Operation Manual

14 General organization of Lounge Lizard EP
3 General organization of Lounge Lizard EP
Lounge Lizard EP is a complete electric piano solution including complete modeling of the dif-
ferent electro-mechanical elements of a piano, a vast library of sounds and a multi-effects module.
The graphical interface of Lounge Lizard EP has been organized around three different views as
shown in Figures 5, 6 and 7.
The first view, called the Play view of the instrument, gives access to the main parameters of
the piano and effect modules and should be sufficient for most playing situations. The second and
third views, called the Edit and FX views respectively, allows for in-depth editing of the different
piano and effect parameters and are used for sound design purposes.
One can switch from one view to the other by using the Play, Edit and FX buttons located in
the utility section at the top of the interface. This section of the interface is common to all the views
and includes the bank manager, used to access and manage sounds, as well as general settings and
indicators. These tools are described in details in Chapter 4 and Chapter 6 respectively.
3.1 The Play View
The lower section of this view is where the main piano parameters are displayed. On the left of
these parameters, one finds a pitch bend wheel and a modulation wheel controlling the depth of
the Tremolo module. Just below is a clickable eight octave ribbon allowing one to play different
notes on the range of the piano which can be useful when no MIDI keyboard is connected to the
computer.
The middle section of this view allows one to turn the effects from the multi-effects module on
and off and to rapidly adjust their main parameters.
3.2 The Edit View
The Edit view gives access to all the piano parameters. The different parameters have been grouped
into five modules corresponding to the main components of an electric piano: the Hammer, Fork,
Pick-up, Dampler and Tremolo. These will be reviewed in detail in Chapter 5.
3.3 The FX view
The FX view includes an EQ, a Compressor a Multi-Effects, and a Reverb module. The Multi-
Effects module consists in two effects in series. The effect list includes a Delay, Distortion,
Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Wah Wah, Auto Wah and a Notch filter. The functioning of the effect
modules is described in details in Chapter 5.