ENSONIQ SQ-80 User Manual

SQ-80 — Musician's Manual
Pedal as a Modulator in your
SQ-80 Programs. you should select PEDAL, not XCTRL.
Note also that the Foot Pedal will only act as a modulator when the
Foot Pedal Function Select
parameter is set to PEDAL=MOD on the Master Page. When that parameter is set to
PEDAL=VOL the Foot Pedal will act as a Volume Pedal. not as a modulator (though this has no
effect on incoming MIDI Foot Pedal data). See p. 20 for more details.
XCTRL — External Controller (MIDI only)
An External Controller such as a Breath Controller. Data Entry Slider. etc., which is received via
MIDI from another synthesizer, can be assigned as a Modulator within your
SQ-80 Programs.
On the
MIDI Page, you select the number of the External Controller that will be received.
You don't have to be playing the
SQ-80 from an external instrument for this to work. For
example. if you have a Keyboard with a Breath Controller;
1) Connect its MIDI Out to the SQ-
80's MIDI In; 2) Make sure both instruments have Controllers Enabled (MIDI Page); 3) Select
Breath Controller as the External Controller that will be received by the
SQ-80 (XCTRL=02,
also on the MIDI Page); 4) assign XCTRL as a Modulator for Oscillator Volume, Filter Cutoff
Frequency, or some other Manual level within a Program, as shown in the following Section: and
5) Play the Sound from the SQ-80 keyboard, while blowing into the Breath Controller connected
to the sending instrument. The Modulation will have the same effect as if you were playing from
the sending instrument.
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> PRESS — Pressure (Aftertouch)
Pressure, also called Aftertouch. is a modulator which varies a manual level within a Program
depending on how hard you press down on a key or keys. After you have struck a key, and while
the note is sustaining, continuing to press down harder on the key brings in Pressure. The
SQ-
80's keyboard generates Pressure, and by using this modulator you can add a tremendous amount
of expression to your Programs without ever taking your hands off the keyboard.
Pressure comes in two varieties — Key Pressure (or Poly Pressure), which affects each note
individually, and
Channel Pressure (or Mono Pressure) which affects all notes that are playing
when you exert pressure on any key. Either type of Pressure is available on the
SQ-80. and both
types are received via MIDI. There is a Control on the
MIDI Page (PRESS=
—
) which
determines which of the two types of Pressure will be generated by the
SQ-80 keyboard at any
given time. This control can also be set to PRESS=OFF. in which case the keyboard will not
generate Pressure internally, nor will it send or receive it via MIDI. (See
MIDI Page, p. 23, for
more details.)
When you record a Sequencer Track from the SQ-80 keyboard, the Track will record (and its
Program will respond to) whichever type of Pressure is selected on the
MIDI Page. Once a Track
has been recorded. it will play back the type of pressure that was recorded, no matter what the
setting of the Pressure Control on the
MIDI Page. Since Pressure uses up a lot of Sequencer
memory. if you don't want Pressure on a given Track, set the Pressure Control on the
MIDI Page
to PRESS=OFF when recording that Track, and the Sequencer will not record Pressure.
Note that not all sounds are necessarily programmed to respond to Pressure. If Pressure seems
to have no effect when you play certain sounds, it is likely that the programmer did not assign
Pressure as a modulator anywhere within the Program.
The effect of Pressure as a modulator is positive-going only. though assigning a negative
modulation depth will cause increased Pressure to reduce Manual Levels.
44 Section 3 — Voice Programming

ENSONIQ SQ-80 Specifications

General

Brand	ENSONIQ
Model	SQ-80
Category	Synthesizer
Language	English