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I’m playing keyboards in a Fleetwood Mac cover band and I have a show coming up in a few weeks. I’m having a little trouble with executing the switching between voices on the song Little Lies. Right now I have the voices for the INTRO on Part 1 & 2 each assigned and note shifted to their respective key range on the key bed. The problem is when the VERSE comes in I have to switch to an EP voice that requires the entire keybed. My current attempt at doing this is really hard and can trip me up because I use three fingers on my left hand, each finger on the part 1, 2, 3 on/off buttons. I have the performance setup that when I call it up, it starts out with parts 1&2 on and 3 off. This so far is the easiest way I could think of doing it, and I still have to nail it just right and do it very quickly because I need the transition to be very fast. Any recommendations on how I could make it easier on myself. In an ideal world I would like to just use a footswitch to trigger those parts on and off. If it could even be somehow done with one button on the keyboard itself, that would be better. Any insight?
Posted : 15/12/2018 4:02 pm
You would probably fair better using the MULTI, rather than a PERFORMANCE.
Press [MULTI]
Initialize a new Multi to work with... you do so by pressing [JOB]
Select “Initialize”
Select “All”
Press [ENTER] to execute
Then you can COPY your Performance to the MULTI.
Press [JOB]
Select “Copy”
Select “Perf”
Set the dialog box that appears to Copy your Performance data *to* Parts 1-4 of your new Multi. Mark the Attributes you wish to copy... Chorus, Reverb, Master FX, Master EQ, A/D, Insert Switches.
Press [ENTER]
This will COPY the four Part Performance to Parts 1-4 of the MULTI.
Next you can “group” the sounds together as you need to play them...
Here’s what I mean, you need Parts 1 and 2 together... so you will leave them both set to MIDI Channel 1 (the default Receive Channel when you target Parts 1-4)
But you will change Part 3 to MIDI Receive Channel 2.
From the main MULTI screen, press [EDIT]
Select “3” to view its Part Edit parameters
Select “Voice”
This is where you will find the Receive Channel for the Part.
Currently Parts are set to Rcv Ch 1
When complete you will want:
Part 1 = Rcv Ch 1
Part 2 = Rcv Ch 1
Part 3 = Rcv Ch 2
If you are not using Part 4 Set the Rcv Ch = Off
Now when you Name and Store this Multi, pressing [1] from the main MULTI screen will play both Parts 1 and 2 because the [1] button is the Transmit Channel “1”
Pressing [2] will set the Transmit Channel to 2 and therefore will trigger any and all Parts set to Receive Channel 2.
No more multiple finger technique to turn two Parts Off while simultaneously turning a third Part On... now just press [1] when you want your split, and [2] when you want the EP across all keys...
Sorry, it took so long to get to your question, but I was on the road all last week, and was not able to verify the step-by-step... it’s been almost 10 years since the S90 XS/S70 XS hit the market (where did those 10 years go?) didn’t want to just trust memory.
In this manner all Parts set to Receive Channel 1 will play when you select [1] from the main MULTI screen
All Parts set to Receive Channel 2 will play when you select [2] from the main MULTI screen.
And so on...
One button for each Channel... you can stack as many Parts on a channel as you require. All Multi parameters are identical to Performance parameters (except the ability to set the Receive Channel is available in the MULTI)
Hope that helps... let us know.
Posted : 16/12/2018 10:47 am
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You Sir, are awesome. I successfully did this and it works flawlessly. I’m coming to realize that multi mode is much more useful than performance mode in certain situations
Posted : 31/12/2018 2:05 am
