Performance/Composition Synthesizer Musician’s Manual Version 3.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual: Written, Designed, and Illustrated by: Tom Tracy, Bill Whipple Copyright © 1994 ENSONIQ® Corp 155 Great Valley Parkway Box 3035 Malvern PA 19355-0735 USA Printed in U.S.A.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual: Written, Designed, and Illustrated by: Tom Tracy, Bill Whipple Copyright © 1994 ENSONIQ® Corp 155 Great Valley Parkway Box 3035 Malvern PA 19355-0735 USA Printed in Taiwan All Rights Reserved Please record the following information: Your Authorized ENSONIQ Dealer:___________________________ Phone:_______________ Your Dealer Sales Representative:_________________________________________________ Serial Number of Unit:___________________________ Date of Purchase:_________________ You
TS-12 Musician’s Manual List of Tips List Of Tips Direct Dialing Between BankSets ........................................................................................................................ 3 Getting to the Bank that Contains the Selected Sound ........................................................................................................................ 4 Direct Dialing Between BankSets .................................................................................................
List of Tips TS-12 Musician’s Manual 62 Changing Effect Types Quickly ........................................................................................................................ 64 Bypassing the Track Effect ........................................................................................................................ 64 Latching Patch Selects ........................................................................................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual List of Tips 229 To change the sound and install its effect as the current sequence or song effect ........................................................................................................................ 230 Using the Bank buttons to Select Song Steps ........................................................................................................................ 235 Toggling between Song and Sequence Tracks ...................................................
List of Tips TS-12 Musician’s Manual 316 To Quickly Return to the Root Directory ........................................................................................................................ 318 Deleting Sampled Sounds to Prevent Auto-Loading Them ........................................................................................................................ 334 Viewing WaveSample Parameter Values by Playing the Keyboard ..................................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Preface Welcome! Congratulations, and thank-you for your purchase of the ENSONIQ TS-12 Performance/Composition Synthesizer. The TS-12 offers the most complete set of features for the performing and recording musician ever offered. From the great feeling 76-note weighted-action keyboard to the great sounding 300 Programs and 300 Performance Presets, you’ll find the TS-12 a wonderful instrument to play.
Preface TS-12 Musician’s Manual The Sequencer To capture and expand on a creative idea, the TS-12 has an over 30,000 note, 24-track sequencer with extensive editing control. And with the addition of the optional SQX-70, the TS-12 can have over 97,000 notes of sequencer memory. Record in real-time or step entry, looped or linear mode, even transfer sequences from external MIDI devices with Multi-Track record.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Preface Power 1 2 Insert the line cord into the line receptacle on the back of the TS-12 (2), next to the power switch (1). Plug the other end of the cable into a grounded AC outlet. The proper voltage for your TS-12 is listed on the Serial Number label on the rear panel. Turn the TS-12 power on and make sure the display lights up. If not, check your connections and power source. The first thing the TS-12 does when it starts up is calibrate the keyboard.
Preface TS-12 Musician’s Manual Ground Loops Sometimes currents flowing through the ground line generate a signal seen by another part of the circuit sharing the same ground. In other words, if there are two identical signal paths within a circuit, they can form a loop which can result in hum and/or noise. If you are using equipment that has 3-prong “grounded” AC power cords, you may suffer from a ground loop resulting from the interconnection of this equipment.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Preface Temperature Guidelines The inner workings of the TS-12 contain a substantial amount of computerized and electronic circuitry that can be susceptible to damage when exposed to extreme temperature changes. When the TS-12 is brought inside after sitting in a cold climate (i.e. the back seat of your car), condensation builds up on the internal circuitry in much the same way a pair of glasses fogs up when you come inside on a cold day.
Preface TS-12 Musician’s Manual Be Careful! The TS-12 outputs are line-level, and are intended to be connected only to line-level inputs, such as those on a mixer, stereo pre-amp, keyboard amp, etc. Connecting the TS-12 audio outputs to a mic-level input, such as a guitar amp or the microphone jacks on a tape deck, is not recommended, and might result in damage to the device input. Move the Volume Slider all the way up.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Preface Care and Feeding of the Disk Drive The TS-12’s built-in disk drive is used to store all your Programs, Sampled Sounds, Presets, System set-up, and Sequencer data, as well as System Exclusive messages from other MIDI devices. The TS-12 uses a Quad-density disk drive that can store 1600 Kilobytes of data on a Double-Sided High-Density (DSHD) 3.5” micro-floppy disk and 800 Kilobytes of data on a Double-Sided Double-Density (DSDD) 3.5” micro-floppy disk.
Preface TS-12 Musician’s Manual Reinitializing the TS-12 The great power and flexibility of the TS-12 lies in the fact that it is really a computer disguised as a keyboard instrument, but a computer nonetheless. The software that operates the TS-12 is very sophisticated. If you have ever used a computer, you should be familiar with the need to occasionally re-boot your system when you get an error message, etc. Reinitializing the TS-12 is the equivalent of re-booting your computer.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Preface Available Options for your TS-12 These optional accessories are available from your Authorized ENSONIQ Dealer: • ENSONIQ Model SW-10 Dual Foot Switch — For voice sustain, sostenuto, hands-free patch select control, preset advance, effect modulation control, or starting, stopping, and continuing the internal sequencer. For ultimate foot control, we recommend using two SW-10 Dual Foot Switches.
Preface TS-12 Musician’s Manual MIDI, THE INS, OUTS AND THRUS, Jeff Rona SAMPLING THE SAMPLING BOOK, Steve De Furia, Joe Scacciaferro SAMPLING BASICS, Bobby Maestas SYNTHESIZERS GUITAR SYNTH & MIDI, Guitar Player Magazine SECRETS OF ANALOG AND DIGITAL SYNTHESIS, Steve De Furia SYNTHESIZER PERFORMANCE & REAL TIME TECHNIQUES, Jeff Pressing SYNTHESIZER BASICS, Dean Friedman MUSIC & TECHNOLOGY, H.P.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents Table of Contents List of Tips Preface Welcome! ........................................................................................................................... i The Sounds ........................................................................................................................... i The Sequencer ........................................................................................................................... ii MIDI Control ..
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual Powering Up Your TS-12 In a MIDI Configuration ........................................................................................................................... vi About the Auto-Load Feature ........................................................................................................................... vi Care and Feeding of the Disk Drive ........................................................................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents 8 Using the BankSet Button ........................................................................................................................... 9 Layering (Stacking) a Sound ........................................................................................................................... 10 The SoundFinder™ Feature ...........................................................................................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 2 — System Page Parameters TUNE ..................................................................................................................... 14 TOUCH ..................................................................................................................... 14 Velocity Curve Diagram ........................................................................................................................... 15 VEL-MAX .....................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... 27 SEND ........................................................................................................................... 27 MODE ........................................................................................................................... 28 About Mono Mode .............................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual 32 SYS-EX ........................................................................................................................... 33 DEVICE-ID ........................................................................................................................... 33 SEND-PARAMS ........................................................................................................................... 33 Section 4 — Understanding Presets What is a Preset? .
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... 41 Display Location ........................................................................................................................... 41 Finding the BankSet, Bank, and Display Location for Sounds on Preset Tracks .........................................................................................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual 49 Transpose Page ..................................................................................................................... 50 Detune Page ..................................................................................................................... 50 Rate Page ..................................................................................................................... 51 Sustain Page ....................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents 58 Entering Program Change Numbers Directly ............................... 58 MIDI Bank Select Page ..................................................................................................................... 58 Program Changes and Bank Selects in the TS-12 ........................................................................................................................... 59 Effects Controller Page .................................................
Table of Contents Section 6 — Understanding Effects TS-12 Musician’s Manual Understanding TS-12 Effects ........................................................................................................................... 61 Program and Sampled Sound Effects ........................................................................................................................... 61 Preset Effects ......................................................................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents Parallel Effect Mixer ..................................................................................................................... 66 Selectable Effect Modulation Parameters ........................................................................................................................... 66 MOD-1 SRC — Modulation Source 1 .....................................................................................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual 68 02 EQ- -DDL+CHORUS+REV ..................................................................................................................... 71 03 DELAYLFO+CHORUS+REV ..................................................................................................................... 72 04 ROTOSPKR+CHORUS+REV ..................................................................................................................... 73 05 DISTORT+CHORUS+REV ...........
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents 17 DELAYLFO+ROTOSPKR+REV ..................................................................................................................... 82 18 ROTOSPKR+ROTOSPKR+REV ..................................................................................................................... 83 19 DISTORT+ROTOSPKR+REV ..................................................................................................................... 83 20 PARAM EQ+ROTOSPKR+REV ......
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual ..................................................................................................................... 93 32 LARGE ROOM REVERB ..................................................................................................................... 93 33 TIGHT AMBIENCE ..................................................................................................................... 95 34 WIDE AMBIENCE .................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents 107 47 DDL- -CHORUS + REVRB 1 ..................................................................................................................... 109 48 DDL- -CHORUS + REVRB 2 ..................................................................................................................... 111 49 EQ- -CHORUS + REVERB .....................................................................................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual 62 TUNABLE SPEAKER ..................................................................................................................... 127 63 GUITAR AMP 1 ..................................................................................................................... 127 64 GUITAR AMP 2 ..................................................................................................................... 127 65 GUITAR AMP 3 ...................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents 139 Compare — Using the Compare Button ........................................................................................................................... 139 Using the Edit Buffer ........................................................................................................................... 139 Abandoning Your Edits ...........................................................................................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual MODAMT — Modulation Amount ..................................................................................................................... 146 Modulation Sources ........................................................................................................................... 147 Wave Page ........................................................................................................................... 151 Wave Class .......................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... 157 Copying a complete program to a new location ........................................................................................................................... 158 Making a copy of the compare buffer ...........................................................................................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual 167 Using the Copy page with Wave-Lists ..................................................................................................................... 167 About Drum-Maps ........................................................................................................................... 168 How to Create a Drum-Map .....................................................................................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................... 183 Filter Configurations ..................................................................................................................... 184 FILTER 1 Page ........................................................................................................................... 185 FILTER 2 Page ..............................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual 206 Drum-Map Editor Parameters ........................................................................................................................... 206 Copy Drum-Map Parameters ........................................................................................................................... 209 Program Effects Page ...........................................................................................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... 214 Playing Sequences and Songs ........................................................................................................................... 214 Sequencer Tracks ...........................................................................................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual 224 “Punching In” on a Track ........................................................................................................................... 225 Finding the BankSet, Bank, and Display Location for Sounds on Sequencer Tracks ........................................................................................................................... 226 Edit Sequence Page — Sequence Edit Functions ...........................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... 233 Track Mix Functions — Mixing, Muting and Soloing Tracks ........................................................................................................................... 233 Song Mode ...........................................................................................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual 241 Using Multi-Track Record ........................................................................................................................... 243 Suggestion for Advanced Users ........................................................................................................................... 243 Basic Multi-track Recording from an External Sequencer ..................................................................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................... 250 TRACKS ..................................................................................................................... 251 Edit Sequence Page Parameters ........................................................................................................................... 252 APPEND ....................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual 256 Using the Quantize Options ..................................................................................................................... 260 ERASE ..................................................................................................................... 261 COPY ..................................................................................................................... 261 *MORE* — Additional Track Edit functions ...................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents Setting the GOTO Locate Time While the Sequence Plays............... 278 Song Locate Page ..................................................................................................................... 278 Setting the GOTO Locate Time While the Song Plays .................... 280 Edit Times in Song Mode .....................................................................................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual Delay Times/Tempo BPM Chart ........................................................................................................................... 288 What is General MIDI? ........................................................................................................................... 290 Sound Map ..................................................................................................................... 290 Percussion ...................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents RECV (MIDI Reception) ..................................................................................................................... 297 GM-CHAN ..................................................................................................................... 297 GM-PROG ..................................................................................................................... 297 Manually Assigning GM Sounds to Each MIDI Channel ..............
Table of Contents Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual Disk Storage — Using the Disk Drive to Save and Load Data ........................................................................................................................... 302 TS-12 Disk File Types ........................................................................................................................... 304 Programs .....................................................................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents 310 Saving Programs along with a 30-SEQ/SONGS File ........................................................................................................................... 310 Saving Sample-Banks along with a 60 SEQ/SONGS File ........................................................................................................................... 311 Specifying a File Bank Location when Saving a File ...........................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual Direct-Dialing Macros on Sampled Sound CD ROMs ..................................................................................................................... 318 MIDI SYS-EX ........................................................................................................................... 319 PROGRAMS ..................................................................................................................... 320 PRESETS ....................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds What is a Sampled Sound? ........................................................................................................................... 328 What is a SIMM? ........................................................................................................................... 328 Warning! .......................................................................................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual Lack of Memory Message ........................................................................................................................... 335 About the Auto-Load Feature ........................................................................................................................... 335 Loading Sample-Edits with the Auto-Load Feature .................................................................................................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents Updating Sample-Banks Files Saved with Software Earlier than Version 2.0 ........................................................................................................................... 345 Loading a Sampled Sound into an Occupied Sampled Sound Bank ........................................................................................................................... 346 Loading Sample-Edits ..........................................................
Table of Contents TS-12 Musician’s Manual ........................................................................................................................... 356 Pitch Page ........................................................................................................................... 359 Pitch Mods Page ........................................................................................................................... 360 TS-12 Filters ...........................................
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Table of Contents 373 Appendix TS-12 MIDI Implementation ........................................................................................................................... I Registered Parameters ...........................................................................................................................
Section 1 — Controls & Basic Functions This section provides an introduction to the TS-12’s many controls and rear panel connections, a conceptual overview of the system, and a discussion of editing various types of parameters. We suggest you read this section carefully — it will help you get the most out of your TS-12.
Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions TS-12 Musician’s Manual System sub-page. For more information about assigning the foot switches, refer to Section 2 — System Page Parameters. Note: If you are using a single foot switch (SW-2 or SW-6) in either of the Foot Switch jacks, the FOOT-SW1-L and/or SW2-L values on the System page should always be set to *UNUSED*. This will prevent note drones.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions Front Panel Controls Almost everything you do on the TS-12, whether it’s selecting a sound, editing that sound, adjusting the tuning, etc., is controlled from the front panel using the following controls: 6 5 0 1 2 3 1 4 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 1) Volume Slider This controls the overall volume of the TS-12 audio outputs.
Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions Tip: TS-12 Musician’s Manual Because you can use the BankSet button and the ten Bank buttons to “shop around” in various banks before selecting a sound or preset, it is possible to lose track of where the currently selected sound or preset (the one you are hearing) is located.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions Parametric Programming The method used to modify or edit sounds, presets and system parameters is called Page-driven Parametric Programming, which sounds like a mouthful, but don’t worry. Once you’ve grasped a few basic concepts, you’ll find that operating the TS-12 is quite simple, given its many capabilities. It is likely that you have already encountered some form of parametric programming on other synthesizers.
Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions TS-12 Musician’s Manual To select and modify another parameter on the same page, press the soft button above or below its name. That parameter will now be underlined, and its value can be adjusted as before, with the Data Entry Slider and the Up/Down Arrow buttons. If you select another page, change some parameter on that page, and then return to the System page, the parameter you had last selected will still be underlined.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions • MODULATION WHEEL — Perhaps the most common use of the Mod Wheel is to add vibrato, but it can also be assigned as a modulator anywhere within the TS-12 voice architecture to alter the pitch, brightness, volume, effect parameters, and a great many other aspects of the sound. Pressure (After-touch) Another important controller is Pressure.
Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions TS-12 Musician’s Manual Playing Sounds and Presets Sound Memory Each TS-12 internal sound (ROM and User RAM) is a complex structure consisting of up to six voices per key and a programmable effects setup. We refer to these internal sounds as Programs. Sounds that were created with a sampling keyboard (and are not internal—i.e.: must be loaded from disk after power-on) are referred to as Sampled Sounds.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions Using the BankSet Button Shows the currently selected BankSet type and location. Pressing the BankSet button will change these values. Shows the currently selected Bank page. Pressing the Bank 0-9 buttons will change this value. The BankSet button is used to scroll through the available BankSets. The display will change with each press, showing the currently selected BankSet.
Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions TS-12 Musician’s Manual Layering (Stacking) a Sound with the Selected Sound To layer (or stack) any sound with the currently selected sound, double-click the soft button corresponding to the sound name on the display. The underline beneath the name of the layered sound will flash and you will hear both sounds playing together. Up to three sounds (one selected and two layered with it) can be active at once.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions Using SoundFinder in Sounds Mode Here’s how to select Programs that have the same defined Program Type in Sounds mode. For this example, load the 120-PROGRAMS file called USERBNKS V2 from the TSD-200 disk that came with your TS-12 before continuing with the following steps: • Press the Sounds button. • While holding down the BankSet button, press the Bank 0 button. This selects User RAM BankSet U0.
Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press the Up Arrow button again. The display now shows: • FULL-BODY (now underlined) is the next Program in the TS-12 assigned to the AC PIANOS Program Type. Continued presses of the Up or Down Arrow buttons will scroll through all of the Programs within the TS-12 assigned to the ACPIANOS Program Type. • When you’ve found the Program that you want, press Sounds to exit the SoundFinder feature.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 1 — Controls and Basic Functions Sampled Sounds and SIMMs The TS-12 has the ability to read and edit sample sound files created for the EPS, EPS–16 PLUS, and the ASR-10 samplers. Sampled Sounds (as they are called in the TS-12) are stored in Dynamic RAM, and are not saved when the TS-12 power is turned off. From the factory, the TS-12 has two internal SIMMs, and provide 2 Megabytes of 16-bit sample RAM.
Section 2 — System Page Parameters These parameters control instrument-wide system functions. The settings of these parameters will remain in effect at all times and are preserved while the power is off. You can back-up the settings of the System Page parameters for quick recall by saving the System Set-up on the Storage page (see Section 13 - Storage for more information). The System Page has three subpages.
Section 2 — System Page Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Velocity Curve Diagram 127 96 MIDI Note On Velocity 64 32 0 0 32 64 96 127 Keyboard Velocity The Velocity Response Curves (Touch) offer a lot of control for a wide range of playing styles, as detailed in the following pages: VEL1 127 96 64 32 0 0 32 64 96 127 • PNO/SYN-VEL1 — This is for someone with a light touch. On this setting, it is easier to reach the maximum level of any velocity controlled parameter.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 2 — System Page Parameters VEL3 127 96 64 32 0 0 32 64 96 127 • PNO/SYN-VEL3 — This default setting represents average velocity sensitivity. This setting should be right for most players. VEL4 127 96 64 32 0 0 32 64 96 127 • PNO/SYN-VEL4 — This velocity best represents the “classically-trained” player with strong fingers, and offers the widest dynamic range for skilled pianists.
