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ENSONIQ VFX Musician's Manual (175 pages)

Dynamic Component Synthesizer

Brand: ENSONIQ | Category: Synthesizer | Size: 9 MB

Grounding Instructions
2
Table of Contents
4
Power
8
AC Line Conditioning
8
Amplification
8
Running Your VFX through a Home Stereo System
9
Rear Panel Connections
10
Data Entry - Communicating with the VFX
12
Soft Buttons
12
Parameteric Programming
12
Pages
13
Sub-Pages
13
Changing a Parameter
14
Performance Controllers
15
Pressure (After-Touch)
15
Cartridge Insertion and Removal
16
Re-Initializing the Unit
17
Low Battery Voltage - When to Replace the Battery
18
Available Options
18
Playing Sounds and Presets
20
Program Memory
20
Bank Buttons
21
Selecting a Sound
21
Choosing Internal, ROM and Cartridge Sounds
21
Layering (Stacking) a Sound with the Selected Sound
22
Primary Sound Vs. Layered Sounds
22
About Tracks
23
Preset Mode Vs. Multi Mode
23
About Presets
24
Preset Memory
25
Selecting Presets
25
Editing a Preset
25
Saving a Preset
27
Avoiding Confusion When Using Presets
27
Replace Program
28
Replacing a Program in a Preset
28
Performance Tip - Creating Keyboard Splits
29
Performance Parameters
30
Volume Page
31
Pan Page
32
Timbre Page
32
Key Zone Page
33
Setting the Key Zone
33
Transpose Page
34
Release Page
35
Track Control Parameters
35
Patch Select Page
36
Latching Patch Selects
36
Pressure Page
37
Sustain Page
38
Using Effects with Performance Presets
38
Performance MIDI Parameters Page
39
MIDI Status
39
MIDI Channel
40
MIDI Program Number
41
Entering Program Change Numbers Directly
41
Program Changes in the Unit
41
Effects
42
Program Effects
43
Preset Effects
43
Multi A/B Effect
43
Programming Effects
44
The Effects Busses
44
Single Function Effect
44
Effects Mixing
45
Multiple Function Effect
45
Selecting Effects
46
Modulators Which Can be Applied to the Effects
46
Programs and Presets
47
When Are New Effects Loaded into the ESP?
47
Performance Control
48
Controllers Routed to Effects
48
Effect Parameters
49
Single Effects
49
Decay-Time
49
Pre-Delay
50
Early-Refl. Level
50
FX2-Mode
50
HF-Damping
50
Decay-Mod
51
Modsrc
51
Rate
51
Depth
51
Combined Effects
52
Feedback
52
Waveshape
54
Reverb.hf-Cut
54
MIX-Level
57
Flange+Dly+Rev.1 & 2
59
Mode
61
Stereo-Width
61
Feedback - LAG
61
Feedback - Amount
61
Using the Multi; Multi a and Multi B
62
Replacing Programs in the Multi
63
Layering a Program in Multi a (or Multi B)
63
Multi and the Performance Parameters
63
Copying a Preset into Multi a or B
65
Multi Mode - Receiving on 12 MIDI Channels
65
Using the Unit with an External MIDI Sequencer
66
System Control
68
Master Page
68
Tune
68
Touch
68
Bendrng
69
Footswitch
69
Slider
70
CV-Pedal
70
System Pitch-Table
70
MIDI Control Page
71
Base-Chan
71
XPOS-MIDI Transpose Enable
71
Send-Chan
72
XCTRL - External Controller
72
Mono Mode
73
Global Controllers
74
Sys-Ex
74
Controllers
74
Prog CHG
74
Receiving Program Changes
75
Selecting a New Multi Effect
75
Programming the Unit
76
What Is a Program?
76
Unit Program Structure
76
Voices and Polyphony
77
Patch Select Buttons
77
Compare - Using the Compare Button/Led
78
Edit Buffer
78
Abandoning Your Edits
78
Select Voice Page
79
Short Cuts (Using the Soft Buttons)
80
Group Edit Mode - Selecting more than One Voice at a Time
80
Using the Group Edit Feature
80
Programming the Patch Selects
81
Program Control Page
82
Pitch-Table
82
Bend-Range
82
Delay
82
Restrike
83
Glide-Time
83
Write Page - Saving a New Program into Memory
84
Copying an Existing Program to Another Location
85
Voice Programming
86
Unit Voice Configuration
86
Modulators
88
Selecting a Modulator
88
Modulator Amount
88
Modulation Sources
89
LFO - Low Frequency Oscillator
89
Env 1, Env 2, (Env 3)
89
Noise - Noise Generator
89
Mixer - Mod Mixer/Sharper
90
Veloc - Velocity
90
Keybd - Keyboard Tracking
