3 Using the MIDI Upgrade
There are two ways to play with the MIDI Upgrade: from the keyboard and over MIDI.
3.1 Keyboard Playing
Playing the synth from the keyboard is almost as before, but with a few small changes. The
processor stores up to eight keys pressed, and plays the highest note. If you release the highest
note it then plays the next highest note, and so on until the last key is released. This makes it
easy to keep a low bass note held, then play higher notes, and in between the high notes the
synth will play the bass note.
3.2 MIDI Playing
Playing the synth over MIDI is very easy. The MIDI Upgrade receives messages on MIDI
Channel 1. This cannot be changed.
Connect your synth to a MIDI device (keyboard, computer, sequencer, etc). Then play.
Pitchbend is set to move up and down two semitones. The Modulation wheel opens up the
filter cutoff, so with a high resonance you can manually sweep the filter as you are playing.
This really comes into its own when you use a sequencer, such as Apple's Logic, where you
can literally draw Modulation curves on screen.
The front panel glide control also works when playing from MIDI.
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And that's all there is. No complicated menus. No tedious setting up. No loading OS disks
before you can make a sound. Turn on, tune up, play it.
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