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Table of Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
Introduction to
the microSTATION . . . . . . . . . 1
Main features of the microSTATION . . . . . . . . . 1
Front and rear panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Frontpanel................................2
Rearpanel .................................4
Basic Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
AboutthemicroSTATION’smodes...........5
Basicoperatingmethods.....................7
UsingControllers...........................9
Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Turning the power on/off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
ConnectingtheACadapter........... ......11
Turningthepoweron ......................11
Turningthepoweroff......................11
Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Connectingaudioequipment ...............12
Connectingadamperpedal,footpedal,orfoot
switch ..............................13
ConnectingthemicroSTATIONto
acomput
er..........................13
ConnectingMIDIdevices ...................14
Playing and editing programs . . 15
Playing programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Selectingaprogram........................15
UsingControllers..........................16
Performingwiththearpeggiator.............16
Editing a program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Easyeditingusingthebuttonsandknobs.....17
Restoringsettingsyou’veedited .............18
Savingyouredits ..........................18
Editing a program in detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Beforeyoustartediting.....................19
Summaryoftheeditpages..................20
Basicoscillatorsettings .....................20
UsingLFOsandEnvelopes(EGs) .............21
Adjustingthefilter.........................21
Adjustingtheamp .........................22
Arpeggiator...............................23
Ef
fects....................................23
Assigningfunc
tionstoknobs.. ..............23
Automaticallyimportinga programinto
Sequencermode.....................23
Playing and
editing combinations . . . . . . 24
Playing combinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Selectingacombination.............. .......24
Performingwiththearpeggiator.............25
Usingcontrollerstomodifythesound ........25
Easy combination editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Simpleeditingusingtheknobs..............25
SavingaCombinationyou’veedited.........25
Editing a combination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Asuggestedapproachforediting ............26
Changingtheprogramassignedto
eachtimbre .........................27
Layers,Splits,andVelocitySwitches.........27
Editingparameters.... .....................29
MIDIsetti
ngs .............................29
AlteringPrograms
to
fitwithin a Combination..............30
Arpeggiatorsettings .......................30
Effects....................................30
Revertingtheedit
edsettings................30
Automatically
importingacombinationinto
Sequencermode.....................30
Creating songs
(Sequencer mode) . . . . . . . . . 31
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
AboutthemicroSTATION’sSequencer.......31
Sequencermodestructure ..................31
Whateachbuttondoes.....................32
Performing in Sequencer mode. . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Playingback..............................33
SwitchingMIDItracksduringplayback.......33
MIDI recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Let’stryrecording. ..................... ...34
RecordingwiththeLoopfunction ............35
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