Section 8 — Sequencer Basics
EPS-16 PLUS Musician's Manual
What is a Song?
The sequences in memory can be chained together into a song. There can only be
one song in memory at a time. The song also has a 12-character name which you
can edit.
The song is selected on the EDIT/Seq•Song page just as you would select a
sequence. When the song is selected, the SONG indicator lights on the display.
In Song mode, sequences are assigned to play consecutively in any order, with
up to 99 Steps, and up to 99 Repetitions of each step. Within each song step,
individual tracks within the sequence can be muted or transposed.
After chaining together sequences into a song, you can record another complete
set of song-length tracks which are separate from the individual sequence tracks,
but which share the same instruments. These "Song Tracks" are stored with the
song. This makes the EPS-16 PLUS sequencer in effect a sixteen-track recorder
(see Song Mode later in this section).
When you save a song to disk (using the SAVE SONG + ALL SEQS command
on the COMMAND/Seq•Song page), the EPS-16 PLUS automatically saves all
the sequences currently in memory along with the song (it doesn't save the
instruments, though: they must be saved separately). When you later load the
song into memory (by itself or as part of a bank), all the sequences will be loaded
in along with it.
Banks
The way to make sure that all the instruments are loaded into the proper locations,
all the mix and pan levels for each track are properly preserved, and that the
proper effect and related settings are in place is to save the whole contents of the
EPS-16 PLUS memory as a bank (see Section 3 — Instruments and Banks).
Loading a bank file (instead of loading the song and the various instruments
separately) ensures that every instrument will be loaded into the the proper
Instrument•Track location so that the tracks are all playing the right thing.
Sequencer "Transport Controls"
The three buttons to the right of the display serve to start and stop the sequencer,
and to put it into Record and Overdub modes. In addition to these three buttons,
the Auxiliary Foot Switch (available only when an optional SW-5 dual-pedal Foot
Switch is connected to the EPS-16 PLUS) can be used to start and stop the
sequencer when both hands are busy.
• Pressing Play will start the current sequence or the song (whichever is
selected) playing from the beginning.
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