CME VX8 User Manual

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¾ The RTZ buttons will return to the phrase start.
¾ If another pad is triggered while a previous pad is being played, the
instrument will play the new pad after finishing one bar of the previous pad.
¾ While playing the PLAY button blinks.
¾ While playing you can hit two pads at the same time for the multi-loop play
mode.
 Multi-loop play mode:
¾ Hit two pads at the same time to play the two pads and all the pads
between the two pads. (The region)
¾ The region will be played repeatedly.
¾ All pads in the region will light on and the current pad being played will
blink.
¾ While playing the PLAY button blinks.
¾ While playing you can hit any pad for the single-loop play mode.
¾ While playing the STOP button is available.
¾ While playing the FF, REW and RTZ buttons work within the region.
z If you encounter unexpected continuous long sound during playing, you can press
SHIFT+EXIT for PANIC to send the reset messages to all output ports to stop all
sounds, the display will look like below:
PANI C
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 If PANIC is applied during song playing, song playing will stop.
 After PANIC, the display will go back to the first page.
8.4.5.5 Notes For the PAD STYLE File Format
z For the MIDI files in the PAD STYLE file format, VX will recognize all the loops in the
song, so you can use the PAD STYLE mode for song play.
z Refer to the General specification of the PAD STYLE file format below:
z File format: standard MIDI file format 0.
z File size: Within 64KB per song.
z PAD STYLE ID: In the beginning position 000 add Marker ”cme style”
z The settings section at the song start: this settings section begins at position 000
with the Marker ”SetStart”, then fill in all the parts heading data, after that it ends with
the Marker ”SetEnd”. Please make this settings section as short as possible.
z Make all Markers for the loops:
 LoopStart1 LoopEnd1
 LoopStart2 LoopEnd2
 LoopStart3 LoopEnd3
 LoopStart4 LoopEnd4
 LoopStart5 LoopEnd5
 LoopStart6 LoopEnd6
 LoopStart7 LoopEnd7
 LoopStart8 LoopEnd8
 LoopStart9 LoopEnd9
 LoopStart10 LoopEnd10
 LoopStart11 LoopEnd11
 LoopStart12 LoopEnd12
 The previous LoopEnd can be at the same position of the next LoopStart.
 Each loop will be at least one measure.
 VX can recognize a maximum of 12 pairs of the loop Marker.
z Use MIDI channels 8 to 16 as below:
 ch 8---Melody & Chord Marker

CME VX8 Specifications

General

Brand	CME
Model	VX8
Category	Electronic Keyboard
Language	English