parts in a Performance as shown in the following
illustration. The sequencer can play back songs with a different Voice assigned to each Part.
Sequencer Tone Generator
(Performance Parts)
Track1 Piano Ch1
Track2 Bass Ch2
Track3
Strings
Piano
Bass
Strings
Percussion
Ch3
Track16
Percussion
Ch16
Ch1
Ch2
Ch3
Ch16
Controller Section
Tone Generator
Section Effects Section
Sequencer
Section
Keyboard Controllers
Song File Playback
Arpeggiator AWM2
Plug-in Board