Owners Manual

MODX+ Owner’s Manual
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PRECAUTIONS ...........................................................................2
A message from the MODX+ Development Team......................6
About This Manual ......................................................................7
Accessories................................................................................. 7
Main Features.............................................................................. 8
Controls and Functions 10
Top Panel ................................................................................. 10
Rear Panel ................................................................................16
Setting Up 18
Power Supply ............................................................................18
Connecting Speakers or Headphones......................................18
Powering Up the System........................................................... 18
Auto Power Off function ............................................................19
Restoring the initial factory settings (Initialize All Data) ............ 19
Basic Operation and Displays 20
Selecting Performances 22
Selecting a Performance from the Live Set...............................23
Switching Performances ...........................................................23
Using the Category Search function .........................................24
Playback Audition phrase .........................................................25
Playing the Keyboard 26
Performance Play display..........................................................26
Switching a Part on/off ..............................................................27
Using the Arpeggio function .....................................................28
Using the Motion Sequencer function.......................................28
Using controllers to change the sound .....................................29
Using the Knobs to change the sound .....................................30
Using the Super Knob to change the sound............................. 31
Mixing........................................................................................33
Using the Scene function ..........................................................34
Creating Your Own Live Sets 35
Registering a Performance to a Live Set................................... 35
Sorting registered Performances in a Live Set.......................... 35
Editing the Settings 37
Performance Editing..................................................................37
Part Editing................................................................................38
Part Effect Editing......................................................................39
How Parts are assigned to a Performance................................ 40
Creating a Performance by combining Parts............................ 41
Recording and Playback 45
Terminology............................................................................... 45
MIDI (Song) Recording ............................................................. 45
Playing a Song .......................................................................... 47
Recording your performance as audio ..................................... 48
Playing an audio file .................................................................. 48
Using as a Master Keyboard 49
Making settings for use as a master keyboard—Zone ............. 49
Connecting a Microphone or Audio Equipment 50
Playing the keyboard along with the sound input from the
A/D INPUT [L/MONO]/[R] jacks ................................................ 50
Making Global System Settings 51
Setting automatic power-on tasks............................................. 51
Setting button lamp behavior .................................................... 51
Turning various functions on/off................................................ 51
Changing the Master Tuning..................................................... 52
Changing the Velocity Curve .................................................... 52
Changing the font size of the Live Set ...................................... 53
Connecting External MIDI Instruments 54
Connecting to an external MIDI device with the MIDI [IN], [OUT]
terminals.................................................................................... 54
Connecting to an external MIDI device with the [USB TO DEVICE]
terminal...................................................................................... 54
Using a Connected Computer 55
Connecting to a computer ........................................................ 55
Creating a Song with a computer ............................................. 57
Saving/Loading Data 60
Saving the settings to a USB flash drive ................................... 60
Loading the settings from a USB flash drive............................. 60
Precautions when using the [USB TO DEVICE] terminal .......... 61
Using USB flash drives ............................................................. 61
Shift Function List 62
Display Messages 63
Troubleshooting 66
Specifications 71
Index 73
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