Section 2 — System Page Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual VEL6 127 96 64 32 0 0 32 64 96 127 • PNO/SYN-VEL6 — This velocity setting is for the player who wants a lot of control over their softer playing. The curve dedicates most of its range to a gradual increase in volume, with a quick “spike” at the end to still allow full volume accents. FIXED-64 127 96 64 32 0 0 32 64 96 127 • FIXED-64 — With this setting the velocity curve always generates a fixed value, set at the halfway point.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 2 — System Page Parameters VEL-MAX Range: 001 to 127 This parameter determines the maximum keyboard velocity value that will be recognized and transmitted by the TS-12. The default setting is 127, which allows for the normal full range of velocity values. Lower settings limit the maximum value that will be used internally and sent out via MIDI.
Section 2 — System Page Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual actions of the Play and Stop buttons on the front panel. • STOP/CONT — the Foot Switch will stop and continue the sequencer, exactly reproducing the actions of the Stop/Continue button on the front panel. • STEP-REC — this setting allows the Foot Switch to be used in Sequencer Step Entry record mode to advance the track location by the amount set in the step size parameter on the Step Entry page.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 2 — System Page Parameters sound while any Sounds or Presets bank page is displayed. As a performance controller, the slider will only affect the primary sound. Note: If you play and hold a note, modulate the sound with the Timbre or XCTRL Slider, and then select another sound, the Timbre slider will no longer affect the sound of the held note.
Section 2 — System Page Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Press the System button again to show the third sub-page: PITCH-TABLE Range: NORMAL, CUSTOM, U1-PROGRAMS, ROM This parameter allows you to set the system pitch-table to either a NORMAL (western 12-tone equal-temperament) or a CUSTOM (user-definable) pitch-table and affects all voices that have been programmed to use the SYSTEM pitch-table. For more information on pitch-tables, please refer to Section 8 — Understanding Programs.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 2 — System Page Parameters Various ROM System Pitch-Tables By using the data entry controls, you can select from a large assortment of traditional, modern, ethnic, and exotic pitch-tables for use as the System pitch-table. These ROM pitch-tables are: • PYTHAGRN-C — Early tuning derived by calculating 12 perfect fifths and adjusting the octaves downward as necessary. Leaves all fifths except the one between G# and D# very pure.
Section 2 — System Page Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • JAVA-PELOG1 — One of the two main scales of the gamelan orchestras of Java and Bali is the seven-tone scale called Pelog. The notes C, D, F , G, and A (which are reproduced on the black keys) are considered primary, with E and B used for grace notes. The octaves are stretched (tuned a little sharp) due to the harmonic content of the instruments in the gamelan.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 2 — System Page Parameters • HARMONIC-C — This is a mathematically generated scale based on the relationships of the partials in the harmonics of the fifth octave of the linear harmonic spectrum. It is interesting mostly from a theoretical standpoint. • CARLOSALPHA — The first of three scales derived mathematically by Wendy Carlos in the search for scales with the maximum purity of primary intervals, Alpha is based on the division of the octave into 15.
Section 2 — System Page Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Using the U1-Programs Pitch-Tables Note: You will need the TSD-100 floppy disk that was included with the TS-12 to complete the following exercise. This disk contains two files of pitch-tables. They are stored as 60PROGRAMS file types. The first pitch-table file is called HIST PTABLS and contains five different Historical pitch-tables with twelve root key versions of each scale.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 2 — System Page Parameters PRESS-MODE Range: CHAN or PSET This parameter determines the default Track Pressure setting for sounds as they are selected in Sounds mode, or as they are assigned to a Track using the Replace Track Sound function in Presets or Seqs/Songs. It also determines the default Track Pressure mode for all three Preset Tracks when a Preset is selected.
Section 3 — MIDI Control Page Parameters These parameters set instrument wide MIDI parameters, such as the Base Channel number and MIDI Reception mode, and control what types of MIDI messages are received and transmitted. The settings of these parameters will remain in effect at all times and are preserved while the power is off. The MIDI Control Page has three sub-pages. This section also offers an introduction and overview of General MIDI, and explains how to use it with the TS-12.
Section 3 — MIDI Control Page Parameters Note: TS-12 Musician’s Manual When a Sequence or Song Track is selected, SEND will automatically be set to TRACK. Sequence and Song Tracks always transmit on their Track MIDI Channel. MODE Range: OMNI, POLY, MULTI, MONO-A, or MONO-B This parameter determines how MIDI information will be received by the TS-12. MODE has no effect on what MIDI information is transmitted.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 3 — MIDI Control Page Parameters Global Controllers in Mono Mode Global controllers are controllers sent on one channel that affect all other channels simultaneously. They can be useful in reducing the number of MIDI events required to achieve particular effects, and can thereby reduce the delays sometimes associated with overloading MIDI. Some guitar controllers can transmit global controllers, and the TS-12 can respond to them.
Section 3 — MIDI Control Page Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Suppose for example, you are playing the TS-12 from a keyboard with a breath controller (or want to use a breath controller as a modulator when playing the TS-12 keyboard). You can set up a program on the TS-12 in which the filter cutoff frequency is modulated by XCTRL.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 3 — MIDI Control Page Parameters Working with MIDI Loops With a MIDI loop setup, the MIDI Out of the TS-12 is either directly or indirectly (through an external device such as a computer) connected to the MIDI In of the TS-12. The MIDI-LOOP Track STATUS is optimized for use in a MIDI loop in which the TS-12 will play back into itself. Do not use the SEND/RECV Track STATUS setting with a MIDI loop present.
Section 3 — MIDI Control Page Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual PROG-CHG — Program Changes Range: OFF or ON This switch controls how the TS-12 handles transmission and reception of MIDI program change messages. • OFF—the TS-12 will not transmit or receive MIDI program changes. • ON—the TS-12 will transmit and receive program changes over MIDI. • NEW—the TS-12 will transmit program changes only if they are different than the previous program change sent out on the particular channel.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 3 — MIDI Control Page Parameters Selecting a New Sequence or Song Effect from MIDI Program Changes As indicated in the above chart, in MULTI and MONO-B modes, adding 60 to the MIDI Program Change number for the desired sound will select the new sound and also install the effect from that sound into the sequence (or song) effect. This can be useful when controlling the TS-12 from an external sequencer.
Section 4 — Understanding Presets This section offers a basic overview of the concepts involved in selecting, creating, editing, and understanding TS-12 Presets. For more detailed descriptions of the actual parameters, refer to Section 5—Preset/Track Parameters. What is a Preset? A Preset is a combination of three sounds and an effects set-up that can be instantly recalled for use in performance.
Section 4 — Understanding Presets Tip: TS-12 Musician’s Manual Because you can use the BankSet button and the ten Bank buttons to “shop around” in various banks before selecting a preset, it is possible to lose track of where the currently selected preset (the one you are hearing) is located. Try this shortcut for getting to the BankSet and Bank that contains the selected preset: rapidly double-click the Preset button.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 4 — Understanding Presets Editing a Preset In addition to the presets stored in memory, there is one more preset that you are using most of the time whether you know it or not. Whenever you are selecting or layering sounds in Sounds mode, you are also creating a preset. The TS-12 automatically “remembers” the last three sounds you selected and stores them in a special memory buffer called the Preset Edit Buffer.
Section 4 — Understanding Presets TS-12 Musician’s Manual What are Preset/Track Parameters? Preset/Track Parameters provide easy access and control for track and sound attributes, and are used in mixing/manipulating sequencer tracks and in creating presets. A group of Preset/Track Parameters is associated with each preset and sequencer track.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 4 — Understanding Presets • The display shows the current name of the preset with a cursor (underline) beneath the first character. If you want to give the preset a new name, do so at this time. Use the Up/Down Arrow buttons and the Data Entry Slider to change the underlined character, and press the Left/Right Cursor (soft buttons) to move the underline. • After you’ve named your preset, press and hold down the Presets button.
Section 4 — Understanding Presets TS-12 Musician’s Manual Avoiding Confusion when using Presets Whenever you create and save a preset, the TS-12 only “remembers” the location of the three sounds in memory — not the actual sounds themselves. This is important to remember when you use User RAM programs in presets. If you move a sound, put another in its place, or transfer an entire BankSet of sounds, the preset might still be “pointing to” a location that no longer contains the sound you had in mind.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 4 — Understanding Presets Using SoundFinder in Presets Mode Here’s how to scroll through Programs that have the same defined Program Type in Presets mode. For this example, load the 120-PROGRAMS file called USERBNKS V2 from the TSD-200 disk: • Press the Presets button. • While pressing the BankSet button, press the Bank 3 button. This selects ROM BankSet R3. • Press the Bank 0 button. This selects the first Bank in ROM BankSet R3.
Section 4 — Understanding Presets TS-12 Musician’s Manual the STEREO-PNO Program. STEREO-PNO is also defined with the same Program Type as FULL-BODY. • Continued presses of the Up Arrow will scroll forward through all of the Programs with the same Program Type. Continued presses of the Down Arrow button will scroll backward through all of the Programs with the same Program Type. • When you’ve found the sound that you want, press the Replace Track Sound button to exit SoundFinder.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 4 — Understanding Presets • Press and hold Presets, and then press Sounds. The display will show: Program BankSet Location Program Bank Location Program Display Location The BankSet, Bank, and Display location for each of the track sounds are shown on the top line of the display.
Section 4 — Understanding Presets TS-12 Musician’s Manual Using Effects With Performance Presets All three tracks in each preset, and all twelve tracks in each sequence or song, share the same effects algorithm and settings. The effects settings for each preset is inherited from the primary (non-layered) selected sound, and any layered sounds in the preset will use that same effect.
Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters This section offers detailed descriptions of the commands and parameters used in selecting, creating, and editing Performance Presets as well as sequencer tracks. For an overview of the concepts involved, refer to Section 4 — Understanding Presets. The default settings for several of the Track Parameters are stored with Programs. These default settings are installed whenever a Program is put on the Track.
Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press the Attack/Release button to get to the Attack page: Attack Page Range: -64 to +63 The Attack Page allows you to increase or decrease the attack time of the sound on a selected track. Attack time is the time it takes for the sound to be heard when the key is pressed. This is useful when you need to adjust the attack characteristics of a sound for a particular application without getting more deeply into programming.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters All tracks whose MIDI Status is set to SEND/RECV, SEND/----, LOCAL-OFF or VOICE-OFF will send a MIDI Continuous Controller message (controller 72) with the indicated value whenever this parameter is edited. Preset tracks will also send this controller message when a preset is selected. The default value of Release is stored with the Program, and is restored whenever the Program is selected or placed on a track.
Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press the Brightness/Timbre button again to get to the Timbre page: Timbre Page Range: 000 to 127 The Timbre page provides an easy way to make useful changes to the character of a sound without getting into more complex programming. This performance parameter uses the Data Entry Slider or Up/Down Arrow buttons to control various aspects of the sound, depending on what the programmer has decided would be useful.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters • Press the Key Zone/Velocity button to get to the Key Zone page: Range: Key Zone Page A0 to C8 Each track has its own independent key zone within which the track will play. Key zones can be used to create simple two-program splits or to create more complex keyboard layouts. Key zones control which keys will be sent out via MIDI as well as which keys will play on the local voices of the TS-12.
Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press the Key Zone/Velocity button again to get to the Velocity Range page: Velocity Range Page Ranges: 000 to 127 The Velocity Range page enables you to determine the amount of velocity for each sound on a selected track. The velocity range affects both local playing and MIDI transmission/reception. The first value sets the LO velocity range, and the second value sets the HI velocity range.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters • Press the Tuning button to get to the Transpose page: Transpose Page Octave Range: -4 to +4 octaves Semitone Range: -11 to +11 semitones Octave Transposition Semitone Transposition Each track can have its pitch transposed (raised or lowered) by octaves and semitones within an eight octave range.
Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press the Tuning button a third time to get to the Rate page: Rate Page Range: -64 to +63 The Rate page provides an easy way to change the rate of the LFO’s within a sound. LFO’s are most often used to create a vibrato effect. This parameter defines how much the LFO rate will increase or decrease for any voice within a sound that has LFO selected as a Mod Source.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters For example, it may be useful to turn off sustain events on a track set up as a bass sound in a split keyboard configuration. This allows you to play staccato bass lines on the lower part of the keyboard while playing chords on the upper part of the keyboard and using the sustain pedal. The bass notes will not be affected by the sustain pedal because the track is set to OFF, but the chords will sustain.
Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press the Controllers On/Off button a fourth time to get to the Mod Wheel page: Mod Wheel Page Range: OFF or ON The Mod Wheel Page is used to determine which track(s) will respond to the Modulation Wheel, when assigned as a controller for any of the modulatable parameters.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters • Press the Performance Options button to get to the Patch Select page: Range: Patch Select Page (described below) current Patch Select button state This Page gives you control over the Patch Select button assignments for each track.
Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press the Performance Options button again to get to the Pressure page: Pressure Page Range: (described below) The Pressure page enables you to assign one of three pressure modes to each Track. • OFF — Pressure information will not be transmitted via MIDI or recorded by the sequencer, nor will the sound assigned to the track respond to pressure locally. • KEY — This setting enables the track to receive Poly-Key™ pressure via incoming MIDI.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters • Press the Performance Options button again to get to the Pedal page: Range: Pedal Page (described below) The Pedal parameter disables (when OFF) or controls the polarity of the CV•Pedal, when PEDAL=VOL on the System page. Inverted polarity can be used to crossfade between layered tracks with the volume pedal.
Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters Note: TS-12 Musician’s Manual When MIDI-TRK-NAMES=OFF on the System page, Tracks with a MIDI Status of VOICE-OFF or LOCAL-OFF or MIDI-LOOP will display *MIDI-CH-## in place of the name of the sound on the track.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters • Press the Track/MIDI button a third time to get to the MIDI Program Number page: MIDI Program Number Page Range: 000 through 127 This sub-page lets you choose which MIDI Program Change number will be transmitted via MIDI when the track is selected. Editing this value will transmit MIDI Program Changes in realtime. If the track MIDI status has been set to ----/RECV or MIDI-OFF, the track will not transmit MIDI Program Changes.
Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual The second field determines whether the BANK value represents the LSB or MSB of the MIDI Bank Select controller message. It defaults to LSB (Least Significant Byte), but can be set to MSB (Most Significant Byte) to accommodate other keyboard manufacturer’s products. It should always be set to LSB for ENSONIQ products. The default Bank Select number that appears is usually the number of the internal TS-12 sound assigned to the track.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters • Press the Track Effects button again to get to the Effects Controller page: Effects Controller Page Range: NO-CNTRL or CNTRL-FX In effects which allow real-time control, it is sometimes desirable to limit which tracks send controller information to the effect. This is particularly true when using multiple MIDI input channels from a sequencer. If more than one track is set to CNTRL-FX, “controller fights” can occur.
Section 6 — Understanding Effects This section offers a basic overview of the concepts involved in selecting, creating, editing, and understanding Effects. For more detailed descriptions of the actual effect parameters, refer to the following section. Understanding TS-12 Effects The TS-12 has a powerful built-in signal processor that can produce a variety of effects. More important, its functions are integrated into, rather than added onto, the rest of the synthesizer.
Section 6 — Understanding Effects TS-12 Musician’s Manual will send controller information to the effect. The remaining pages contain the effect parameters, which are specific to the effect type. These effect parameter pages are described in Section 7 — Effect Parameters. Sequencer Effect Like each of the presets in the TS-12, each sequence and song contains an effect and a complete set of effect parameter values.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual 1 6 1 7 1 8 1 9 2 0 2 1 22 23 24 EQ- -DDL+ROTOSPKR+REV Section 6 — Understanding Effects 41 STEREO DELAY + DELAY 66 VCF- -DISTORTION- -VCF 42 MULTITAP DELAY 67 WAH- -DISTORTION + REV 43 EQ- -STEREO DELAYLFO 68 FLNG- -CMP- -DIST + REV 44 EIGHT VOICE CHORUS 69 DISTORT + CHORUS- -REV PARAM EQ+ROTOSPKR+REV 45 CHORUS + REVERB 1 70 PARAMETRIC EQ ENV VCF+ROTOSPKR+REV 46 CHORUS + REVERB 2 71 EQ- -COMPRESSOR 47 DDL- -CHORUS + REVRB 1 48 DDL- -CHORUS + REVRB 2 49 EQ- -CHORUS +
Section 6 — Understanding Effects TS-12 Musician’s Manual 4) When you change the sound on a track by double-clicking the Replace Track Sound button (e.g. with the Sounds and the Replace Track Sound LED flashing), the algorithm will be changed. 5) When you select a preset, the algorithm saved in that preset will be loaded into the ESP. 6) When you select a song or sequence, the algorithm saved in that song or sequence will be loaded into the ESP.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 6 — Understanding Effects The first effect parameter page is similar for all of the effects (the display shows VARIATION=). It selects an Effect Variation, which feature various “preset” patches, letting you quickly access several set-ups within the same effect. Each algorithm has a predetermined amount of variations. Each of these variations is individually editable and can act as independent effect edit buffers.
Section 6 — Understanding Effects TS-12 Musician’s Manual Effects Mixing Almost all of the effects have separate mixing controls for the FX1 and FX2 busses. They are found on the next sub-page within the Effects page, and will have slightly different wording depending on the effect they’re contained within. When an effect having a single processing function (such as reverb only) is selected, both busses FX1 and FX2 are routed to it.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 6 — Understanding Effects Parallel Effect Mixer Destination Bus Effect A FX1 L R A to B send Effect B L A to Reverb send B to Reverb send Vol FX2 Main Outputs Mixer R FX2 to Reverb send Reverb Voice Output DRY AUX FX2 Dry L R Aux Outputs All of the parallel effect algorithms follow the topology shown in the illustration above. The heavy lines are stereo paths.
