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
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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.
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Track3 |
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