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Arpeggio
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Creating songs (Sequencer mode)
Overview
About the M50’s Sequencer
The M50’s 16-track MIDI sequencer can hold up to 128
songs and 210,000 MIDI events.
You can record and play back MIDI data using sixteen
MIDI tracks and one master track (containing tempo
data, etc.) to control the internal sound generator and
your external sound modules.
With its broad range of capabilities such as the
arpeggiators, high-quality effects, and controllers, the
M50 is the ideal environment for music production or
live performance.
When you turn off the power, the settings made in
Sequencer mode, the song data, and any user
pattern data that you recorded will not be backed
up. If you wish to keep this data, you must save it
on an SD card before turning off the power, or
perform a MIDI data dump to save the data on an
external data filer etc.
If you wish to write the programs, track
parameters, effects, and arpeggiator settings etc.
selected for a song as a template song, use the
menu command Save Template Song.
Immediately after the power is turned on, M50
will not contain any song data, so if you wish to
play a song on the sequencer, you must first load
data from SD card, or receive a MIDI data dump
from a MIDI filer. For details, please see “Loading
data” on page 93, and “Dump Sequencer” on
page 253 of the Parameter Guide.
Sequencer mode structure
Sequencer mode is structured as follows.
For details on each mode and how to access each page,
please see “Basic operations” on page 16.
Songs
A song consists of MIDI tracks 1–16, a master track,
song parameters such as the song name, arpeggiator,
Drum Track function, effect and RPPR parameters, and
100 user patterns.
A maximum of 128 such songs can be created on M50.
MIDI tracks 1–16 each consist of setup parameters
located at the start location, and musical data within
the track. The master track consists of tempo and time
signature data.
For details, please see “Setup parameters & Musical
data” on page 126 of the Parameter Guide.
Song recording and editing
Song recording is performed on tracks.
You can record MIDI tracks in either of two ways;
realtime recording or step recording. For realtime
recording you can choose one of six recording modes.
You can edit MIDI tracks by using Event Edit
operations to modify the recorded data or insert new
data, and by using Track Edit operations such as
Create Control Data, which generates and inserts pitch
bend, aftertouch, or control change data.
AUDIO OUTPUT
L/MONO, R
(Routing: P8)
MIDI Routing 1,2
Track
Insert Effects
Master Effects
(FX Ctrl BUS)
Master Track
Insert Effect 1...5: P8
Master Effect 1, 2
: P9
Total Effect
: P9
Song
Tempo and time signature data
MIDI Track 01..16
Setting parameters Performance data
Setting parameters Performance data
Setting parameters Performance data
Setting parameters Performance data
Setting parameters Performance data
Arpeggiator: P7–1, 2, 3, 4, 5
DrumTrk Prog: P7–6
RPPR Setup: P10–3
Pattern: P10–1, 2
Cue List: P11
Tone Adjust: P0–7
Controllers: P1–1
Chord Trigger Switches: P1–2
Parentheses such as (P7) indicate the M50 page used for editing.
Summary of Contents for EASYSTART M50
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