Quasimidi Sirius Operating Instructions Manual page 3

Basic functions of the Vocoder . . . . . . . . . 82
Turning the Vocoder On and Off . . . . . . . . 82
Setting the volume of the Vocoder-sound . . . . 82
How can I select the different Basic programs? . 82
How can I select Analyze-signals and Carrier? . . 84
Using other external sound sources
for the Vocoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Changing the level of the individual
Vocoder tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
How does the Filter Bank work?. . . . . . . . . 88
How can I set Effects and Pan? . . . . . . . . . 89
The Vocoder Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Where are the Vocoder settings stored? . . . . . 92
Configuration Diagram of the Vocoder . . . . . 93
The System Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Master-Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Master-Tune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
MIDI-Master-Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Local-Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
MIDI-Synchronization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Send- and Receive Functions . . . . . . . . . . 96
SysEx-Speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Poti-Snap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Poti-Info. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Track-Mute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Beat-Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
The Sirius and MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
MIDI? What on earth is that? . . . . . . . . . 100
Connecting MIDI-Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Examples of MIDI-Connections to the Sirius . . 101
Sirius and Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
MIDI-Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . 107
Changing Sound banks and Sound programs
with MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Data-Dumping-Storing your Data! . . . . . . . 110
How to Data-Dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
How does the Data-Dump get back to the
Sirius? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
The Sirius and Cubase
Synchronisation of the Sirius to Cubase . . . . 113
Recording Sirius-Pattern and -Songs into an
external Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Saving and storing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
What is stored and where it is stored? . . . . . 118
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Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
List of Wave-Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
List of Percussion Instruments . . . . . . . . . 121
List of Drum Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
List of Synth-Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
List of MIDI-Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
The System Exclusive Data formats of the Sirius 127
Sirius MIDI-Implementation chart . . . . . . . 133
Diagramatic Overview of the Edit Menus . . . 134
Button combinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Special Functions and short selection . . . . . 137
Problems and answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Hotline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Initializing of the Sirius and calibration of the
controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Warranty definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Technical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
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