Quasimidi Sirius, Operating Instructions Manual

Page 1: ...AGE BANK MASTER VOLUME MICROPHONE CONNECTOR VALUE TEMPO RECALL EXIT EDIT WRITE SHIFT KEY TRACKING OCTAVE UP OCTAVE DOWN VCF DYN VCA DYN RANDOM SOUND PRESS BUTTON FOR SOUND CREATION TAP TEMPO DEMO SYNC...

Page 2: ...rn 42 The Memory Storage Display 47 Recording drum motifs with the drumgrid 48 The Step Sequencer for the Synthesizer Parts 50 The Mixer Settings 52 Allocating the Sequencer Tracks 53 Saving a Pattern...

Page 3: ...ions 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 Synchronisation of the Sirius t...

Page 4: ...ause permanent hearing loss Do not operate for long period of time at a high volume level or at a level that is uncomfortable If you experience any hearing loss or ringing in the ears you should consu...

Page 5: ...near any of these re ceivers Do not expose the unit to extreme temperatures like for instance direct sun light in a closed vehicle or extreme frost in winter The unit could be damaged or the varnish...

Page 6: ...regularly on another MIDI unit for instance a se quencer For these cases we point out that it is not possible to restore lost data Treat the keys and dials as well as the connection sockets with care...

Page 7: ...e in everyone who uses it The Sirius is programmed for endless fun You will soon realise that the Sirius with its many useful functions and simplicity of operation is the perfect partner in your day t...

Page 8: ...Quasimidi in its original packaging Should Quasimidi receive a unit for re pair without the original packaging QUASIMIDI will return the repaired unit in replacement packag ing at the owner s expense...

Page 9: ...connecting the Sirius Choose one of the following possibili ties 1 AUX or Auxiliary 2 LINE 3 CD 4 DAT 5 TAPE IN or TAPE PLAY Totally unsuitable for the connection of the Sirius is the PHONO input of y...

Page 10: ...is below the peak level if the meters are in the red the level is too high and distortion will oc cur If your mixing desk does not have individual level meters for each channel turn up the stereo mix...

Page 11: ...mixing desk consist of stereo channels no such setting of the panorama will be necessary In order to work with the beat recognition system the signal from the CD player has to get to the CARRIER input...

Page 12: ...heel at its lowest position Press the left Key under the display F1 Key The following message appears Repeat this procedure by bringing the wheels to their highest position Again confirm with the F1 K...

Page 13: ...ot have the advantage of owning a Sirius 20 years ago Now they do Not really from this world Although only at a modest pace of under 130 BPM this Goa number with house influence will push your legs to...

Page 14: ...RESS BUTTON FOR SOUND CREATION TAP TEMPO DEMO SYNC EXTERN AUDIO SYNC CUTOFF ENV MOD VCA LEVEL PERCUSSION PATTERN BREAK SPECIAL LOOP TRACKS SYNTH 1 SYNTH 2 SYNTH 3 VOCODER HOLD BUTTON AND SELECT PART A...

Page 15: ...g in The PAGE BANK Keys allow you to scroll through the pages in the edit menu In addition you can chose from the Sound libraries of the Sirius with these Keys when you re not working in any of the ed...

Page 16: ...ess both Keys at the same time the DEMO mode of the Sirius will be activated This mode allows you to listen to the Demo songs of the Sirius In order to quit the demo mode press the EXIT Key to the rig...

Page 17: ...xample play them on the Keyboard or to edit them The Part Keys also allow you to select individual parts tracks or to pass them on to an external MIDI device The synthesizer section is the heart of th...

Page 18: ...ike to briefly go into it at this point The reason for this is that a footswitch is a so called performance aid with which the sound of the Sirius can be influenced in real time Other performance aids...

Page 19: ...o allows you to delete a MOD WHEEL ASSIGN or to programme a new one You can do this by holding the key down The display will show the following message If you now press the Key F1 below the display th...

Page 20: ...rom the se lected sound category You can immediately play it on the keyboard The display will directly show you sound name storage bank and library number The synthesizer sounds are spread over three...

Page 21: ...ct the Edit pattern menu by pressing the F1 Key Press the F1 Key once again to access the menu for the ROM and USER patterns Here you can choose which pattern type you want to listen to If you haven t...

