ENSONIQ SQ-80 - Page 130

SQ-80 — Musician's Manual
Recording the First Track
Once everything is set up, you can proceed with Recording the first Track exactly as you would for an
Track with LOCAL Status.
-> Select CONTROL Page, and make sure the CLICK is ON.
-> While holding down the
Record Button, press Play. REC flashes on the Display. -
> Adjust the Tempo.
-> Start playing. The Bar in which you begin playing becomes Bar 1.
-> Press Stop or the Sequencer Foot Switch to halt recording. The Display will ask
"KEEP FIRST
TRACK",
-> Answer *YES* to keep the first Track (and define the length of the Sequence) or *NO* to scrap
it, and try again from scratch.
Other Tracks
Tracks that are sent out MIDI are treated the same as Internal Tracks in terms of Recording, Rerecording,
Punching In, Editing, etc. For each successive Track you Record, the procedure will follow the same
lines:
1) Define the Mix
•
MIDI configuration of the Track,
2) Record the Track, and
3) Either KEEP or reject the new Track from the
PLAY/KEEP Page.
To Record the next Track, select one of the
UNUSED Tracks. This can be done from the Mix•MIDI
Page as well as from the Tracks Select Page. Remember that when you select an UNUSED Track, it
"takes on" all the settings of the Track that was previously selected (or of the Straight Synth, if no Track
was selected).
-> Select an UNUSED Track.
-> Select the
Mi
x
•MIDI Page.
-> On the
TRACK STATUS Sub-page, set the Track to MIDI (it should be already).
-> On the
TRACK MIDI CHAN Sub-page, set the Track to send on the MIDI Channel of the the
device you will be sequencing with this Track.
-> On the
TRACK PROG NUM Sub-page, adjust the Program, or Patch, of the Receiving Unit to
the one you want.
Playing the SQ-80 Keyboard should now play the appropriate synth (or whatever) with the appropriate
sound. You now Record a Track, with that instrument, just as you would an Internal Track, as described
in
Recording Other Tracks. p. 112.
-> Select
CONTROL Page, and make sure the CLICK is ON, and COUNTOFF= CLICK.
-> While holding down the Record Button, press Play. After the one-Bar Countoff, Recording
begins.
-> Start playing. At the end of the Sequence the SQ-80 will leave
Record and enter Audition Play. -
> Press Stop or the Sequencer Foot Switch to halt recording. The Display will show the PLAY/
KEEP Page.
-> Audition the New Track or the Original Track (which in this case is empty) before deciding which
to keep.
-> Press
KEEP NEW TRACK or KEEP ORIGINAL TRACK.
118 Section 4 — The Sequencer