SQ-80 — Musician's Manual
ow go to the proper Sequence Select Page and reselect the first Sequence. (Again, the SQ-80 will ask
you "SAVE CHANGES TO OLD SEQUENCE?" Answer Yes.) Notice when you select the New
Sequence that all the external instruments connected to the
SQ-80 change to the proper Program for tha
Sequence — each Track sent out a Program Change on its MIDI Channel when the Sequence was
selected. Now select the second Sequence again. Each external instrument again changes back to the
roper Program.
otice that you haven't recorded anything on either of these Sequences. They exist merely as Templates,
which serve two useful purposes when using the
SQ-80 as a System Controller:
1) Every time you select a new Sequence, each Track can send
a Program Change to an external
instrument. You can change the sound that every synth in your rig is playing with one press of a
button.
2) When you select any Track of a Sequence, the
SQ-80 Keyboard plays whatever Program is on that
Track, or sends on the Track's MIDI Channel, or both. Select a different Track and you have a
different configuration. From the
Tracks Select Page you select up to nine different internal
Programs and/or MIDI channels to send on (counting the Straight Synth.)
Of course you can record data on any of these Sequences if you want. Whether you do or not, they will
work as Templates. You can play external instruments from the
SQ-80 or from their own Keyboards.
You can have a Track send a Program Change to a MIDI Digital Delay or Reverb unit; or have it send
Load instructions to a
Mirage while you play the Straight Synth Program on the SQ-80, just by selecting a
new Sequence. No doubt you will come up with some applications of your own, based on your
equipment and your needs.
USING THE SQ-80 WITH A MIDI GUITAR CONTROLLER
The
SQ-80 makes an ideal voice module to use with any MIDI Guitar Controller which is capable o
sending in MONO Mode. MONO Mode (MIDI Mode 4) allows a guitar controller to send the notes
layed on each string on a different MIDI Channel. This has the advantage of letting each string send
Pitch Bends independently, which is the only way to truly recreate guitar technique on a synthesizer.
Some earlier guitar synths do not support MONO mode. You will have to consult the manual of your
articular model to see if it does. If you have a guitar synth which only sends in POLY Mode (i.e. sends
all six strings on the same MIDI Channel) you should use the
SQ-80 in POLY Mode (or OMNI Mode)
and set the guitar controller to send on the MIDI Channel that is selected for the
Base Channel on the
MIDI Page.
For
MIDI Guitar Controllers which do support MONO Mode you should set up the SQ-80 and the guitar
synth as follows:
• Create a new Sequence on the
SQ-80 (p. 108)
• On the
MIDI Page, set the MODE parameter to MODE=MONO. This sets up Tracks 1-8 of the
Sequence to be independent, monophonic receivers. (Consult p. 25 for a more complete description
of MONO Mode.)
• Also on the
MIDI Page, set the Base MIDI Channel to CHAN=1, Now Track 1 will receive on
Channel 1, Track 2 will receive on Channel 2, Track 3 will receive on Channel 3, etc. (The Straight
Synth will not receive any MIDI data at all.)
• Set your guitar controller to send in MONO Mode on Channels 1-6. (Some models have an easy
shortcut for getting into this state.)
• Connect the MIDI Out of the guitar controller's converter to the MIDI In of the
SQ-80.
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