Page 22: ...possibilities for fine editing and sound design than the front panel immediately suggests Let s use the SYNTH 1 part as an example Press the PART SELECT Key followed by the SYNTH 1 part Key In order...

Page 23: ...ou can clearly hear how the pitch glides smoothly to the top On page 5 of the menu you can determine if this Part in the Sirius should be played polyphonically or monophonically Polyphonic is the term...

Page 24: ...ation wheel Like all sound parameters the fil ter can also be controlled from an external Midi device The first three Keys in the filter section allow you to select one of the filter types A low pass...

Page 25: ...ars and taste decide On page 14 of the menu you will find the parameter called VCF dynamic The VCF dynamic allows you to determine how the filter can be controlled through Touch sensitivity When for i...

Page 26: ...control the volume with Touch sensitivity If you strike a note on the keyboard hard the sound will be louder than for a soft strike You can acti vate and de activate the Touch sensitivity at any time...

Page 27: ...r Every Part of the Sirius contains a low frequency oscillator LFO with which you can programme automatic pitch changes vibrato sound colour changes filtersweeps and volume changes trem olo You can al...

Page 28: ...the MOD DEPTH controls the intensity of the Pitch Envelope On the last two pages of the menu you can determine the influence of performance aids on the sound Here you determine how much the pitch wil...

Page 29: ...ollowing message appears on the display As the number Key is held the storage space is displayed a status bar indicates the progress of the saving process In this example the sound was stored in User...

Page 30: ...selectable not selectable not selectable 24 dB Lowpass 12 dB Lowpass 12 dB Highpass can be synchronised 1 Octave une Glide Monophon Pitch Envelope Modulation Wave Macro 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14...

Page 31: ...e percussion sets from a number of basic waveforms enables you to create some very complex grooves The SOUND parameters which affect the whole percussion set are more or less the same as those availab...

Page 32: ...FIER LFO PERCUSSION Edit Perc Sound Edit Set 1 20 Note 1 Octave Tune Glide Monophon Pitch Envelope Modulation not selectable PERCUSSION SET 1 20 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23...

Page 33: ...settings in the Edit SET menu are also dependant on the settings you have chosen in the MIX menu or selected with the dials on the MIXER section of the Sirius for the overall percussion Part The para...

Page 34: ...th any of the Synth Parts Parts 5 7 The arpeggiator is not stored along with Parts 1 4 i e the drum parts If you want to store a sound press the F1 Key The following sub menu will open Here you can na...

Page 35: ...you can select the storage space You can repeat this procedure until you have found a storage space for your sound then press the ok Key F1 The sound is now stored and can not be lost unless you decid...

Page 36: ...dial or the Keyboard To change to the next letter use the PAGE BANK Key If you want to enter the name press the F1 Key to confirm On this page you can select one of the 16 song storage spaces with the...

Page 37: ...al position This is very convenient when you want to programme a sound from scratch Of course this also ap plies to the drum Parts 1 4 While you are in this menu page you can select any other of the s...

Page 38: ...Press the F1 Key to execute the copy command F3 allows you to cancel it The Sirius offers you 4 different ways of dumping data At this point we will only be giving you a brief overview of the dumping...

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Page 40: ...e sequencer is able to record from an external device The recorded songs stay stored even after you switch off the Sirius The Sirius has a small battery supplying the storage block with power this wil...

Page 41: ...ng again from the top More practical would be if you could play only a very few bars and then have them repeated several times Most of the time a song consists of small repeated sections so the sequen...

Page 42: ...which would equal 20 minutes per song at a speed of 120 BPM In a Song step you can also determine which tracks are to be muted You can also dictate the transposing varying of the pitch in fixed increm...

Page 43: ...jumps to no empty motif Display showing ROM 100 to ROM 142 press F3 motif jumps to ROM 100 Display showing ROM 100 to ROM 142 press F1 motif number jumps back 100 ROM numbers You will notice that whe...

Page 44: ...ple all 7 parts tracks of the selected pattern are still empty Press the EDIT key Use the right hand PAGE BANK key to access page 2 of the Edit menu Hit the F1 key Pattern You will now see the followi...

Page 45: ...You can of course only record onto a User motif storage space as the ROM storage can only be read and not over written The Realtime record mode records everything in real time i e what you are playin...

Page 46: ...eans overdub mode You add a new recording to the already existing theme in the mo tif If for instance you played a note or a chord on the 1st beat of each bar and you then want some thing else to happ...

