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Producing songs
TRITON STUDIO contains a 16-multi track MIDI
sequencer. The sequencer acts as a hub, integrating TRI-
TON STUDIO’s numerous functions, allowing it to be
used in a variety of situations including music production
and live performance.
Sampling or resampling can be performed in
Sequencer mode (
☞p.115). You can also apply the
TRITON STUDIO’s effects to an external audio input
source, for a wide range of possibilities. (
☞p.143)
When you turn off the power, the settings made in
Sequencer mode and the song data, cue list data, and
any user pattern data that you recorded will not be
backed up. If you wish to keep this data, you must
save it on media (Floppy disk, hard drive etc.) before
turning off the power, or perform a MIDI data dump
to save the data on an external data filer etc.
If you wish to save the programs, track parameters,
effects, and arpeggiator function settings etc. selected
for a song as a template song, use the page menu
command “Save Template Song.”
Immediately after the power is turned on, TRITON
STUDIO will not contain any cue list data or song
data, so if you wish to playback a song on the
sequencer, you must first load data from media or
receive a MIDI data dump from a MIDI filer (
☞p.63,
PG p.145, 161)
Features of the sequencer
• The sequencer lets you record a maximum of 200,000
events (note data etc.), up to 200 songs, and as many
as 999 measures per song.
• Up to 20 cue lists can be created.
A cue list is an arrangement of up to 99 songs that will
be played as a chain. You can specify the number of
times that each song will repeat. A cue list can also be
converted into a single song.
• The arpeggiator function can be used during playback
or recording.
• The RPPR (Realtime Pattern Play/Recording)
function can be used during playback or recording.
• Sixteen different template songs are built-in, and
contain program and effect settings suitable for
various musical styles. Up to sixteen original
templates that you create can be saved as user
template songs.
• Five stereo insert effects, two master effects, and a
stereo master EQ can be used for each song.
• Timing resolution is a maximum of /192.
• Sixteen tracks are provided for musical data, and a
master track contains time signature and tempo data
that controls the playback.
• A track play loop function lets you loop specified
measures independently for each track.
• 150 preset patterns ideal for drum tracks are built in.
In addition, you can create up to 100 user patterns for
each song. These patterns can be used as musical data
within a song, or can be played by the RPPR function.
• Various methods of recording are supported,
including realtime recording in which your
performance on the keyboard and controllers
(including MIDI control events) is recorded just as you
play, and step recording in which the timing, length,
and velocity of each note can be specified in the LCD
as you input the pitches from the keyboard.
• The musical data and control events that you recorded
can be edited in various ways (including event editing
and many other edit commands).
• When the “Status” of a track is set to INT or BTH, an
external sequencer can be used to play TRITON
STUDIO as a multi-timbral tone generator.
When the “Status” of a track is set to BTH, EXT, or
EXT2
, the sequencer of TRITON STUDIO can play
external tone generators.
• Playback can be synchronized with an external MIDI
device.
• TRITON STUDIO’s AMS (Alternate Modulation)
capability lets you use control changes for realtime
control of the parameters of the programs used in a
program. Its MIDI Sync abilities let you synchronize
the LFO speed to changes in the tempo.
• Dmod (Dynamic Modulation) functionality lets you
control effect parameters in realtime. You can also use
MIDI Sync
to synchronize the LFO speed or delay
time to changes in the tempo.
• You can assign names not only to the song, but also to
each pattern and track.
• Combination settings can be copied to a song.
• Sequencer data such as a song or cue list that you
create can be saved in TRITON STUDIO’s native
format, or transmitted as a MIDI data dump.
• A song you created can be converted into SMF
(Standard MIDI File) data. SMF songs can also be
loaded.
• The PLAY/MUTE/REC and “SOLO On/Off” let you
instantly play/mute any desired track on the fly.
• You can rewind or fast-forward while listening to the
sound.
• The [LOCATE] key lets you move quickly to a desired
location.
• Multisamples you create can be played back together
with internal programs in Sequencer mode.
The Time Slice function of Sampling mode lets you
divide a rhythm loop sample and create performance
data that corresponds to the divided samples. In
Sequencer mode you can play this performance data,
and adjust the playback tempo without affecting the
pitch of the rhythm loop sample. You can also
exchange the note numbers of the data, or modify the
timing to freely re-create new rhythm loops.
• The TRITON STUDIO provides an In-Track Sampling
function which lets you sample an external audio
source while the song plays back, and will
automatically create note data to trigger that sample at
the appropriate point during the playback of the track.
• A song you create can be resampled to the hard disk.
In Disk mode, this data can then be written to an
audio CD by using the CDRW-1 option.