Chapter 9—Supplemental Information
2 ENSONIQ MR-Rack Musician’s Manual
LAYERS Unnatural layered combinations of acoustic elements (e.g., a bass harmonic layered with a string
section), excluding pianos/electric-pianos/organs layered with other Sounds in which the piano/electric-
piano/organ element is dominant. Also excludes multi-instrumental orchestral layers.
LOOPGRUV Looped, repeating musical passages and drum rhythm loops (sampled or wave-sequenced) that play on
one key.
MALLET Tuned mallet-struck percussion instruments (e.g., marimba, xylophone, timpani, steel drum, log drum).
ORCHSTRA Multi-instrumental orchestral Sounds (e.g., mixed strings/brass/ woodwinds/reeds/orchestral
percussion) layered with one another.
ORGAN-A Acoustic pipe and pump organs.
ORGAN-E Electric and electronic organs.
ORGANLYR Any organs layered with other Sounds in which the organ element is dominant.
PERC-KIT Percussion kits that use either the ENSONIQ or General MIDI Percussion Maps.
PERCSOLO Solo untuned percussion (e.g., taiko, synth-tom) includes most drum key Sounds.
PIANO-A Acoustic pianos, honky-tonk, toy pianos, and piano forte.
PNOLYR-A Acoustic pianos layered with other Sounds in which the acoustic piano element is dominant.
PIANO-E Electric and electronic piano Sounds, and electric pianos layered with acoustic pianos.
PNOLYR-E Electric pianos layered with other Sounds in which the electric piano element is dominant.
PLUCKED Plucked strings (e.g., harps, banjo, dulcimer, sitar), pizzicato strings, and other plucked instruments
(e.g., kalimba).
SAX-SOLO Solo saxophones.
SOUND-FX Realistic sound effects (e.g., broken glass, animal sounds, record scratches) and entirely non-pitched
fantasy and chaos sound effects.(e.g., spacecraft, environments)
SPLITS Combination keyboard splits of two or more different types of Sounds. Also includes splits of similar
sounds that have discontiguous key ranges (e.g., a bassoon/oboe split that covers the natural ranges of
both instruments).
STRGSECT Bowed string sections (including sampled sections) and small string ensembles (with more than one
distinct pitch/“player” on a single key).
STRGSOLO Bowed solo strings (e.g., violin, viola, cello).
SYN-COMP Non-vintage, sustaining and non-sustaining, polyphonic synth Sounds with a pitched or non-pitched,
highly obtrusive attack component that lend themselves toward comping (i.e., you can always play
successive 1/8 note chords with these funky sounds).
SYN-LEAD Monophonic lead synth Sounds (excluding monophonic synth basses).
SYN-PAD Non-vintage, sustaining, polyphonic synth Sounds with a pitched, less obtrusive attack component, and
an appropriate release, that lend themselves toward pad playing.
SYN-VINT Polyphonic, signature vintage “analog” synth Sounds (excluding monophonic vintage synth leads and
synth basses). Normally these are named after the synth that they evoke.
SYNOTHER Other types of pitched, polyphonic, hybrid synth Sounds with sustaining, disparate components (e.g.,
sample & hold sync Sounds).
VOCALS Vocal Sounds (e.g., choirs, synth-vox).
WINDREED Solo woodwinds/reeds (e.g., flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, recorder, English horn, ocarina, bandneon,
shakuhachi, bagpipes, harmonica, accordion, melodica, didjeridoo).
*UTILITY Utility resources (e.g., default template Sounds used for programming and other special non-musical
purposes).
*CUSTOM Use this type to define your own special purpose Sounds when created with external computer-based
sound editing software. The PerfEditKit will always be assigned to CUSTOM. ENSONIQ sounds will
never be released with a type of CUSTOM.
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