Page 47: ...e that for instance the bass drum is not exactly on the beat or that the timing of your recording is less than accurate For such cases the sequencer of the Sirius has a function which can pull the sep...

Page 48: ...ith the or delete an already existing user motif with the Clear function on Edit pattern menu page 3 Then determine the number of bars in your theme Move to menu page 4 and activate the drumgrid with...

Page 49: ...corresponding key will be permanently lit To remove a note you hit the corre sponding key a second time You should try setting and removing notes intensively After a short while you will notice which...

Page 50: ...recording all the necessary instruments of the percussion set you exit the drumgrid by pressing the EXIT key Now you can select another track with the Part keys In the HIHAT section there is an optio...

Page 51: ...change of the ve locity setting will also open or close the filter This can make the sound lighter or darker for each step At the bottom right of the display you can see another value G This stands f...

Page 52: ...r pattern you should get to know the MIXER section as the mix parameters are also stored along with the pattern The Mixer Settings Diagram of Mix section functions FX1 SEND PAN SeqTo Wave Macro SeqTo...

Page 53: ...INTERN MIDI BOTH intern MIDI PART SEQ TO MIDI SYNTH 2 INTERN MIDI BOTH intern MIDI PART SEQ TO MIDI SYNTH 3 INTERN MIDI BOTH intern MIDI PART SEQ TO MIDI S E Q U E N C E R Edit System Midi 4 Local ON...

Page 54: ...o quit the WRITE menu Remember that in the pattern you only store the sound number for each of the 7 Parts If you have created a new sound for one of the Parts during the editing of the pattern you sh...

Page 55: ...ey and then selecting or entering the equivalent song number with one of the 16 Number keys On menu pages 9 to 16 you can assign breaks Again you are dealing with User patterns which will not loop end...

Page 56: ...menu pages will differ from those in our example Now that you have programmed the special loop track keys you can store them for each song In each of your 16 User song storage spaces you have 4 indivi...

Page 57: ...t in the first Song step 2 Bar 1 This display indicates the actual position of your song in bar counts In both instances the bottom display line contains a parameter you are allowed to change On page...

Page 58: ...u to name your song Turn the VALUE TEMPO dial to change the letters The next letter you will get to with the right PAGE BANK key You can also use the keyboard to name your song The following diagram s...

Page 59: ...tes that the actual song step has been frozen This step will now be repeated until you repress the START key This is very practical in a live gig to attend to the audience you can peacefully fine tune...

Page 60: ...like the SIRIUS where you are able to edit the variety of change possibilities and the rhythmic that is given In the opposite to the most common arpeggiator types the SIRIUS is also able to create pol...

Page 61: ...If you step on the pedal now you can easily transpose the arpeggio pattern on the keyboard As soon as you release the pedal you can play some new notes into the arpeggiator For the next step we have a...

Page 62: ...pool with every following key you play The others automatically play on even you just activate them with a tap on You can select up to 16 notes Only when you release all the keys and afterwards play...

Page 63: ...to the lowest Here the played chord will be repeatedly played up and down and back again With random the notes of the chord will be played by pure chance without a special order Here the notes of a s...

Page 64: ...or only 3 notes the arpeggiator always starts at the beginning of the beat with the first note Don t hesitate to experiment with the above mentioned functions while the arpeggiator is running In this...

Page 65: ...ack on the chord you play All the discussed parameter of the arpeggiator will be stored for every different sound Meaning if you want to keep a setting you also need to store a sound In order to do so...

Page 66: ...ith the Motion Loop Parameter at menu page 12 you can select the single steps one by one As with all the other parameter for this action you use the PAGE BANK button In order to edit the first step pl...

Page 67: ...bered buttons 13 16 you can adjust the length of the tone GATE time within four steps In addition every step can be moved forwards or backwards by up to 50 of the selected Resolution With a setting of...

Page 68: ...equencer here it doesn t matter if the arpeggiator is in the Gater Chord or normal mode Everything will be recorded by the sequencer Because the sequencer has direct access to the sounds of the Sirius...

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Page 70: ...his system to the maximum use the Analyse or Carrier input of the Sirius The following diagram shows you the connections for the control of the BEAT RECOGNITON system How does the BEAT RECOGNITION Sys...

