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EDIT PROGRAM - SINGLE

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THE TUNE PAGE

The next soft key is the key and this takes us, not surprisingly, to the main program

tuning page. Pressing will give you this display:

As usual, the program name is displayed at the top right of the screen - a different one

may be selected if you wish.

In this page, you set up different tuning temperaments for each program, if desired. If

you are playing a percussive sample (for example, congas) in one program, which you do

not want to correspond to standard Western chromatic equal temperament tuning, this is

where you can alter things. Select the program whose temperament is to be altered on

the top line of this screen. Use the CURSOR keys to select the note on the keyboard

octave which will be re-tuned, and use the DATA control to alter the tuning away from

equal temperament by ±25 cents (one quarter-tone). If you are re-tuning the C# key, for

example, all notes played with the C# keys on the keyboard will be detuned by the

amount you have set. You may tune the scale to anything you want which can be very

useful for enriching orchestral sounds and also for setting your own special scales

To help you with this, there are also some alternative tuning templates which are selected

in the field . These offer preset tunings which you can apply to the

program.

The other parameter in this page is the function. This transposes the

program +/-50 semitones. This may be adjusted in very fine steps (100ths of a tone) for

fine tuning the program.

Those, then, are the master pages for the program where you can set parameters that

affect the program as a whole. In any of the pages described, you may always directly

access another from the soft keys.

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