Introduction; Basic Operation - Quasimidi CYBER-6 Manual

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Introduction

Congratulations for purchasing Cyber 6. You not only get a standard masterkeyboard but also a very

complex machine to enhance your live and studio sequencing and composing. You will create life-opera-

tions less stressfully and first of all in a more interesting way. With Cyber 6 at your disposal you have a

rational management of your instrument park and a precios live-sequencing-function which offers you

new possibilities in life-management. Here is a short survey about Cyber 6`s principal functions:

1) keyboard with 5 octaves, key velocity and aftertouch

2) various possibilities of sound manipulation with three wheels, three controllers, foot controller and

two foot-switches

3) masterkeyboard-functions which enable simultaneous and independent control of max. 8 synthesizers

and expanders

4) two motivators with new arpeggiator-effects, gated-chords and wave-sequencing

5) a powerful sequencer with much possibilities and interventions during live-operations

6) drum-programs in the fashion of TR 909

7) Up to 32 midi-channels over two midi-outs

First of all, these features cause enthusiasm after reading this manual a little bit. However reading alone

will not be enough. We advise to put the presented exercises into practise. You will find the exercises after

every chapter. With this methode you will be able to achieve the best learning results.

With the exercise we are trying to clarify the presented parameters which might still be unclear after

reading the chapters: Have great fun with "learning by doing".

Cyber 6 offers a big deal of functions. At the beginning try to recept the positions of the keyboard and

operating elements. This facilates the exercises in the following chapters. The ilustration shows the oper-

ating section of Cyber 6:

The page-dial is a means to select various displays pages in the edit-menu. If you are not within one of the

edit-menus you can change in from one operating-system to another with the page-dial.

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