Vir2 Instruments Electri6ity Manual User Manual

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ELECTRI6ITY | GETTING STARTED | STEP 5 | STRUMMING AND PICKING

ELECTRI6ITY allows you to strum and pick notes to create typical
strumming or picking patterns. Strum and pick trigger keys are very
important to work around the one of the biggest problems which occurs if
you try to mimic a guitar on the keyboard: On a guitar you can repeat notes
or chords without stopping them first, but on a keyboard you have to release
a key before you can press it again. This small gap makes it hard to play
convincing repetitions on a keyboard. The solution to this problem are
trigger keys. With such keys, you can easily play a chord, keep it pressed,
then simply re-strum it without any gap at all.

STRUMMING / PICKING / MUTE

TRIGGER KEY

Chucka Up

D#6 – keep trigger key pressed

Chucka Dn

D6 – keep trigger key pressed

Dead-Muted Strum Up

C#6 – keep trigger key pressed

Dead-Muted Strum Dn

C6 – keep trigger key pressed

Muted Strum Up

A#5 – keep trigger key pressed

Muted Strum Dn

A5 – keep trigger key pressed

Half-Muted Strum Up

G#5 – keep trigger key pressed

Half-Muted Strum Dn

G5 – keep trigger key pressed

Strum Up (Sustain Notes)

F#5 – keep trigger key pressed

Strum Dn (Sustain Notes)

F5 – keep trigger key pressed

Pick String 6

[AMT]

(lowest string)

C7 – keep trigger key pressed

Pick String 5

[AMT]

B6 – keep trigger key pressed

Pick String 4

[AMT]

A6 – keep trigger key pressed

HINT:

there are more trigger keys in ELEctRi6ity than listed below, but

they don’t fit into the play range of an 88-key keyboard anymore. that’s

why we offer two different keyswitch/trigger key layouts which can be

changed on the

‘Settings Page’ > ‘Keyswitches’

. All keyswitches/trigger

keys in this manual are referring to the default layout

‘Layout 1 (Std.)’

. if

you want to change the position of certain keyswitches or trigger keys

on the keyboard, that page will allow you to change them. if you won’t

need some of the standard keyswitches/trigger keys, you can simply

move them out of the 88-key range and move others in to replace them.