Roland MKS-900 User Manual download pdf (Page 15)

MUSIC PRODUCTION GUIDE

January 2011

Let me give you a short digression into the subject of

Groove & Quantization. The Performance Arpeggios

from the MOTIF and S70/90 XS instruments were

largely produced with a lot of ‘human feeling’. This

means that the aforementioned rst event does not

necessarily belong exactly on the rst beat – it might

as well be brought forward. For my purposes the

described action has always been enough to continue

to work with the time-corrected events. However,

depending on the type of ARPs that you record, it is

possible that you’ll have to search for an appropriate

event to correct the time offset; one that is almost ex-

actly on a specic beat and thus corrects all events in

relation to it. If you let Cubase‘s quantization function

do the work, the events would be drawn to match the

corresponding grid and thus loose the ‘human feeling’

in most cases, which could lead to utter uselessness. If

an error has occurred, simply use the undo feature in

Cubase, or regularly save your work using unique le

names.

Splitting

Back to the procedure. After you have corrected

the timing you should divide the events into tracks,

according to the MIDI channels to which they were

sent during the recording. Here the function ‘Split

Parts’ from the ‘MIDI’ menu comes in handy. Make

sure you select ‘Split by channels’ when Cubase asks

you how it should split the Parts.

Once you have started the process Cubase will create

up to four new MIDI tracks, depending on the recor-

ded data. These tracks are assigned to the appropri-

ate MIDI channels 1-4 while the original Part that

contains all events is automatically muted. You could

delete the origin Part now, but I prefer to leave it in

the mute state with a disabled MIDI output, so that, if

something goes wrong or I want to check something,

I still have the original data. Your Project should now

look similar to that in the picture below.

For the actions ‘timing correction’ and ‘splitting the

Parts’ I‘ve created a short video that shows the steps

one by one.

http://gallery.me.com/hp13/100455

(Username:„yamaha“,password:„arpw2“

If you have not already done so, route the MIDI

outputs of the newly created tracks to your instrument.

On the instrument, change the mode to the Multi,

Song-, or Pattern-Mixing mode and select an empty

program/song/pattern. To set up the empty Multi to

match the Voices of the used Performance you have to

copy the Performance into the Multi / Mixing.

The corresponding job works as follows (from the

Song or Pattern mode):

Job: MOTIF XS/XF:

•[MIXING]button

•[JOB]button

•[F3]button(Copy)

•[SF3]button(Perf)

•SelectthePerformancetobecopied

•[ENTER]button

1 2 ... 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ... 35 36

Comments to this Manuals

No comments

Roland MKS-900 User Manual Page 15

Comments to this Manuals

Related products and manuals for Processors Roland MKS-900