CREATING SOUNDS
4. CREATING SOUNDS
New sounds are created on the
Poly-800
by changing
or
EDITING old programs. Since the Digital Control system pro
vides
complete, detailed information about all programs in
memory, no Manual mode (found in older
synthesizers)
is
needed.
To create a new sound, first select one of the 64 existing pro-
grams that’s close to what you want (if no program is close.
any program may be used as a starling point). Next, select
individual parameters of that program (from the Parameter
Table) and edit them, one at a time, until the sound matches
your
mental image as closely as possible.
By
adjusting the
various parameters. you can create virtually any type of sound
you
went.
The sound created at
this
point is a TEMPORARY edit
of
the
original program.
The original program is still in memory, and the temporary
edit will be ERASED if you reselect the original program
D(
select a new program.
-
To make the temporary edit PERMANENT, you must
WRITE the edited program into one of the 64 Program
Numbers (the program memory).
l The Same Program Number can be used (erasing the
original program),
or
a different Program Number can be
used (saving the original program. but erasing a different
one).
The procedures for creating sounds and staring them in
memory will now be described in detail.
4.2.1
Select
a
i’rOf&%tI
1
Select a sound
lromthe
program memory that resembles the
kind of sound that you went (or
choose any
sound). using the
Number Select Buttons (see section
2.
Selecting Programs.
’
if you’re not
sue
how ta do this).
‘R
DGlPARA
Switch
Number
select
buttons
4.2.2 Select Parameter Mode
:
1;
Press the
PROGlPARA
switch to select Parameter Mode.
The middle two digits show the current PARAMETER
NUMBER. end the right two digits show the current VALUE
of the Parameter.
14.2.3
Select
a
Patwneter
:.
7
:‘,
:
:,
‘:
-:
All Parameters are referred to by a
two
digit “umber ranging
from
:
;
to
82
(just like Program Numbers).
Look up the number of a Parameter that you think should be
changed in the Parameter Table, and enter it using the
Number Select
6utto”s
(
:
-
F:
).
EXAMPLE: Selecting VCF Cutoff
(
‘7
:;
By looking in the Parameter Table, you’ll find that all the VCF
parameters start with the number
’
‘-/
‘,
and that VCF
Culoff
is
‘i’
:
1.
First, press Number Select button
‘?
The DISPLAY will show something like the following:
PRCIGRIU NO. PARIMETER
HO.
“AL”*
-
is displayed until
Ihe
next
digit in
entered
(waiting
lo,
input,
*A
horizontal line appears until you select the next digit
(which means the programmer
iS
waiting for an input).
. If the first digit selected was wrong, simply press the
’
‘-:
;
button
TWO
times,
SO
that the number
L/
ap-
pears in the left hand digit of the Parameter Number
Display.
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