Section 6 — Understanding Effects TS-12 Musician’s Manual Modulators that can be applied to the Effects The following modulation sources are available to alter the effects in performance: Mod Source WHEEL PBEND PEDAL TIMBR XCTRL PRESS KEYBD VELOC KEYDN PATCH SUSTN SOSTU FX-SW *OFF* Modulation effect derived from the value of the mod wheel the value of the pitch wheel the value of the Pedal•CV input the value of the TIMBRE parameter for the track the value of the XCTRL (external MIDI controller) parameter
Section 7 — Effect Parameters This section offers detailed descriptions of the sub-pages and parameters used in selecting, creating, and editing effects. For a basic overview of the concepts involved, refer to the previous section. About Effect Parameters The effect algorithms (shown in reverse type) described in this section have various sub-pages. Sub-pages are a group of parameters associated with the effect algorithm.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual SENDS A- -B Range: 00 to 99 Controls the amount of Effect A (DDL) being sent into Effect B (the chorus). A setting of 99 would yield a serial connection between Effect A and the chorus for voices sent to FX1 and panned hard left (on the Output page). B- -REVRB Range: 00 to 99 Controls the amount of Effect B (CHORUS) being sent into the reverb. This would allow you to add reverb to voices assigned to FX1 and panned hard right.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters CHORUS MIX Range: 00 to 99 Controls the Dry/Wet mix within the chorus itself. For starters, we recommend settings of 50. LEVEL Range: 00 to 99 Adjusts the volume of the chorused signal. A level of 00 will offer no audible signal. WET PAN Range: -99 to +99 Determines the location of the chorused signal in the stereo spectrum. A value of -99 is panned hard left, and +99 is hard right.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual density to build at a rate that exceeds the decay rate. For the best performance, try to select the highest value that works with your sound source. DIFFUSION Ranges: 00 to 99 These parameters determine whether the early reflections will appear as a series of discrete echoes (lower values) or will be more diffused (higher values). 02 EQ- -DDL+CHORUS+REV This parallel effect combines a parametric EQ and a DDL with a chorus and a reverb.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters 03 DELAYLFO+CHORUS+REV This parallel effect combines a digital delay that provides LFO modulation with a chorus and a reverb.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual This parallel effect combines a rotary speaker with a chorus and a reverb.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters For a complete description of the remaining parameters, refer to the DDL+CHORUS+REV algorithm found earlier in this section. 05 DISTORT+CHORUS+REV This parallel effect combines a raspy distortion with a chorus and a reverb.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual 06 PARAM EQ+CHORUS+REV This parallel effect combines a parametric EQ with a chorus and a reverb.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters VCF FC Range: 000 to 127 Determines the filter cut off-frequency. Higher values have a brighter sound. This parameter can be modulated, using a CV Pedal for a wah-wah pedal effect. To use as an EQ, set the desired value and make sure the ENV AMT is 0. To use as the auto-wah, set this parameter to a low value and turn on ENV AMT. LEVEL Range: 00 to 99 Controls the output level of the Voltage control filter.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Voices assigned to FX1 (and panned right) are sent to Effect B (PHLANGR) • Voices assigned to FX2 are sent to the reverb (REV) SENDS A- -B Range: 00 to 99 Controls the amount of Effect A (DDL) being sent into Effect B (the phlanger). A setting of 99 would yield a serial connection between Effect A and the PHLANGR for voices sent to FX1 and panned hard left (on the Output page).
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters For a complete description of the remaining Reverb parameters, refer to the DDL+CHORUS+REV algorithm found earlier in this section. 09 EQ- -DDL+PHLANGR+REV This parallel effect combines a parametric EQ into a digital delay with a phlanger (a combination phaser and flanger effect) and a reverb.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual 11 ROTOSPKR+PHLANGR+REV This parallel effect combines a rotary speaker with a phlanger (a combination phaser and flanger effect) and a reverb.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters For a complete description of the SENDS parameters, refer to the DDL+PHLANGR+REV algorithm found earlier in this section. For a complete description of the PARAM EQ parameters, refer to the PARAM EQ+CHORUS+REV algorithm found earlier in this section. For a complete description of the PHLANGR parameters, refer to the DDL+PHLANGR+REV algorithm found earlier in this section.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual A- -REVRB Range: 00 to 99 Controls the amount of Effect A (DDL) being sent into the reverb. This would allow you to add reverb to voices assigned to FX1 and panned hard left, without having to add any of the rotary speaker effect. FX2- -REVRB PAN DRY DDL REGEN L DDL MIX DAMPING LEVEL DELAY TIME L and R For a complete description of these parameters, refer to the DDL+CHORUS+REV algorithm found earlier in this section.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters • KEYDN, PATCH, SUSTN, SOSTU, FX-SW — These modulation sources toggle the rotor speed between slow and fast. Every time the modulation source moves from zero in a positive direction, the rotating speaker effect changes speeds from slow to fast or fast to slow. For a complete description of the remaining Reverb parameters, refer to the DDL+CHORUS+REV algorithm found earlier in this section.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual 18 ROTOSPKR+ROTOSPKR+REV This parallel effect combines a rotary speaker with another rotary speaker effect and a reverb.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters For a complete description of the remaining Reverb parameters, refer to the DDL+CHORUS+REV algorithm found earlier in this section. 21 ENV VCF+ROTOSPKR+REV This parallel effect combines a voltage control filter with a rotary speaker and a reverb.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual PRE-DLY TIME Range: 0000 to 0300 ms Controls the amount of time it takes for the input signal to be presented to the plate reverb. A value of 0000 would offer no delay. HF - DAMPING Range: 00 to 99 Increasing the value of this parameter will gradually filter out increasing amounts of highfrequency energy. Higher values yield an abrupt decay. Controls the cut off of a low pass filter in series with the decay within the definition.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters EQ- -REVB Range: 00 to 99 Controls the amount of EQ being sent into the plate reverb. A setting of 99 would yield a serial connection between the parametric EQ and the reverb for voices assigned to FX1 (on the Output page). A setting of 00 would eliminate any audible reverb for voices assigned to FX1. FX2- -REVB Range: 00 to 99 Controls the Dry/Wet mix for sounds routed to the plate reverb (FX2 on the Output page).
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual HF - DAMPING Range: 00 to 99 Increasing the value of this parameter will gradually filter out increasing amounts of highfrequency energy. Higher values yield an abrupt decay. Controls the cut off of a low pass filter in series with the decay within the definition. BANDWIDTH Range: 01 to 99 Acts as a low-pass filter on the output of the plate reverbs, controlling the amount of high frequencies present.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters (creating a decay). The signal is then routed to the output, and then goes through a low pass filter. There is a parameter that controls the Decay Time of both the left and right signals (shown as triangles above). This signal is then routed back into the definition. There is also an external dry signal (not shown) that goes directly from the input to the Main Output (DRY).
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual 26 LARGE PLATE REVERB 2 This plate reverb shares the same signal routing topology as the previous plate reverbs, but sports poly-phase interpolation, and two additional parameters: SPREAD Range: 00000 to 31129 Determines the time intervals between the seven discrete echoes produced by the plate. The time intervals are adjusted relative to one another.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters 28 HALL REVERB 2 This algorithm can be programmed with a high degree of precision. HALL REVERB 2 is a large acoustic space providing a high density reverb.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual the more high frequencies are allowed to pass. This functions like a tone control on a guitar. LF DECAY TIME Range: -99 to +99 Acts like a tone control and will boost (when set to a positive value) or cut (when set to a negative value) the rate at which low frequencies will decay. DEFINITION Range: 00 to 99 Controls the rate at which echo density is increased with time.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters PRIMARY SEND Range: -99 to +99 Controls the level of the diffused input signal into the reverb definition. REVB POSITION BAL- (1 to 3) Ranges: -99 to +99 The Position Balance parameters simulate the depth of the hall. Think of these parameters as three different microphones placed at various distances within the hall (the first is closest to the front, the third is farthest from the front).
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters 30 SMALL ROOM REVERB SMALL ROOM REVERB features a short, room-like decay. The FX-1 and FX-2 parameters can be routed into the effect with different Dry/Wet mixes. DECAY TIME Range: 0.20 to 100.0 Controls the amount of time it takes for the reverberation to decay to a low level (-60 dB) after the input signal stops. PRE-DLY TIME Range: 0000 to 0500 Creates a delay in the amount of time it takes before the original signal is fed into the reverb.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Medium Room Range: 0.20 to 1.33 Large Room Range: 0.20 to 1.83 Controls the amount of time it takes for the reverberation to decay to a very low level after the input signal stops. In room reverbs we don’t recommend higher settings, which tend to create an infinite and unnatural sustain. Since most ambient room reverbs don’t naturally have a large decay, set this low for the best sound.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters 1 LEVEL to create a natural sounding echo. REF-2 SEND Range: 00 to 99 Controls the level of the second pre-echo, with the echo routed directly to the output. DETUNE - RATE Range: 00 to 99 Controls the LFO rate of detuning introduced into the reverberation decay. Detuning creates a slight oscillating pitch shift into the decay, giving it a more natural sound by breaking up resonant nodes.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual BANDWIDTH Range: 00 to 99 The high-frequency bandwidth acts as a low pass filter on the signal going into the reverb, controlling the amount of high frequencies that will pass into the effect. The higher the setting, the more high frequencies are allowed to pass. This functions like a tone control on a guitar.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters DEPTH Range: 00 to 99 Controls the depth of the detuning, that is, how much the pitch will change. Low values yield a metallic sound. Some sounds may require very low values, while others sound more natural with higher values. PRIMARY SEND Range: -99 to +99 Controls the level of the diffused input signal into the reverb definition. POSITION BAL -(1 to 3) Ranges: -99 to +99 The Position Balance parameters simulate the depth of the room.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters ENVELOPE LEVEL 1 TS-12 Musician’s Manual ENVELOPE LEVEL 2 ENVELOPE LEVEL 9 LEVEL SIGNAL TIME ENVELOPE LEVELS (1 to 9) Ranges: 00 to 99 Control the output tap levels sequenced in time across the density from input to output. Envelope Level 1 is tapped right after the diffusers and before the echoes (see the diagram). If this is undesirable, set Envelope Level 1 to 0.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters REFL-1 SEND Controls the level of the first pre-echo. Range: -99 to +99 Non Lin 1, 3 Range: 0000 to 0600 msec Non Lin 2 Range: 0000 to 0085 msec Controls the amount of time it takes for the second pre-echo to be injected into the Density. REFL-2 TIME REFL-2 SEND Range: -99 to +99 Controls the level of the second pre-echo. Experiment with both positive and negative on all echoes to change the tonal character of the results.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual DIFFUSION-2 Range: 00 to 99 Similar to and in series with DIFFUSION-1, this parameter controls lower-frequency ranges. ATTACK Range: 1msec to 10.0 sec Sets the ATTACK of the gated reverb once the incoming signal has reached the trigger level. Generally the attack should be short and not set longer than the HOLD.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters 39 REVERSE REVERB 1 REVERSE REVERB 1 produces a reverberation that gradually increases, simulating a backwards sound with a maximum duration of several seconds. When a signal enters this algorithm, the plate reverb (from which this algorithm is derived) is almost instantaneously turned on, and then the output volume is ramped up. This algorithm will only trigger one time.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual LEVEL Range: 00 to 99 Adjusts the volume of the slapback (internal dry) signal. A value of 00 would eliminate audible slapback. TRIG THRESH Range: -96 to +00 dB Set this parameter as low as possible to work with your particular sound source. To eliminate false triggering, it should not be set too low. When the input signal rises above this threshold, the reverse envelope will begin.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters RELEASE Range: 1 msec to 10.0 sec Determines the RELEASE time after the HOLD time has elapsed. Generally this time is very short. Lower values offer an abrupt cutoff. PRE-TRIG TIME Range: 0000 to 0530 msec Used to capture transients that occur before the trigger. This parameter is critical to the sound quality. You can determine how much pretrigger sound will be injected into the reverse reverb tank.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual PAN Range: -99 to +99 Determines the location of the delays in the stereo spectrum. A value of -99 is panned far left, and +99 is far right. DELAY-2 TIME DELAY-3 TIME DELAY-4 TIME LEVEL LEVEL LEVEL REGEN REGEN REGEN PAN PAN PAN Each of the four discrete delays has identical parameters and ranges as described above.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters DELAY INPUT R Range: OFF or ON Disables the input into the right side delay line. The right delay line will still get input from the CROSS REGEN. This allows a ping-pong delay effect. OUTPUT LEVEL R Controls the right output signal level. Range: 00 to 99 DELAY - REGEN Range: -99 to +99 Controls the amount of regen (regeneration) applied to the delay time taps. The sign of the value determines the polarity of the regen.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual EIGHT VOICE CHORUS Signal Routing Chorus Regen FX-1 Left 4 Voice Chorus FX-2 Left L Delay Main Outputs Delay Regen FX-1 Right Delay 4 Voice Chorus FX-2 Right R Chorus Regen CHORUS RATE Range: 00 to 99 Controls the eight ganged rates of modulation of the respective voices and produces an effect similar to both vibrato and tremolando occurring at the same time.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual WIDTH Range: Controls the depth of vibrato and tremolo. Section 7 — Effect Parameters 00 to 99 REGEN Range: -99 to +99 Controls the amount of feedback applied to the chorus. The sign of the value determines the polarity of the feedback. Feedback accentuates the complexity of the “swept” signal. DECAY TIME Range: 0.20 to 100.0 Controls the amount of time it takes for the reverberation to decay to a low level (-60 dB) after the input signal stops.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters WIDTH Range: Controls the depth of vibrato and tremolo. TS-12 Musician’s Manual 00 to 99 STEREO SPREAD Range: 00 to 99 This parameter offers a synthesized stereo field. The highest value is true stereo, intermediate values have the left and right signals mixed on both sides, and the lowest value yields only the left input channel from the right and left outputs.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters 47 DDL- -CHORUS + REVRB 1 This effect algorithm is a serial version of the DDL+CHORUS+REV parallel effect, combining a digital delay with a chorus and a plate reverb.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual DDL REGEN L Range: -99 to +99 Determines the amount of signal that will be fed from the output of the left delay back into the input, increasing the number of repeats in the delay. A setting of 99 would offer an infinite delay. DAMPING Range: 00 to 99 Controls the cutoff of a low pass filter on the feedback signal, which adjusts the amount of damping to the feedback signals. The higher the number, the more the signals are dampened.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters PRE-DLY TIME Range: 0000 to 0300 msec This parameter creates a time delay before the original signal is fed into the reverb. The range is based in milliseconds. HF - DAMPING Range: 00 to 99 Controls the rate of attenuation of high frequencies in the decay of the reverberation. As natural reverb decays, some high frequencies tend to get absorbed by the environment.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual DEFINITION Range: 00 to 99 Controls the rate at which echo density increases with time. Higher values can cause the echo density to build at a rate that exceeds the decay rate. For the best performance, try to select the highest value that works with your sound source. DIFFUSION Ranges: 00 to 99 These parameters determine whether the early reflections will appear as a series of discrete echoes (lower values) or will be more diffused (higher values).