Page 71: ...n to a Mixing Desk with at least one Aux send In the following example we will connect the Sirius a CD player and a mixing desk in order to syn chronise the Sirius to the CD player and at the same tim...

Page 72: ...If a song is badly mixed it will unfortunately sometimes happen that the frequency of the kick drum is not separated cleanly enough the other instruments may then influence the system in a nega tive...

Page 73: ...the beat This behaviour is also called Sync Delay The amount of change is shown in the display Positive values will make the Sirius play slightly earlier advanced negative will delay it slightly In t...

Page 74: ...nu The SIRIUS has two independently working effects processors They are called FX1 and FX2 Each of these processors has different reverb echo and modulation effects available Every Sirius part can be...

Page 75: ...t a bit like shouting into the Grand Can yon Grand Canyon Grand Canyon This will effect the whole stereo signal This delay makes the echo signal alternate equally from left to right The Echo Effects h...

Page 76: ...t the depth of the modulation Apart from the modulation effects already mentioned FX2 also has 2 Echo effects available This delay creates a very short echo This delay is like the PanDelay from sectio...

Page 77: ...Notes 77 Notes 77...

Page 78: ...r You can now for instance connect a microphone to the Analyse Input and connect the Carrier Input to the audio output of a synthesizer If you now speak into the microphone and press a key on the synt...

Page 79: ...which would be unthinkable with ordinary Equalisers which only effect the bass psycho acoustic effects the weirdest LoFi sounds etc All Vocoder settings are storable Although the attraction of a Vocod...

Page 80: ...e CARRIER key turn off all lit keys below the dials one after the other Now you have de activated all internal Carrier signals To select the basic programme 1 Robot Voc Robot Vocals first hold down th...

Page 81: ...microphone In this case turn the Gain control on the rear of the Sirius to the left when facing the rear panel until you get a balanced signal Try to avoid over the level settings which you will reco...

Page 82: ...gh the basic Programmes the selected Analyse and Carrier signals will remain routed to the Vocoder When the percussion track is vocoding a string sound from the Synth 1 part you can immediately check...

Page 83: ...time for each of the 11 Vocoder Bandwidth possibilities or Bands By the way QUASIMIDI will offer further Vocoder programmes in future After selecting a basic program we now feed different sounds into...

Page 84: ...ect one or more parts of the Sirius as the Analyse signal first hold down the ANALYSE key of the VOCODER panel The lit keys under the dials will indicate which Parts have been selected as Analyse sign...

Page 85: ...rear panel of the Sirius to the middle set ting 12 o clock position If you are using an audio unit such as a stereo system or instrument ampli fier turn down the volume control of the amplifier to mi...

Page 86: ...TTERN PADS FX 1 ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 3 HALL 1 HALL 2 PLATE DELAY PAN DELAY FX 2 CHORUS 1 CHORUS 2 CHORUS 3 CHORUS 4 FEEDB CHORUS FLANGER SHORT DELAY FEEDB DELAY FX 3 2 BAND PARAM EQUALIZER OVERBLAST SPE...

Page 87: ...to avoid feedback You can use the change of volume of single Vocoder tracks to create some interesting effects because you can emphasize or de emphasize each of the 11 frequency Bandwidth Vocoder Band...

Page 88: ...se signals will not be affected As usual you can set the volumes of Bands 2 9 in the MIXER panel Hold down the Vocoder key and turn the controls in the MIXER panel at the same time Use the picture at...

Page 89: ...on of the Vocoder sound in the stereo image ie the pan setting can be set as usual using the MIXER panel Turn on the PANORAMA key of the Mixer Now you can use the Vocoder dial to position the Vocoder...

Page 90: ...vert to the basic factory settings as described on page 83 On page 2 you determine the output volume of the selected vocoder programme Here you can set the Panorama the position of the Vocoder sound i...

Page 91: ...erb of a cathedral The Bypass function on menu page 7 allows you to mix in the original sounds of the external Carrier signal with a controllable volume of 0 127 These parameters control the Effect se...

Page 92: ...he Percussion track is modulating a pad at the beginning of the piece while this same Percus sion becomes clattering metal plates at the end of the song The different storage functions can be se lecte...

Page 93: ...LEVEL LEVEL Left Audio Out Right Audio Out Stereo Output FX1 SEND FX2 SEND FX 2 FX 1 Band 1 Band 2 Band 3 Band 4 Band 5 Band 6 Band 7 Band 8 Band 9 Highpass Lowpass ANALYSE MICROPHONE ANALYSE IN socke...

