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Key Window Controls

Voices - Key Window

Key Position

Graphic Display

Low/High Key, Crossfades

Displays	Button is highlighted
Global Editor Pages	while this page set

is displayed.

Displays

Link Editor Pages

The Key Window of the Voices screen is accessed by pressing the Next Page key on the front panel from the main Voices screen. The previous screen appears.

Key Window Controls

Voice Field: Link can be selected using the numeric keypad or Data Entry

Control.

Group Field: The group number of the voice can be changed using the numeric keypad or Data Entry Control.

Sample Name & Number: The voice's sample(s) can be changed using the Data Entry Control or INC/DEC keys.

Key Position Controls: These controls set the high and low key range and the crossfade range in keys for each voice and sample.

Graphic Display: Shows the keyboard positions of each voice and sample.

Utilities: New, Copy, Delete, and Split.

Sample Zone: New Sample Zone, Get Multisample, Delete Sample Zone,

Combine and Expand.

Edit: Voice Selection & Dynamic Processing parameters.

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Remember to SAVE the bank to disk or all your programming will be lost.

O To create a really high quality voice, you might want to sample every third note or even every note.

More samples are usually better, but the playing technique used while sampling becomes critical the more samples are used!

Keyboard Ranges

When a sample is recorded, it is automatically placed in a voice and assigned a keyboard range specified in the “Auto-Placement” parameters in the Sample Management module. The Key Range Window allows you to edit these assignments and place the voices and samples wherever you want.

Key Position

Graphic Display

Low/High Key, Crossfades

Displays	Button is highlighted
Global Editor Pages	while this page set

is displayed.

Displays

Link Editor Pages

A voice containing only one sample takes the name of the sample. If a voice contains more than one sample, it is called a “♦multisample♦” and the samples it contains are listed below it.

The bars at the right side of the screen give a graphic display of how the voices and samples are assigned to the keyboard. Voices are shown as solid black bars, while Samples are displayed as hollow bars. Voice keyboard range assignments supersede the assignments of the samples they contain.

The key position is edited by placing the cursor over the desired parameter and then playing the MIDI keyboard or adjusting the Data Entry Control. Voices and samples can be crossfaded according to key position by adjusting the low and high fade parameters. The fade is adjusted in “number of keys” and is graphically represented by a gradual decrease in the height of the bars.

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O Samples can be arranged in a voice in exactly the same way that voices are arranged on the keyboard. They can be arranged side by side on the keyboard to minimize the negative effects of pitch shifting or stacked on top of each other to create huge layered sounds, all within a single voice.

v To Switch Voices According to Position

Assigning voices (samples or multisamples) adjacent to each other is the simplest and most common application of the Key Window. This is also the way samples are “Auto-Placed” in the Sample Manage module. The voices in the screen below are each assigned a one octave range.

Another way of visualizing this assignment is shown below.

VOICE 1

VOICE 2

VOICE 3

VOICE 4

v To Layer Voices and Samples

The ranges of two or more voices may overlap, and all voices assigned to a key will sound.

1.Press the Preset Edit key. The LED illuminates and the main preset edit screen appears.

2.Press the Voices function key (F5) to select the voice edit pages of the editor. The Voices function key will be highlighted.

3.Press the Next Page key. The Voices - Key Window appears.

4.Edit the High and Low keys of the voice ranges so they overlap as shown in the screen below. Both voices will now sound when their key range is played.

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Another way of visualizing this assignment is shown below.

VOICE 1

VOICE 2

VOICE 3

VOICE 4

	You may want to assign	v To Positionally Crossfade:
	voices in different layers to	This technique can help mask the point at which two sounds meet. The
	different groups.	fade parameters allow the volume of the voice or sample to be faded out as
	This allows you to select all of	a function of key position. In the screen shown below, voices 1 and 2 are
	the voices in each layer just by	being positionally crossfaded over a range of five notes.
	selecting the group number. You	As the voice boundaries are crossed playing up the keyboard, the lower
	can edit the group number of a
		voice gradually fades out as the upper voice fades in.
	voice in any of the Voice screens.

1.Press the Preset Edit key. The LED illuminates and the main preset edit screen appears.

These same techniques 2. Press the Voices function key (F5) to select the voice edit pages of the

work when assigning samples		editor. The Voices function key will be highlighted.
within multisampled voices.	3.	Press the Next Page key. The Voices - Key Window appears.

4.Edit the High and Low keys of the voice ranges so they overlap as shown below, then set the low and high fades for the two voices. In the center of the crossfade range, both voices will at equal volume.

VOICE 1

VOICE 2

VOICE 3

VOICE 4

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