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters 50 EQ- -CHORUS + EQ- -DDL EQ- -CHORUS + EQ- -DDL combines an EQ and a chorus, with an EQ and a digital delay. This is the industry standard chorus effect, designed with very long delays to provide a modulated detune effect.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual ECHO - LEVEL Range: 00 to 99 Controls the volume of the discrete echo for both the left and right sides. Higher values offer louder echo, while a value of 00 will eliminate the echo. For sustained sounds, mid echo levels yield a “poor man’s reverb.” TIME (L and R) Ranges: 0000 to 1500 msec These parameters control the chorus echo time. Higher settings yield a deeper echo. There are two discrete echoes, one to the left and one to the right.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters HF - DAMPING Range: 00 to 99 Controls the rate of attenuation of high frequencies in the decay of the reverberation. As natural reverb decays, some high frequencies tend to get absorbed by the environment. Increasing the value of this parameter will filter out increasing amounts of high-frequency energy.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual FLANGE CENTER Range: 00 to 99 Controls the sweep center of the flanger effect. The larger the flanger center, the wider will be the available width. RATE Range: 00 to 99 Controls the rate of modulation of the flanger effect. WIDTH Range: 00 to 99 Controls the range of the high to low-frequency sweep in the flanger effect. REGEN Range: -99 to +99 Controls the amount of feedback applied from the output to the flanger input.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters LEVEL Range: -48 to +24 dB Sets the amount of boost or cut applied to the low shelving filter. TREBLE FC Range: 01KHz to 15KHz Selects the cutoff of the upper-frequency band high shelving filter. LEVEL Range: -48 to +24 dB Sets the amount of boost or cut applied to the high shelving filter. 53 PHASER + REVERB A 12-pole phase shifter with reverb. Assign a sound to FX-1 for reverb after phase, to FX-2 for just reverb, or to DRY to bypass the effect.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual DETUNE - RATE Range: 00 to 99 Controls the LFO rate of detuning incorporated within the reverb. Detuning creates a slight pitch shift into the reverberated signal, giving it a more natural sounding decay by breaking up resonant nodes. DEPTH Range: 00 to 99 Controls the depth of the detuning, that is, how much the pitch will change. Low values yield a metallic sound. Some voices sound best with very low values.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters REGEN Range: -99 to +99 Controls the amount of feedback applied to the left and right channel phaser. The sign of the value determines the polarity of the feedback. NOTCH DEPTH Range: -99 to +99 Controls the depth of the notches created by the phasing. Deep notches occur in the phased spectrum when the parameter is set to 99. When this parameter is set to +00, there exists no phasing (i.e.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual from the two discrete echoes has one level control. There is also an external Dry signal (not shown) that goes directly from the input to the output. The EFFECT MIX FX-1 POST-DDL and FX-2 DDL parameters can be routed into the effect with different Dry/Wet mixes. TREMOLO RATE Range: 000 to 130 Sets the rate of modulation. Mid values create a faster wavering sound.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters 56 EQ- -VIBRATO + DELAY EQ- -VIBRATO + DELAY combines an EQ and a vibrato effect (a pitch shifter modulating over a very small range), with a digital delay. Many vintage guitar amplifiers offered a vibrato control, but don’t feel that this effect is limited to guitar sounds, try this with other sources as well.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual TIME R Range: 0000 to 1500 msec Controls the time delay on the right non regenerated delay. ECHO - LEVEL Range: 00 to 99 Controls the volume of the discrete echo for both the left and right sides. A setting of 00 will eliminate any audible echo. TIME (L and R) Ranges: 0000 to 1500 msec These parameters control the echo times for the left and right sides. Higher settings yield a deeper echo.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual FINE Range: Lets you to fine tune the pitch of Voice-1. Section 7 — Effect Parameters -99 to +99 LEVEL Range: 00 to 99 Allows you to adjust the level of Voice-1. A setting of 00 would eliminate any audible pitch shift. PAN Range: -99 to +99 Allows you to assign the location of Voice-1 in the stereo field. A value of -99 would be far left, and +99 would be far right.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual PAN Range: -99 to +99 This parameter allows you to assign the location of Voice-1 in the stereo field. A value of -99 would be far left, and +99 would be far right. VC-2 FINE Range: -99 to +99 This parameter allows you to fine tune the pitch of Voice-2. LEVEL Range: 00 to 99 This parameter allows you to adjust the volume of Voice-2. A setting of 00 would eliminate any audible pitch shift.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters FINE Range: Allows you to fine tune the pitch of Voice-1. -99 to +99 LEVEL Range: This parameter adjusts the volume of Voice-1. 00 to 99 PAN Range: -99 to +99 Allows you to assign the location of Voice-1 in the stereo field. A value of -99 would be far left, and +99 would be far right. VOICE-2 SEMI LEVEL FINE PAN These parameters are identical to the previous ones, and control Voice-2.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual ROTOR SLOW Range: 00 to 99 Determines the rate of the rotary speaker when in the “Slow” setting. ROTOR SLOW determines the manual level for the rotary speaker rate when SPEED= SLOW, or when the selected modulator is at zero output level. Again, the higher the value, the faster the rate. FAST Range: 00 to 99 Determines the rate of the rotary speaker when in the “Fast” setting. The higher the value, the faster the rate.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters 62 TUNABLE SPEAKER Tunable Speaker offers an EQ controllable speaker sound that is brighter than SPEAKER CABINET. By tuning three parametric filters, you can simulate many different speaker cabinet sounds that are used in all styles of music. The FX-1 and FX-2 parameters can be routed into the effect with different Dry/Wet mixes. MID-1 FC Range: 0000 to 9999 Hz This parameter sets the center of the mid-frequency parametric.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual bad. Tube bias and preamp gain are independent parameters. For low preamp gain, it may be desirable to use low tube bias values, because this more closely imitates the operation of a real amplifier. PREAMP EQ TRIM Range: -24 to +00 dB Controls the input level to the pre-amp EQ to eliminate the possibility of clipping boosted signals. HIGH FC Range: 4 to 1000 Hz Filters out the low frequencies before the preamp.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters MAIN EQ MID-2 FC Range: 0000 to 9999 Hz Determines the filter center-frequency of the second parametric in the main amp stage. Higher values have a brighter sound. Q Range: 01 to 18 Determines the width of the resonant peak of the second filter center. LEVEL Range: -48 to +24 dB Adjusts the amount of boost or cut applied to the second main amp parametric.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters ON TS-12 Musician’s Manual Range: -96 to +00 dB Sets the upper threshold level at which the noise gate passes audio. This higher second threshold prevents false “turn ons.” RELEASE Range: 1 msec to 10.0 sec Sets the amount of time after the signal has elapsed for the noise gate to shut down. For a longer sustain, set this parameter higher. HIGH FC Range: 4 to 1000 Hz Filters out the low frequencies of the main amp prior to the speaker.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters The EFFECT MIX FX-1 and FX-2 parameters can be routed into the algorithm with different Dry/Wet mixes. DIST LEVEL - IN Range: 00 to 99 Controls the gain going into the distortion effect. DIST LEVEL - IN will boost the signal level up to 48 dB. For more distortion, use a high input level gain and turn the OUT down to keep the volume under control. For less distortion, use a low gain input level and a higher output volume.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual will go low, and then go back up to its nominal setting How quickly it does so is determined by the ATTACK and RELEASE parameters. This sound is the auto-wah; positive values will boost the high frequencies, offering an “oww-oww” sound, and negative values will cut the high frequencies, producing a “dweep-dweep” sound. ATTACK Range: 50 µsec to 10.0 sec Sets the attack of the envelope follower (i.e.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters 68 FLNG- -CMP- -DIST + REV A screaming guitar-and-amp simulator that features not only compression, distortion, and reverb, but flanging and EQ as well. FX-1 routes the signal through each of these effect processors, while FX-2 is used for reverb only.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual 69 DISTORT + CHORUS- -REV A brighter guitar-and-amp simulator that features distortion, chorus, and reverb, but without the compressor. The FX-1 and FX-2 MIX parameters can be routed into the effect with different Dry/Wet mixes. DIST MIX Range: 00 to 99 Determines the Dry/Wet, or in this case, dirty/clean mix of the signal. A value of 00 yields a clean signal; 99 yields an all distortion signal.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters DETUNE - RATE Range: 00 to 99 Controls the LFO rate of detuning incorporated within the reverb. Detuning creates a slight pitch shift into the reverberated signal, giving it a more natural sounding decay by breaking up resonant nodes. DEPTH Range: 00 to 99 Controls the depth of the detuning, that is, how much the pitch will change. Low values yield a metallic sound. Some voices sound best with very low values.
Section 7 — Effect Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Signal Level Attenuate Threshold Pass Time COMPRESSOR RATIO Range: 1/1 to 40/1, infinity Sets the amount of compression. The range is based on decibels (dB) above the threshold. If this is set to 4/1 for example, it will compress changes in signals above the threshold by one quarter. When this is set to infinity, it acts as a limiter. THRESH Range: -96 to +00 dB Sets the threshold level.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 7 — Effect Parameters 72 RUMBLE FILTER RUMBLE FILTER is a high pass filter in cascade with a low pass filter, fourth order (24dB per octave). The high pass filter is good for eliminating low end rumble. The low pass filter is good for eliminating hiss. The EFFECT MIX FX-1 and FX-2 FILTER parameters can be routed into the effect with different Dry/Wet mixes. For this algorithm, we recommend mid value Mixes.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs In this section, we will show you how to edit a TS-12 Program. For detailed descriptions of the many parameters, refer to the following section. What is a Program? A Program (or sound as we sometimes refer to it) is made up of six voices and one effect. The status of the two Patch Select buttons determines which of those six voices will play at any given time.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual The TS-12 is “smart” about voice allocation — there are a number of things you can do to increase the apparent polyphony of a sound and to minimize the effects of voice stealing. For example: • As soon as a voice is finished playing (either because it reached the end of the wave or because the volume envelope went to zero), that voice is returned to the pool, and a new note can use that voice rather than stealing one that is still sustaining.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs You can return to the edit program, even after selecting another program (as long as you don’t change any parameters there) by pressing the Compare button. This puts you back in the edit buffer, and any changes you make will affect the edit program. A general rule of thumb: The sound you hear, is the one you’re editing.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual Pressing the Up Arrow on an active (un-muted) voice will solo that voice. Solo voices are displayed enclosed by asterisks, with all other voices muted. Pressing the Down Arrow on a soloed voice will return it and all other voices to their normal status.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs Using the Group Edit feature • Make sure that the voices you want to edit are not muted and then double-click the Select Voice button. The Select Voice page will be displayed with all of the active voices underlined. • Perform the desired parameter edits. The Data Entry Slider will set the value of all of the parameters being edited to the absolute value displayed for the current voice.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual Write Page — Saving a New Program Into Memory Once you have modified an existing program or created an entirely new one, you can write or save that program to any User RAM location using the Write Page. This page is also used to rename the program with the name of your choice. When you are ready to save a program into memory, first decide on a name of up to eleven characters for your new program. Then: • Press Write Program.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs Compare Button. The Compare LED will light. Now press Write Program to return to the Write Page. Your new program and its new name should still be in the edit buffer intact. To Save the Program • Press the appropriate Bank button, and while holding it down, press the soft button which corresponds to the program you wish to write over. This writes the new program, with its new name, into that memory location.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual Envelope Parameters TS-12 Voice Configuration Times: Attack, Decay1, 2, 3, Release Levels: Peak, Break1, 2, Sustain Velocity to Level Mode (normal/finish/repeat) Velocity Curve (first 10 Mod Mixer shapes) Keyboard tracking of Times Velocity to Attack Time & Velocity to Release Time ENV 2 ENV 1 F1: Env 1 Amt Pitch Table Semi Octave tone Fine tune Cut off Kbd Amt Glide Mode & Glide Time Bend Range F2: Env 2 Amt Cut off Wave Mod Volu
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs Modulators About Modulation To modulate something is simply to cause it to change. With the TS-12, you can set basic, or manual, levels for the volume, pitch, brightness, etc. of a voice, and then modulate those levels in various ways in order to create movement and dynamics. Suppose you switch on your stereo and turn the volume half way up. This is the manual volume setting. It will stay at that level until it’s changed.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual Modulation Sources The 15 Modulation Sources available on the TS-12 are as follows: • LFO — Low Frequency Oscillator • NOISE — Noise Generator • ENV-1 — Envelope 1 • ENV-2 — Envelope 2 • MIXER — Mod Mixer/Shaper • WL + PR — Wheel + Pressure • PR + VL — Pressure + Velocity • WHEEL — Modulation Wheel • PITCH — Pitch Bend Wheel • PEDAL — Voltage Control Foot Pedal • TIMBR — Timbre Control • XCTRL — External Controller (MIDI) • PRESS — Pressure (Afte
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs • WHEEL — Modulation Wheel The Mod Wheel to the left of the keyboard is assignable wherever a modulator is selected. To use the mod wheel for vibrato (one common application) WHEEL must be assigned to modulate the LFO, and the LFO Amount set to some number other than zero on the Pitch Mods Page. The mod wheel’s effect is positive-going only, from 0 (wheel towards you) to +99 (wheel away from you).
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual • XCTRL — External Controller Like the TIMBR modulator, the External Controller (XCTRL) modulator can be assigned to modulate any voice or effect modulation destination. Whenever you are playing a sound or preset, you can press the Brightness/Timbre button three times to get to the XCTRL sub-page, and use the Data Entry Slider to change the level of the XCTRL modulator.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs • KEYBD — Keyboard Tracking This uses the position of a note on the keyboard as a modulator. The scaling effect of this Modulator is based on a 76-note keyboard: +100 +50 0 -50 -100 TS-10 (a 61-note keyboard) TS-12 (a 76-note keyboard) MIDI Key numbers 0-127 As the above illustration shows, the effect of KEYBD as a modulator goes negative as well as positive.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual Wave Page Each TS-12 voice will play one of the 254 waves in its memory. These waves are the “raw material” from which TS-12 programs are crafted. On the Wave page you can choose which wave the currently selected voice will play, and modify the various playback parameters of the wave.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs Complete TS-12 ROM Wave Catalog The wave class is shown in bold at the top of each ROM Wave group.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs JAZZSNARE SNARE-ROL RIMSHOT-1 RIMSHOT-2 SIDESTK-1 16 WINDCHIME WNDCHIME2 FNGR-SNAP SYN-CLAPS SYN-KISS RATTLE TS-12 Musician’s Manual ANA-WAVE2 ANA-WAVE3 ANA-WAVE4 METL-WAVE
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs Using the Copy Functions The Copy page provides programming utility functions for: • copying entire pages of parameter data at once while programming voices • copying complete voices, effects, or programs • changing the system pitch-table About the Copy Functions When programming synthesizers, it is often desirable to be able to make changes to some component of a sound and then to transfer the newly modified component to another part of the same
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual There is a well-defined group of copy contexts that are available for your use. The copy context is set whenever you select pages from within this group. The following table shows the copy context that is automatically set whenever particular pages are displayed. Note: Prior page... Copy context What gets copied...
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs buffer is loaded with the currently selected primary program before the recall is completed. The compare buffer is always selected after a recall. If Group Edit is active when pages of voice parameters are recalled, then the recall will affect all of the voices in the group. The data being recalled will be written into all of the grouped voices in the compare buffer at the same time.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual Special Copy Operations There are also some special command options that appear in the display (above the lower left soft button) for certain copy contexts. DEFAULT There are some copy contexts which provide the option of recalling default parameter settings automatically. When this option is available, the DEFAULT command appears in the lower left part of the display.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs SYSTEM For the PITCHTABLE parameter context only: When entered from the Edit Pitch-table pages, the Copy page shows the SYSTEM command on the lower left part of the display. This command will copy the pitch-table directly from the currently program, or from the compare buffer if the Compare LED is on, into the system pitchtable. It is not necessary to use the MAKE COPY command in this case.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual Copying a complete program to a new location It is easy to copy programs from one location to another using the copy and recall functions. Simply follow this procedure: • Press Sounds and select the program that you wish to copy. This will automatically set the copy context to PROGRAM PARAMETERS. • Press Copy to display the Copy page. • Press the soft button below the MAKE COPY option to copy the program into the copy buffer.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs About Pitch-Tables Alternate pitch-tables enable you to chart new musical territories as well as explore ancient and ethnic tunings. In Western music, equal temperament has been the dominant tuning for the last one hundred and fifty years, and is really a musical compromise. In equal temperament, all intervals are equally out of tune.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual As mentioned earlier, whenever you create a custom pitch-table, the TS-12 will delete voices 5 and 6, and use the memory normally occupied by those parameters to store the pitch-table. • Press the soft button underneath PITCH-TABLE to REPLACE VOICES 5+6. This takes you to the Select Voice page, which now shows the words EDIT PITCH-TABLE where voices 5 and 6 once were.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs Go to sub-page for Extrapolate & Interpolate Source Key Playback Pitch (in Semitones) Playback Pitch (in Cents) For every source key on the lower left, you can see and edit the pitch of that key. The source key can be thought of as the physical location of the key on the keyboard. The playback pitch can be the same as the source key — as shown in the display — or it can be any pitch from A0 to C8. The range of the fine tuning is 00 to 99 cents.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual You are now free to create a new custom pitch-table in your current program. Now that you understand the relationship between the source key, playback pitch, and fine tuning in a custom pitch-table, let’s start over. This time we’ll work with an ancient tuning system, called Pythagorean. Then, we’ll work with the TS-12 built-in pitch-table calculator, and two new procedures: Extrapolation and Interpolation.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs The KEY-RANGE defines the area of the keyboard that the TS-12 will use as a reference by which to make its calculations. To set the key-range: • The START key (the first of the two key numbers shown) should be underlined. If not, press the soft button beneath it to select it. Now, play C4 (middle C) on the keyboard. The underline jumps to the END key. • The END key should now be underlined. Play C5 on the keyboard.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual Using the Copy page with Pitch-Tables • • • • Select a program which contains a custom pitch-table. Press Select Voice. Press either soft button beneath EDIT PITCH-TABLE. Press the Copy button.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs Dynamic Pitch-Table Selection The TS-12 allows you to easily switch between different system pitch-tables in performance situations. With PITCH-TABLE=U1-PROGRAMS (on the System Page), you can instantly load new CUSTOM system pitch-tables without affecting the sound you are playing by selecting programs in BankSet U1. This allows you to change the tuning while playing, and without having to actually select a different sound.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press the Up Arrow button. The display reads: Whenever you create a wave-list, the TS-12 will delete voices 5 and 6, and use the memory normally occupied by those parameters to store the wave-list. • Press the soft button underneath WAVE-LIST to replace voices 5 & 6, and create a new default wave-list in the program. Selecting WAVE-LIST will also display the Select Voice page with the EDIT WAVE-LIST option activated.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs When the displayed wave name for a voice is WAVE-LIST, the actual individual wave name for each step of the wave-list is shown only on the Wave-List Editor page (accessed by selecting EDIT WAVE-LIST). If a voice’s displayed wave name is anything other than WAVE-LIST, and it is active (no brackets around the wave name), then that voice will sound using the displayed wave whenever a key is pressed. • Press either soft button beneath EDIT WAVE-LIST.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual About Drum-Maps Drum-Maps are similar to pitch-tables in that they replace voices 5 and 6 in a program with a set of parameters which redefine the pitch of individual keys on the keyboard. Drum-Maps do not have the same tuning resolution as pitch-tables, but they add the ability to also assign different waves, volume levels, panning, and voice output assignments to individual keys across the keyboard.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs Ensoniq Drum Map HI-HATS KICK DRUMS SNARE DRUMS TOM TOMS MISC. PERCUSSION CYMBALS How to Create a Drum-Map • Select a program into which you want to install a custom drum-map. • Press Program Control. The display shows the Program Control page: • Make sure OPTION=*-NONE-* is underlined. • Press the Up Arrow button.
Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press the Wave button. The display shows: • As you can see, activating a Drum-Map in a Program automatically changes the Wave for the four remaining voices to Drum-Map. Your edited program now contains a Drum-Map and all four voices will play the Drum-Map. Note: When a Program contains a Drum-Map, the OCTAVE and SEMITONE values on the PITCH page will have no effect on the Drum-Map.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 8 — Understanding Programs Removing a Drum-Map If a program contains a custom drum-map and you wish to remove it (thus restoring voices 5 and 6) you can do so from the Program Control page. To remove a custom drum-map: • • • • • Press Program Control to display the Program Control page. Underline OPTION=DRUM-MAP. Press the Down Arrow button. The TS-12 will ask ERASE CURRENT DRUM-MAP? Press *YES*.
Section 9 — Program Parameters This section covers the parameters which can be edited independently for each Voice within a Program. For a general overview of the program concepts involved, refer to the previous section. LFO Page The LFO Page contains the parameters related to the Low Frequency Oscillator. Each voice in a program has its own LFO, which can be assigned as a modulator wherever a modulation source is selected. LFO’s are commonly used to create vibrato, tremolo and other effects.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual of the soft button above RATE will toggle between the Rate value and the Track RATE Mod selector. Tip: If you set the LFO Rate to 00, and the RESTART-MODE parameter to ON, you can use the LFO as a gated modulator with a variable depth. Use WAVESHAPE=SQUARE, because it starts high. RATE MODSRC Range: various Selects a modulation source for LFO RATE from among the 15 available modulators.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters LFO Waveshapes +100 +100 +100 0 0 0 -100 -100 -100 TRIANGLE SINE SINE/TRI +100 +100 +100 +50 +50 0 0 0 POS/SINE -100 POS/TRI SAWTOOTH +100 0 -100 SQUARE RESTART-MODE Range: OFF or ON Determines whether the LFO will restart with each keystrike. When set to OFF, the LFO will cycle continuously without resetting.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual ENV1, ENV2, ENV3 — TS-12 Envelopes An Envelope is a shape, or contour, which we apply to a signal source to make it change over time. Each TS-12 voice has three envelopes. These envelopes are automatically routed to the pitch, filter frequency and amplitude of the voice, though ENV1 and ENV2 can also be assigned elsewhere, wherever a modulator is selectable. • ENV1 is routed to the pitch of the voice.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters Press the Env 3 button to get to the first ENV3 sub-page containing the five TIME parameters: Note that the numbers shown here represent times, not rates. That is, the envelope will take a fixed amount of time to go from one level to another no matter how close together or far apart those two levels are.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual ENVELOPE TIMES time time time time time value (in sec) value (in sec) value (in sec) value (in sec) value (in sec) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 .00 .01 .02 .03 .04 .06 .07 .08 .08 .09 .10 .11 .11 .12 .13 .14 .15 .16 .17 .19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 .20 .22 .23 .25 .27 .29 .31 .33 .35 .38 .41 .44 .47 .50 .54 .58 .62 .66 .71 .76 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 .82 .
