ENSONIQ EPS-16 PLUS, Musician'S Manual

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Section 4 — Effects
EPS-16 PLUS Musician's Manual
Instruments and Banks
The complete effects setup, including the values of all effect parameters, is saved
when you save an instrument. It is also saved with each bank. The EPS-16
PLUS is smart about switching effects, since all sound must stop for an instant
when it changes effects.
When are New Effects Loaded into the ESP chip?
• When you select an instrument from one of the Instrument•Track buttons
with FX=INST on the EFFECT/Select•Bypass page, the effect saved in that
instrument will be loaded into the ESP, and you will hear the sound with its
associated effect
• When you load a new bank, a new Bank effect is loaded into the ESP.
• When you load an individual effect (one that is not part of a bank or an
instrument), it is loaded into the ESP and becomes the new Bank Effect.
• When you select or layer instrument/tracks with FX=BANK or FX=ROM on
the EFFECT/Select•Bypass page, the effect is not changed.
Whenever a new effect is loaded into the ESP, the audio output will pause briefly,
allowing the instructions which create the new effect to be loaded into the ESP. If
an effect differs only by variation in parameter values, then this pause will not
occur.
Performance Control of Tracks When Using Bank Effects
When using a bank effect, all the instruments in the internal memory are routed
through the same global effect In order to gain some individual control for each
instrument, two parameters on the EDIT/Track page determine how each
instrument will interact with the bank effect
• OUT — This parameter determines which of the Busses the instrument will be
sent through. The options are: WAVESAMPLE, BUS1, BUS2, BUS3,
AUX1, and ROTATE. By using this parameter you can give individual
instruments different wet/dry or multiple effect mixes. This parameters will be
covered in greater detail in Section 7— Voice Parameters.
• EFFECT CONTROL — This parameter determines whether the controllers of a
particular instrument will be routed to control the effect This is an important
setting when using a bank effect; since all instruments are routed through the
same effect, it could be confusing to have multiple instruments sending
conflicting controller information to the effect. This parameters will be covered
in greater detail in Section 8 — Sequencer Basics.
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Selecting Effects