How do I split 2 or more programs?
1. Press the MIDI Setups button, then type 127, then press Enter on the numeric keypad.
2. Press the MIDI Transmit button. If the display doesn’t show Zone 1, press the Zone 1 button. Press 1, then Enter. The button will now be lit green and the display will show it is set to channel 1.
3. Press the Program button. Choose the Program you want for the first zone. You can select it by using the alpha wheel, the + and – buttons, or the numeric keypad. (The programs and their numbers are listed in Appendices A & B in the manual.) Or you can use the Sound Select and Next/Previous Group buttons, as described at the beginning of this document.
4. Step 3 will allow you to choose any program from the Internal Voice bank. But if you have the VGM board and want to choose a program from one of the VGM banks, then you need to switch banks. There are two ways to do this.
If you know exactly which program you want, then the fastest way is to type the bank number, followed by the “+/-” button, followed by the program number, then Enter. (The bank numbers were listed at the beginning of this document.)
OR
If you want to scroll through the programs in a bank, press the << button to get to the Bank parameter. Use the alpha wheel to choose the bank you want. Then press the >> button to get back to the Program parameter and use the alpha wheel to scroll through the programs in that bank.
2. Press the Key Range button. The display will show the key range for zone 1, from C-1 to G9. (C4 is middle C on the keyboard.) You are going to make zone 1 be the right side of the split, so you need to change the lowest note for this zone. The cursor is already under the Low Note parameter. So, simply press and hold the Enter button, then strike the key on the keyboard that you want to be the lowest note for the right side of the split. The display will change to show that note.
3. Go through steps 5 and 6 in tutorial #1 to create the second part of your split.
4. Press the Key Range button. Since zone 2 is the left side of your split, you need to change the high note so that it doesn’t overlap with zone 1. Press the >> to move the cursor to the High Note parameter. Press and hold the Enter button, then strike the note on the keyboard that is one note lower than the note you chose for the lowest note in zone 1. Play the keyboard. You should hear the two sounds split at the notes you chose.
5. Notice that if you press the sustain pedal when playing both sides of the split, both sides sustain. Although this might be fine in some circumstances, often you won’t want this. For example, if you create a piano and bass split, you will probably want the piano part to sustain, but not the bass.
Hold the Controllers button and step on the sustain pedal. The display jumps to show Zone:2 SwitchPdl1, Sw Type:Momentary. Press the >> to get to the On Control parameter for Switch Pedal 1. Currently it is set to Sustain. Press 0, then Enter to set it to None. Now play the keyboard and notice how the sound in zone 1 will sustain but the sound in zone 2 does not.
6. Go through steps 8 and 9 in tutorial #1 to name and save your Setup.
You can easily add zones 3 and 4 using the same methods. Each zone can be set to any range of notes, so you can have various zones layered while they are split with other zones. Or create a 3 or 4 way split. Or overlap the zones only partially.
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