Page 94: ...ou find the parameter called Master Transpose This Parameter allows you to transpose the overall pitch of the Sirius by 6 semi tones up or down Live keyboardists will particularly appreciate this opti...

Page 95: ...eceive MIDI data only which gets to the unit via the MIDI In socket The next thing would of course be to connect the MIDI Out again with the MIDI In This task is in most studios dedicated to the seque...

Page 96: ...t System Midi 5 MidiSync INT Edit System Midi 5 MidiSync EXT Edit System Midi 5 MidiSync AUD The Local OFF function of the Sirius in a schematic diagram 32 OHM 32 OHM NATURAL DRUMS BASS SOUNDS DIRTY N...

Page 97: ...he synchronisation of all connected midi devices more details about Synchro nisation can be found in the section Synchronisation of the Sirius with Cubase The start command will be ignored in the OFF...

Page 98: ...the factory setting OFF the con trols on the front panel will behave as follows As soon as you turn a dial the value corresponding to the control setting is called up The resultant sound changes for e...

Page 99: ...factory setting is set in such a way that the Beat Recognition System is provided with audio material via the CARRIER IN socket on the rear panel of the unit Should the audio signal your are feeding...

Page 100: ...milarly to the channels of a radio or television Data that is sent on a particular MIDI channel can also only be received by the same channel In a MIDI system you can send and receive on all channels...

Page 101: ...trigger signal of the CD player via the AUX Sends or EFFECT sends to the Sirius Such a connection is also required when the CD player does not have a headphone output or you want to use for instance...

Page 102: ...lume is a fixed MIDI control which is the same for all MIDI instruments the expander will therefore play quieter To solve this problem you have two options 1 You can set your expander so that it no lo...

Page 103: ...ces in one casing so that you are not restricted to 16 MIDI channels anymore There are interfaces with up to 128 MIDI channels or 8 MIDI inputs and outputs 8 X 16 channels in 8 X 16 channels out Examp...

Page 104: ...s concerning Sound cards and computers If you do find problems here please consult the manufacturer of your sound card your sequencing software or the dealer who sold you the PC Warning The QUASIMIDI...

Page 105: ...dule you may of course connect a sampler or another midi synthesizer PC Atari Mac MIDI IN MIDI IN MIDI OUT MIDI THRU Expander Sound module Computer with Sequencer software MIDI OUT MIDI IN 32 OHM 32 O...

Page 106: ...IN of the extra Midi device The Sirius and MIDI 106 The Sirius can also be used as an expander in an already existing MIDI Setup PC Atari Mac MIDI IN MIDI IN Computer with Sequencer software Masterke...

Page 107: ...ted by a blinking dot or a moving bar see above When you hit the Sirius keyboard the computer receives MIDI data but nothing is sent If the MIDI action indicator indicates outgoing data you should fir...

Page 108: ...iss ing press the button in the bottom left corner of the Cubase window The trackinfo box will then ap pear In our example only the windows Bank and Prog are important In window Bank you enter the val...

Page 109: ...f a song In the diagram the Synth 1 Part is selected It is highlighted As soon as a Part is selected the trackinfo box will turn into a partinfo box When you now enter new values into the windows of t...

Page 110: ...unds which have been stored in the User bank the settings of the Percussion sets and the Arpeggiator motions The Song data Dump contains all stored User motifs User patterns P0 P99 Mix parameters and...

Page 111: ...position to take on such data You will have to click the en try MIDI filter to be found in the Cubase menu Options The following window will open Now click with your mouse into the circled in area on...

Page 112: ...will at some point want to send the stored data Dump s back to the Sirius Fortunately this is much simpler than the recording You need to have the MIDI IN socket of the Sirius con nected with the MID...

Page 113: ...er advantage of such Synchronisa tion is that you can start and stop the devices simultaneously In order to set up a synchronisation you will first have to decide which device is to drive the beat or...

Page 114: ...irius understands the so called Song positon pointer you do not always have to start Cubase at the beginning of the song The tempo is now set in the transport window of Cubase because Cubase is the Ma...

Page 115: ...PO dial of the Sirius or tap in a new tempo into the Sirius You can now watch how the tempo indicator of Cubase is changing in sync with the display informaton of the Sirius As soon as you hit the STO...