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters Press the Env 3 button again. This displays the final sub-page for ENV 3: MODE (ENV 1 and ENV 2) Range: NORMAL, FINISH, or REPEAT • NORMAL — The envelope plays through normally. • FINISH — The envelope runs its full cycle — finishes playing through all its stages — ignoring the key-up event. The envelope spends no time at the sustain stage.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual A looped (sustaining) wave will continue to use the voice until the envelope reaches zero.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters CONVEX-2 50 Keyboard Velocity 100 CONCAVE2 100 50 Keyboard Velocity 100 50 Keyboard Velocity 50 100 Output 50 100 Keyboard Velocity CONCAVE4 100 LATERISE 100 50 0 0 0 100 50 0 0 0 0 100 Output Output 100 100 50 0 50 Keyboard Velocity 50 Keyboard Velocity CONCAVE3 100 50 0 0 0 50 50 Output CONCAVE1 0 0 100 50 Output 100 50 Output Output 0 50 Keyboard Velocity LINEAR Output 50 Output 50 CONVEX
Section 9 — Program Parameters OCTAVE Range: Changes the pitch of the voice by octaves. TS-12 Musician’s Manual -4 to +4 octaves SEMITONE Range: -11 to +11 Changes the pitch of the voice by semitones. Incrementing/decrementing this control beyond +11 or -11 automatically increases/decreases the octave by one. FINE Range: -99 to +99 Fine-tunes the pitch of the voice by steps of one cent (1/100 of a semitone).
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters (WITH PEDAL DOWN) PEDAL Staccato Glide YES MONO LEGATO TRIGGER MINIMODE YES NO NO NO MODE GLIDE MODES Legato Legato Envelope Glide Retrigger YES YES YES YES YES YES Note Memory NO YES YES YES NO YES YES NO YES GLIDETIME Range: 00 to 99 This parameter controls the time it takes for the pitch to slide smoothly (glide) from one note to another. The higher the value, the longer the glide time. The TS-12 uses Constant-Time Portamento.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • SYSTEM — Uses whatever is selected as the system pitch-table on the System page. Normally this is standard twelve-tone equal temperament tuning across the keyboard. However, a custom pitch-table can be copied into the system pitch-table for use by all sounds. The PITCH-TABLE parameter on the System page determines what the System pitch-table will be. • ALL-C4 — No pitch tracking — the same pitch (C4) plays across the keyboard.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters velocity, etc. You can create some very interesting filter configurations by using a different modulator for each filter. For instance, try using pressure to modulate the filters. You can drive one filter up with pressure, while simultaneously driving the other down. Filter Configurations The diagrams below show a number of possible filter configurations. On the left are the response curves of the two filters shown separately.
Section 9 — Program Parameters Filter 1 Mode Modulation Source TS-12 Musician’s Manual Filter 1 Cutoff Frequency Modulation Amount Filter 1 Keyboard Scaling Amount Env. 2 Modulation Amount FILTER1 Mode Range: LO-PASS/2 or LO-PASS/3 Determines whether Filter 1 will be a 2-pole or a 3-pole low-pass filter. CUTOFF Range: 000 to 127 Determines the initial filter cutoff frequency for each of the two filters. With a low-pass filter, a setting of 127 lets all the original signal pass through the filter.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters MODSRC Range: various Selects a modulation source for the filter cutoff frequency from among the 15 available modulators. MODAMT Range: -99 to +99 Determines the amount by which the assigned filter modulator will affect the filter cutoff frequency. ENV2 Range: -99 to +99 Determines the amount by which Envelope 2 will affect the filter cutoff frequency. FILTER 2 Page Press the Filters button again.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual OUTPUT KBD-SCALE Range: -99 to +99, or ZON Can be used to fade the voice in or out between the two keys specified to the right (see below). This is good for doing keyboard crossfades between voices, or for reducing the volume of a particular voice as you go higher up the keyboard. A value of +99 will fade the voice in from silence to full level from the low keys to the high keys.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters The next two parameters on the top line of the display provide a powerful tool for shaping the volume of the sound across the keyboard: LO/HI-KEY Ranges: -A0 to C8 Sets the key range over which the fade-in, fade-out, or keyboard zone will occur. When this parameter is selected, notes can be entered from the keyboard or using the Data Entry Slider or Up/Down Arrow buttons.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual DESTINATION-BUS Range: FX1, FX2, DRY, or AUX Each voice within a sound can be routed to one of four stereo “busses:” • FX1, FX2, and DRY feed the main stereo outputs of the TS-12. • AUX sends the voice directly to the AUX Outputs. Note that voices sent to the AUX Outputs are always dry; that is, they bypass the effects processor. The diagram below shows a common routing of the signals for each bus.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters to protect a voice or voices from being stolen — such as cymbals or a sustaining “pad” sound in a sequencer track. VELOCITY-WINDOW LO & HI Ranges: 000 to 127 The LO and HI parameters allow you to define the velocity range for each voice. The full velocity range (default) is LO=000 HI=127. By adjusting these parameters, you can set specific velocity ranges for each voice. This allows velocity switching between different voices within the program.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Class-Specific Wave Parameters The parameters shown on the lower line of the display on the Wave page will vary depending on the current wave class. For each wave class, the lower line of the display will contain parameters controlling the features which are specific to that class. Changing the wave class resets these parameters.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters TRANSWAVE -Specific Wave Parameters Each Transwave is actually composed of many different single-cycle waveforms, which progress from one timbre to another, occupying adjacent areas of memory. Movement within the sound is created by playing different waveforms in succession; that is, by modulating the wavetable. The illustration below shows a typical wave of this category, with the index set in the middle range, near 50.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Hyper-Wave™ -Specific Wave Parameters Hyper-Wave architecture allows up to 16 waves to be defined in a list, which can be swept through, or cross-faded for timbre-shifting and Jam-Loops. Hyper-Waves are created by selecting WAVE-LIST with the OPTION parameter found on the Program Control page. HyperWaves have there own specific wave parameters.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual MOD-DESTINATION Section 9 — Program Parameters Range: *-NONE-*, START-STEP, LOOP-START, ENDSTEP, TRAVELER, or START+LOOP • When set to START-STEP, the output level of the START-MODSRC at the time of the note-on will determine which step the Wave-List will begin playing at. A positive MODAMT will cause MODSRC output to increment the START-STEP above the manual level. A negative MODAMT will decrement the START-STEP below the manual level.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Mod Mixer Page The Mod Mixer is a unique feature which allows you to: • combine and assign two modulators to a single modulation input • scale and/or shape the response of one of those modulators according to one of 16 Mod Shaper Curves Select the voice you want to edit on the Select Voice page, and then press Mod Mixer.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters SHAPE Range: various Here you select which of the 16 tracking curves will be applied to the modulator selected as SRC2.
Section 9 — Program Parameters Input (Src-2): Scale Factor: TS-12 Musician’s Manual Shape: x1 Convex Concave x1 x1 Quant-08 x1 Smoother x1 Smoother x2 Linear 26 Output:
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters Program Control Page The parameters on this page control aspects of the program that affect all of the individual voices within the program. Press Program Control. The display shows: Type Range: various Allows you to define a sound class for your sound. This setting can be used by third-party editor librarian software for “automatic-sorting” of sounds by type.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual *-NONE-*, PITCHTBL, WAVELIST, or DRUM-MAP The setting of this parameter indicates whether a Custom Pitch-Table, a Wave-List, or a DrumMap exists within the sound. These options occupy the portion of a sound program which is usually used by voices 5 and 6, so when an Option is present, you do not have access to those two voices.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters Press the Program Control button again to get to the second sub-page: The following parameters are the default settings for the Track parameters that are stored with the Program. For more information about how these parameters function, see Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters. ATCK Range: -64 to +63 Editing the ATCK parameter default values will simultaneously edit the Track ATTACK Parameter values on the track that the sound is occupying.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Press Program Control again to get to the third sub-page: TIMBRE V1 to V6 Ranges: -64 to +63 The TIMBRE sub-page controls the relative volume modulation amounts for each Voice, as controlled by Timbre. Note that when OPTIONS is set to PITCH-TABLE, WAVE-LIST, DRUMMAP, the V5 and V6 parameters are not displayed. Pitch-Table Editor Parameters The following parameters are only available when OPTION=PITCH-TABLE on the first Program Control Page.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters Fine Tune Parameter Range: 00 to 99 cents Enables you to fine tune the pitch, or create micro-tunings and other alternate tunings. *EXIT* • Press *EXIT* to return to the first Program Control sub-page, eliminating any edits you may have made on the Pitch-Table Editor sub-page. To display the Extrapolate/Interpolate sub-page, press the *CALCULATOR* soft button.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Copy Pitch-Table Parameters Pressing Copy from the Edit Pitch-Table sub-page will display the Copy page: The MAKE COPY parameter allows you to make a copy of the complete pitch-table from the currently selected program (or the Compare Buffer) into the Copy Buffer.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters Wave-List Editor Parameters The following parameters are only available when OPTION=WAVE-LIST on the Program Control Page. To access the Wave-List Editor parameters for a program that does not contain a Wave-List: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Press the Program Control button. Select the OPTIONS parameter by pressing its soft button. Press the Up Arrow button. Select WAVE-LIST on the bottom of the display by pressing its soft button.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual XFADE-TIME Range: 00000 to 60000 (0 to 60 sec) Sets the amount of time that the selected wave step will cross-fade into the following wave step. The XFADE-TIME adds time to the duration of both the current step and the next step: DUR DUR Step 1 Step 2 XFADE-TIME DEPTH Range: 0 to 6 dB Determines how many decibels (dB0 below normal volume the two wave steps will meet at the center point of the cross-fade curve.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters Copy Wave-List Parameters Pressing Copy from the Edit Wave-List sub-page will display the Copy page: The MAKE COPY parameter allows you to make a copy of the complete Wave-List from the currently selected program (or the Compare Buffer) into the Copy Buffer.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual PAN parameter are: *VOICE* L------L------L------C------R------R------R Note: Uses Patch VOICE panning Hard Left Medium Left Soft Left Center Soft Right Medium Right Hard Right When PAN=*VOICE*, the key uses whatever pan setting is chosen on the Output page of the voice(s) responding to the key. All of the other PAN settings override the pan setting on the Output page.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters sounds through unchanged, but then closes down to create a gate-type effect. Can be used for almost all unlooped drums & percussion. To create a percussion decay out of a looped sound, you should use the LDECAY, MDECAY or SDECAY voices described below. DRUM-FX2 Same as above, routed to FX-2 DRUM-DRY Same as above, routed to DRY TIGHT-FX1 Very quick decay drum/perc. env., routed to FX-1. Good for transients, muted or “choked” sounds.
Section 9 — Program Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Copy Drum-Map Parameters Pressing Copy from the Drum-Map Editor page will display the Copy page: The MAKE COPY option allows you to make a copy of the complete Drum-Map from the currently selected program (or the Compare Buffer) into the Copy Buffer.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 9 — Program Parameters Program Effects Page Understanding the effect algorithms and their related parameters are described in detail in Section 6 — Understanding Effects and Section 7 — Effect Parameters. Select Voice Page The Select Voice page is used to view the six voices that create a program sound.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer This section contains an introduction to the TS-12 sequencer and all the information you’ll need to get started sequencing. More detailed descriptions of the actual parameters are covered in the following section. Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications explains some typical uses of the TS12 sequencer.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual A sequence has a fixed length (though you can change it at any time) which is set by the length of the first track you record. A given sequence can be as short or as long as you like (within the limitations of memory). Each sequence has an eleven-character name which you assign to it at the time of its creation. The name can be changed at any time from the Info sub-page of the Edit Sequence page.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer • Pressing Play while holding down Record will start the sequencer recording on the current track from the beginning of the sequence or song. • Pressing Stop/Continue while holding down Record will start the sequencer recording on the current track from wherever it was last stopped. • Pressing Record while the sequencer is playing will put the sequencer into “Punch in” Standby mode.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer Current Sequencer Bank TS-12 Musician’s Manual Song names are always preceded by a "$" A dot by the location means the song or sequence contains recorded data Select a -BLANK- location to create a new sequence or song Song names always have a dollar sign ($) as the first character, so that you can tell at a glance which locations contain sequences and which are songs.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer Sequencer Tracks Each TS-12 sequence and song has twelve independent polyphonic Tracks on which you can record notes, controllers, and program changes using local TS-12 sounds, remote MIDI instruments, or both. These tracks are selected from the two Seq/Song Track pages, labeled Seq/Song Tracks 1-6 and 7-12. Let’s take a look at the Seq/Song Tracks pages: Press Seq/Song Tracks 1-6.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual Replacing the Sound on a Sequence or Song Track To replace the TS-12 sound on a given Sequence or Song track with a sound of your choice: • While on either of the Seq/Song Tracks pages, select one of the six tracks. • Press the Replace Track Sound button. The display will show program bank pages, but the Sounds LED will flash, indicating that you are in Replace Track Sound mode.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer • Press the Bank 0 button. The display shows: • Press the lower right soft button beneath LAYERS OUT. We will be replacing a track sound assignment in this sequence. • Press the Sequencer Control button and set LOOP=ON. This way you can hear the LAYERS OUT sequence repeat continuously, allowing you to audition several different Programs without having to restart the sequence each time.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual assignment when the sequencer is playing. • Now that we’ve auditioned Programs within the same Program Type and found the Program that we want to use to replace BEST-PAD, press the Replace Track Sound button. • The display shows the last viewed Sound Bank page. In this case it’s R2-8. Press the soft button beneath WARMSAW.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer Sound Name Sound Name When you then select any of the Track parameter pages, the display will show only the parameter values for the six tracks, and not the names of the sounds: Parameter Value Parameter Value Let’s look at a Sequencer Track Performance parameter, and you’ll get a better idea how this works. Using the Brightness/Timbre page as an example: • Press Seq/Song Tracks 1-6 or 7-12.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual Important: In Sequencer mode, selecting and editing a track from a Track Parameter page does not change what is selected or layered on the Seq/Song Tracks 1-6 and 7-12 pages — i.e. it does not affect what you hear when you play the keyboard. This means that you can edit a track parameter value for one (or more) of the tracks within a group of layered sounds without changing the layer. You can adjust volume, pan, timbre, etc.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer Copying a Preset Along With its Effect into 3 Sequencer Tracks To copy a preset along with its effect into the sequence (replacing the current sequence effect with the one in the preset), follow the same procedure as above, with the addition of pressing the Track Effects button before pressing Seq/Song Tracks 1-6 or 7-12 in the last step.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual Creating a New Song • On any Sequencer Bank page, select a -BLANK- sequencer location, as described above. The display will show the CREATE NEW *SONG* OR *SEQUENCE* screen. • Press the soft button above *SONG*. The display shows: Song names are always preceded by “$” to indicate their special nature. Note that you cannot change this $ character. The other ten characters can be edited.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer button next to that track. This defines the track and puts the currently selected sound on it. Otherwise, you can just leave Track 1 selected and start from there. 3) Select a Sound for the Track: • Press Replace Track Sound. The display shows Program Bank pages; the Sounds LED is flashing.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual to put the sound of your choice on the selected track. • Press Record/Play to begin recording. The click track will play for one measure (assuming COUNTOFF= REC or CLICK), then the sequencer will enter record mode. It will record whatever you play on the new track until: 1) the end of the sequence is reached, or 2) you press Stop/Continue (or press the assigned AUX Foot Switch).
