E-Mu Vintage Keys Operation Manual page 58

Arp/Beats Menu
Beats Mode
O O O O
Wrong FX? In Omni
mode, the FX assigned to
channel 2 will be used. In Multi
mode, the Master FX settings
will be used. See pages 88 & 98.
48 E-MU Systems
Get Busy!
Two of the Controller knobs are programmed to control Beats. Check it out!
Press the E-H button in the Controllers section. Its LED will light.
8.
Now turn the Movement knob with a Beats Riff playing. Movement
9.
controls the Beats Busy parameter which adds or subtracts parts from
the Beat.
Turn the Rate knob with a Beats Riff playing. Rate controls the Beats
10.
Variation parameter. Beats Variation changes which parts are playing
without changing the number of parts. This makes it easy to try out
different combinations of Beat Parts.
To Play Beats on a different MIDI channel:
Beats can be assigned to a certain MIDI channel while you play the
keyboard on another channel. (Make sure you have Beats mode set up correctly
as described in "Beats Setup" on page 47.)
Press the Arp/Beats button. The screen shown below appears.
1.
BEATS MODE
BtsCh: Basic
Set the Beats Channel (BtsCh) to 01.
2.
Select any bts: preset on channel 1 (main screen).
3.
Press any of the sixteen Beats buttons to start your Beat playing. (Do
4.
NOT start Beats by pressing the Audition button.)
Press the + Channel button to the left of the LCD to select channel 2.
5.
Select a preset to jam along with the Beat.
6.
The Trigger Keys now play Beats and the other keys play the preset on
7.
channel 2.
The Audition button can be used to turn the Beat off. (If you try to use it
8.
to turn Beats on while on channel 2, the Riff on channel 2 will play.)
Status: P
TrigCh:Basic