User manual PEAVEY A-A 9400 DATASHEET

[. . . ] After you have inserted the disk, turn the instrument ON. You will see a message in the instrument display screen that says: Loading OS-DISK clears ALL MEMORY!!<Enter to Load/Escape to abort> Press ENTER and wait about 3 minutes for the new Operating System to load. When the new system has finished loading, you will see the following message in the instrument display screen: Loading Successful!! [. . . ] When HOLD is pressed, the current arpeggio will continue to play. If new notes are subsequently pressed, the old pattern will be cancelled and a new pattern, based solely on the newly played notes will be created. Freeze: SYNC BUTTON, (F3) Press this button to synchronize the arpeggio with the sequencer's clock. 6·4 User Guide 7 · GROOVES The Grooves section of the Equinox contains over 1000 MIDI grooves. These provide a valuable resource of inspiring drum, bass and keyboard "riffs" which can be used either for real time playing or can be incorporated into sequences and edited to your taste. Each groove is actually a small looping MIDI sequence. This means that you have complete freedom to change any aspect of these grooves - the sounds, the effects, the tempo, the key, the pitch and so on. When you press the PROGRAM button in the GROOVES section, the screen will show you the name of the current Groove Patch, and you can immediately start to play it from the keyboard. Use the dial to scroll through some of the factory preset Groove Patches. Groove Library The factory grooves have been arranged into 16 families with each family containing 64 grooves. These families have been organized into specific categories making it easier to quickly find any particular groove quickly. There are also 8 user families into which you can either copy the factory grooves or store your own creations. The factory groove families are listed below. DRUM 1 DRUM 2 DRUM 3 PERCUSSION BASS 1 Grooves 7·1 BASS 2 BASS 3 KEYS 1 KEYS 2 KEYS 3 KEYS 4 KEYS 5 GUITAR COMBI 1 COMBI 2 COMBI 3 With so many grooves available, the LIBRARY function has been provided to give you a quick and easy way to audition all of the grooves. The last step asks you to choose a GROOVE Group. 7·4 User Guide For this example, go up and select the COMBI1 Group and press ENTER. If you try to play the keyboard you will see that only the lowest octave is assigned to triggering grooves while the rest of the keyboard is assigned to whichever performance was last selected. Now you can explore the EDIT environment. Press the EDIT button, (F1) and confirm that you want to edit this patch by pressing ENTER. Pressing any key on the keyboard will instantly update the information you see in the screen. The system automatically "catches" the key that you pressed allowing you to instantly edit it's settings. Press one of the "active" groove keys and try experimenting by assigning some different grooves to that key. Grooves 7·5 Here are some of the main features of the edit menu; TRIGGER This controls how long the groove will continue playing after this key is released. There are three choices; MANUAL: LATCH: The groove will start when you press the key and stop when you release it. The groove will continue playing after you release the key. You can stop the groove by either pressing the same key again or by pressing the STOP button in the GROOVES section. ONE-SHOT: The groove will play through once completely regardless of when the key is released. START SYNC Here you can select how soon the groove starts playing after you press the key. There are three options; REAL: BEAT: BAR: The groove will start the moment the key is pressed After you press the key, the groove will wait until the beginning of the next beat before starting. After you press the key, the groove will wait until the beginning of the next bar before starting. STOP SYNC Here you can select how soon the groove stops playing after you release the key. There are three options; REAL: BEAT: BAR: The groove will stop the moment the key is released After you release the key, the groove will wait until the beginning of the next beat before stopping. [. . . ] 2 Octave +/­ buttons 10 Octave transpose 2. 3 Index A·33 One-Shot (Grooves) 7. 3 Playback speed of the source sample 4. 27 Port (Midi) 10. [. . . ]