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Style Composer
General procedure
To change information already available on the selected track,
proceed as follows:
Parameters you can change
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Note velocity and gate time messages—These messages always
come in pairs. The first value (
“42:F#2,”
for example) refers to the
note itself and the second (
“72”
) to the velocity (playing dynamics).
The
“Micro Edit”
page adds a third message to that pair. It describes
the duration of the note in question.
You may remember this value from the
“Track Edit”
environment,
where it is called
“Gate Time ”
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CC—These messages usually add something to the notes being
played, like modulation, a different volume, a new stereo position…
The E-A7 recognizes (and allows you to edit) all control change
numbers the Arranger uses (CC01, 10, 11, 91, 93) and displays their
“official”
name.
NOTE
CC64 (Hold) events generated by a footswitch connected to the
HOLD socket are converted into the equivalent GATE TIME values
at the time of recording. You may therefore have to change the
duration of the notes themselves.
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PC/Program Change—These messages are used to select sounds
within the current bank. As there are only 128 possibilities, these
messages are usually preceded by control changes CC00 and CC32.
That’s why the E-A7 inserts all three when you use the
“Create
Event”
function. To assign a Drum Kit to an Acc1–6 track, you must
create a
“CC00”
event with the value
“111 ”
NOTE
The CC00 value of ADrums tracks cannot be edited.
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Pitch Bend—These messages are used for temporary changes
to the pitch of the notes being played at that time. Pitch Bend
messages can be positive (higher) or negative (lower). Setting range:
–128– 128.
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Alteration Mode—This event allows you to specify how the notes
recorded for a style track will be used during Arranger playback. See
below for details.
NOTE
This parameter is not available for ADrums tracks or the Intro3,
Intro4, Ending3, Ending4 divisions.
Editing events
Editing Pitch Bend messages
Pitch Bend messages can be positive or negative (the range is
–128–128). The value
“0”
means that the pitch of notes being played
in that area is not altered.
If a Pitch Bend occurrence is not reset to
“0”
at some stage, all notes
will keep sounding flat when you no longer want them to.
Editing control changes
These messages (CC) can be set to the desired value (0–127) when
the corresponding effect is needed–but they also need to be reset to
“0”
to avoid unpleasant surprises.
About the ‘Note’ messages
As stated above, note messages comprise a note number, a velocity
value and a Gate Time value.
The range for note numbers is
“0 (C–)”
–
“127 (G9) ”
Velocity messages can be set anywhere between
“1”
(extremely
soft) and
“127 ”
The value
“0”
cannot be entered, because it would
effectively switch off the note.
About “Alteration Mode” Messages
This message type is only available for melodic style tracks (i.e. not
for ADrums or ABass tracks) and needs to be inserted by hand (using
“Create Event”
). Style tracks you only just recorded do not contain it.
It allows you to use a revolutionary system for adapting the recorded
notes to a more natural behavior (also known as
“voicing”
). There
are two options:
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Degree—This setting refers to the
“old”
system for real-time
conversion of style track information for Arranger playback. Based on
the fundamentals of the chords you play during Arranger playback, it
often leads to odd jumps of certain parts.
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Nearest—Refers to a more musical system for real-time shifts of
the recorded style notes during Arranger playback. Let us first look at
an illustration:
Recorded strings track
Result with “Degree”
Result with “Nearest”
Chords played in the recognition area.
This new system is called
“Adaptive Chord Voicing ”
The notes of the melodic style tracks are compared against the
chords played in the recognition area. If the next chord you play
contains the note the selected part is already sounding (based on
the previous chord), that note is maintained.
If the new chord does not contain that note, the style part in
question uses the closest (
“Nearest”
) note. In the example above,
the
“G”
is closer to the
“A”
sounded by the strings part than the
“C ”
This produces a more musical behavior than any other system on the
market.
Both
“Degree”
and
“Nearest”
allow you to specify the note range
(
“Limit Low”
and
“Limit High”
) the selected part may play. Notes
that would fall outside that range during Arranger playback are
automatically transposed to values inside the selected range.
Rather than specifying two note values, you can also choose
“Std,”
which means that the E-A7 decides automatically when extremely
high (or low) notes need to be shifted down (or up) by one or several
octaves.
Other edit operations
The
“Micro Edit”
page allows you to select several functions.
1
Select the event you want to edit.
2
Press the
[F5]
(Edit) button.
MEMO
You can select multiple events by holding down the
[F4]
(Multi
select) button and pressing the
[F1]
(Up) or
[F2]
(Down) button.
