Korg DSS-1 Owner's Manual page 49

■ Program memory holds
patches). Each program contains all of the data need­
ed to reproduce one completed tone color This data
includes your settings for the O SC-1 and O S C -2
multisounds, the V C F cutoff frequency, the EG
envelopes, and so on and so forth.
You can have immediate access to any one of these
32 programs from program memory, each of which
can in turn call up two multisounds from among those
in wave memory.
■ The program output buffer is used to hold a program
temporarily. The OSC-1, O SC-2, VCF, VGA, and
other parameter values reflect the data in this output
buffer.
When you change programs, your newly selected
program is copied from program memory to this out­
put buffer, producing a different sound by affecting
the settings of the various parameters. {In other
words, the current sound is determined by the data
currently in the program output buffer.)
When you edit a program, you are editing the data
that is in this output buffer. When you want to save an
edited program, you must write the data to program
memory.
Since the data in the output buffer affects the sound,
you will usually want to perform the FOO INITIALIZE
PAR A M S function to clear it before sampling and
making multisounds. This prevents the VCF, EQ,
D D L and other parameters from changing the sound.
* In addition, the DSS-1 also has a portion of memory
reserved for the MIDI parametes. (We may call this
MIDI parameter memory.) See page 294 for details
on the DSS-1 and MIDI.
32 programs {sound • U ses of program memory.
Holds 32 programs or patches, each of which com­
prises settings for the oscillator multisounds, VCF,
VGA, EG, EQ, DDL. etc.
• Use of the program output buffer.
Temporarily holds a single program.
• Program selection
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