Page 116: ...t directly to the internal synthesizer of the Sirius The Data is now being sent directly to the MIDI OUT socket of the Sirius and into your computer and is being housed within the computer The data ca...

Page 117: ...he desired point All the recorded tracks of the Sirius are now in one Part To give every track its own part Cubase of fers a practical function Remix or demix This function can be found in the structu...

Page 118: ...be stored This can also include polyphonic Arpeggios In this mode you do not only store the rhythm but also the length of the Arpeggio motion the timing of the Steps the Gate time and the Velocity of...

Page 119: ...torage places Like with the Vocoder Presets you will overwrite one of the factory stored sounds In a Percussion set you store the sound the Tuning the volume the panorama the FX send settings as well...

Page 120: ...pectrBH 56 SpectrBJ 57 SpectrCI 58 SpectrDE 59 SpectrEH 60 SpectrEJ 61 SpectrFG 62 SpectrFH 63 SpectrFI 64 SpectrFJ 65 SpectrGH 66 SpectrGI 67 SpectrGJ 68 SpectrHI 69 SpectrHJ 70 Sequenz1 71 Sequenz2...

Page 121: ...HH1Closd 122 HH1Open 123 HH2Closd 124 HH2Open 125 HighStck 126 HipKick 127 HipSnare 128 Huuhh 129 IndSnare 130 IndSnar2 131 Ito_Hdmt 132 Ito_Hdot 133 Ito_Hds 134 Ito_Ldm 135 Ito_Ldot 136 Ito_Lds 137 I...

Page 122: ...808 1 A66 808 2 A67 DeepTund A68 Stopped A69 808 3 A70 808Hipas A71 808Hips2 A72 HighEnd A73 808Snar1 A74 808Snar2 A75 808Snar3 A76 808Snar4 A77 808Velo A78 808Snapp A79 808Bottm A80 808 HP A81 Scratc...

Page 123: ...1 HouseSet A12 WierdPec A13 PowerTom A14 Power A15 Good For A16 ClapClap A17 Distorto A18 Distort2 A19 Lambura A20 Attack1 A21 Attack2 A22 LoFi 1 A23 LoFiPerc A24 LoFi 2 A25 Muffelig A26 Be Fxed A27 S...

Page 124: ...B40 Strings B41 SeqPad B42 Tangram B43 PolySynt B44 FastStrg B45 HighSynt B46 Long Pad B47 Mod Pad1 B48 Rising B49 Edgar F B50 Clavinet B51 Bells B52 Sequent B53 SoftSeq1 B54 ModPluck B55 P C B B56 P...

Page 125: ...Galactic C83 Kotzrobb C84 Crazykor C85 SpaceChr C86 LFO Pad C87 FSOLbell C88 UFO Fly C89 LophoLFO C90 SpaceAmb C91 Fat Guit C92 UFOworld C93 LFO Noiz C94 Funky FX C95 LFOitsch C96 GoaFix B72 EastbamC...

Page 126: ...Level VCA Level yes yes 12 Wave Macro yes 13 Octave Transpose 2 Octaves 14 Tune Detune 0 01 24 semi tones yes yes 15 Filter Input Overdrive yes yes 16 Filter Cutoff FC yes yes 17 Filter Resonance Q F...

Page 127: ...number 2 dv device number System channel 1 3 27 SIRIUS id number 4 52 Request data command 5 ah adress high 6 am adress mid 7 al adress low 8 dh data count high 2 bit 9 dm data count mid 7 bit 10 dl d...

Page 128: ...00 00 synth sound 1 parameter 09 01 00 2 09 5F 00 96 0A 00 00 drumset 1 parameter drum instr 1 0A 01 00 drum instr 2 0A 0B 00 drum instr 12 0B 00 00 drumset 2 parameter drum instr 1 1D 0B 00 drumset 2...

Page 129: ...0 00 reserved 7F 7F 00 00 system channel 0 15 1 16 01 local 0 1 off on 02 extern sync 0 2 off on audio 03 program change input 0 1 off on 04 parameter control input 0 1 off on 05 program change out 0...

Page 130: ...fx1 time 0 127 2C fx1 feedback 0 127 only if fx1 typ 6 or 7 2D fx2 typ 0 7 chorus delay 2E fx2 level 0 127 2F fx2 feedback 0 127 30 fx2 delay 0 127 31 fx2 rate 0 127 32 fx2 depth 0 127 33 overblast e...