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer “Punching In” on a Track The TS-12 offers two methods for “punching in” (or re-recording) a specific part of a track. When AUTOPUNCH=OFF (on either the Locate or Sequencer Control sub-page), you can punch in manually just by playing the keyboard to start recording. When AUTOPUNCH=ON, the TS-12 will enter and exit Record mode automatically at the precise times that you specify on the Locate sub-page.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual Finding the BankSet, Bank, and Display Location for Sounds on Sequencer Tracks To find the BankSet, Bank and Display location (U0-1.5, U1-3.1, R2-7.4, etc.) for the sounds assigned to sequencer tracks: • Select the sequence or song using the Seqs•Songs button, the Bank buttons (0-9), and the appropriate soft button in the display. • Press the Seq/Song Tracks 1-6 (or 7-12) button.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer Edit Sequence Page — Sequence Edit Functions Pressing the Edit Sequence button displays the sequence editing page. Pressing the button twice will display the sub-page containing the Add and Delete Bars functions. The following functions can be selected from the Edit Song page: • APPEND — Lets you append (attach) one sequence onto another.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual This set up is ideal for controlling everything right from the TS-12.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer receiving unit is playing. While playing the TS-12 Keyboard, adjust the program number until the external instrument is playing the sound you want. From now on, whenever you select that sequence, or when it plays as a step in a song, this track will send out this program change on its selected MIDI channel.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual Changing a Sound within a Sequence or Song Track (Recording Program Changes) The TS-12 can change track sounds in a sequence or song, allowing you to change the sound that is playing on the track as the track plays. There are two ways to do this. Both methods will have the same effect, but the first is best suited for local tracks, the second for MIDI tracks.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer To send/record a MIDI program change: Bank 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1) Press and hold the track's soft button 2) "Type" the program # on the bank buttons 3) Release the soft button • This same procedure can be used at any time to send a program change to a remote MIDI device, whether the sequencer is in record or not.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual • The TS-12 keyboard will only transmit Channel pressure out via MIDI, however. • Either Channel pressure or Poly-Key pressure will be received via incomng MIDI. Note: When REC-SOURCE=MULTI on the Sequencer Control page, the TS-12 sequencer will always record both Channel and Poly-Key pressure (received via incoming MIDI), no matter what the Track PRESSURE parameter is set to.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer Edit Track Page — Track Edit Functions Pressing the Edit Track button displays the top level track editing page. Pressing the button twice will display the track edit options sub-page. These edit functions will affect the currently selected track. If a sequence is selected, the current sequence track will be edited; if a song is selected, the current song track will be edited.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual Song Mode The TS-12’s Song Mode is the key to unlocking its true power as a Performance/Composition Synthesizer. In song mode, you can chain a number of sequences together to form a song. Songs are made up of Steps — for each song step, you can choose a sequence to play and the number of repetitions of that sequence, as well as mute and transpose status for each track of the sequence. But wait, there’s more.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer Edit Song Page — Song Edit Functions Pressing the Edit Song button displays the top level song editing page. Pressing the button twice will display the Song Step Editor. If you press the Edit Song button when a sequence is selected, the display will respond SONG NOT SELECTED and will not allow you onto this page.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual To change anything in an existing Song Step: • To change any of the variables (sequence name, number of reps, track mute or transpose status) within a Song Step which has already been created, simply go to that step, as described above, select the thing you want to edit and change it. To Insert a step anywhere in the song: • Press STEP=## and go to the step before where you want to insert the step.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Song Step 1: Sequence 01 (4 bars) Sequence Track 1 Sequence Track 2 Sequence Track 3 Sequence Track 4 Sequence Track 5 Sequence Track 6 Sequence Track 7 Sequence Track 8 Sequence Track 9 Sequence Track 10 Sequence Track 11 Sequence Track 12 Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer SONG Song Step 2: Sequence 02 (8 bars) Sequence Track 1 Sequence Track 2 Sequence Track 3 Sequence Track 4 Sequence Track 5 Sequence Track 6 Sequence Track 7 Sequence Track 8 Sequence Track 9 Sequence Tr
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual Viewing Sequence Tracks in Song Mode When a song is selected, what you see on the Seq/Song Tracks pages and the track parameter pages depends on the setting of the EDIT TRACKS parameter on the Sequencer Control page. • When EDIT TRACKS=SONG, the Seq/Song Tracks pages and the Track Parameter pages will show the song tracks. Any changes you make will affect the song tracks only.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer To Record Mix or Pan Changes to a Song Track: • Select a song containing song tracks you want to mix down. • Press Sequencer Control, set the Record Mode parameter to RECORD MODE= MIXDOWN. • Press Sequencer Control again and set the Edit Tracks parameter to EDIT TRACKS=SONG. (Note that you can toggle between Song tracks and Sequence tracks in song mode by doubleclicking the Seq/Song Tracks 1-6 or 7-12 button.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual Sequencer Tempo Track As of software version 2.0, songs are created with Song Track 12 assigned to be a Tempo Track by default. This allows you to record continuous tempo changes to the sequences that make up a song. Here’s how: • First create a song by selecting a -BLANK- Seqs/Songs location. Name the song if you wish. • Press the Edit Song button, and press the soft button beneath EDIT STEPS.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer location (bottom right in the display). • Press the soft button beneath *TEMPO-TRK* to select it. • Press the Edit Track button, and select the ERASE command by pressing its soft button. • The display asks ERASE TRACK 12? Press the soft button above *YES*. The display will return to the Seq/Song Tracks 7-12 page, and the Tempo Track will now be -UNDEFINED-. • You can now select Song Track 12 to assign it the last selected sound.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual time using the Data Entry Controls. 4) Press Record then Play. 5) At the bridge (song step 3), press the Up Arrow button five times slowly to increase the tempo. 6) At the end of song step 3, quickly press the Down Arrow button five times to return the tempo to +00. You can either let the song finish playing, or press the Stop•Continue button. 7) On the Audition page, press the soft button beneath KEEP NEW TRACK.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer 27) Press the soft button above *EXIT*. 28) You can audition your tempo changes by pressing the soft button above PLAY NEW TRACK, and keep them by selecting KEEP NEW. You have just successfully eliminated four Tempo Track events (+04, +03, +02, and +01) using the Event Editor. Using Multi-Track Record Tracks do not have to be selected in order to have data recorded on them, but they must be defined.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual If external sync is being used (CLOCK=MIDI), recording begins with the first clock received after the MIDI Start command. If internal sync is selected (CLOCK=INT), then recording begins when the first note is received. Note: With the SQX-70 installed, the sequencer can record over 97,00 notes. However the sequencer record buffer is of a limited size, and can only record 16, 00 notes at one time.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer Recording into the Sequencer in a MIDI Loop Use the following basic procdure if you want to record into the TS-12’s sequencer from its own keyboard in a MIDI loop. You can record to a single track, or to multiple stacked tracks, depending on which tracks are selected, and how you set the REC-SOURCE parameter on the Sequencer Control page: • Set MIDI-TRK-NAMES=ON on the System page.
Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer TS-12 Musician’s Manual Using the Step Entry Recorder All notes played and all control changes made in Step Entry mode will always be recorded into the new track. With GATE-TIME=HELD, if you enter a note and release the key without advancing the track location (time), then the note will be recorded with minimum (1/64th note) duration. This is also true when using AutoStep because the key down and key up appear to occur at the same time.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer Whenever you record any track of a sequence or song, all of these values are automatically saved — that is, they will be remembered by the TS-12 if you leave the sequence (by selecting another one) and return to it later.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters The following parameters control the TS-12 sequencer. Parameters for creating and manipulating sequences, songs, and the tracks contained within each are covered here. For a basic overview of the concepts involved, refer to the previous section. Sequencer Editing Functions Edit Song Edit Sequence Edit Track The three Edit buttons in the top row of the Sequencer section of the front panel provide access to the various sequencer editing functions.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual INFO Sub-Page Pressing the soft button above INFO displays a page containing information about the song, including the song name, the size in blocks, the song tempo offset, number of steps, and the elapsed time at the current tempo. From this page, you can also rename the song, and adjust the tempo offset. The parameters on this page are: NAME Used to rename the song.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters • Use the data entry controls to select a location for the copied song. Note that only undefined sequencer locations will be available for selecting. • Press *YES* to copy the song to the new location (or press *NO* to cancel). The new song will be given the same name as the original one you copied. You can rename it from the Edit Song INFO page as described above. EDIT STEPS Page Pressing EDIT STEPS displays the song step editor page.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual FS stands for Foot Switch. In order to use this function you must first assign one of the Foot Switches (on the System page) to SONG-STEP. When REPS=FS, the song step will loop continuously until the assigned foot switch is pressed. When the foot switch is pressed, the current step will finish playing and then advance to the next step.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters Edit Sequence Page Parameters • Press the Edit Sequence button. The display shows: These commands affect the currently selected sequence. If a song is selected, these commands affect the song tracks in the song. APPEND This function allows you to append one sequence onto the end of another (or to itself, doubling its length). A sequence which you specify will be appended (or “tacked on”) to the end of the currently selected sequence.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual SIZE Range: (read only) Displays the size of the current sequence in events. TEMPO Range: 025 to 250, or EXT This displays the tempo of the current sequence. Changing the tempo here has the same effect as changing it on the three other pages where tempo appears; Click, Sequence Control, and Locate. On this page, however you can see the elapsed time change as you change the tempo (see below).
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters From the Edit Sequence page, press LENGTH. The display shows: This sub-page shows the name, number of bars, and time signature for the sequence, as well as the Add and Delete Bars commands. ADD BARS The Add Bars function lets you add any number of bars to the sequence up to a total sequence length of 999 bars. It consists of two steps: 1) you specify at which bar you want to start adding bars, and then 2) you select how many bars you want to add.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press DELETE BARS — the display shows the following: • Use the data entry controls to determine at which bar you want to begin removing bars. This can be any Bar within the Sequence. Bars will be deleted from the beginning of the Bar you select here. • Press the soft button above DELETE ## BARS. • Use the data entry controls to select how many bars you want to delete. • Press *YES* to complete the command, or press *NO* to cancel.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters • To set the key range, press the soft button beneath the low and high keys, underlining the low key. Play the lowest note you want affected by the edit function; the underline switches to the high key. Play the highest key you want to be affected. The underline disappears, allowing you to play the keyboard without resetting the ranges every time you press a key.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Make sure the track you want to quantize is selected. • Press Edit Track, then select QUANTIZE. The display shows: • Use the data entry controls to specify the note value to which the track is to be quantized.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters SWING Range: 50 to 74% When you specify a SWING percentage value, you are defining the offset amount that every second quantize point (known as the swing note) will be delayed. In keeping with the swing implementation in most MIDI sequencers, the SWING range is from 50% (the same as straight quantization) to 74% (a tick before the next higher note value). A setting of 66 is equivalent to setting the quantization to triplets.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Quantize points: Q = Straight S = Swing 8th 16th 16th 50% 01 25 49 73 01 Clocks (Original) PERCENT At 0% At 25% At 50% At 100% Time In this example, QUANTIZE is set to 1/8th notes and SWING is set to 50%. Increasing the PERCENT setting moves the events closer to the quantize points. Notice how increasing the quantize percentage tightens up the track timing. The default value for this parameter is 100% when the sequencer is initialized.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters Using the Quantize Options Percentage quantization can be used to “tighten up” a track without placing everything exactly on a quantize point. This can make loose tracks sound tighter without sounding mechanical. It’s especially useful on passages where you want to play constantly ahead of or behind the beat. You can quantize the track to tighten up the looseness, yet still retain the rushed or laid back feel.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Quantize points: Q = Straight S = Swing 8th 16th 16th 74% 01 25 49 73 01 Clocks Quantized to Straight Eighths at Clock 72 with SWING=74 at Clock 75 with RANDOM=3 Re-Quantized to Straight Eighths Event moves to next 8th! Time In this example, QUANTIZE is set to 1/8th notes, SWING is set to 74% and RANDOM set to 3, the event can be moved beyond the Swing Quantize point.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters Destination Sequence Destination Track Starting Bar • If you want to copy the source track to a different sequence, select the destination sequence by using the data entry controls to choose the one you want. Notice that only predefined sequences can be selected. The default is the current sequence, the one the source track is in.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual The track editing functions contained on this sub-page are as follows: TRANSPOSE The Transpose function will raise or lower the notes in the track by a specified number of octaves and/or semitones.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters KEY-VELOCITY — Note-On Velocity CNTL-1.MODWHL — Mod Wheel CNTL-4.PEDAL — Foot Pedal CNTL-7.VOLUME — Volume Pedal CNTL-10.PAN — Track or MIDI Pan CNTL-64.SUSTN — Sustain Foot Switch CNTL-66.SOSTU — Sostenuto Foot Switch CNTL-12.FX-SW — Effect Mod Foot Switch CNTL-70.PSEL — Patch Select Buttons CNTL-71.TIMBR — Track Timbre Controller CNTL-72.RELS — Track Release Time Controller CNTL-73.ATTAK — Track Attack Time Controller CNTL-74.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual EVENT-TYPE Controls which types of events will be shown as you scroll up through the events in the track. When set to ALL, every event in the track will be listed. On the other settings, some types of events will be left out of the list — when the Event Number (below) is changed, the display will jump directly to the next event of the type shown, skipping other types.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters • Time locations with no event are shown as EVENT=***.000. Note: For TMP (tempo event type) the value is a percentage increase or decrease of the tempo(s) of the sequences that make up the song: when TEMPO=+00, the ACTUAL value shows the actual tempo of the sequence corresponding to the song step that is currently playing. *EXIT* This exits Event List mode.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Seq Values: Bar, Beat, and Clock Song Values: Step, Repeats, Bar, Beat, and Clock To change the STARTING TIME of the current event, press the soft button below the time. The display shows: Event Starting Time Use the data entry controls to change the start point of the event, pressing the soft button beneath the time to move the cursor between Bar, Beat, and Clock.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters Auditioning Event Edit Changes If you press *EXIT* to leave the Event List function without having made any changes in the track, you will simply be returned to the Edit Track page.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual CNTL-7.VOLUME — Volume Pedal CNTL-10.PAN — Track or MIDI Pan CNTL-64.SUSTN — Sustain Foot Switch CNTL-66.SOSTU — Sostenuto Foot Switch CNTL-12.FX-SW — Effect Mod Foot Switch CNTL-70.PSEL — Patch Select Buttons CNTL-71.TIMBR — Track Timbre Controller CNTL-72.RELS — Track Release Time Controller CNTL-73.ATTAK — Track Attack Time Controller CNTL-74.BRITE — Track Brightness Controller CNTL-75.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters MERGE This command will take the data in the selected track and merge, or combine, it together with that of another track. The destination track can be in the same sequence or in a different sequence from the source track. Note that the source sequence is not altered or erased by this process. • Make sure the track you want to merge (the source track) is selected.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • QUIET — the countoff will occur in Play or Record modes without the click. TEMPO (Tap Tempo) Seq Range: 25 to 250 BPM, or EXT, Song Range: -64 to +63 Sets the tempo of the current sequence or song. On any of the three pages where tempo appears (Click, Sequencer Control, and Locate), the soft button nearest the TEMPO field can be used to “tap” in the tempo.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters RECORD-MODE Range: REPLACE, ADD, LOOPED, or MIXDOWN Selects between the three recording modes for the sequencer. • REPLACE — Anything recorded into an existing track will replace the data that was in the track previously. The sequencer will stop recording after one time through the sequence or song and will enter Audition/Play mode.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press Sequence Control again to display the second sub-page: SONG STEP EFFECT Range: SEQ or SONG This controls which effect(s) will be used while a song is playing — those from each individual sequence or a single “override” effect saved with the song. A song contains a series of sequences which will play in order. Each sequence has its own effect.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters EDIT TRACKS Range: SEQ or SONG This determines which set of tracks will be displayed on the track parameter pages when a song is selected. It also determines whether song or sequence tracks will be affected by volume or pan changes when you select RECORD MODE=MIXDOWN (see above). When incoming MIDI is received, the setting of this switch determines whether the sounds on the sequence or the song tracks will play.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • ON — Whenever you go into Record with this switch set to ON, the TS-12 will automatically display the Step Entry page after the countoff has elapsed. If there is no countoff, then it will be immediately displayed.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TIME Range: (described below) Allows you to set the current location on the track. The track location (or time) is normally displayed as a three–part parameter when you are recording a sequence track, with two additional parts added when a song track is being recorded. In sequence mode, the three parts are Bars, Beats, and Clocks. In song mode, Step Number and Repetition Count fields are added to the left of the Bars, Beats, and Clocks fields.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Locate Page Pressing the Sequencer Locate button displays a page which provides valuable sequencer information as well as control over tempo and Auto-locate functions. Pressing Locate again will reveal the second sub-page where you can set the Edit Times for use with the Autopunch feature. First we will look at the Locate page as it appears when a sequence is selected. When a song is selected, the Locate page is a little different (see below).
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters GOTO — Sequence Autolocate Control Displays the GOTO sub-page where the auto-locator destination is set. Use the GOTO function to quickly locate to any bar and beat within the sequence, in order to play or record from there. • Press GOTO. The display shows: GOTO will be flashing and the destination may be set using the Data Entry Slider or the Up/Down Arrow buttons.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual The following are display only parameters, provided here for your information: Sequence Name Shows the name of the sequence which is playing as the current song step. This is updated with the new steps as the song plays. STEP/REP Shows your current location in the song by steps and repetitions. You can locate to a different place in the song using the GOTO function described below.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters • Press GOTO. The display shows: GOTO is flashing and the destination may be set using the Data Entry Controls. • Press the soft button above the Step/Rep field to move the cursor between the Step and Repetition selecting the desired destination. Press the soft button beneath the Bar/Beat field to move the cursor between the Bar and Beat.
Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press Record/Play and play along with the track. The TS-12 will automatically enter record at the first clock of the third bar and exit record on the last clock of the third bar. EDIT TIMES IN and OUT Ranges: (various) When a sequence is selected, the display shows the Bar, Beat and Clock at which the TS-12 will enter and exit record when AUTOPUNCH=ON. Press the soft buttons nearest IN and OUT to select the Edit Times parameters for editing.
Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications This section covers a number of advanced sequencer applications, including using the TS-12 with a variety of external MIDI devices.
Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications TS-12 Musician’s Manual Song Position Pointers The TS-12 transmits and receives Song Position Pointers via MIDI. Song Position Pointers are MIDI commands that tell a sequencer or drum machine where to locate within a song or sequence. When the TS-12 receives a Song Position Pointer, it will locate to the appropriate place in the selected song or sequence.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications that track. • You see that from the Seq/Song Tracks 1-6 or 7-12 pages, you can change what plays from the TS-12 keyboard simply by selecting different tracks. You can layer tracks together by doubleclicking their soft buttons. You can adjust the mix, key range, transpose, etc. for any of the tracks. • Now create another sequence. (The TS-12 will ask you SAVE CHANGES TO ? Answer *YES*.) Name this sequence MIDI-OUT-2.
Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications TS-12 Musician’s Manual the tracks, defining them and putting the current sound on them. Press 7-12 and do the same for the 6 tracks there. Then press Seq/Song Tracks 1-6 again to return to the first 6 tracks. • Press the Track MIDI button in the Track Parameters section. The first sub-page, labeled STAT, shows the status for the six tracks. • Press Track MIDI again to reveal the second sub-page, labeled CHANNEL.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications • You may not want all 12 Tracks to receive. Tracks that you leave in the UNDEFINED state will not receive any MIDI data. Just define as many tracks as you need. Or set some tracks to SEND/---- on the Track MIDI page. Tracks set to SEND/---- will not respond to incoming MIDI data.
Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications TS-12 Musician’s Manual Using The TS-12 with a MIDI Guitar Controller The TS-12 makes an ideal voice module to use with any MIDI Guitar Controller which is capable of sending in MONO Mode. MONO Mode (MIDI Mode 4) allows a guitar controller to send the notes played on each string on a different MIDI Channel. This has the advantage of letting each string send pitch bends independently, which is the only way to truly recreate guitar technique on a synthesizer.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications The default values are as shown above. If you want to receive on a different set of MIDI channels, select each track and edit it accordingly. Unlike MONO A, in this mode the consecutive channel assignments are not automatic. You must set the tracks to six consecutive channels. Now you’re ready to play. A few things to bear in mind: • Notes played on each string will play only the corresponding track.
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Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications TS-12 Musician’s Manual What is General MIDI? General MIDI (GM) is an industry standard for program mapping that defines 128 sounds and their locations. This means that if a device conforms to the GM standard, MIDI Program Change #1 will always call up an acoustic piano. MIDI Program Change #62 will always call up a brass section, etc.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications Why use General MIDI? While the TS-12 instruments are a superb sound source, with greater fidelity and more programmability than most GM modules, there are interesting applications for General MIDI that can enhance your music making. 1. 2. There is an interesting genre of music software (for your computer) that creates backing patterns for you to play along with, for pleasure and study.
Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications TS-12 Musician’s Manual General MIDI Sound Map The following map shows the General MIDI sound name and program change number of each sound as they appear in the TS-12.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications GM and GS Percussion Key Maps (Channel 10) MIDI Note # 35 36 ___ 37 38 ___ 39 40 41 ___ 42 43 ___ 44 45 ___ 46 47 48 ___ 49 50 ___ 51 52 53 ___ 54 55 ___ 56 57 ___ 58 59 60 ___ 61 62 ___ 63 64 65 ___ 66 67 ___ 68 69 ___ 70 71 72 ___ 73 74 ___ 75 76 77 ___ 78 79 ___ 80 81 ___ 82 83 84 ___ 85 86 ___ 87 88 B1 C2 C2+ D2 D2+ E2 F2 F2+ G2 G2+ A2 A2+ B2 C3 C3+ D3 D3+ E3 F3 F3+ G3 G3+ A3 A3+ B3 C4 C4+ D4 D4+ E4 F4 F4+ G4 G4+ A4 A4+ B4
Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications TS-12 Musician’s Manual GM and GS Percussion Key Maps (Channel 10) MIDI Note # 35 36 ___ 37 38 ___ 39 40 41 ___ 42 43 ___ 44 45 ___ 46 47 48 ___ 49 50 ___ 51 52 53 ___ 54 55 ___ 56 57 ___ 58 59 60 ___ 61 62 ___ 63 64 65 ___ 66 67 ___ 68 69 ___ 70 71 72 ___ 73 74 ___ 75 76 77 ___ 78 79 ___ 80 81 ___ 82 83 84 ___ 85 86 ___ 87 88 14 26 - TR-808-KIT 41 - BRUSH-KIT B1 Kick Drum 2 Kick Drum 2 C2 C2+ D2 808 Bass Drum 808 Rim Shot 808 Snare Drum Kic
TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications There are four additional sounds assigned to keys in the MT-32-KIT: 90 (F6+) Crash 92 (G6+) Train 93 (A6) Jet 94 (A6+) Helicopter Using General MIDI in the Real World MIDI Out External MIDI Interface (if applicable) MIDI In Internal card, parallel port, modem, or printer port Computer (with MIDI Interface) connected to TS Keyboard Using TS-12 General MIDI Sounds with an External GM Sequencer Connecting the TS-12 keyboard to a comput
Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications 3. TS-12 Musician’s Manual Press the Up Arrow button to enter General MIDI mode. If the sequencer is running, the SEQUENCER MUST BE STOPPED message will be displayed. If the sequencer is stopped, the “SAVE CHANGES?” prompt will be displayed (if necessary). Otherwise, the following prompt will be displayed: 4. Pressing the soft button beneath *NO* will leave the TS-12 system unchanged, returning you to the first MIDI Control sub-page. 5.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications TS-12 General MIDI Parameters RECV (MIDI Reception) Range: ON or OFF This parameter is set to receive MIDI data by default (RECV=ON). By changing the RECV value for each MIDI channel, you can define how many Track/Channels you want to receive data via MIDI. Setting RECV=OFF will disable reception of MIDI notes, controllers and program changes on the displayed MIDI channel.
Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications TS-12 Musician’s Manual Manually Assigning GM Sounds to Each MIDI Channel 1. 2. Press the soft button beneath the GM-PROG parameter. Use the Data Entry Controls to scroll through the different GM Sounds. The General MIDI Sound names change when you use the Data Entry Controls. These sound names and their associated GM Program numbers are listed on the General MIDI Sound Map found earlier in this section.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications Disabling General MIDI To Disable General MIDI • Press the soft button above *EXIT* to exit General MIDI Mode. The TS-12 will momentarily show: The TS-12 will then return to its previous state. The General MIDI Track/Channel sound assignments will be preserved in static RAM, even after power-off.
Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications TS-12 Musician’s Manual Sound Canvas MT-32 Mode Program Change Map The Roland® MT-32 was an early, pre-General MIDI multi-timbral sound module. It used a different MIDI Program Change Map than General MIDI. The Roland Sound Canvas™ provides an MT-32 Emulation mode, and some Standard MIDI Files are set up to use this. An MT-32 Program Change Map has been included in the TS-12 to provide Sound Canvas MT-32 emulation capability.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications the previous page. MIDI Controller Implementation in General MIDI Mode When in General MIDI mode, many of the TS-12 controllers function differently than noted in the MIDI Implementation chart, and are described in the chart on the following page.
Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications TS-12 Musician’s Manual General MIDI Mode Controller Implementation Chart Function… Transmitted Recognized Notes 1 In the TS-12, a Note Off velocity of 64 is always sent for all keys. YES 2 The TS-12 voice architecture does not support Release Velocity. NO 2 Velocity Note ON Note OFF YES YES1 Aftertouch Key Channel NO NO NO NO Pitch Bender YES YES Defaults to a value of 64 (center). Controller 0 (Bank Select MSB) YES YES Always transmitted as 0.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Program Change YES Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications YES 0-127.
Section 13 — Storage The Storage page provides data storage functions that enable you to: • save and load Program, Preset, Sequencer and System data to disk, • save and load Sampled Sounds and their associated parameters, and • transmit dumps containing Programs, Presets, and Sequencer data via MIDI system exclusive messages. The Storage page presents a series of menus containing command options which are selected by using the soft buttons.
Section 13 — Storage The 3.5” disks have a sliding writeprotection tab so that you can protect your sounds and sequences against accidental erasure. Sliding the writeprotection tab in the lower left corner of the disk so that the window is closed will allow you to store information on the disk. Sliding the tab so that the window is open will protect the disk against being accidentally reformatted or having files deleted.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Disk File Types The TS-12 disk storage system has been designed to allow maximum flexibility in saving, loading and organizing your sound and sequence data. Consequently, for each type of data there are several different types of files that can be saved: Programs: • 1-PROGRAM — contains a single TS-12 Program. • 6-PROGRAMS — contains a bank of 6 TS-12 programs, as displayed on the Program Bank pages 0-9.
Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual Disk Capacity — Bytes, Blocks, and Files The TS-12 has a high-density (HD) drive, allowing you to use both Double-Sided High-Density and Double-Sided Double-Density disks: • Double-Density disks — can store 800 kilobytes of TS-12 data, which translates into about 1600 Blocks. • High-Density disks — can store 1600 kilobytes of data, which translates into about 3200 Blocks.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage From here you select which of the 6 disk functions you want: • FORMAT — This formats a blank disk for use with the TS-12. • COPY — This allows you to make a backup copy of an entire TS-12 disk. • RENAME — allows you to change the disk name of a TS-12 disk. • SAVE — save to disk Program, Preset, Sequencer, Sys-Ex Data, System Set-up, or Sampled Sound files.
Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual FORMAT DISK Error Messages: There are a number of messages you might encounter while formatting a disk: • DISK DRIVE NOT READY — No disk in the drive. • DISK FORMAT FAILURE -- DISK IS UNUSABLE. This indicates a defective disk. If you get this message we advise that you throw out the disk in question. Try again with another disk.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage RENAME — Changing a Disk's Name The RENAME function lets you change the seven character Disk I.D. to a new name The disk name is used to give each of your TS-12 disks a unique identity. The name of a newly formatted TS-12 disk defaults to TSD-000. Note that you cannot rename a Sampled Sound disk. • Press Storage and then select DISK. • Press RENAME. The display shows: • Select YES to start renaming using the name from the disk in drive as a starting point.
Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual SAVE — Saving Data to Disk When you press SAVE from the Disk Storage menu, you will see the following display: File Type Free disk blocks Source Bank or BankSet (some file types) The display shows the File Type, the number of free blocks on the disk, and (for some file types) the Source Bank or BankSet, i.e. which BankSet or bank(s) you want to save. Note that you cannot save information to a Sampled Sound disk.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage DELETE OLD VERSION? Press *YES* to save the file, replacing the one on the disk. This is for updating files to which you have made changes. Or press *NO* to abort the procedure. • After the file is saved, the TS-12 returns to the Save File page so that you can save any other files you may want to save at that time. Naming with the Keyboard When the KBD-NAMING parameter on the System page is ON, the keyboard can be used for name data entry.
Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual Saving Sample-Banks along with a 60 SEQ/SONGS File When you save a 60-SEQ/SONGS file, the TS-12 also gives you the option of saving the currently loaded contents of the Sample Banks, as well as the internal User RAM Programs, in the same file, so that you can store the Programs, and Sampled Sound data that the sequences and songs use all together in a single file.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage File Bank Locations containing Files Empty File Bank Locations • File bank locations containing a file show the file name. Locations that show ***** are empty and are available for saving files to. • Press the soft button next to any empty file bank location, and the TS-12 will immediately save the file in that location. This lets you organize your files into banks of your choosing for easy access when loading them later.
Section 13 — Storage Tip: TS-12 Musician’s Manual Press the Storage button twice to get to the Load File display quickly. • Press the soft button above the file name and use the data entry controls to find the file you want, or you can use the File Banks to quickly locate the file without scrolling (see below). • Select a destination bank (if applicable). For the file types 6–PROGRAMS and 30–SEQ/SONGS, you will see a Bank destination, as shown above.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage sequencer data, when you later go to load the file, a PS will flash on the display next to the file name when the file name is displayed on the LOAD FILE page. To load a 60 SEQ/SONGS file: • Press Storage. • Press the soft button beneath DISK. • Press the soft button beneath *LOAD*. • Use the Data Entry Controls to locate TYPE=60-SEQ/SONGS. • Press the upper left soft button to select the file to load. • Press the upper right soft button above *YES*.
Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual DELETE — Deleting (Erasing) Files from Disk When you press DELETE from the Disk Storage menu, you will see the following display: File Name File Size in blocks File Type The display shows the File Name which identifies the file that will be deleted if you press *YES*; the Size of the file in Blocks; and the File Type. Only files of the type selected will be shown in the Name field, or in the file banks.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage This is the SCSI STATUS page, where you select the SCSI DEVICE ID from which you want to load Sampled Sounds. It is important that each SCSI Storage Device in a SCSI network be assigned a unique SCSI Device ID number — this will ensure predictable communication between devices. Since the range of valid SCSI IDs is 0 to 7, it is possible to connect up to eight distinct devices on a single network.
Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual Directories What is a Directory? Files on Sampled Sound disks are organized in directories. A directory is a group of up to 38 files. These files can be one of two possible file types: a Sampled Sound or another directory (called a sub-directory). Each sub-directory may contain up to 38 more files. If there are no subdirectories, the disk will only contain the 38 files of the Root (or Main) directory.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage To Enter or Move Down into a Directory • Press the Storage button. • On the SELECT STORAGE OPTION page, press the soft button beneath the word SCSI to reveal the following sub-page: • If the STATUS is a valid volume, press the soft button beneath the word *LOAD*. This takes you to the LOAD FILE page.
Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual Letting go of the top left soft button will invoke the Direct Macro for the value that is displayed. Direct-Macro numbers conform to the ENSONIQ CD-ROM conventions: • 1 digit is meaningless and does nothing. • 2 digits selects files by number in the current directory. • 3 digits changes to a new sub-directory within the current directory (the 1st digit), and then selects a file by number in the new sub-directory.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage PROGRAMS To Send Programs out via MIDI Sys-Ex From the MIDI SYS-EX page: • Press the soft button for PROGRAMS. The display reads: • CURRENT PROGRAM — this command will send out all data for the currently selected primary Program as a system exclusive message. The Program may be in any bank, including the ROM BankSets, or may be in the Compare buffer.
Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual SEQUENCER DATA To Send Sequences/Songs out via MIDI Sys-Ex From the MIDI SYS-EX page: • Press the soft button for SEQUENCER. The display reads: • CURRENT SEQ/SONG — will send out all data for the currently selected sequence or song as a system exclusive message. • TRACKS — transmits all information about the 12 tracks and the effect in the current sequence or song (not including recorded track data) as a system exclusive message.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage MIDI System Exclusive Recorder What are System Exclusives? Some MIDI information—such as key events, controllers, program changes, etc.— is understood by virtually all MIDI devices, regardless of the manufacturer.
Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual SAVING System Exclusive Data from an External Device Using the TS-12’s disk drive for storing data from external devices is a three-step process: 1) First you get the TS-12 ready to receive the data via MIDI; 2) next, you send the data from the external MIDI device to the TS-12; and finally 3) you save the data to a formatted disk with the TS-12’s disk drive.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage • Once you have successfully received the Sys-Ex message (or messages), press SAVE. The standard SAVE FILE display appears: • Name the file with an 11-character name of your choice using the data entry controls and the two cursor soft buttons, labeled LEFT and RIGHT. (Or you can use the keyboard to select characters and move the cursor, if Keyboard Naming is enabled on the System page). • Press *YES*.
Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual • Press *YES*. • If there is not enough free sequencer memory to hold the Sys-Ex data, the display shows SEQUENCER DATA WILL BE ERASED. If you have sequencer data in memory which hasn’t been saved, press *NO* to return to the Storage page and save it to disk before proceeding. Otherwise, press *YES*. • The display reads LOADING while the data is being loaded.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Disk Messages Disk messages are displayed for one second and indicate either successful completion or nonfatal error conditions encountered during a disk operation: • DISK COMMAND COMPLETED — indicates that the disk operation was completed successfully and without errors. • DISK WRITE-PROTECTED — appears during SAVE or DELETE operations if the diskette is write-protected.
Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual • FILE OPERATION ERROR — one of a number of possible fatal errors occurred during a disk operation. Probably caused by a low-level hardware or software error, although the disk may be bad. • DISK ERROR - BAD DATA — during a file operation, the CRC (error checking code) of the data block was incorrect. Probably indicates a bad disk sector. The file may be unusable.
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds This section provides an overview of the concepts behind understanding and editing a Sampled Sound. For detailed descriptions of the actual parameters, refer to the following section.
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds TS-12 Musician’s Manual Purchasing SIMMs Since you will need to purchase your SIMMs before you bring them to an Authorized ENSONIQ Repair Station for installation, here is some important information you should know about purchasing the proper SIMMs: • The TS-12 was designed to use either a pair of 1M x 8 (Macintosh) non-parity SIMMs or a pair of 4M x 8 (Macintosh) non-parity SIMMs (not 1M x 9 or 4M x 9 parity SIMMs). We highly recommend using this type of SIMMs.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds About WaveSamples The WaveSample is the most basic unit of a Sampled Sound. A WaveSample can be anything — a drum, a mandolin trill, a sound effect, or your voice, for example. Each WaveSample has its own set of WaveSample parameter settings. Several WaveSamples can be grouped together to form Layers, and up to eight layers can reside within a Sampled Sound.
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds TS-12 Musician’s Manual currently displayed BankSet. As it comes from the factory, the TS-12 has 4018 blocks of free DRAM memory. With expansion SIMMs installed, the TS-12 will offer 8114 blocks of DRAM memory in BankSet S8, and 8191 in BankSet S9. 8) Press any Bank button (0-9) to load the Sampled Sound into the TS-12. About Directories What is a Directory? Files on Sampled Sound disks are organized in directories. A directory is a group of up to 38 files.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds Here you can select which BankSet you want to load your Sampled Sound into (BankSet 9 is only available with expansion SIMMs installed) by using the data entry controls. The bottom left corner of the display shows the amount of free (unused) blocks available in DRAM for the currently displayed BankSet. As it comes from the factory, the TS-12 has 4018 blocks of free DRAM memory.
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds TS-12 Musician’s Manual When the Sampled Sound Status is showing: • SAMPLED-SOUND — You will hear the Sampled Sound, because it has been loaded into memory, and is not muted. • SAMPLE-EDITS — You will hear the Sampled Sound, because it has been loaded into memory, and is not muted. However, edits have been made to the Sampled Sound within the TS-12, and those edits were saved on a TS-12 formatted disk as a Sample Edits file.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds Sampled Sound OPTIONS page The bottom right field on the Sampled Sound Bank pages provides access to certain options. Pressing the soft button beneath OPTIONS will reveal the following sub-page: On this sub-page you can delete, or mute/unmute the Sampled Sound. The bottom center of the display will either show *MUTE* or *UNMUTE*. The *MUTE* field will appear whenever a Sampled Sound is loaded and not muted.
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds TS-12 Musician’s Manual Lack of Memory Message If you try loading a Sampled Sound, and do not have enough free memory available, the following display will appear: At this point, you can select a Sampled Sound Bank location to delete (by pressing the appropriate Bank button), or press the soft button beneath *EXIT* to abort the LOAD FILE procedure.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds identifying the data on the current floppy disk in the disk drive and any connected SCSI storage devices. WORKING… will also be displayed while a removable SCSI storage device is spinning up to speed (see later in this section for information on the SCSI option). Once the TS-12 is finished WORKING…, it will automatically load any needed files from the current disk in the disk drive, and from any connected SCSI Storage Devices.
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds TS-12 Musician’s Manual 3) If the Sampled Sound originated from a SCSI volume that has a disk name, the display shows: The display asks you to insert the disk (CD ROM, removable cartridge, or other removable media) with the defined name into the selected SCSI Storage Device, or verify that the requested drive is connected.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds to find the Sampled Sound to load it. Make sure you leave each SCSI Storage Device set to the same Device ID number as when the Sampled Sounds were first loaded from it. Note: When you power down, the TS-12 remembers the information about which Sampled Sounds or Sample Edits were loaded into each Sample Sound bank location (whether muted or unmuted).
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds TS-12 Musician’s Manual Selecting a WaveSample or Layer for Editing — the Edit Context page (Select Voice button) In the next two sections of the manual, all the tools available for editing a raw WaveSample will be covered. Almost all of the Sampled Sound parameters will require you to select either a WaveSample or Layer for editing. The procedure for doing this is quite simple: • Select the Sampled Sound that you want to edit (it should be underlined).
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Tip: Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds When editing Sampled Sounds, alternate presses of the Edit (Select Voice) button will toggle between the last selected editing page or sub-page, and the Edit Context page. LAYERS-IN-PATCH (Layer Enable/Disable) Using the Patch Select Buttons The two patch select buttons above and to the left of the wheels can be programmed to provide instant access to up to four completely different sounds within each Sampled Sound.
