ENSONIQ EPS-16 PLUS, Musician'S Manual

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EPS-16 PLUS Musician's Manual Section 3 —Instruments and Banks
values will be saved with the instrument. Be careful that you don't accidentally
save an instrument with some strange values that you had meant to be part of a
temporary setup. You can select "Preset 0" (see above) before saving the
instrument to avoid this.
• If no preset has been created for one of the eight possible locations, pressing
that number will have no effect
Creating a Performance Preset
Whenever you have set up some configuration of instruments (in LOAD mode)
which you want to preserve for later recall, you can save that configuration as a
performance preset with the following steps:
• In LOAD mode, set up the instruments in memory in some configuration you
want to preserve.
• Press Command, then Instrument.
• Press the Left or Right Arrow button until the display shows CREATE
PRESET.
• Press Enter•Yes.
• Use the Data Entry Slider or the Up and Down Arrow buttons to select
a number 1-8. This will determine which of the eight possible performance
presets the current keyboard configuration will be saved.
• Press Enter•Yes. The display reads COMMAND COMPLETED, and the
preset is made.
• Press Load to return to the "pile." Pressing the number that you selected for
the preset will now instantly recall this keyboard configuration. Repeat this
procedure for each performance preset you want to create, selecting a new
number (from 1-8) for each.
Important: Performance presets are saved to disk only when you save the contents of
memory as a bank. When you load a bank, any presets which were present at the
time the bank was saved will be recreated
Suggested Uses for Performance Presets
The most obvious use for performance presets is to have instant access to
different combinations of instrument selected, stacked, and mixed in various
ways. Here are some other possibilities:
• Easier access to patch select variations. Suppose you have selected the piano
sound and "locked in" some patch variation, such as the detuned honky-tonk
piano sound. By creating a preset while the alternate patch is locked in, you can
later return to that sound just by selecting the preset.
• Controlling MIDI instruments. Suppose you have created one or more MIDI
instruments for sequencing remote devices from the EPS-16 PLUS. Each
performance preset can store a different program number, volume setting,
keyboard range and transpose amount for each of those instruments. When you
select a preset, each instrument which has a status of MIDI or BOTH (SEND
KEYS TO= on the EDIT/Instrument page) will send a program change and
MIDI volume information on its designated MIDI channel (assuming
TRANSMIT ON = INST CHAN on the EDIT/System•MIDI page).
Performance presets let you store up to eight totally different configurations.
This allows you to easily recall stacks and combinations of external MIDI
instruments.
Performance Presets
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