Page 131: ...14 filter overdrive 0 127 15 filter typ 0 2 24dB LP 12dB LP 12dB HP 16 cutoff frequency 0 127 17 q factor resonance 0 127 18 vca eg attack 0 127 19 vca eg decay 0 127 1A vca eg sustain 0 127 1B vca eg...

Page 132: ...124 left center right 04 fx1 send 0 127 05 fx2 send 0 127 06 pitch 0 127 07 reserved 00 mode bank bit 6 carrier on 0 1 off on bit 5 analyse on 0 1 off on bit 4 reserved bit 2 3 sound bank 0 3 User Ro...

Page 133: ...2 Local On Off 123 All Notes Off Active Sens System Reset x No 0 Yes Multi Mode 3b omni off poly Mode 4 omni off mono can be set to on off in SYSTEM Edit Dump Functions See manual page with MIDI Contr...

Page 134: ...i Info on off Track Mute on off Beat Input Wave 1 125 Arpeggio Mode Sequence to Intern MIDI Both Effect Type Effect Type Vocoder Type Pattern Number Octave 32 4 Trigger Motif Sound number Level Level...

Page 135: ...PAD14 Motif Bank PAD15 Motif Bank PAD16 Motif Bank PAD13 Sound PAD14 Sound PAD15 Sound PAD16 Sound Special Loop Tracks Drumgrid Stepsequencer Velocity EGF Decay EGF Sustain EGF Release VCA Level VCA D...

Page 136: ...s the Velocity for the notes which are about to be played Random Motif selection for the selected Part Selecting the Arpeggiator motions This key combination allows you to transpose the keyboard in al...

Page 137: ...ake The sound can be reversed In the Sound Select Mode you can switch between the different sound banks with these buttons This button chooses the sound categories If you are on the category that you...

Page 138: ...5 Is the amplifier adjusted correctly The HiFi amplifiers have many different controls 6 Test your headphones on the stereo to see if it works 7 Is the volume of the parts that you want to be played t...

Page 139: ...l reduce your telephone costs and we will be able to help you fast and efficiently If you are using external equipment PC s or Software please make sure that they are working properly and see that you...

Page 140: ...following message is in the display You can decide here if you want to clear memory or just calibrate the controller If you confirm OK a bar in the display will show how far the initializing has take...

Page 141: ...irius has 4 different Banks with each 96 Synthesizer sounds and 2 Banks with each 96 drum sounds The Program change command is not capable of calling all tones as MIDI has only 128 different programs...

Page 142: ...Edit Effect processor Equalizer Expander Feed back Effect to produce i e an echo The demo songs demonstrate the different sounds of the Sirius By pushing the Tap tempo and the Sync Ext buttons simult...

Page 143: ...or a suspension or a drastic change to the sounds The Sirius has a connection for a foot pedal It has two functions If the is active you can hold the Arpeggio and transpose it by using the keys The fo...

Page 144: ...IDI Controllers A MIDI Data Dump is a transfer of synthesizer settings through the MIDI Interface The transfer is done through Connector for receiving MIDI data Connect for example the MIDI Output of...

Page 145: ...Single voice melodies are also described as monophonic The opposite to monophonic is The oscillator creates the in a Synthesizer It is also responsible for the audible sounds of the Synthesizer The Si...

Page 146: ...is a parameter that determines the behaviour of a filter By the resonance the frequency area around the Is raised If the resonance is very high the filter can be enabled to self oscillate Reverb is a...

Page 147: ...can change the pitch of the playback in the range of one octave In the Sirius you can find the transpose mode in the edit system menu Transposing during playback is called realtime transposing Trigge...

Page 148: ...oscillating forms like Sinus Sawtooth etc Samples are also often called waveforms They are produced by the In the write menu you find save copy and functions for the Sirius The Analyze signal as well...

Page 149: ...rite or call the QUASIMIDI Factory Service Department We will either refer you to an Authorized Service Center or issue a Return Authorization number for factory service Units returned to QUASIMIDI fo...

Page 150: ...m and percussion instruments 7 channels kick snare hihat percussion and 3 polyphonic synthesizer channels 142 ROM patterns 100 RAM patterns 16 songs Drum programming drum grid and realtime Step sequen...