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GUIDED TOUR #4: REAL TIME CONTROL PROGRAMMING

BACKGROUND

Ever wanted to add vibrato to a grand piano? Or bend its pitch? The Real Time Control module can do
this, and lots more. Begin this Tour by re-loading the Arco Strings disk, then select Preset 01.

PITCH-BENDING

First, let’s check out pitch-bending. Play middle C and rotate the pitch bend wheel. Hmm. ..no pitch bend.
Now play F4, and there will be pitch bend. Check further, and you’ll see that pitch-bending affects only the
range from 04 to F4. This is because pitch bend can be enabled for any Voice or Voices within a Preset.
In this case, pitch bend was only enabled for the Voice that spans from D4to F4.

Let’s have pitch bend affect the entire keyboard. Key in

ANALOG PROCESSING 22

and select the entire

keyboard as the Current Voice (surely you know how to do this by now, so we’ll spare you the details).
Move the slider, and you’ll see a list of modulation destinations. Pitch will be set to NO. Press YES, and
like magic, you can now pitch bend the entire Current Voice.

The important point of all this is that if modulation does not seem to affect a Voice, make sure that
modulation is enabled. Now read

ANALOG PROCESSING 22

for more information.

Want to change the pitch bend range? De-activate the Analog Processing module, activate Preset
Definition, and refer to

PRESET DEFINITION 8.

CHANGING MODULATION WHEEL DESTINATIONS
Note:

Emax offers two vibrato options: Pre-programmed (which adds a constant, selectable amount of

vibrato), and real time (where the player adds in vibrato by using one of the wheels).

Each Emax wheel can be assigned to a particular destination. For example, if the left wheel is assigned to
pitch, then rotating the wheel bends pitch. If assigned to the filter, rotating the wheel varies the cutoff
frequency.

Let’s set up for the next part of the Tour. Choose Preset 01 as the Current Preset if it is not already.
Activate

ANALOG PROCESSING,

assign the entire keyboard as the Current Voice if necessary, then key

in 22. Vary the slider and press

YES

for all the enable options. This will make it easier to hear the results

of the next series of experiments.

Now activate

PRESET DEFINITION

and key in 9. To make “live” playing as simple as possible, the

display works somewhat differently for this module. The display shows eight pairs of numbers:

The first number of each pair stands for one of the eight possible control sources (the left-hand column of
functions printed on the top panel under Preset Definition 9), namely:

1.  Left wheel (center detent, spring return type)
2.  Right wheel (continuously variable type)
3.  Pressure (keyboard aftertouch from external MIDI keyboard)
4.  Control voltage pedal (plugs into rear panel PEDAL jack; also
5.  Accepts any 0 to +1 0V control voltage source)
6.  MlDl control A (can be assigned to any MIDI controller #)
7.  MIDI control B (can be assigned to any MIDI controller

8. Footswitch 1 (plugs into rear panel FOOT SWITCH 1 jack)
9. Footswitch 2 (plugs into rear panel FOOT SWITCH 2 jack)

1:1 2:4 3:0 4:0
5:0 6:0 7:3 8:6