90
Timbr - Timbre Control
90
Pedal - Voltage Control Foot Pedal
91
Pitch - Pitch Bend Wheel
91
XCTRL - External Controller (MIDI Only)
91
PR + VL - Pressure + Velocity/Wl + PR - Wheel + Pressure
91
Wheel - Modulation Wheel
92
Press - Pressure (After-Touch)
92
Wave Page
93
Wave Class
93
Wave List
94
General Wave Parameters (All Wave Classes)
95
Wave Name
95
Wave Type
95
Type-Specific Wave Parameters
96
Start
96
Vel-Startmod
96
Forward/Reverse
96
Trans-Wave Parameters
97
Modamt
97
Waveform and Inharmonic Parameters
98
Multi-Wave Parameters
98
Pitch Mode Page
100
Glide
100
Filters Page
102
Low-Pass/High-Pass
102
Poles: Rolloff Curves
102
Cutoff Frequency
102
Output Page
106
KBD-Scale
106
Setting a Keyboard Zone
107
Lo/Hi-Key
107
Destination Bus
107
Pan
108
Pre-Gain
108
Voice Priority
109
Velocity Threshold
109
LFO Page
110
LFO Waveshapes
112
Noise Source Rate
112
ENV 1, ENV 2, ENV 3 - Envelopes
113
Editing the Envelopes
114
Sustain
114
Attack
115
Decay 1, 2, 3
115
Release
115
Kybd-Track
116
Vel-Curve
116
Mode - (Env 1 and Env 2)
117
Mode (Env 3) - Voice Triggering/Stealing Notes
117
Vel-Lev - Velocity Level Control
118
Vel-Atck - Velocity Attack Control
118
Mod Mixer Page
119
Scale
120
Shape
120
Using Pitch-Tables
122
How to Create a Custom Pitch-Table
123
Editing a Custom Pitch-Table
124
Removing a Custom Pitch-Table
125
Creating and Extrapolating a Custom Pitch-Table
125
Creating and Interpolating a Custom Pitch-Table
127
Alternate Tunings for the System Pitch-Table
127
Using the Copy Functions
129
Make Copy
130
Recall
131
Special Recall Functions
131
Special Copy Operations
132
Default
132
Copying an Effect from One Program to Another
133
Copying All Parameters from One Voice to Another
133
Copying a Complete Program to a New Location
134
Making a Copy of the Compare Buffer
134
Collecting Parts from Several Sources into the Copy Buffer
134
Storage Functions
135
MIDI Sys-Ex
136
To Send MIDI Sys-Ex Messages
136
To Send Programs out Via MIDI Sys-Ex
136
To Set Presets out Sys-Ex
137
Sending Multi a and B Track Setup out Via MIDI Sys-Ex
137
Sending Programs, Presets, Multi a and B Tracks out Via MIDI Sys-Ex
137
Receiving MIDI Sys-Ex Messages
137
To Copy Program Banks from Internal to Cartridge
138
To Copy Programs from Cartridge to Internal
139
To Copy Presets from Cartridge to Internal
139
To Copy Presets from Internal to Cartridge
140
To Copy both Programs and Presets from Internal to Cartridge
141
To Copy both Programs and Presets from Cartridge to Internal
142
MIDI Implementation Specification - Version 2.10
143
Universal System Exclusive Device Inquiry Message
143
System Exclusive Device Identity Reply Message
143
MIDI System Exclusive Packet Pieces
144
MIDI System Exclusive Packet Head/Tail
144
Mesage Format
144
Receiver Errors
144
Message Type List
145
Command Messages (Message Type = 00)
145
Virtual Buttons (Command Type = 00)
145
Button Numbers
145
Parameter Change (Command Type = 01)
146
Edit Change Status (Command Type = 02)
146
ESP Microcode Program Load (Command Type = 03)
146
Poke Byte to RAM or Cartridge (Command Type = 04)
146
Error Messages (Message Type = 01)
147
Track Parameter Dump Request (Command Type = 07)
147
Dump Everything Request (Command Type = 08)
147
Command Message Error Codes
147
Bulk Dump of Programs, Presets and Multi-Set
148
Parameter Block Data Descriptions
149
Program Parameters
149
Preset Parameters
151
Preset Track Parameter Structure
151
Multi-Set Message Vs. Track Parameter Message
152
Preset Effect Parameter Structure
152
Preset Dump Structure
152
Multi-Set (Multi a and B) Parameters
153
(Multi a and B) Track Parameters
154
Parameter Page and Slot Definitions
155
Index
164
Voice Configuration Chart
167
Effects Routing
168
Envelope
168
Tracking Curves
168
Safety Warnings
174

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