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds TS-12 Musician’s Manual TS-12 Sampled Sound Messages Sampled Sound messages are displayed for one second and indicate either successful completion or non-fatal error conditions encountered during a Sampled Sound operation: • SELECTED LAYER IS NOT IN PATCH - indicates that you are attempting to edit a WaveSample in a layer that is not enabled in the current patch. See the above description of the LAYERS-IN-PATCH parameter for more information.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds Assigning a Surrogate Program to a Track A Surrogate Program can be assigned to each Sequencer and Presets Track that contains a Sampled Sound. To assign a Surrogate Program to a Sequence track: • Load the Sampled Sound into the TS-12, and select it (underlined on the Sampled Sound Bank page). • Press the Seqs/Songs button, select a -BLANK- location, and create a new sequence.
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds TS-12 Musician’s Manual Saving Sampled Sound Information Although you cannot save Sampled Sound wave data from the TS-12, there are two options for saving Sampled Sound information on the Storage page. To access these: • Press Storage to go to the Storage page. • Press DISK. The Disk Storage menu appears. • Press SAVE. The Save File display appears as shown above. The file type is underlined.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds Here’s how: • Press Sounds. • While holding down the BankSet button, press the Bank 8 button. This displays Sampled Sound BankSet 8. • Press each of the Bank buttons (0-9) and verify that for each Sampled Sound Bank, the bottom center of the display shows the name of a Sampled Sound that you want to save with the Sample-Banks file, or (*EMPTY-BANK*).
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds TS-12 Musician’s Manual Updating Sample-Banks Files Saved with Software Earlier than Version 2.0 If you have any Sample-Banks files that were created on the TS-10 or TS-12 using software earlier than version 2.0, they may not Auto-Load properly. Follow this procedure to update them for use with the version 2.0 Auto-Load feature: • Insert the floppy disk with the Sample-Banks file into the disk drive.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds Loading a Sampled Sound into an Occupied Sampled Sound Bank When loading a Sampled Sound, you can replace a currently loaded Sampled Sound with the one you want to load. For this example, we’ll replace GUITR STRUMS with RS PERCS (both of these Sampled Sound files are found on the SSD-100 disk that came with your TS-12). Here’s how: • Insert the SSD-100 disk into the disk drive. • Press Storage, press DISK, then press *LOAD*.
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds TS-12 Musician’s Manual flashing • To load RS PERCS into BankSet 8, Bank 0 (replacing GUITR STRUMS), while holding down the Bank 0 button, press the lower right soft button in the display beneath the word *DELETE*. The display momentarily shows LOADING RS PERCS, then reverts back to the LOAD FILE page. You have just successfully loaded a Sampled Sound file into an occupied Sampled Sound Bank.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds Lack of Memory Message If you try loading a Sampled Sound and do not have enough free memory available, the following display will appear: At this point, you can select a loaded Sampled Sound Bank location to delete by pressing and holding the appropriate Bank button.
Section 14 — Understanding Sampled Sounds TS-12 Musician’s Manual Modulators About Modulation Various parameters within the voice architecture of Sampled Sounds can be modulated in the exact same way as Program Sounds. For a complete description of the TS-12 Modulation Sources, see Section 8 — Understanding Programs. Selecting a Modulator On programming pages where a modulator can be selected to modulate a given modulation destination, the display shows MODSRC=__ (short for Modulation Source).
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters This section offers detailed descriptions of the specific parameters used in editing Sampled Sounds. A Sampled Sound must be selected in Sounds mode in order for these parameter pages to be displayed. Most parameters are available on a per WaveSample basis, except for the parameters on the Layer page that apply to all WaveSamples in entire layers. For an overview of the concepts involved, refer to the previous section.
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual TRK Defaults Page (Write Program button) The parameters on this page are the default settings for the Track parameters that are stored with the Sampled Sound when it is saved as a SAMPLE-EDITS file. For more information about how these parameters function, see Section 5 — Preset/Track Parameters. To access these parameters press Write Program, which is the Sampled Sound TRK button.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters LFO Page The LFO Page contains the parameters related to the Low Frequency Oscillator. Each WaveSample has its own LFO, which can be assigned as a modulator wherever a modulation source is selected. LFO’s are commonly used to create vibrato, tremolo, and other effects. Press the LFO button. This takes you to the first sub-page of the LFO page: RATE Range: 0 to 99 Determines the speed of the LFO.
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual WAVESHAPE Range: various (see below) Determines how the LFO signal will rise and fall. There are seven possible values: • TRIANGLE — the triangle wave is commonly used to modulate pitch to produce vibrato. • SINE/TRI — a mixture of a sine and triangle wave, a sort of pointy sine wave. • SINE — the sine wave is a pure fundamental frequency, more rounded in its peaks and valleys than the triangle wave.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters RESTART-MODE Range: OFF or ON Determines whether the LFO will restart with each keystrike. When set to OFF, the LFO will cycle continuously without restarting. When set to ON, the LFO waveform will always start at the beginning of its cycle each time a new key is struck. DELAY Range: 0 to 99 Determines the time it takes for the LFO to go from zero to the amount set with the DEPTH parameter.
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual WaveSample Envelopes Each WaveSample has three envelopes associated with it. These envelopes are hard-wired to the pitch, filter cutoff frequency, and amplitude of the WaveSample. Env 1 and Env 2 can also be assigned elsewhere, wherever a modulator is selectable. Each of the three envelope buttons are directly above the page buttons for the function that they are hard-wired to: • Env 1 is hard-wired to WaveSample pitch modulation.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters ENV1, ENV2, ENV3 Pages The ENV1, ENV2, and ENV3 Pages, parameters and ranges are all the same except where indicated below. We will use ENV3 as our example, since its effect on the volume of the WaveSample is immediately apparent. Press the Env 3 button. The display shows the first ENV3 sub-page. LEVELS - VEL-HARD Ranges: 0 to 99 VEL-HARD shows the five levels for the envelope that will be used with maximum velocity.
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters T1 T2 T3 TS-12 Musician’s Manual T4 Key held T5 2nd release time 99 0 ENVELOPE TIMES time time time time time value (in sec) value (in sec) value (in sec) value (in sec) value (in sec) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 .00 .01 .02 .03 .04 .06 .07 .08 .08 .09 .10 .11 .11 .12 .13 .14 .15 .16 .17 .19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 .20 .22 .23 .25 .27 .29 .31 .33 .35 .38 .41 .44 .47 .50 .54 .58 .62 .66 .71 .
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters The following diagram illustrates how the 2ND-RELEASE-TIME and REL-LEVEL interact with the VEL-HARD and SOFT levels of a typical envelope shape. T1 T2 T3 T4 Key held T5 2nd release time 99 2nd release level 0 KBD-TIME-SCALING Range: -99 to +99 KBD-TIME-SCALING makes the envelope times shorter or longer above and below the WaveSample root key depending on the key played.
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual SOFT-VEL-CURVE Range: OFF, VEL, VEL1, VEL2 Determines how incoming velocity will affect the envelope’s interpolation between the SOFT and VEL-HARD level settings. There are four settings: • OFF — The envelope uses only the VEL-HARD levels, regardless of velocity.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters Pitch Mods Page The Pitch Mods page parameters control WaveSample pitch modulation. Press the Pitch Mods button. The display shows the Pitch Mods page. Note: When STEREO=ON, all pitch modulation in the right layer will be slaved to the settings in the WaveSamples assigned to the same or overlapping key zones in the left layer. This includes BEND Range, NOISE RATE, and all pitch modulation.
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual TS-12 Filters Each TS-12 WaveSample has its own pair of digital filters, F1 and F2, that are connected in series. The filter settings determine which frequencies will be allowed to pass through to the output. Low-Pass and High-Pass A low-pass filter allows only those frequencies below the filter cutoff frequency to pass—higher frequencies are filtered out. The reverse is true for the high-pass filters.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters amplitude 0 amplitude 18 db / oct freq. cutoff 0 amplitude + frequency 6 db / oct freq. cutoff 0 = frequency (when F1 and F2 are tuned to the same frequency) frequency 4 pole / Low-pass Or amplitude Filter 2 = 1 pole / Low-pass Filter 1 = 3 pole / Low-pass 24 db / oct freq. cutoff 6 db / oct freq. cutoff #2 freq. cutoff #1 0 24 db / oct frequency 4 pole / Low-pass amplitude 24 db / oct freq.
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual FILTER 1 Page Press the Filters button. The display shows the FILTER1 page. FILTER1 Mode Range: LO-PASS/2 or LO-PASS/3 Determines whether Filter 1 will be a 2-pole or a 3-pole low-pass filter. CUTOFF Range: 0 to 150 Determines the initial filter cutoff frequency for each of the two filters. With a low-pass filter, a setting of 150 lets all the original signal pass through the filter.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters Output Page The parameters on this page control the amplitude (or volume) of the WaveSample. BOOST Range: OFF or ON Setting this parameter to ON gives the selected WaveSample a +12dB boost in volume. Be careful that adding boost to a sample doesn’t cause it to become so loud that it starts to clip. LO/HI-KEY Range: K00 to K20, A0 to C8 This parameter determines the key range the selected WaveSample will cover.
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Press the Output button again. The display shows the second OUTPUT sub-page: DESTINATION-BUS Range: FX1, FX2, DRY, or AUX Each WaveSample within a Sampled Sound can be routed to one of four stereo “busses:” • FX1, FX2, and DRY feed the main stereo outputs of the TS-12. • AUX sends the voice directly to the AUX Outputs. Note that voices sent to the AUX Outputs are always dry; that is, they bypass the effects processor.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters Wave Page The parameters on this page control all the WaveSample pointers such as sample start, sample end, loop points, etc. Also on this page, you can choose the playback mode and set up modulation of the sample start and/or various loop modulation options. Note: The Wave page parameters can only be edited when the Edit Context page is set up to edit a single WaveSample (WAVESAMPLE=###).
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Start in steps of one percent of the entire WaveSample. Use the Data Entry Slider or the Up/Down Arrow buttons to move the Sample Start ahead until the dead space is gone when you play. Once you have gotten close using the percent setting, press the Left Arrow button to underline the Fine Adjust setting.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters backward (toward the beginning of the WaveSample) with negative MODAMT values. • START — The SAMPLE-START will be modulated. • START+LP — Both the SAMPLE-START and the LOOP-POSITION will be modulated. When START+LP is selected, sample playback will always begin at the LOOPSTART value, rather than at the SAMPLE-START value. • LOOPSTRT — Modulates the LOOPSTART parameter.
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual Volume Mod Source Shaper Page Press the Mod Mixer button. The VOL MODSRC SHAPER page is displayed. A - B FADE-IN - TO Range: 0 to 127 C - D FADE-OUT - TO Range: 0 to 127 The volume modulator cross fade breakpoints (A and B, C and D) allow you to scale the effect of the volume modulator (selected on the Output page MODSRC parameter) to create keyboard, velocity, or other types of cross fades.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters since only one WaveSample can occupy a given key within a single layer. CURVE Range: CROSSFADE or LINEAR Determines what type of curve will be used when fading samples in and out between breakpoints A-B and C-D. There are two possible fadecurves: • CROSSFADE — This convex curve features a steep initial rise/drop off. It is best used when a quick change between breakpoints is desired, as in a keyboard or velocity cross fade.
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual GLIDEMODE Range: various (see below) Enables Glide (portamento) and several forms of monophonic voice assignment in each layer. There are five GLIDE modes available: For monophonic voice assignment without glide, set GLIDEMODE to LEGATO, TRIGGER, or MINIMODE, and set TIME=0. • NONE — Glide is off. This is normal polyphonic operation, with no portamento.
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters LEGATO-LYR Range: layers 1 to 8 The legato layer is an ENSONIQ innovation that enables the TS-12 to capture the elusive nuances of acoustic Sampled Sounds. The sound of a wind Sampled Sound, the flute for example, is different when it is “tongued” than when notes are played in a connected manner (called legato). When two notes are “slurred” or “trilled” the characteristic attack of the second note is not present.
Section 15 — Sampled Sound Parameters TS-12 Musician’s Manual VEL-MODAMT Range: -99 to +99 This parameter determines the amount by which velocity will affect the layer DELAY time. Positive VEL-MODAMT values will cause harder velocities to increase the DELAY time. Negative VEL-MODAMT values will cause harder velocities to decrease the DELAY time. Setting the DELAY to zero will disable velocity modulation of layer DELAY time. RESTRIKE Range: 0 to 99 This parameter controls the layer Restrike time.
Appendix TS-12 MIDI Implementation The TS-12 features an extensive MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) implementation. For normal applications, you will find all the information you need regarding the TS-12’s MIDI functions in this manual. You can also refer to the MIDI Implementation Chart on the next page for a summary of the TS-12 MIDI implementation.
Appendix TS-12 Musician’s Manual MODEL: TS-12 Function… Basic Channel Default Channels Mode Default Messages Altered Note Number True Voice Velocity Note ON Note OFF Key Channel After Touch Pitch Bender Control Change MIDI Implementation Chart Transmitted Version: 2.
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TS-12 Musician’s Manual TS-12 Index A About Drum-Maps 168 AC Line Conditioning iv Accessories ix ADD Mode 272 ADD-TEMPO-TRK command 248 Adding and deleting bars 253 ADSR 175 After touch 7 Algorithm 63 All Notes Off message enable 31 All-Notes-Off Track parameter 53 Alpha 24 Amp Amp Parameters 364 Amplification 295 using with TS-12 v Amplifying through a home stereo system vi Append function 252 ARABIC 22 ASK 274 ATTACK 200 Attack Page 45 Audition 246 Audition Play/Keep page 224 AUTO 274 AUTO-LOAD vi, 335
Index DDL+ROTOSPKR+REV 80 DDL- -CHORUS + REVRB 1 109 DDL- -CHORUS + REVRB 2 111 Delay Times/Tempo BPM Chart 288 DELAYLFO+CHORUS+REV 72 DELAYLFO+PHLANGR+REV 78 DELAYLFO+ROTOSPKR+REV 82 Deleting All Sampled Sounds 342 Deleting files from disk 315 Digital sequencer 211 Direct-Dialing Macros How to 318 Direct-Macro 318 Explained 318 Directories Navigating 317 Directory 317, 331 Exiting From 318 Load and Change 331 Moving Back Up 318 Moving Down 318 To Enter 318 Disc capacity 305 Disk Formatting 306 Loading data
TS-12 Musician’s Manual EQ+CHORUS + REVERB 112 EQ- -CHORUS + EQ- -DDL 113 EQ- -COMPRESSOR 135 EQ- -DDL+CHORUS+REV 71 EQ- -DDL+PHLANGR+REV 78 EQ- -DDL+ROTOSPKR+REV 82 EQ- -FLANGER + DELAY 115 EQ- -STEREO DELAYLFO 104 EQ- -TREMOLO + DELAY 119 EQ- -VIBRATO + DELAY 121 Erase All Sampled Sounds 342 Erase command 249, 253, 261 Event edit changes Auditioning 268 Event List function 264 Events 211 External Control parameter 47 External Sequencer 295 EXTRAPOLATE 162, 202 F Fadecurves 370 FAST PITCH SHIFTER 123 Fata
Index H HALL REVERB 89 HALL REVERB 2 90 Headphones 295 Hyper-Wave architecture 193 Hyper-Wave™ 165 I INCOMPATIBLE DISK CAPACITY 326 INFO page 252 INHARMONIC 151 INTERPOLATE 163, 202 INVALID SCSI DEVICE 327 K Karaoke 291 KBD-NAMING switch 20 Key Down 211 Key events 211 Key range 188 Key Up 211 Key Zones 48 Key Zones, setting 48 KEY-DOWN-LAYERS 350 KEY-UP-LAYERS 350 Keyboard Stands ii Keyboard Splits Creating 42 Keyboard Tracking 150 Keyboard Zone 187 L LARGE PLATE REVERB 1 87 LARGE ROOM REVERB 93 Latchin
TS-12 Musician’s Manual Modulation Sources 146, 147 MODULATION WHEEL 7 Modulator 146 Modulators About Modulation 349 Modulation Amount 349 Selecting a Modulator 349 Mono A and Mono B modes 28 Mono pressure 7, 149 MT-32 Drum Map 300 MT-32 Emulation mode 300 MT-32 Program Change Map 290, 300 Multi-field 6 Multi-sampled 151 Multi-Track Record 243 MULTISAMPLE-SHIFT 191 MULTITAP DELAY 103 Music lessons 291 Music-minus-one 297 Mute Song Tracks 251 Muting Tracks 233 N Naming with the keyboard 310 NO FREE DISK FIL
Index Preset mode 12 Difference from Sequencer Mode 34 Presets Defined 34 Editing 36 Number contained in the TS-12 35 Replacing a sound and the effect in 41 Replacing a sound in 39 Saving 37 Selecting 9, 34 Sending via MIDI 320 Tips for using 39 Viewing 34 Presets Mode 3 PRESS 18 PRESS-MODE 55 PRESS-MODE parameter 26 Pressure (After-touch) 7, 55, 199, 351 Pressure page 55 PROG CHG switch 32 Program 138 Defined 138 Program change number 292 Program Changes 59 Receiving 32 Recording into the Sequencer 230 Pro
TS-12 Musician’s Manual About 211 Creating a new Sequence 221 Creating a new Song 222 Defined ii Erasing Sequencer Memory 222 Playing a Song or Sequence 214 Recording a new sequence 222 Recording Controllers 229 Selecting a Song or Sequence 214 Sequencer Banks 213 Sequencer Control page 271 Sequencer data Sending via MIDI 321 Sequencer Editing Functions 248 Sequencer Memory 249, 253 Expanding ix Free 274 SEQUENCER MEMORY RESET 326 Sequencer Mode 3, 12 Sequencer Parameters 248 sequencer record buffer 244, 27
Index Basic information 14 System PITCH-TABLE 21, 203 System PRESS-MODE 26 SystemWAKE-UP-MODE 26 T Temperature Guidelines v Templates Creating MIDI Track Templates 283 TEMPO 220 Changing (seq) 253 Changing (song) 249 Tempo Track 241, 248 Tempo Track Edit Functions 241 Tempo Track Parameters 220 Tetra chord 22 Thailand 23 TIBETAN 23 TIGHT AMBIENCE 95 TIMBRE 200, 201 Timbre page 47 TOUCH 14 Track edit functions 256, 262 Track parameters 218 Defined 37 Track RATE Controls LFO Rate 51 Track RATE Controls Wave
