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2. Now key in 12 to select the VCA function. Referring to DYNAMIC PROCESSING 12,
move the cursor under the various envelope parameters and see how different settings
affect the sound.
3. Before moving on, make sure you have a sound that is fairly sustained with little or
no envelope attack time.
OTHER DYNAMIC PROCESSING OPTIONS
1. Key in 11, refer to DYNAMIC PROCESSING 11, and note how the controls affect the
sound.
2. Let’s add some LFO effects. Key in 16 and position the cursor under each display
option. Vary the data slider and observe how this affects the sound. Note that adding
LFO to Fc might not sound all that noticeable; if you want a more obvious effect, bounce
back to function 13 and set Fc to about 50 and Q to about 50. This should make the LFO’s
effect more noticeable.
3. If the LFO settings aren’t to your liking, then key in 15 to change the LFO rate, delay
and variation (as explained in DYNAMIC PROCESSING 15).
UNDERSTANDING VELOCITY
1. By now you might have a pretty messy sound due to all those exercises. Let’s start with
a clean slate. Press function button LOAD BANK and then ENTER to re-load the disk.
Select preset 10 as the current preset. Press the DYNAMIC PROCESSING button.
2. Let’s make the entire keyboard the current voice. Press the DYNAMIC PROCESSING
button again, which selects the entire keyboard.
3. Key in 17, and read over DYNAMIC PROCESSING 17. The velocity to level setting
should be 06; move the slider to select different values, and note the effects. Emax II plays
softer as you play softer. In other words, Emax II equates harder play with the nominal
volume setting and goes down from there as you play softer.
4. Move the cursor under the other available parameters and vary the slider. Notice that
the filter cutoff frequency lowers as you play softer . The amount of downward change
is dependent on the value in the display.
Filter Q is affected differently than level or filter cutoff. It raises from the initial setting
as you play harder Also, note that velocity can be set to affect Q inversely—in other
words, if the filter is set to a high Q setting, playing harder on the keyboard will lower
the Q.
5. After you’ve had enough of function 17, key in 18. Here the velocity affects the VCA
and filter envelope attacks, as well as panning. Refer to DYNAMIC PROCESSING 18 as
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Pressing the Enter
button twice in succes-
sion will also select all
voices.
GUIDED TOURS
Guided Tour #3
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