Setups and Zones
Selecting Zones
Musician’s Guide
4-3
If you want to hear just one Zone, and temporarily mute the notes on all the others, use the
Ò
Solo
Ó button. The button for the current Zone turns red, and the only sound you hear is that
ZoneÕs. To solo a different Zone, just push that ZoneÕs button. To hear all of the Zones, turn off
Solo
by pressing it again. You can Solo a muted zone (make an orange zone red) which will
turn it on, and will also turn off all of the others. However, if a Zone is soloed, you canÕt mute it
(make a red one orange); you would have to Þrst un-solo it.
When one Zone is soloed, the other Zones are not completely dead: only their
notes
are muted.
Any controller data associated with those Zones will still be generated.
I Don’t Hear a Zone: Is It Active (But Not Soloed), Muted, or Off?
There are important differences between a Zone that is silent because a different Zone has been
soloed (green light, when another Zone is red); a Zone that is muted (orange light); and one
that is off (no light).
•
A Zone
not soloed
(but otherwise active) does everything except play notes Ñ controllers
are still sent out the MIDI Out jack.
•
A
muted
Zone doesnÕt do anything while itÕs muted, except that it sends exit and entry
values for its programs and controllers when you enter or leave the Setup (see Chapter 5).
A muted Zone does have a program number and a MIDI channel, as well as a complete
set of other parameters, all of which come into play when the Zone is un-muted.
•
A Zone that is turned
off
has no MIDI channel. It generates no data until you give it a
MIDI channel to make it active, or switch to a different Setup in which that Zone is active.
You can quickly disable and enable an individual sound or a MIDI instrument by changing a
ZoneÕs button from green to orange. This can be very useful for live performance, to bring
layers of sound in and out quickly. When you save a Setup, the mute and solo statuses of the
Zones are stored along with the rest of the parameters, and when you recall the Setup, those
statuses are automatically enabled. So, you could call up a Setup that has one Zone Soloed, and
instantly add instruments by turning off Solo. Or you can call up a Setup that has one or more
muted Zones, and un-mute them as you play.
To turn off a Zone, press
MIDI Transmit
and move the alpha wheel counterclockwise (to the
left), past Ò01Ó, until the MIDI Channel parameter changes to ÒOffÓ. The Zone is now
completely disabled: the light in its button goes off. Press the
Program
button. Where you
would normally see a program name, it now says ÒZone OffÓ. Turn the wheel and it still says
ÒZone OffÓ. To turn a Zone back on again, simply assign it a MIDI Channel from the
MIDI
Transmit
function.
Color
:
Green Green
(but another is Red)
Red Orange None
State:
Active Active
(not Soloed)
Soloed Muted Off
Data Generated:
Notes
Ö
x
Ö
xx
Controllers
Ö
Ö
Ö
xx
Program number
Ö
Ö
Ö
Ö
x
Entry and Exit values
Ö
Ö
Ö
Ö
x
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