Operation Manual

XD9-XD3

As for the recording principles, for each Part you must establish which tonality is to be recorded between Major, Minor, Seventh, Seventh Major,

Seventh Minor and two combinations that are required to keep the rhythm and lead structure unaltered while modifying only the tonality. Once

the tonality has been selected, establish which Part is to be recorded using F1 and the relative track, by selecting it with push buttons CUR-

SOR +/-. Once the track has been identified its octave can be modified using the VALUE +/- push buttons (including that for the Drum track so

that the sounds beyond the visual range can also be used) and change the sounds assigned if you wish. If the Pattern has been newly created,

before you record any Part you can modify the number of measures within the pattern, using the CURSOR +/- push button to highlight Bar and

then select the measure number using VALUE +/-. If however you are modifying a Pattern or a Part that already exists, it will be impossible to

change the measure value.

Note: The Fill In’s always have a fixed duration of one beat. To change the reproduction and registration Tempo simply use the FAST and SLOW

push buttons. Below is the explanation of the single parameters that can be called up using the function push buttons.

ASSIGNING VOICES TO THE ARRANGER TRACKS

For the lead tracks (Bass, Chord 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) the voices of the USER VOICE bank can be used. The Drawbar voices however cannot be used.

Select a lead track using the CURSOR +/- push buttons.

Select the voice to be assigned using the VOICES push buttons. Use the PAGE +/- push buttons to call up the groups of voices and the function

push buttons to select the sound.

For the User Voices, enable the USER VOICE, use the PAGE +/- push buttons and select the voice using the relative function push button.

The Drum 1 and 2 tracks are dedicated to the exclusive use of the Drum Sets. Drum 2 is exclusively for the Live Drums derived from grooves.

For the Drum 1 track you can select the pre-set Drum Sets and the User Drum Sets.

Select the Drum 1 track using the CURSOR +/- push buttons and, using the VOICES, PAGE +/-push buttons and function push buttons, assign

the new Drum Set to the track. F9 Drum allows you to toggle between Drum 1 and Drum 2.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PARAMETERS

F1 Part: Once F1 has been pressed using the VALUE +/- push buttons the Part to be recorded or reproduced Is called up. The

order of appearance is: Arrange A, B, C, D, Fill In 1, 2, 3, 4, Intro 1, 2, 3, Ending 1, 2, 3. Before you start recording, it is a

good rule of thumb to always make sure that the Part on which you are working is really that desired to avoid confu-

sion.

F2 Solo: When this function is enabled, only the track selected at the time will be reproduced in Play mode.

F3 Tonality: This is used to establish which tonality the Part being recorded will be associated with, between Major, Minor, Seventh

and combinations of the three. In this way you can create completely different arrangements because of the various

combinations of tonality (i.e. you can create arrangements that will respond only to Major chords, create some that will

respond only to Minor chords and the arrangement differs from the previous etc.). To simplify the recording phase it is

also possible to record a section only in Major leaving it up to the XD9 to extract the various versions of minor and sev-

enth. To do this select “M.m.7th” for Tonality and record the section with an arrangement in Do/C major.

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