Ideas and Suggestions
IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS
The TX81Z can be used in any number of ways. Here are some ideas.
PERCUSSION
Double the RX rhythm machine sounds with TX sounds.
Most rhythm machines can be set to transmit a specified MIDI note number
when a percussive voice is sounded. You can use the TX81Z to produce 8
percussive sounds, and set the High and Low note limits to the same note, so
that each TX instrument can be played only by a single note number. For
example, a Yamaha RX rhythm machine can send an E2 Note On message
when the snare drum sounds. This could play a TX percussive voice, producing
a unique blend. (The Fixed Frequency mode is especially useful when pro-
gramming percussive voices. See p.17.) Or you could simply play the TX81Z
percussive voices from a keyboard. Bass Drum on C, Snare on Eb-F (it’s easier
to play a drum roll when you have several keys), Crash Cymbal on F#, etc.
Note
Rhythm machines send a Note Off message quickly after the Note On
message. If this interval is too short, the TX may not have time to sound.
Try setting the Release Rate to a lower value.
HEAVY MONOPHONIC
If your solo is going to be monophonic, how about playing 8 TX instruments in
unison? Set each instrument to receive the same MIDI channel, and assign
different voices (and different detunings) to each. Setting a slightly different
Portamento Time (or Pitch Bend Range) for each instrument is also effective.
This will give you the thickest, richest, most powerful solo sound you ever
heard; one that will “out-analog” the analog synthesizers(!).
HUMAN EXPRESSION
In a variation of the above, use several different voices to synthesize a different
component of an acoustic instrument sound, in essence using the TX as a single
32-operator FM synthesizer. For example, a saxophone sound consists of many
different elements, one of which is the breathy wind-noise. An entire TX
instrument could be devoted producing this wind-noise. By appropriate settings
of the Voice Functions, each component can be controlled independently by
Foot Controller, Breath Controller, Modulation Wheel and Key Velocity.
MICROTONAL DETUNE
A microtonal scale can be selected for use with specified instruments in a
BY AREA
Performance. Set up the TX81Z as two 4-note polyphonic instruments, and set
one of them to use the user-programmable Full Keyboard microtonal scale. Set
the microtonal scale so that it is identical to the equal tempered (normal) scale,
and detune just the notes where you want the detuned chorus effect.
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