Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia
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8. HOW TO STORE THE INSTRUMENT SETTINGS
8.1. INTRODUCTION
The user is able to change all the parameters concerning VISCOUNT
MAESTRO, GRANDE and SINFONIA functionment; the instrument has a buffer
memory, so the values set are stored up to the next machine power-on, even if it is
switched off and disconnected from mains.
Among the settings available, we can find the global ones, that means stored
once for all, and the settings you can save and recall in more than one copy; the latter
make up the
performance. You can store and recall separately up to 32 different
performances, identified by a letter and a number, ranging from A1 to D8; this is
possible using the PERFORMANCE MEMORIES section buttons, placed just below the
timbre selection zone (TONE PRESETS).
Whenever you like, you can recall a performance pressing the desired NUMBER
button, after having selected the bank pressing the related BANK button; the two
BANK+NUMBER LEDs lighted up remind you the latest recalled performance. When
you turn on the instrument, no NUMBER LED is lighted up: the current active
configuration, the same as it was before the latest switch off, is stored in a volatile
location, not associated to any letter-and-number pair. Pressing and holding a NUMBER
key, you can save the current configuration on the location shown by the
BANK+NUMBER pair; a
pop-up window will ask you to confirm before going on saving.
The performances can be saved and recalled from the floppy disk, as shown in
paragraph 7.4; in this way, the number of configurations you can create and store is
virtually endless, although you can have a maximum of 32 configurations on line at the
same time.
8.2. WHAT'S INSIDE A PERFORMANCE
The information stored in the performance concerns the musical aspect of the
instrument, that is the keyboard modes settings, the timbres selection with the volume
and effect send parameters, the selection of the accompaniment style and the effects
section settings. To all these parameters we have to add the ones set using the
PERFORMANCE SETTINGS button.
Pressing the PERFORMANCE SETTINGS button you can see a
pop-up screen,
which can be removed only pressing again the same button; while this screen is active,
the key LED will be lighted up. Using the function button or a combination of cursor
buttons followed by ENTER, you can set a number of instrument parameters, which are
part of the performance, and are described in the next paragraph.
