ENSONIQ SQ-80 - Page 110

SQ-80 — Musician's Manual
[Mix
•
MIDI] Tracks Mix
•
MIDI Page
For setting the Mix Level, MIDI Channel, MIDI Status and Program Number of each Track.
When you are using the SQ-80 by itself. Recording Tracks with only Internal sounds, you won't need
to concern yourself with the
Mix
•
MIDI Page too much, except to balance the output levels of the
different Tracks (Mix down). But once you start serious MIDI Sequencing — driving numerous external
instruments from the SQ-80 — this page becomes the control center for your entire MIDI rig. From here
you can determine the
Status of each Track, send Program Changes to external instruments, adjust the
Mix Level, and select a MIDI Channel for each Track.
When you be
gin setting up the MIDI configuration of a new Sequence, the Mix
•
MIDI Page should be
your first stop. When you select a previously UNUSED Track from this Page, the effect is the same as
from the
Tracks Select Page — the new Track takes on all the characteristics of whatever Track was
selected before ( or of the Straight Synth section, if no Track was selected). You will find that this allows
you quickly to define the configuration of a new Track, by first selecting a defined Track with a similar
setup, then selecting an UNUSED Track and changing only the settings you want to be different for the
new Track.
Sub-pages
The
Mix
•
MIDI Page is actually four different Sub-pages, all of which are reached by pressing the
Mix
•
MIDI Button. On all of these Sub-pages, each Track occupies the same relative location on the
Display as it does on the
Tracks Select Page:
On each of these Sub-pages. the Display above "Soft" button #6 shows the word *MORE*. Pressing
*MORE* advances the Display to the next Sub-page. Which of the four Sub-pages will appear when
the
Mix
•
MIDI Page is selected depends on which was last used. Here we will take them in order starting
with the
Track Status Sub-page.
Helpful Hint: Once you are on the Mix
•
MIDI Page, pressing the Mix
•
MIDI button again has the same
effect as pressing
*MORE*, advancing you to the next Sub-page.
Select the Mix
•
MIDI Page and press *MORE* (or press the Mix
•
MIDI button again) until the upper
left segment of the Display says
TRACK STATUS.
98 Section 4 — The Sequencer