User Manual

6 PERFORM-VE User Manual
4. The Set Button
Once a microphone and a MIDI keyboard are connected to your Perform-VE,
it’s time to ensure that the audio and MIDI settings are correct. You achieve this
with the SET button.
The SET button performs many functions in your Perform-VE. By itself, the SET
button congures the mic input level and sets the MIDI channel and split-point
used to control the notes, vocoder and sample features of your unit.
Mic Gain Setting
The actual signal level coming from your microphone can vary depending on
what type of microphone you have connected and how loudly you vocalize
(speak/sing/shout/shriek) into it. The Auto-Gain procedure is the easiest way
to ensure the microphone preamplier level set within your Perform-VE is
calibrated to match your mic and vocal technique, but you have the freedom to
set the Mic Gain level manually if you prefer.
Auto-Gain
Press and Hold the SET button to activate the Auto-Gain procedure and vocalize
into the microphone at your typical loudest volume. After several seconds the SET
button will ash red, indicating that the procedure is complete.
You will see that the LED to the right of the SET button changes color when you
vocalize into the microphone.
Congures: Microphone Input Level,
MIDI Channel Select,
MIDI Split Point Select,
& More…
This LED is a VU Meter, with the following color codes:
If you nd the Auto-Gain procedure set the input trim too low or high for your liking, you can always run Auto-Gain again or you can set the gain manually.
Manual Gain
Press and Release the SET button to edit the Manual Gain with the Control Knob.
Green
-23 dB … -13.5 dB
Good Level
Yellow
-13.5 dB…-7.5 dB
Hot level, but still okay.
Orange
-4 dB … 0 dB
Soft-clipping:
Midas Tone.
Red
0 dB
Hard-clipping!
The red LED segments indicate gain provided by Perform-VE’s analog microphone
preamplier circuit. When the mic pre is at maximum gain, further gain is
possible via digital amplication (the remaining 4 magenta LED segments).
Once you stop editing with the Control Knob, the LED ring will return to the MIDI/
LEAD mix display after two seconds. You can then vocalize into your microphone
and conrm the gain settings are correct for your application.
HINT: Red in VU meter LED is not a good thing as it means hard clipping and
digital distortion! Reduce the microphone gain and try again if you see the
VU LED turning red when you are vocalizing.
MIDI Channel
The MIDI channel that Perform-VE responds to is actually set during the Auto-Gain
procedure if a MIDI note event is received while the SET button is held down.
To set the MIDI Channel (without a split point):
• Press and Hold the SET button,
• Play a single MIDI note on your controller,
• Release the SET button.
Don’t worry about having to repeat the Auto-Gain on the microphone – these
steps will not overwrite your previous microphone level settings while the SET
button is down, provided you stay quiet… so, shh!
When complete, you can verify Perform-VE is set to receive on the correct MIDI
channel for your keyboard by playing notes and monitoring the SET button;
the SET button will ash red whenever MIDI note events are received on the
congured MIDI channel.
Even more SET button powers!
You can also congure Perform-VE to ignore MIDI notes above or below a
user-dened note value. This is called a Split Point. A split point is useful when
you want to control an instrument other than Perform-VE with one part of your
keyboard, but still want Perform-VE to respond to keys pressed on the remaining
keys. Split points with optional octave shifts are explained in detail at the end
of this manual in the MIDI Implementation section.
When combined with other button presses, the SET button also congures
Adaptive Tone, Phantom Power, MP-75/MP-76 Mic support, Drum Looper
features, and will even dump eect presets via MIDI. Please see chapter 7
for details.