2. Change the
Status
setting to
on. Now the Instrument is active and you can listen
to it when playing on the keyboard.
The XTk has an extended status setting which allows you to determine whether an
Instrument can be played by MIDI, the internal keyboard or both.
Building a layered Sound
Another exciting feature the Multi mode offeres is the capability to layer sounds. Such a
layered sound consists of two or more Sound programs that are used in combination.
1. Select Instrument 3 and activate it as described above.
2. Choose a Sound program for the Instrument, e.g.
A008 chaOSC.
3. As expected, you can play the Sound program
A008 on MIDI channel 3. But this is
not what we want to do here. In this case we want to combine it with Instrument 2
which is already setup.
4. The only thing you have to do is to change the MIDI receive channel of Instrument
3 in the Sound 2 page. Use the first value dial to set it to 2.
Both Instruments 2 and 3 now receive on MIDI channel 2 and therefore two Sound
programs are played when you use this MIDI channel. You can layer more Instruments if
you want.
Using an Instrument Arpeggiator
One of the outstanding features of the MicroWave II/XT/XTk is its arpeggiator. In addition to
the arpeggiator that can be used in a Sound program, each Instrument has an arpeggiator,
too. That makes it possible to use arpeggios in a Multi program without editing any Sound
program. You can even use the arpeggiator on Sound programs that normally don’t use one.
1. Select the
Arpeggiator 1
page via the Page dial.
2. Select Instrument 2 via the fourth value dial. The display now shows:
3. To activate the arpeggiator, change the
Active
parameter to on.
4. Now press and hold some keys on the keyboard. Make sure that is sends on MIDI
channel 2 first.
5. You will notice that the sound changes every 2 seconds. This time period is
determined mainly by two parameters: the
Clock
setting in the currently selected
page and the
Multi Arpeggiator Tempo
in the
Tempo
page. Change the Clock
setting to
1/8 and listen what happens: The arpeggio gets faster.
6. Play along with the other arpeggiator parameters and listen to the results.
That’s okay for now. You have seen the basic things, but there is a lot of stuff left. The best
approach to the MicroWave II/XT/XTk is learning by doing and so should you.
Active
|
Clock
|
Range
off
|
1/1
|
01
Inst. #2
Channel | Volume | Status
02
|
100
|
on
Inst. #3
Channel | Volume | Status
02
|
100
|
off
Inst. #2
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