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USING THE
MANUAL CONTROLS
Guitar choking effects.
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Realistic trumpet effect.
1.
Parallel thirds or fifths.
This involves raising the pitch of the SYN-
TH E
section above the pitch of the INST
section.
Switch on one SYNTHE
tab,
and one INST
tab. Then use the EFFECT section SYNTHE
PITCH knob (above the OCTAVE UP tab) to
adjust
the SYNTHE pitch
so
it
is
tuned
a
third or fifth above the INST pitch when you
play
the keyboard. Tuning
is
easier if the
tabs you turn on in both sections have the
same pitch
to
start with. (If both are marked
8, for example.)
2. Joy
stick effects.
•
Pitch bends.
Bending the pitch of a note is
a
major ex-
pressive technique on
a
synthesizer, and
each musician develops his or her own style.
Switch on the
PITCH
JOY
STICK
SYNTHE
tab, or the PITCH JOY STICK IN-
STRUMENT
tab,
or both. The left
joy stick
is
used for pitch bends in either section. The
range knobs let
you set
how far the pitch will
be bent. The left range knob is for the
SYNTHE section,
the
right range
knob
is for
the INST section.
When adjusting these knobs, be sure to
have one of the
tabs
switched on in the sec-
tion you want to bend the pitch of. Then, turn
the range
knob
all the way down, hold the
joy
stick all the way to the right, play a key on
the keyboard, and turn
up
the range knob
until the pitch bends as much as you want it
to.
After completing this adjustment,
you
won't have to worry about the range knob
while playing. How much
you
move
the joy
stick to the left or right, will control how far
the pitch bends.
•
Vibrato.
Add vibrato whenever
you
like,
by
shifting
the
joy
stick forward. You
can add
vibrato
as
you bend the pitch of a note. This can give
effects like choking
a
guitar. Two examples
of this are shown in the diagrams
®
and
(§)
In
®
you start with the joy stick to the
left (or right), then
you
play
a key and
move
the stick in and
upward to apply vibrato. In
(§)
you play a key first, and then bend the
pitch and apply vibrato.
In either case, you
are first bending the pitch, and then apply-
ing vibrato, all
in one fluid motion of your
hand.
3.
KBD SENSOR
The keyboard
sensor
comes
in handy for
pitch bend and vibrato effects. Like the joy
stick, it can be used to
control
just
the SYN-
THE section or the INST section, or both at
the same time.
Therefore,
you
can use the
joy
stick for one section, and the
keyboard
sensor for the other section.
This gives
you
independent, variable control over each
section's vibrato and pitch bend
effects.
And if one of your
hands is not free
to
oper-
ate
the
joy
stick,
you
can still get the same
effects with the
keyboard sensor. How hard
you
press down on the keys will control the
vibrato
or pitch
bend. Adjust
the INTENSITY
knob above the KBD SENSOR tab while
playing a key
with maximum pressure. The
position of this knob will determine the range
over
which the effect varies.
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KBD
SENSOR
In the diagram here,
you see
how
you
would
set the KBD SENSOR switches for vibrato in
the INST
section
only.
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