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Retroaktiv MPG-70 Owner's Manual

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OWNER'S MANUAL
For mkI, mkII, and mkIII Firmware 3.0+

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  • Page 1 OWNER’S MANUAL For mkI, mkII, and mkIII Firmware 3.0+...
  • Page 2 • Create an INIT tone at any time from the front panel. No more wasted time “zeroing” all of the • MPG-70 memory can be backed up directly to panel parameters. One button press and a new a computer, which eliminates the need to use tone is initialized and ready for you to create! external librarians to backup your objects.
  • Page 3 RETROAKTIV MPG-70 3.X USER MANUAL ASSIGNABLE PANEL DESCRIPTION: EXPRESSION PEDAL MIDI IN MIDI OUT 6-PIN DIN DATA/POWER CABLE OLED DISPLAY ENTER BUTTON PATCH GENERATOR BUTTON POWER INDICATOR ASSIGNABLE CONTROLLER A & B WRITE BUTTON CURSOR LEFT UPPER/LOWER BUTTON MAIN BUTTON...
  • Page 4 The OLED display presents information about the The menu navigation buttons are used to select operation being performed. editor pages in the MPG-70. The [LEFT] and [RIGHT] buttons are used to move the cursor in the menu pages. S ECO N D FU N CTI O N S (PATC H)
  • Page 5 Basic MIDI configuration To begin making sound, let’s start by creating a basic setup. Press the [MIDI] button on MPG-70 and set the MPG-70 MIDI settings as shown below. Note that the U1 protocol must me set according to the synth being used.
  • Page 6 RETROAKTIV MPG-70 3.X USER MANUAL An alternative connection scheme involves a MIDI MERGER unit. This allows for bidirectional communication between the synth and the MPG-70 (For exchanging objects like PATCHES, TONES, and BANKS). If using a MIDI MERGER, use the scheme pictured below.
  • Page 7 FI R MWAR E VE R S I O N & M E M O RY CAR D upon powering up the MPG-70, a splash screen will be displayed on the OLED. This splash screen will first display the firmware version currently running on MPG-70, and if a memory card is present, will display the status of the memory card.
  • Page 8 M E N U S AN D NAVI GATI O N M E N U S AN D NAVI GATI O N When MPG-70 boots up, it will display the MAIN menu screen. The diagram below shows the contents displayed on the MAIN screen.
  • Page 9 TH E FR E E Z E FU N CTI O N Pressing WRITE from the MAIN screen will enable the “FREEZE” function on MPG-70. When FREEZE is enabled, a message will be displayed “Freeze : WRITE to send.”. When FREEZE is on, moving a slider will not send a message.
  • Page 10 INPUT CHANNEL will be passed to the synth on the OUTPUT CHANNEL. For example, if INPUT CHAN is set to 1/2, and OUT CHAN is set to 3/4, note data received by MPG-70 on channel 1 would be transmitted to the synth on channel 3.
  • Page 11 DATA FI LTE R S : Different types of MIDI data chan be filtered by the MPG-70. When a data type is set to ON, that data type will be passed through the MPG-70. NOTE, CC data, AFTERTOUCH, and CLOCK/REALTIME data can be filtered. If PITCH BEND or SYSEX needs to be filtered, this can be toggled on the synth itself.
  • Page 12 Below is an example scheme for using Multi Unit Poly Mode. In this example Multi- Unit Poly Mode must be turned ON in the Global Settings menu. Playing notes into MPG-70 on MIDI PORT 1 on channel 1 will play the two MKS-70 units as a single 24-voice synth.
  • Page 13 C H O R D M O D E : The MPG-70 CHORD MODE function allows users to input a chord, and then play it by keying a note. The chord will be transposed anywhere on the keyboard where a new note is keyed. CHORD MODE can be enabled on UNIT 1, Unit 2, or BOTH units.
  • Page 14 MPG-70 and MKS-70 is required. This means that the MPG-70 MIDI OUT is routed to MKS-70 MIDI IN, and the MKS-70 MIDI OUT is routed to MPG-70 MIDI IN. When transferring a bank of patches from MPG-70, it should be understood that the format of PATCH objects in the MPG-70/JX is different than the format of PATCH objects in the MKS-70 memory.
  • Page 15 2. Use the Receive MKS-70 Patch Bank function in the MPG-70 Sysex Menu to load the bank into the MPG-70. 3. Use the Send Patch Bank function in the MPG-70 Sysex Menu to send the bank to the computer. (Once in the MPG-70, the bank has been converted into Retroaktiv Patch format) 4.
  • Page 16 Storing and Loading User CC Maps: MPG-70 internal memory can store 32 User CC Maps. To store or load a map, go to the User CC Map menu, and press the STORE or LOAD button once. A list of currently stored CC maps will be displayed. Select the desired...
  • Page 17 RETROAKTIV MPG-70 3.X USER MANUAL TH E PATC H G E N E RATO R TH E PATC H G E N E RATO R The Patch Generator tool is a powerful feature that creates intelligently randomized tones, as well as preset “Init tones”.
  • Page 18 MPG-70. layer of either synth plugged into the MPG-70. This allows us to do something like sweep the filter cutoff up on the UPPER layer, while sweeping the cutoff down on the LOWER layer. Using the assigns and combinations of assigns, a sound can be animated in ways not possible on other controllers.
  • Page 19 There are a few guidelines to follow to maximize the MIDI performance of the MPG-70 when using assigns. An ASSIGN has the potential to generate large amounts of MIDI data. If you’re using an ASSIGN with 5 layers, which is routed to BOTH layers of the synthesizer, this will generate 10 MIDI sysex messages with each movement of the ASSIGN source.
  • Page 20 RETROAKTIV MPG-70 3.X USER MANUAL I NTU ITIVE E NTRY O F AS S I G N L AYE R S I NTU ITIVE E NTRY O F AS S I G N L AYE R S While users can manually enter all of the necessary information into each ASSIGN layer, this can become tedious when creating many different routing destinations.
  • Page 21 M PG -70 M E M O RY STO RAG E MPG-70 allows users to store a variety of different “objects” such as PATCH, TONE, ASSIGNS, or a SETUP. MPG-70 has the following banks of objects available if the optional Memory Expansion Card is installed: •...
  • Page 22 In a typical MKS-70 bank, many tones are shared by multiple patches, which means if a tone is edited and saved, it affects all patches that share that tone. In the MPG-70, no tones are shared in a patch bank.
  • Page 23 OF YOUR OBJECTS. OF YOUR OBJECTS. MPG-70 will always remember the settings from your last session when you power up. Power up holding MPG-70 will always remember the settings from your last session when you power up. Power up holding [STORE] to wipe out general user settings, such as MIDI settings.
  • Page 24 The pause in between sysex packets allows the MPG-70 time to process each packet and write it to FLASH. When ready, send the file to the MIDI IN of the MPG-70. The UPPER LED will blink once for each sysex packet.
  • Page 25 RETROAKTIV MPG-70 3.X USER MANUAL programmer is used. You will recevie this error if you do something like try to load an MPG-70 Firmware update onto an MPG-70. • • 5 blinks 5 blinks: Error parsing sysex header. This is the most likely error to occur if the MIDI connection is not reliable and the system is receiving corrupted data.