SPLITS
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Creating and editing a MATRIX MOD combination, as well as
deleting modulation, has the same function for the
DESTINATIONS as the SOU RCEs described above.
The MATRIX-GR allows you to take any two existing single patches and play
them from the Master controller at the same time. This feature provides for
some very interesting possibilities because SPLIT Mode permits splitting
the Master controller's keyboard even
if
the Master itself does not have this
capability. You can now play two sounds, one from the left side of the
keyboard and the other from the right, from instruments like the Yamaha DX-
7, Sequential's PROPHET GOO and the Roland JX-8P, just to name a few. In
using SPLITS in conjunction with a MIDI sequencer, two completely
different sounds can be sequenced at the same time from two independent
MIDI tracks. And guitar players using a MIDI guitar or MIDI guitar interface can
program the MATRIX-GR so that one sound plays from the top two strings
and the other sound plays from the bottom four, as just one possibility.
There are two ways to use SPLIT Mode :
First, as the name SPLIT implies, you can put one of these
patches on the left part of the Master controller's keyboard
(called LOWER) and the other patch on the right part of the
Master's keyboard (called UPPER) . The imaginary point where
the keyboard "splits", or where the left-hand sound stops and
the right-hand sound starts, is programmed as well.
Second, the patches can be "overlapped" on the Master's
keyboard to create a Double program in which pressing one key
plays both of the patches at the same time.
The SPLITS section provides much flexibility in the way you can assign
voices, UPPER and LOWER limits (where the SPLIT point or overlap
occurs) , key TRANSPOSE and even different MIDI channel assignments for
each half of the Master's keyboard.
Modes of the SPLIT SELECT Page
This Page enables you to program the basic structure of a SPLIT: selecting
the SPLIT NUMBER, giving it a six character NAME and assiging the
U PPER and LOWER patches. We will cover the PARAMETER and VALUE
assignments - the LIMITS, TRANSPOSE, MIDI channels etc. - in just a
moment.
1 .
NUMBER
Typing in a 2-digit number or using the <
>
or <<
»
buttons
on the Keypad will enable you to change from one SPLIT
combination to another from among the MATRIX-GR's 50 SPLIT
program memories, numbered 00 through
49.
Matrix-GR Owner's Manual