General Music S2 Turbo, Owner'S Manual

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20 OVERVIEW
M
ODES OF OPERATION
:
NORMAL
,
EDIT
/
HANDLING
The instrument has two operating modes: normal, which
is the operating mode dedicated to playing, and edit/
handling, which permits the modification of data, its
memorisation and its organisation for future use.
Normal operative mode
The instrument powers up in Normal mode, which al-
lows the primary control of the instrument through the
main display.
The main display can show the Performance (allowing
high speed selection), or it can show the Sounds as-
signed to the tracks which make up the Performance
(allowing their selection at high speed):
Main display - Performance mode
(default situation)
Main display - Sound mode
Edit/Data Handling mode
The Edit/Data Handling mode is activated by pressing
one of the buttons of the “Edit” section (
PERF
.
CONTR
,
PERF
.
TRACKS
,
SONG
,
SOUND
,
GENERAL
) or one of the
buttons that recall data handling situations (
DISK
,
UTIL
-
ITY
,
SOUND LIBRARY
...).
Multitasking
The S Series operating system is one based on
multitasking, making is possible to work in different
parts of the instrument simultaneously.
For example, while you are playing back a song, you can
load another (background loading), or while you are
performing editing tasks on a sample with the Sample
Translator, you can temporarily escape edit mode to
program a Performance or modify the transposition of a
track without data loss.