Emax II operation manual
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ORGANIZING YOUR MULTI-TIMBRAL BANK
If you are going to use the multi-timbral bank with an external sequencer, here are a
couple of tips.
Create a system where certain types of sounds are assigned to certain preset numbers.
For example; Preset 1 - Keyboard Sounds
Preset 2 - Bass
Preset 3 - Drums
Preset 4 - Horns
etc.
Creating an organized system will allow you to easily swap sounds around if they don't
work out in the sequence. You can try out several bass guitars, for instance, to hear which
one sounds best. All you would have to do is "Load Preset" over the existing bass.
To make life even easier, assign the presets to their corresponding MIDI channels.
For example: MIDI Channel 1 = Preset 1
MIDI Channel 2 = Preset 2
etc.
Now you have one less thing to remember.
EXPERIMENT!
Combining sounds together is a true art. Take the time and try out various instruments
in a given part. Many times an instrument that sounds thin and wimpy on its own will
perfectly fill out the mix. And, too many "fat" sounds can create "MIDI Soup", a huge
stifling sound. Keep experimenting until you get everything just right. Creating Multi-
Timbral banks fulfills the promise of sampling technology by letting you have any
sound, where and when you want it. Take advantage of it.
Multi-Timbral Banks
MULTI-TIMBRAL BANKS
THE HARD WAY
No money left over for memory? OK, OK. Here's what you do.
Check the preset sizes of the presets you want to load (PRESET MANAGEMENT 7)
before loading them. If the total number of samples in the presets you want to load
exceeds the memory capacity of your Emax II (524,244 samples on a 1 Meg unit), you
must take action.
The basic technique for combining impossibly large presets is Memory Reduction.
Either erase voices and transpose your other voices further up and down the keyboard,
erase voices that you don't absolutely need, make shorter loops or use Sample Rate
Conversion in the Digital Processing module to reduce the memory required for each
voice. Maybe you can use a combination of all three methods. All these methods take
time, but will do the trick until you can save up for that memory expansion.
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