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ZETA Music Systems, Inc.
ZMC-200 Manual Rev2.0
UTILITY MODE
To activate UTILITY MODE, press the UTIL button on the front of your
ZETA SYNTHONY II. The LED next to the UTIL button will be lit.
UTILITY PARAMETERS
Utility Mode controls the appearance of information in your display.
This mode also controls the load and save functions via MIDI (SYSEX), so
that you can save all of your valuable presets and parameters to a floppy
disk using the appropriate communications software. Owners of the ZETA
SYNTHONY II will find here numerous settings for drum sequences and
programmable digital effects.
DISPLAY
Control instrument and the LCD display (TUNING, LEVEL)
Here you decide which instrument in PRESET MODE you want be shown
in the bottom half of the display:
TUNING
With this setting selected, the bottom half of your ZETA SYNTHONY II’s
LCD display shows a instrument tuner, that can be used during play to
check and correct the tuning of your input instrument. Tune each string so
that the arrow points to the middle of the scale. If the Tune Base Parameter
is set to 0 (zero), the middle point on the tuning scale in the display
represents the standard tuning calibration of 440 Hertz.
LEVEL
With this selection, instead of a tuner, you see a VU (LEVEL) meter in the
bottom half of the display. The small vertical bars represent the present
levels of each of the six strings of your instrument. The higher the bar, the
louder the string.
PRESET NAMES
Display of sound presets (patches) (NUM, GM, XG)
Your ZETA SYNTHONY II has the ability to display selected presets in
various forms:
NUM
All sound presets (patches) will be displayed in their numeric form in their
given MIDI bank. A MIDI bank contains 128 preset numbers. It is possible
to split MIDI banks using MSB (most significant byte) and LSB (least
