Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual
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• Press the Performance Options button again to get to the Pressure page:
Pressure Page Range: (described below)
The Pressure page enables you to assign one of three pressure modes to each Track.
• OFF — Pressure information will not be transmitted via MIDI or recorded by the sequencer,
nor will the sound assigned to the track respond to pressure locally.
• KEY — This setting enables the track to receive Poly-Key™ pressure via incoming MIDI. Poly-
Key pressure lets you add pressure modulation to each note independently. If you press
down on any particular key within a chord, only that note will be affected by pressure — all
others remain unaffected. Although the TS-12’s keyboard does not generate Poly-Key
pressure, it does receive it via incoming MIDI.
When PRESS-MODE=CHAN on the System page, all Sounds and Preset Tracks that are set to
KEY will have their Track Pressure mode automatically set to CHAN; Sounds and Preset
Tracks that have their Pressure mode set to OFF will be unaffected. The PRESS-MODE=PSET
setting disables this function, and installs the Sound and Preset Track Pressure settings as
stored in the Sounds or Presets.
• CHAN — This enables the track to send and receive via MIDI the most common type of
pressure — channel pressure. With channel pressure, after a note is played, pressing down
harder on a key modulates every note currently playing. Like a mod wheel, channel pressure
is “global,” it affects the entire keyboard when activated. When a sequencer track is set to
CHAN, Channel pressure will be recorded into the track, even if the sound is not programmed
to respond to it (see the note below about conserving sequencer memory).
You should consult the MIDI implementation chart of the remote MIDI device you will be using
in conjunction with the TS-12 to see which (if any) type of pressure it responds to and transmits.
For best results, set the TS-12 Pressure parameter to match the type of pressure supported by the
external MIDI device which will send to or receive from the track you are setting.
The default value of Pressure Mode is stored with the Program, and is restored whenever the
Program is selected or placed on a track. The default value can be edited on the Program Control
page.
Note: You should select Track PRES=OFF whenever you don’t want or need pressure for a given
sound, particularly when sequencing. Pressure data eats up sequencer memory rapidly, so
whenever you record a track with a sound that doesn’t respond to pressure, set this parameter to
OFF. This will avoid wasting valuable sequencer memory, and will avoid clogging up the MIDI
data stream with a lot of unnecessary pressure information. Existing pressure information can
also be removed from a track using the Filter command on the Edit Track page.
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