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craigb
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Joined 05-28-2012 status: Newcomer |
Hi everyone, I’m sorry if this question has been asked before, I searched for it but couldn’t find anything. What I’m trying to do is as follows… I’m creating some layers, splits etc in mixing mode to use with my band on live performances. I was hoping that as an example, I could have piano in the bottom half of the keyboard and strings in the top half on scene one, but then I press scene two, the strings are muted and a lead synth sound is un-muted, thus the strings are replaced with a lead sound. Research seems to indicate these scenes only work when a song is playing? Also, I don’t even seem to be able to mute parts in song mode - i think it is because I have been assigning all my splits and layers to midi channel 1 so i can play them at the same time? Is there a way to get the motif to transmit to multiple midi channels so that I can leave each part on it’s own midi channel and play them all from the motifs keyboard? Or am i missing something? Thanks Craig |
Bad_Mister
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Joined 07-30-2002 status: Moderator |
No, not at all. Scenes can be recalled at any time by simply pressing the [SF1]-[SF5] button containing the stored “snapshot” information. The sequencer does not have to be playing (although it’s good you realize that with the sequencer would be the most often selected use-case for SCENES… you know, while the sequencer was playing. But it is not a requirement, at all). You can recall a SCENE simply by pressing the button, at any time. When combined with the SEQUENCER its usefulness is expanded: You can place SCENE Events in a special dedicated track of the SONG mode sequencer which can automate SCENE memory selection. The XF’s “SCENES” are similar, in concept, to those found on our high-end digital mixing consoles, however, they’ve been reconstructed to be useful to a keyboard synth player’s needs for this type of “snapshot” memory recall. Your description of how you would like SCENEs to work can be done but not with any VOICE number change.... SCENES can store many things about the condition of the mix but they cannot change the instrument Program number being played. MIDI provides for a whole class of messages (Program Change) that is responsible for changing the Voice assigned to a PART, or Track of the sequencer. So to accomplish what you want - you’re thinking is right on point: You need MUTES!!! With Muting and unMuting you can “replace” one instrument with another! You can recall mixer settings like the volume, the pan position, effect send amounts, Track Mute status*, and you can have it recall musician settings to things like the Tempo, even the quantize and swing quantize settings of the Play FX, filter and envelope offsets and Transpose. But it would be MIDI-illegal (if there were such a thing) to have the SCENE snapshot actually change the VOICE (via Program Change).
* Track Mute status Events - these must be recalled/automated with the sequencer running. Track Mutes are actually memorized in a SCENE but have their own separate memory locations. There can be but 5 SCENES, there can be an unlimited number of Track Mute events held in the sequence data.
That can indeed happen by using the SONG/PATTERN MIXING mode SCENE function.
Place the Piano in PART 1
Edit the PART parameters as to NOTE LIMIT ranges you require for each sound to create your split keyboards.
Initially set the Piano and String Volumes as you require for SCENE #1
Hold [STORE] + [SF1] to take a “snapshot” of the mixer settings you made
Press [MIXING]
Now anytime (sequencer running or not) you press [SF1] on the main screen you will have the piano in the left hand, string in the right… and when you press [SF2] the Lead Synth will replace the Strings. Press [STORE] to write this data to your instrument’s internal Flash ROM.
Well, I guess the best way to answer this is - obviously you can use SONG mode and Mute parts in spite of them all being on the same MIDI channel. Yes you can do this from MASTER mode where you can place each of your sounds on separate MIDI channels and address them individually… The XF can transmit on 8 MIDI channels simultaneously so you could place eight sounds in a SONG MIXING setup - each on a separate MIDI channel. and you could transmit to each of them on its on MIDI channel… etc., etc. But for what you requested you do not have to do that. You can do it with the SCENE buttons. MASTER mode (8 transmit channels via the keyboard) combined with SONG/PATTERN MIXING mode (where you can receive on as many as 16 MIDI channel simultaneously) allows you to do just as you imagine. Hope that helps. |