2.
While you are holding the
SHIFT
button down you’ll notice that buttons 1, 2, 3 and 4 stay illuminated
while the cool orange lights still move through buttons 1-16. These buttons represent each of the 4
tracks of the pattern. Pattern tracks are: Track 1 = Synth, Track 2 = Rhythm 1, Track 3 = Rhythm 2
and Track 4 = Rhythm 3. Pressing any one of the 4 buttons mutes that track, pressing again un-
mutes.
3.
You can also mute and un-mute by holding
SHIFT
and pressing the [SYNTH TRACK] or [RHYTHM
TRACK] buttons.
Adding and Changing the Pitches of the Steps of the Synth Track:
Once again, the
SHIFT
button is the key. Let’s begin by getting all of the 16 steps of the synth track playing.
First, press [PLAY] and press the [SYNTH TRACK] button. Now make sure all of the 16 step buttons are
sounding by selecting the ones that are not illuminated (If this is a problem make sure that you are not in a
different mode by pressing the [EXIT] button and make sure you don ’t have the [STEP 1-8] or [STEP 9-16]
buttons selected. You’ll see why in a second). When all of the 16 step buttons are glowing orange you (and
when you can hear each of the 16 steps actually playing) you will be in business. Now let’s change the pitch
of each of the steps:
1.
Press and hold the
SHIFT
button and find
EVENT SELECT
written in the same font. The actual
button is the [STEP 9-16] selection button (to the left of button [9]), but remember:
SHIFT
functions
are listed underneath buttons and are in the same font style! While pressing and holding
SHIFT
,
press
EVENT SELECT
.
2.
The Orange Mode Lamp (next to the LED display) that says “PITCH” will come on (If it comes up as
either “GATE TIME” or “VELOCITY” simply hit
EVENT SELECT
and toggle so that “PITCH” is
illuminated). You can let go of
SHIFT
now if you haven’t already.
3.
Note that the [STEP 9-16] button is still illuminated. This is the cool part: When either the [STEP 9-16]
or [STEP 1-8] (located directly above) buttons are illuminated, the 8 control knobs directly above are
used to change the pitch of these steps. So, the knobs that are used to control the DX200 synth
(PORTAMENTO, HARMONIC, FM DEPTH, DECAY, NOISE LEVEL, CUTOFF/TYPE, RESONANCE
and FEG DEPTH) are now used to select any pitch from C-2 to G8 when either the [STEP 1-8] or
[STEP 9-16] buttons are illuminated. Go ahead and mess with the pitches of the synth track until you
come up with something cool, then will mess with the GATE TIME and VELOCITY of the pitches in
the 16 steps.
Messing with the Gate Time and Velocity of the Steps of the Synth Track:
The next thing you might want to do is change both the gate time (how long a step is held) and velocity (how
hard a step was hit) of each of the steps. To do this:
1.
Press and hold
SHIFT
, press
EVENT SELECT
to select GATE TIME (Orange Mode Lamp is ON).
2.
Now select either [STEP 1-8] or [STEP 9-16]. The 8 knobs used for selecting pitches above can now
adjust the GATE TIME of each of the 16 steps from 1 (really short) to 200 (really long) and anything in
between. Play with this for a second.
3.
Now, press and hold SHIFT, then EVEN SELECT and select VELOCITY.
4.
Now select either [STEP 1-8] or [STEP 9-16]. The 8 knobs used for selecting pitches above can now
adjust the VELOCTIY of each of the 16 steps from 0 (a rest—nothing) to 127 (really hard) and
anything in between. Play with this for a second.
Now let’s check the rhythm tracks.
Adding and Changing the Pitch of Steps and Messing with the Instrument Sounds, Pitch, Gate Time
and Velocity of each Step of the Rhythm Tracks:
Rhythm tracks are handled much the same way as the synth track except you can change the actual
instrument being used within the drum kit, which follows:
1.
First, lets mute all the tracks except rhythm track 1. Press and hold
SHIFT
and select button 1, 3 and
4. This will mute the synth track and the other two rhythm tracks.
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