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E-MU Systems
Introduction
Product Description
Four real-time controller knobs are also multi-function controls. These
knobs make it a snap to edit and modify internal preset parameters. The
controllers are fully programmable and can control internal preset or other
MIDI equipment. They can also be programmed to adjust multiple internal
parameters at once, allowing complex levels of control. For example, a
single knob can simultaneously turn up filter cutoff, while detuning one
sample, and adjusting the release time of the volume envelope. Virtually
every synth parameter in the Vintage Keys is controllable using the real-
time knobs or by any internal or external control source.
Vintage Keys contains E-MU’s exclusive SuperBEATS Mode—a whole new
way to create dynamic, original music. With SuperBEATS, you trigger, latch
and unlatch synced loops and grooves from your keyboard. Simply select a
“bts:” preset and you’re ready to groove! Then use Vintage Keys’s perfor-
mance controls to alter and mutate the rhythm or the sound itself.
Then there’s Vintage Keys’s Rhythmic Pattern Generator/Arpeggiator,
which can play up to 16 synchronized arpeggiator patterns at once using a
different sound for each! Patterns can be edited using pattern flow
commands such as: delay for 2 bars, play for 4 bars, hold for 2 beats and
repeat. You can program or download 100 user patterns in addition to the
200 factory patterns.
Of course the real power of Vintage Keys becomes apparent when you begin
to synthesize your own sounds. The extremely flexible yet easy to use,
4-layer synthesizer voices make it easy to build sounds of any kind. Layers
can be switched or crossfaded using key position, velocity, real-time
controllers or any modulation source. Vintage Keys also contains 50
different types of 2nd to 6th order resonant & modeling filters which are
used to shape and modify the raw waveforms.
The 64 modulation sources include three multistage envelopes and two
LFOs per layer, as well as full MIDI control over virtually every parameter.
The digital patch bay, with 24 cords per layer, (and 12 more cords per
preset) lets you connect modulation sources to 64 destinations in any
imaginable way. The patch bay contains a set of arithmetic modifiers,
letting you create complex synthesis models.
Four front panel real-time controllers give you control over 12 user-
selectable parameters. The real-time knobs can adjust multiple synthesizer
functions at once, allowing complex levels of control. For example, one
knob can simultaneously turn up filter cutoff, while detuning one sample,
and adjusting the release time of the volume envelope. Virtually every
synth parameter in the Vintage Keys is controllable using the real-time
knobs or by any internal or external control source.
Four analog outputs with integral effect sends let you process separate
sounds externally. Returns allow the addition of external effects units
without the need for a separate mixer.
Once you have created your preset, you can add richness to your sound
using Vintage Keys’s 24-bit stereo effects. You can choose a different effects
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