SQ-80 — Musician's Manual
Syncing the SQ-80 to a Recorded Sync Track
− Connect the Tape In Jack of the
SQ-80 to the output of the Track of your Tape Recorder which
contains the Sync Track.
— > Rewind the Tape Deck to a point before the beginning of the recorded Sync Track.
> Set the
SQ-80 to Tape Sync (SYNC= TAPE SYNC on the CONTROL Page.)
− > Start the Tape deck.
— > Press Play on the SQ-80. It will now wait for the recorded Clock Signal before starting to
play the Song or Sequence. When the Sync Track on the tape begins, the
SQ-80 will begin to play.
Note: The Sync Track you record to tape sends only Clock, or Tempo, information to the SQ-80 — it
doesn't communicate where you are in a Song or Sequence. If you rewind the tape to a different place
and start it playing again, the
SQ-80 will start from wherever it last stopped — things will definitely get
out of sync. To keep everything playing together, you must start the Tape from the beginning each time.
Always press
Play on the SQ-80 after starting the tape, to start it from the beginning of the Song or
Sequence.
System Controller Tricks — Sending Eight Program Changes at Once
There are some subtle features of the
SQ-80 Sequencer which enhance its capabilities as a MIDI
controller, allowing you, among other things, to change Programs on every instrument in your rig. with
the push of a button. Each Sequence you create and store in the
SQ-80's Sequencer Memory contains
up to eight sets of Program and Volume information, each of which will be sent out on the designated
MIDI Channel when you select that Sequence.
If you
have the SQ-80 connected to other instruments via MIDI, try this:
− > Create a new Sequence.
>- Select the
Tracks Select Page, and select an UNUSED Track.
− > Go to the
Mix
•
MIDI Page. and set up the Track to send to one of your external instruments,
as described in
Track Configuration, on p. 117.
− > Select another UNUSED Track, and do the same, setting
this Track up to drive a
different instrument. And so on, until you have one Track playing each external instrument.
Create a couple of LOCAL Tracks with different Programs too. Selecting one of them will let
you play the
SQ-80 only. Selecting any of the MIDI Tracks will let you play only the receiving
instrument that is set to the same MIDI Channel as that Track..
You see that from the
Tracks Select Page, you can change what plays from the SQ-80 keyboard simply
by selecting. different Tracks. Remember too that a Track with
BOTH Status will play on the SQ-80 and
an external instrument.
ow Create another Sequence. (The SQ-80 will ask you "SAVE CHANGES TO OLD SEQUENCE?"
Answer YES.) For the Tracks of the new Sequence, go through the same procedure as before. but
assigning different Program Numbers to the external instruments. (Remember always to change
Programs from the
SQ-80's Mix
•
MIDI Page.)
Again, you can play a different external instrument, or the
SQ-80, or the SQ-80 and an external
Instrument, depending on which Track is selected. If you press a selected Track's button again. so there's
no Track selected, you hear the "Straight Synth" Program and transmit on the Base MIDI Channel, giving
you a ninth possibility.
144 Section 5 — Sequencer and Controller Applications
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