SQ-80 — Musician's Manual
TRACK PROG NUM — Track Program Number
From this Page you can adjust the Program a Track plays in terms of its MIDI Program Number. This
is the number of the Program Change that will be sent out over MIDI when a Sequence is selected, or
comes around in a Song.
It is also the MIDI number of the Internal
SQ-80 Program assigned to the Track. The Program you
selected for the Track from the
Tracks Select Page and the Program number selected here are linked to
each other — changing either one will cause the other to change.
− Select any of the eight Tracks — it becomes underlined.
− > Use the Data Entry Slider and the Up and Down Arrow Buttons to change the MIDI
Program Number. Range for each Track is 001 To 128 (the full range of MIDI
Program
Numbers) Changing this number will also change the Program for that Track on the
racks
Select Page to the Internal or Cartridge Program which corresponds to the new number.
Program Numbers can be selected which are out of range for the
SQ-80 (above 40 when no
Cartridge is inserted, and above 120 when a Cartridge is inserted). This lets you send the full
128 Program Changes to external instruments which can receive them.
____ > Selecting a Track, and then pressing its button again, causes
the underline to disappear,
"Unselecting" the Track and putting the
SQ-80 into the Straight Synth mode (no Track
Selected.)
When a Track is sending to an external instrument
via MIDI, you can use this Sub-page to change the
Program (or patch) that instrument is playing, assuming it receives MIDI Program changes. This means
that once you have assigned each external instrument a different MIDI Channel, you can control them
all right from the
SQ-80.
A NOTE ABOUT PROGRAM NUMBERS
MIDI Program Numbers can be a little confusing. On the
SQ-80 (and the ESQ-1 & ESQ-M) you will
find the Programs numbered from
1 to 120. Several other synths, including the DX-7, also begin
numbering from Program Number
1.
True MIDI Program Numbers,
the numbers actually sent and received by MIDI instruments. begin at
Program Number
0. (Computers, unlike people, tend to number things starting from zero instead of one.)
So
SQ-80 Program Number 001 actually corresponds to True MIDI Program Number zero (0). SQ-80
Program Number 120 corresponds to True MIDI Program Number 119. And so on. The Program
umber shown on the Track Mix Sub-page is the True MIDI Program Number plus one. Some
instruments reference their Programs starting from
0, some starting from 1. Hence the confusion.
The trick to keeping things straight is this: if an instrument you use with the
SQ-80 lists Program
umbers beginning from 0, you will have to add 1 to the Program Numbers on that instrument to come
up with the corresponding
SQ-80 Program Number. If the instrument lists Program Numbers beginning
from 1, any Program Number on that instrument will be the same as the corresponding
SQ-80 Program
umber.
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