Performance - GEM PK5 Owner's Manual

Performance

A Performance is a combination of sounds and settings that determine how PK7/PK5 plays. Performances
can store the current status of the panel buttons and information pertaining to the parts that make up a Perform-
ance to play in real time and with Styles.
Performances memorise effect settings, the status of the controllers (pedals, pitch bend wheel), the pads
configuration, the MIDI channel configuration, the status of the tracks (active/mute), the Tempo setting and
more. By recalling a Performance, you can reset all the PK7/PK5 parameters and functions in a single step.
There are 63 programmable Performances available to choose from, giving you a variety of possibilities of
setting the PK7/PK5 to your liking with the least number of operations.
In addition, in ROM (non-programmable) there are as many Style-Performances as there are ROM Styles,
which you can recall at the touch of a button using the SINGLE TOUCH PLAY function..
RealTime Performances
63 user-programmable Performances are memorized in the PERFORMANCE GROUPS. Performances recall
combinations of the keyboard sounds (keyboard modes) as well as memorized panel settings. Given that the
Performances store the current Style, Variation and Tempo at the moment of pressing the STORE PERFORM-
ANCE command, the Performances can also be a source of Styles and Variations.
Style Performance
96 default non-programmable Performances are associated to the ROM Styles which are permanently stored
in the instrument's Read Only Memory. The default Style Performances are recalled when Styles are selected
with the SINGLE TOUCH PLAY function selected (display indicator on). Style Performances recall sounds for
the accompaniments and keyboard sections.
Single Touch Play settings
Single Touch Play settings are additional "Performances" which are recalled by using the function buttons
F1...F9 when the SINGLE TOUCH PLAY function is active (display indicator S.T.PLAY selected). In this con-
dition, as well as being able to select the ROM Styles using the Style / Song selection keypad, you can also
recall up to 9 preset real time keyboard settings (combinations of the Upper 1, Upper 2 and Lower sounds)
which depend on the current Style. The possibilities are, therefore, endless when you consider that there are
96 ROM Styles, each with 9 Single Touch Play settings (864 preset settings!).
Song Style Performance
Song Style Performances (non-programmable) are associated to the Song Styles which are stored in appropri-
ate memory locations as indicated in the Song / Style lists at the top of the instrument's control panel. The
Song Style Performances recall accompaniment sounds, the chords that trigger the Style patterns and the
recorded keyboard sounds.
Song Performance (PK7 only)
Song Performances are associated to the Songs, which can be loaded from disk into appropriate memory
locations (111-117), as indicated in the Song / Style lists at the top of the instrument's control panel. The Song-
Performances recall sound combinations consisting of up to 16 sounds and associated track settings.
The Performances via MIDI?.........
Via MIDI, the Performances are a source of 16 Sounds, regardless of the status of the instrument.
It is possible to modify the 16 Performance tracks using the Page buttons to the left of the display, but only
when the arrowhead does not show the Perf function selected. If you are playing in real time or with the Styles,
the configuration of tracks 10-16 does not influence either playing mode (track 9 is used by the Pads), but if you
are programming PK7/PK5 for use as a multi-timbral slave device, all 16 tracks are taken into consideration.
Selecting Sounds and Performances via MIDI is discussed in a later chapter.
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