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Part 4: Basic Operation

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The factory default setting is 65, which gives an even scaling that favors neither

loud nor soft playing. You will need to experiment with this parameter to find

exactly the right adjustment for your own “touch.”

PAGE 5 — TRANSPOSE

This is the same Transpose setting you were introduced to in Part 3: First Session.

The only difference is that in Global Edit Mode you make changes using the

standard [EDIT VALUE] slider and [VALUE] buttons, not by pressing keys on the

keyboard.

The transposition range is from –12 to 12, which is the same as moving down or up by

semitones over a two-octave range. It works by changing the MIDI Note Numbers

assigned to the keyboard, thus changing the note data sent out from your QS when

you play.

So, if you want to play notes that are outside the QS’s normal 61-note range (MIDI

Note Numbers 36-96), then by all means transpose! Taken down an octave, the

keyboard’s range becomes MIDI Note Numbers 24-84; taken up an octave, it covers

MIDI Note Numbers 48-108.

This is very useful knowledge if you are using your QS to play music into a

sequencer, since this parameter gives you two extra octaves of keyboard recording

range.

PAGE 6 — KEYBOARD MODE

There are three possible keyboard modes. Which one you want to use will depend on

how you are using your QS:

NORMAL is the default setting. When NORMAL is selected, Program Mode

receives and transmits over the MIDI channel indicated in the display. In Mix

Mode, MIDI information is received over all active MIDI channels, but sent only

from those displayed channels that have had MIDI OUT enabled. The MIDI

Channel indicators in the lower line of the display will show which channels are

active at any given time.

CH SOLO changes the way the keyboard handles MIDI in Mix Mode (it has no

effect on Program Mode). The simplest way to describe what it does is to say that it

isolates individual channels in a Mix, allowing you to play only the selected

channel (indicated by a flashing number in the display) from the keyboard, while

ignoring all the Programs assigned to other channels. This is a great way, for

example, to individually check out the different Programs that are in a layered

Mix. And since CH SOLO has no effect on incoming MIDI data, it’s a great mode for

sequencing. You can just move through your multi-timbral Mix one channel at a time,

recording on single channels as you go while always hearing playback on

everything that you’ve already laid down. (If you’ve selected CH SOLO, the

[ PAGE] and [PAGE ] buttons are what you’d use in Mix Mode to hear each

channel in turn.) When using CH SOLO, make sure you turn off your sequencer’s

ECHO function (sometimes called SOFT THRU or THRU). More about this sort of

thing in Part 5: MIDI.

Note: This mode is automatically selected by the QS when the General MIDI

function is set to ON.

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