Contents
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Introduction
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First steps –
Listening to the Preset sounds and Demos . . 5
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At a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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Sound Organisation . . . . . . . . . 6
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Performance Storage and Management . . . 7
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Analogue
Workshop
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Sound Central – The Oscillator . . . . . . 9
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The Filters – Tastebuds for your Ears . . . . 10
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Dynamic Helpers – Envelopes . . . . . . 10
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Helper Motors – the LFOs. . . . . . . . 12
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About the Little Things . . . . . . . . 13
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Résumé . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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Arpeggiator –
A Box full of Tricks for all Occasions
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First Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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Sound Rhythm Tricks . . . . . . . . . 16
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Fun to the power of 15! . . . . . . . . 17
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Effects – used in a different way. . . . . . 18
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Hard Chord Work . . . . . . . . . . 18
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Keeping in line . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Let‘s Groove! . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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Performance Mode –
Practical Knowledge
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Scenes – what are they? . . . . . . . . 21
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Day to Day things . . . . . . . . . . 21
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Why Scenes? . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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The Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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Live Application . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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Split Performances . . . . . . . . . . 25
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Pulling out all the Stops . . . . . . . . 26
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Song Production: An Easy Start
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Songs in Performance Mode:
Six steps to success . . . . . . . . . 27
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The traditional approach:
Multi settings at the machine . . . . . . 28
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Song Production: The Basics
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What is “XG”? . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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Performance Mode or Multi Mode?. . . . . 31
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Where is the Multi Setup? . . . . . . . 32
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What is a “MIDI Event”? . . . . . . . . 32
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Decisions, decisions: Banks and Programs . . 33
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Who is controlling whom? . . . . . . . 34
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Everything under control: NPRN and RPN . . . 35
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Exclusive: Sys-Ex messages . . . . . . . 37
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Song Production:
More Tips and Tricks
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Part Mode and Drum Setups. . . . . . . 39
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Things worth knowing about the Variation Effect 39
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Still more Performances! . . . . . . . . 40
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Split Performances – used to great effect. . . 41
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Utility mode preparations . . . . . . . . 41
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Song Practice:
A View behind the Scenes
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Example 1: Sweep Run . . . . . . . . 43
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Example 2: “Blue Fuzz” . . . . . . . . 45
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Example 3: “Tekk it” . . . . . . . . . 46
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Appendix
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Summary of “Tutorial Disk” Files . . . . . 47
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Overview: “BLUE X-TRA” Disk Files . . . . 47
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The little Trouble Shooter. . . . . . . . 49
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Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
