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Table of Contents About this manual .................................. 2 Auto Song Setup function ...................... 21 Conventions in this manual ............................... 2 Other enhancements ............................. 21 Utility menu ................................................... 21 Improvements ................................................ 21 Introduction...................................... 3 Main features of version 2.0 ................... 3 Global mode ..............
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About this manual This manual explains the new functions that have been added in KARMA Music Workstation system version 2.0, and the improvements that have been made from version 1.0. • “Introduction” provides an overview of the major new functions of version 2.0, and explains how to update your system. • “KARMA functionality” explains the new functionality that has been added to the KARMA function in Program, Combination, Sequencer, and Song Play modes. • “Sequencer mode,” “Global mode,” and “D
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Sequencer mode Global mode 1. “Tone Adjust” parameters 1. MIDI clock “Auto” mode The “Tone Adjust” parameters let you make temporary With this new feature, the KARMA music workstation will adjustments to the sound of the Programs used by each automatically synchronize to the incoming clock if MIDI track as an edit that is only used for the current song. For clock messages are being input from a connected external example, you can make the bass less bright or speed up the device, or to its own in
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5 Turn off the power of the KARMA music workstation, Installing the software into the and then update the GE data. KARMA Music Workstation After updating the system, you must also update the In order to upgrade to system version 2.0, you must install GE data. the following two types of data into the KARMA music workstation. Updating the GE data • System Boot Disk for KARMA Music Workstation This is the system update data. It is provided on three MS- You must update the GE data after updating the
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K.RTC (KARMA RealTime Controls) TxFltr (TxFilter) System version 2.0 adds a value display function to the System version 2.0 adds a “Notes” parameter to the K.RTC (KARMA Realtime Controls) page of each mode. KARMA TxFltr (TxFilter) page in each mode. K.RTC (KARMA Realtime Controls) appears in the The “Notes” parameter appears in the following pages. following pages. Program mode PROG 6.1-4a (☞PG p.28) Program mode PROG 1.1-4 (☞PG p.6) Combination mode COMBI 6.1-6a (☞PG p.60) Combination mode COM
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The display in Combination mode 4 Use the [ ]/[ ] keys to select Module A, and make sure that “Start Seed” is set to 0: Random. If “Start Seed” is not set to 0: Random, change the setting 6.2–3a to 0: Random. Module A will generate a phrase for the sax of timbre 2. 5 Use the CHORD TRIGGER [1] key to trigger the GE several times at a regular interval (one or two seconds). Pay attention to the sax phrase that begins immediately 6.2–3a: Freeze Randomize after each trigger. The sax will begin play
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(2) “Start Seed”: any value, “Freeze Loop Length”: Off In some cases, the two settings may sound the same, Each time triggering occurs, the same phrase will be gener- depending on the internal settings of the GE. ated. Different “Start Seed” values cause different phrases to be generated. The phrase will change randomly each time it Link Start Seeds [Off, On] repeats, but the same phrase will always be generated each You can view and set this parameter in modes where more time you retrigger with
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If the “Start Seed” parameter (6.2-3a ☞p.8) of the 4 Set “Start Seed” to 1 (+0000000001). Retrigger the KARMA module for which you execute random [CHORD TRIGGER]. Each time it will play the same capture is assigned as an RT Parameter (☞p.11), a randomized phrase; however, if you let it continue, it message of “Can’t execute random capture” will be will always make new randomizations as it goes along. displayed, and random capture will not be executed. 5 Set “Freeze Loop Length” to 2 (2 bars). No
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“Seed” is the source data from which the randomiza- 1: Controls the “Freeze Loop Length” parameter will restart tions are created. The “Seed” of the phrase being the phrase from the beginning each time the loop length is looped is automatically set internally within the completed. KARMA module as the “Start Seed.” The “Start Seed” is used each time the GE is triggered. This means that Group: PE (Performance) each time you trigger the GE, a specific “Seed” is always used to generate the phrase. T
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AutoName w/GEchg Copy/Swap KARMA Scene System version 2.0 adds “AutoName w/GEchg” to the System version 2.0 adds “Copy KARMA Scene” and “Swap utility menu commands in the Play KARMA and KARMA KARMA Scene” commands to the utility menu commands Setup pages of each mode. in the KARMA function edit pages of each mode. “AutoName w/GEchg” (“AutoName GEchg” in Sequencer “Copy/Swap KARMA Scene” will appear in the utility mode) will appear in the utility menu of the following menu of the following pages.
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1: Vel CP – retrigger Cluster Pattern notes with Velocity GE Parameter The Cluster Pattern Grid is used to indicate which notes are to be generated from a portion of the Note Series corre- KARMA Music Workstation system version 2.0 adds sponding to the number of input notes played. In other several new GE parameters and GE parameter values. words, the 10 rows of the Value portion of the Cluster Planned future products in the EXB-PCM 04/05 are Pattern grid allow you to specify which of up to 10 n
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simulate the Triton Arpeggiator setting “Arpeggio Type”: Phase “Length Mode” is 0: AC-Actual, no cycling is As Played (Fill). performed and a Phase Change will immediately occur. 2: R-restart at other end of Phase 6: BE-cycle back from beginning & end of Phase If note generation would extend beyond either end of the Allows the behavior described above at both ends of the playback portion of the Phase, those notes are replaced by playback portion of the Phase. notes within the playback portion,
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Step Transp. Template [0…17] 1: Poly Extend/Damped [Duration Value: 1…800 %] The same as above, except all sustaining notes will be Allows one of 18 different templates for the 16 steps of a Phase damped when the chord changes, not just notes that are no Pattern to be chosen and applied to the current Phase Pattern. longer in the Note Series. These 18 templates correspond to various settings of the Triton Arpeggiator “Octave” and “Octave Motion” param- eters, and can be used to simulate Triton A
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the “gate-time” of each note in the pattern simultaneously, CC Pattern similar to the previous option. For example, if the Duration In “Pattern Grid & Associated Parameters” (☞GE p.26), Pattern is generating 16th - 8th at a tempo of 120 BPM, the add the following to the text for “CC Pattern” as follows: notes would have the durations of 125 ms, 250 ms, etc. If Depending on internal settings of the GE, the Phase 2 CC the “Duration Value” is 80%, they would be generated as Pattern may be used to s
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Pitches-Weighting Curve [0…3] 2: Scalic2 Same as 1: Scalic (above), except that the note tables used to 0: Exponential 2: Exp-S shift the notes are the same as the ones used in “Note Series 1: Logarithmic 3: Log-S Group “Note Type”: 2: Scalic2. Scalic2 is more modal in nature and has more passing tones than 1: Scalic. Chooses a weighting curve shape for the top part of the CC Pattern Grid (Pitches). Will not have any effect unless internal settings of the GE specify that Pitch Offsets are being
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A EG A (Amp EG Attack Time) [-99…+00…+99] Hold [Off, On] A EG D (Amp EG Decay Time) [-99…+00…+99] Controls the program’s Voice Assign - “Hold” parameter A EG S (Amp EG Sustain Level) [-99…+00…+99] (2.1-1b ☞PG p.7). If you turn this Off, the OSC1/2 Amp EG Release Time parameter will be set to 0 in order to make A EG R (Amp EG Release Time) [-99…+00…+99] full use of the effect. These adjust only the amp parameter as in “F.A EG A,” “F.A EG D,” “F.A EG S,“ or “F.A EG R” respectively. For bank F prog
