ENSONIQ SQ-R User Manual

Section 5 - Programming the SQ-R
SQ-R Musician's Manual
Compare — Using the Edit Sound Button/LED
As soon as you change any parameter in a sound, the LED above the Edit
Sound button will begin flashing. It will remain flashing until you select
another sound or save (write) the newly edited sound into memory. This is a
constant reminder that something in the sound has been changed.
To hear the original, unchanged sound, press the Edit Sound button. The Edit
Sound LED will remain lit without flashing and you will hear the original sound
and see the screen with its original settings. Press Edit Sound again to return
to your edited sound. You can toggle back and forth between the original and the
edited sound as often as you like.
Edit Buffer
You can edit a sound, while keeping the original sound intact, because the edited
version is kept in a special area of memory called the Edit Buffer. Whenever you
change any parameter of a sound, the altered sound is put in the edit buffer,
replacing whatever was previously there. Only one sound at a time can reside
there — the edit buffer always contains the results of your last edit.
When you press the Edit Sound button, you are alternating between the sound
in the original memory location and the sound in the edit buffer. We refer to the
sound in the edit buffer as the Edit Sound.
You can return to the edit sound, even after selecting another sound (as long as
you don't change any parameters there) by pressing the Edit Sound button.
This puts you back in the edit buffer, and any changes you make will affect the
edit sound.
The rule of thumb is this: Whichever sound you hear, that's what you're editing.
If you like the results of the changes you have made to a sound, you should
rename it and save the new sound permanently, to another location. The
procedure for this is covered under "Saving a New Sound Into Memory" later in
this section.
Abandoning Your Edits
If you decide, while editing a sound, that you're not happy with what you've
done, and you want to start over with the original sound:
Press the Edit Sound button so the Edit Sound LED remains lit. Then you can
stan editing the sound again from scratch. You will lose the one you were
working on before.
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Edit Buffer

ENSONIQ SQ-R Specifications

General

Brand	ENSONIQ
Model	SQ-R
Category	Synthesizer
Language	English