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Table:
Variation Effect Settings via Sys-Ex
As you can see, only some effects utilise all 10 parameters.
Some parameters (such as Delay times & EQ frequencies)
will require the aid of the Effect Data Assign Tables found in
the manual‘s Appendix. Here you will find (for example) that
a value of 34 represents an EQ frequency value of 1.0kHz.
Still more
Performances!
Usually you only have one Performance available per song.
Wouldn‘t it sometimes be nice to have several? Well, with
this trick you can.
You will have learned from section “About the CS1x
Sound Structure
” that a Performance‘s Layers can be called
up individually as Material Voices in Multi Parts 5 – 16.
Therefore, splitting a Performance‘s Layers across several
Multi parts and then playing the same sequence on each Part
effectively gives you the sound of the Performance (without
the Variation Effect).
Let‘s assume you want to utilise four Performances in a
song simultaneously. The following table shows how this is
done:
Table:
A Song with 4 Performances
We use the sound with the most Layers as the actual Per-
formance, sound “Superarp” in our example. The other three
Performances contain 5 Layers in total. These are distributed
as Material Voices between Parts 5 – 9 (see table – column
1).
You may find it clumsy to have to use a separate sequencer
track for each Material Voice. If so, simply set several Parts
to the same MIDI channel (UTILITY – Rcv Ch.) Taking the
above example, Parts 5 & 6 would now be controlled from
MIDI channel 5, whilst Parts 7 & 8 would reside on MIDI
channel 7. All you need to do is set Part 6 to Receive Ch. 5
and Part 8 to Receive Ch. 7.
You will still need to check whether each Performance‘s
Layer parameters differ from the default 00 values. As a rule
this usually only applies to Note Shift, Detune, and Pan
Position. Any offsets here need to be transferred to the
respective Multi Parts with Controller or Sys-Ex messages.
A M P L E :
The “Pan Seq” parameter in the Performance used in Parts
7 + 8 contains these fine tune offset values (Detune): Layer
1 = -00.3, Layer 2 = +00.3
You will need the following Sys-Ex messages to transfer
these settings to Parts 7 & 8:
Part 7, Detune -00.3 =
(F0) 43 10
4C 08 06 09 07 13
(F7)
Part 8, 00.3 =
(F0) 43 10
4C 08 07 09 08 03
(F7)
Bytes 6 (06/07) select Parts 7 and 8 respectively, bytes 7
and 8 select positive and negative Detune, whilst byte 8 con-
tains the actual Detune value. The latter are a little difficult to
grasp, so here is a table to clarify the situation:
Table:
Sys-Ex data bytes for Detune
Parameter
No.
Sys-Ex Mes-
sage
Phaser
Distortion
2-
Band
EQ
Delay
L, C, R
Var.Eff.Para.1
(F0)43 10 4C
02 01 42 00
VAL(F7)
LFO Freq.
Drive
EQ Low
Frq
Lch Delay
Var.Eff.Para 2
(F0)43 10 4C
02 01 44 00
VAL(F7)
LFO Depth
EQLowFrq
EQ Low
Gain
Rch Delay
Var.Eff.Para 3
(F0)43 10 4C
02 01 46 00
VAL (F7)
Shift Offset
EQLowGain
EQHigh-
Frq
Cch Delay
Var.Eff.Para 4
(F0)43 10 4C
02 01 48 00
VAL(F7)
Feedback
LPFCutoff
EQHigh-
Gain
Feedb. Delay
Var.Eff.Para 5
(F0)43 10 4C
02 01 4A 00
VAL(F7)
Output Lev
Feedb. Level
Var.Eff.Para 6
(F0)43 10 4C
02 01 4C 00
VAL(F7)
EQ Low Frq
Cch Level
Var.Eff.Para 7
(F0)43 10 4C
02 01 4E 00
VAL (F7)
EQ Low Gain EQMidFrq
High Damp
Var.Eff.Para 8
(F0)43 10 4C
02 01 50 00
VAL(F7)
EQHighFrq
EQMidGain
Var.Eff.Para 9
(F0)43 10 4C
02 01 52 00
VAL(F7)
EQHIighGain
EQMidWidh
Var.Eff.Par10
(F0)43 10 4C
02 01 54 00
VAL(F7)
Dry / Wet
Dry / Wet
Dry Wet
Var.Eff. Conn.
(F0)43 10 4C
02 01 5A 00
VAL(F7)
0 = Insert,
1 = System
Part
Performance
Layer
Layer 1 =
MSB / LSB
Layer 2 =
MSB / LSB
Performance
U005 = Sc:Superarp
4
5 + 6
P048 = Ba:Basslin2
2
063 / 000
063 / 001
7 + 8
U002 = Sq:PanSeq
2
063 / 004
063 / 005
9
P015 = Sc:Thick
1
063 / 000
Part 7 = negative fine tuning
Part 8 = positive fine tuning
Detune value
Data byte
Detune value
Data byte
- 00.1
0F
+ 00.1
1
- 00.2
0E
+ 00.2
2
-00.3
0D
+00.3
3
- 00.4
0C
+ 00.4
4
- 00.5
0B
+ 00.5
5
-00.6
0A
+00.6
6
- 00.7
9
+ 00.7
7
- 00.8
8
+ 00.8
8
-00.9
7
+00.9
9
-01.0
6
+01.0
0A
-01.1
5
+01.1
0B
-01.2
4
+01.2
0C
-01.3
3
+01.3
0D
-01.4
2
+01.4
0E
- 01.5
1
+ 01.5
0F