Guided Tour #5: The Dynamic Keyboard; Background; Assigning Keyboard Velocity To Dynamics - E-Mu EII+ Owner's Manual

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THE GUIDED TOURS

GUIDED TOUR #5: THE DYNAMIC KEYBOARD

The Emulator II not only delivers polyphonic dynamics, but for maximum expressiveness also

allows for dynamic control over several other parameters.

The following steps set up the synthesizer sound so that any changes in dynamics are very

noticeable.

1. Load the bass/synthesizer Factory Disk into the Emulator II (see section DISK 1 and

DISK 2, "Get Bank from Disk"), and specify Preset 01 (arpeggiated bass/synth).

2. Activate the filter module, and specify Voices V16, V17, V18, and V19 (the synthesizer

Voices) as the Current Voice; then call up FILTER 1 and set Freql2O, Q30, and Env

+00.

3. Activate the VCA/LFO module and select VCA/LFO 1. Set AtkOl, DecOl, Sus=32, and

Rel15.

1. Activate the Voice Definition module. Voices V16 - V19 should make up the Current

Voice; if not, key in 00 to change the Voice assignment and assign these Voices (see

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS 2, "Assigning the Current Voice").

2. Follow the instructions in VOICE DEFINITION 21 and play the keyboard. Note how

varying Slider A varies the overall dynamics, while varying Slider B controls how the

attack time is affected by how you play the keyboard.

3. Since we do not yet want to exit this function, after reading step 1 in VOICE DEFINITION

21 proceed to VOICE DEFINITION 22 on assigning keyboard velocity to filter

parameters.

4. 'When you reach step 2 in VOICE DEFINITION 22, congratulations! By this point in the

Guided Tours, you have learned the rudiments of loading and modifying sounds.

Proceed to the next section -- the one you've been waiting for -- on how to sample.

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