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8.3. THE PERFORMANCE SETTINGS
1-TranSect: keyboard transposition. You can set, separately for the 1ST and
2ND parts, a pitch transposition value for the notes, both in semitones (
coarse) and in
semitone fractions (
fine). The transposition ranges from -12 to +12 semitones,
corresponding to an octave below and above; for the semitones fractions you can set a
value ranging from -128 to +127, corresponding to the range of a semitone below and
above.
You can add a global transposition (
ALL sections) to the part-specific
transposition (
Section:), setting it in the same way; in the bottom line the instrument
displays the overall value sent to the synthesis module for the selected part (Sent
value). The global transposition, as the name suggests, acts on the MANUAL BASS
part and on the automatic accompaniment, too.
2-TranSong: transposition of the song played by the recorder. To fit a musical
base to the preferred tone, you can transpose the MIDI sequences while playing them,
up to an octave, both below and above; you do so setting a value ranging from -12 to
+12 semitones in the
Transpose field. The transposition doesn't affect the MIDI channel
commonly related to dums/percussions, that is channel number 10; anyway, you can
choose the channel to exclude by using the
Exclude Chan field: the values allowed are
OFF,1,2,...16.
3-Dynam crv: dynamic curve for the keyboard. You can choose among 8
different dynamic curves, which determine the relationship between the pressing speed
of the keys, as measured by the instrument, and the corresponding transmitted MIDI
value.
4-Tone Eqlz: tones equalization. Only for the VISCOUNT IS
2
timbres, you can
set up a two-band tone control, separately for 1ST and 2ND parts: the parameters to be
changed are named
1st bass, 1st trbl, 2nd bass and 2nd trbl, and their value is
displayed graphically on the screen. If you enter values from 63 to 0, the related band
will be attenuated; the values ranging from 65 to 127 give a progressive enhancement,
while the neutral position corresponds to the value 64. For instance, if you are playing in
an ambience where the Harpsichord timbre, associated to the 1ST part, sounds poorly
bright and sharp, try to enhance the high frequencies giving a value higher than 64 to
the
1st trbl parameter.
