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Groups

Groups

Dealing with a number of voices arranged on the keyboard can sometimes be a bit overwhelming. You might find yourself wishing there was a way to organize similar voices, say a layer of piano voices and a layer of string voices, into unified entities or Groups. That's it, groups!

To place a voice into a group, you simply tag each voice you want to be in the group with the same group number. Then, whenever you select that group number in the voice selection screen, all voices with that group number will be selected. You can define up to 32 groups, but a voice can only be in one group at a time.

Groups are assigned in any of the voice windows. In the Key Window shown above, two voices (1 & 3) are assigned to the same key range or in other words, they are layered. Note that they are also in two different groups. If you wanted to select voices 1 and 2, you could simply move the cursor to the Group 1 field in the key window shown above. The Edit key changes to read, “EditGrp.” Simply press the EditGrp key (F6) to select all voices in group 1.

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Preset Editor

The Preset Edit module puts everything together to build complete presets. Samples can be arranged into single-sample or multi-sample voices with synthesizer processing applied. These complete voices can then be arranged on the keyboard.

The Preset Editor contains two levels. The top level, called Preset Definition, is used for editing global preset parameters, linking presets and for arranging voices and samples on the keyboard. The lower level, called Dynamic Processing, is used to perform more detailed editing of one or more preset voices such as envelope shaping of amplitude and filters as well as modulation parameters.

	Preset Edit Key
Preset Definition Level
Global	Links	Voices
Preset Setup	Vol/Pan/Tune	Vol/Pan/Tune
	Key Ranges	Key Ranges
	Velocity Ranges	Velocity Ranges
		Realtime Ranges
			Edit Soft Key
Exit Key
Dynamic Processing Level
Tuning	Amp/Filter	LFO/Aux	Cords
Voice Tuning	Amplifier	LFO-1	Cords-1
Voice Modifiers	Amp. Envelope	LFO-2	Cords-2
Voice Setup	Filter Setup	Aux. Envelope	Cords-3
	Filter Envelope

The dynamic processing parameters are accessed by pressing the Edit function key while in one of the Voice screen parameters (or directly via an assignable key). Multiple voice selection is supported in any of the Dynamic Processing editing screens using a MIDI keyboard (Auto Voice Select).

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Preset Editor

O The Preset Editor remembers which page was last displayed and returns to that same page when the Preset Edit button is again pressed. When the EXIT button is pressed, while in any Dynamic Processing editor screen, the last-displayed Preset Editor screen will reappear (unless the preset is changed).

The Preset Definition level contains three main pages (Global, Links, Voices) which are selected using a function key. Each page will be highlighted while it is selected.

Key Range

Preset #1

Preset #2

Layering Two Presets Using Links

Preset #1

Key Range

Preset #2

Key Range

Creating a Split Keyboard with Links

Global Editor . Contains the parameters Preset Transpose and Preset Volume which affect all voices in the preset. Also contains the Preset FX menus (Press the Next button).

Links. Call up other presets in the bank which can be used to create layering or keyboard splits. Linked presets are not altered by linking. They are simply called up from memory and played. An easy way to layer, crossfade or split sounds is to link presets in an empty preset. See New Link. Each linked preset can have its own keyboard range, velocity range, volume, pan position, and tuning.

Link can also control an external MIDI channel. For example, you could split the keyboard and have the lower half control internal presets and the upper half controlling another sound module on MIDI channel 5.

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This is called a MIDI Link. MIDI Links can be assigned to any keyboard range or can be scaled according to velocity. This allows you to use the E4K as a Master Controller keyboard and split or layer the keyboard up to 16 ways with a different synthesizer on each MIDI channel.

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O MIDI Links re-transmit data received on the Emulator's Basic MIDI Channel (Master, MIDI).

On an Emulator rack unit, MIDI Links can process and re-output incoming MIDI data from your keyboard. This allows any MIDI keyboard to become a Master keyboard with multiple split points and layering.

Voice Editing. Allows you to place voices and samples on the keyboard and crossfade or switch between them according to key position, velocity range and realtime control range. This submodule also contains parameters to adjust the tuning, volume and pan position for the voices and samples.

If a voice contains more than one sample, it will be labeled as a multisample and the individual samples will be listed below it. Voices are shown graphically as solid black bars and samples are shown as empty bars. If a voice contains only one sample, then the sample will be the voice name.

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