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About BLUE BOOK CS1x
The CS1x brings colour into the current musical landscape.
It's simply fun to be inspired by its intelligent Arpeggiator
and fresh sounds, or the brilliant control possibilities of its
knobs and Scenes. We wanted to pass our enthusiasm about
this machine directly onto you. This is how the "BLUE
BOOK" came about, a special kind of workbook that will
give you an easy start into using the CS1x and provide an
overview of this innovative synthesizer's countless possibili-
ties.
The BLUE BOOK isn't aiming to be a manual. Rather, it
will describe the most important steps needed to put the
CS1x's potential into practice, unlike a manual which is
merely concerned with documenting each and every function
and parameter. The BLUE
you should be able to read through it from beginning to end.
Don't be deterred however by the broad subject range cov-
ered in this book; there are many sides to the CS1x. Never-
theless, to give you the quickest start possible, we
recommend you skip straight to the sections of particular
interest to you. If you require more in depth details about any
particular function, you can always look these up in the man-
ual.
Please consider the BLUE
practical work. It is possible to learn about the underlying
foundations of CS1x sound and song programming 'from the
ground up' so to speak. We have prepared many exercises
and practical examples to help you understand each tech-
nique, function or problem you may encounter.
This practical guide is accompanied by two fl oppy disks,
each containing various sounds, sequences and other tools.
If you don't already know how to transfer these sounds from
your computer to the CS1x, please look at section "Saving
and managing Performances" in the introduction.
The "Tutorial Disk" contains several fi les with additional
sound examples, short demos and other MIDI fi les which we
will reference in the text. A second diskette, "BLUE X-TRA"
contains the User Bank Performances (Factory) and further
factory sounds ("EXTRA Bank") which can be used to replace
the User Bank. The BLUE
summary of all these fi les.
Finally we would like to point you to section "The little trou-
ble shooter" at the end of this book. This short checklist
attempts to help with any problems you may encounter. We
hope you have a lot of fun with the BLUE BOOK and your
CS1x.
BOOK concept dictates that
BOOK as a 'guide' to your
BOOK Appendix contains a
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