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Chapter 4ÑSoundFinder

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The keyboard pitch can be shifted by as many as 24 semitone steps downward (-24st) and 24 steps

upward (+24st). A value of 0st means that the keyboard is not transposed.

You can change this value by turning the Value knob or pressing the up/down arrow buttons.

2. Turn the Value knob or press the up/down arrow buttons to select the desired transpose value.

1. If transpose is currently on, the Transpose LED will be lit. If it is, press the Transpose button to turn

the function off.

You can repeatedly press the Transpose button to toggle keyboard transposition on and offÑyour

transposition amount setting will be retained until you change it or power your ZR-76 off.

The ZR-76 contain two types of sounds: standard sounds and drum kit/percussion kit sounds. Both types

of sound are constructed from high-quality digital sound waves resident in the permanent memory of the

ZR-76 or on ENSONIQ EXP Series Wave Expansion Boards. The explanations and procedures in this

chapter apply to both types of sounds, except as noted.

All ZR-76 sounds take advantage of the ZRÕs powerful 24-bit effects processor. To learn how the ZR-76

effects work, see Chapter 8.

Standard ZR-76 sounds employ up to 16 layers of sound waves, placed on top of each other. Each layer in

a standard sound has an assortment of editable parameters that allow you to shape the sonic

characteristics of its sound wave.

You can construct special hybrid sounds that have more than 16 layers. See ÒSaving

Splits and LayersÓ later in this chapter.

Drum kit and percussion kit sounds can have up to 64 different standard sounds assigned to individual

keys from the B two octaves below Middle C (B1) to the D three octaves above (D7). Note that these are not

just sound waves, but rather complete ZR sounds! Though these are most commonly drum and percussion

sounds, you can use any kind of sound youÕd like in a drum or percussion kit. Each key, or drum key, in a

drum or percussion kit has its own volume, pan, effect routing and tuning settings.

When you assign a sound to a drum key, the drum key makes note of the location of

the sound in the ZRÕs memory. When you play the drum key, it looks to that location and

uses the sound it finds there. If you edit the drum keyÕs sound or replace it, the drum key

will play the edited version or the sound youÕve replaced it with. If youÕve assigned a sound

to a drum key, and then erased the soundÑor pointed a drum key to an expansion board

sound, and removed the expansion boardÑthe drum key will be unable to locate its sound

and will produce silence when played.

The arrangement of sounds up and down the keyboard in a drum or percussion kit is called a drum or

percussion map. The ZR-76 drum kit and percussion kit sounds programmed by ENSONIQ adhere to two

types of drum map keyboard layouts, so as to ensure that the sounds function correctly in two specific

contexts:

¥ drum kit or percussion kit sounds that are used by the ZR-76 Drum Machine conform to an ENSONIQ

drum/percussion map optimized for that purpose

¥ drum kit or percussion kit sounds that are used for General MIDI music conform to the General

MIDI/GS percussion key map

You can program drum kit or percussion kit sounds using your own keyboard layout;

however, such sounds will produce unpredictable results when used by the ZRÕs Drum

Machine, or for General MIDI music.

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