TS-12 Musician’s Manual Preface
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Welcome!
Congratulations, and thank-you for your purchase of the ENSONIQ TS-12
Performance/Composition Synthesizer. The TS-12 offers the most complete set of features for the
performing and recording musician ever offered. From the great feeling 76-note weighted-action
keyboard to the great sounding 300 Programs and 300 Performance Presets, you’ll find the TS-12
a wonderful instrument to play. The intuitive and musical sequencer design in the TS-12 will
help you go from initial inspiration to a completely mixed song without getting in your way.
To expand your sound palette the TS-12 comes with 2 Megabytes of Sample RAM, expandable to
8 Megabytes with industry-standard SIMMs. This RAM can be used to load in any Sample
Sounds created for ENSONIQ’s EPS/EPS-16 PLUS, and ASR-10 samplers, giving you access to
the largest library of sampled sounds anywhere! And with the SP-4 SCSI kit option installed, you
can read Sampled Sound files stored on CD-ROM libraries and other SCSI devices. In addition to
having access to this versatile library of sounds (from ENSONIQ and many third-party
companies from around the world), you can incorporate vocals, drum loops, and any sound
imaginable into your music. Just use an ENSONIQ sampler, or your friend’s ENSONIQ sampler,
to make new sounds to use in your music. No expandable waveform synthesizer offers you this
much versatility at such an affordable price.
The Sounds
The sound of the TS-12 is based on 254 waveforms encompassing all the possible instrument
groups; acoustic, electric, digital and analog synthesis, sound effects and more. The acoustic
instrument waves have been carefully crafted from ENSONIQ’s huge library of source
recordings, including many sounds from our ground-breaking Signature Series. For the more
imaginative possibilities the unique TransWaves™ give you the moving, dynamic sound of
swept wavetables. The new Hyper-Wave™ voice architecture breaks open new sonic ground
with the ability to create wave-lists that can sound like evocative, ever-changing pads to “jam-
loop” drum and percussive grooves that can change pitch without ever changing tempo.
Each Program in the TS-12 is actually six independent sound sources each with their own
parameters and programming. Now you can combine sampled sounds with analog synthetic
sounds, and exotic digital textures at the push of a button -- no MIDI cables needed! And with
32-note polyphony you can layer sounds or sequence freely, without worrying about losing
voices while you play.
Up to three sounds can be combined into a preset, which contains its own effects set-up and
special performance parameters. Presets can be thought of as handy “performance memories”
which allow you to create and save sound combinations, splits, layers, patch select variations, etc.
The TS-12’s 24-bit dynamic effects are incorporated as an integral component of each sound, and
any effects parameter can be modulated by any of 13 modulation sources. Programs of similar
types can be selected using ENSONIQ’s SoundFinder feature, and the TS-12 has Patch Select
buttons, giving you expressive control over your sounds and unparalleled flexibility as a MIDI
controller.
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