ENSONIQ EPS-16 PLUS, Musician'S Manual

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Section 3 — Instruments and Banks EPS-16 PLUS Musician's Manual
You want to be able to select the SQ-R from the EPS-16 PLUS front panel and
then play or sequence it from your master controller just as you would an EPS-16
PLUS instrument. To accomplish this, you can make an EPS-16 PLUS
instrument which contains no sample data, and which will not sound on the
EPS-16 PLUS but will only play over MIDL Such "MIDI Instruments," as we
call them, use up very little memory, and can be loaded from disk almost
instantly.
• Press Command, then press Instrument.
• Scroll left or right until the display reads CREATE NEW INSTRUMENT.
• Press Enter•Yes.
The display says SELECT UNUSED INST= 1. The new instrument will be
created in the Instrument•Track location indicated. You can select a different
location (by pressing any unused Instrument•Track button), or just press
Enter•Yes.
• Press Enter•Yes.
The EPS-16 PLUS will create a new unnamed instrument in the location you
indicated. The new instrument is selected (its LED is lit yellow). Note that it
contains no layers or Wavesamples, and thus will make no sound when you
play the connected MIDI keyboard.
• Press Edit, then press Instrument.
This puts you on the EDIT/Instrument page where you will set the
characteristics of your new instrument
• Using the arrow buttons scroll left (or right) until the display shows SEND
KEYS TO = BOTH. Use the arrow buttons to scroll up (or down) until the
display reads SEND KEYS TO=MIDL
Now the instrument will only play over MIDI, sending keys, controllers, etc.
on its designated MIDI channel.
• Scroll left to the parameter MIDI OUT CHANNEL = _.
This is the MIDI channel that the instrument will send on. Let's suppose that
the SQ-R in our example is set to receive on MIDI channel 3. We would set
this parameter to MIDI OUT CHANNEL= 3. Now selecting and playing this
instrument should play the SQ-R.
• Name the new instrument
Scroll left until the display shows NAME = UNNAMED INST, and use the
Arrow buttons to name/rename the instrument. Give the new instrument a
name which describes it. In this case, we might name it SQR - CHAN 3.
• Press Load to return to LOAD mode, and select the MIDI instrument.
The instrument's name and volume level show on the display, like any other
EPS-16 PLUS instrument. When you play it from the controller keyboard you
should hear the EPS-16 PLUS.
• You can select, de-select, or stack the MIDI instrument as you would a local
instrument.
• You can change its keyboard range so it only plays over a specified part of the
keyboard.
• Changing its volume (by moving the Data Entry Slider) will send MIDI
volume changes to the SQ-R, letting you mix its level just as you would a local
instrument.
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The MIDI Connection