Stereoping Synth programmer Manual de usuario

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Synth Programmer for MKS-80 – Operation manual V 1.16 – 03/ 019

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General features of the Synth Programmer...............................................................................................................................4
Special features of the Edition 80...............................................................................................................................................4
Technical handling........................................................................................................................................................................4
1.Connections and integration into your setup................................................................................................ 5
Power supply..................................................................................................................................................................................5
Midi connections...........................................................................................................................................................................5
2.Settings and workflow...................................................................................................................................... 6
Settings on the MKS-80.................................................................................................................................................................6
Synchronisation.............................................................................................................................................................................6
Saving..............................................................................................................................................................................................6
3.Overview............................................................................................................................................................ 7
Function keys.................................................................................................................................................................................7
PLAY Mode......................................................................................................................................................................................7
Button 'PREFS'................................................................................................................................................................................7
Button 'COMP'................................................................................................................................................................................7
Button 'CHORD'.............................................................................................................................................................................7
Buttons 'UPPER' and 'LOWER'......................................................................................................................................................7
Button 'RANDOM'..........................................................................................................................................................................7
Button 'PEEK'..................................................................................................................................................................................8
4. atches and Tones – Upper and Lower............................................................................................................ 9
What is a Tone?..............................................................................................................................................................................9
What is a Patch?............................................................................................................................................................................9
Upper and Lower?.........................................................................................................................................................................9
One Tone used in several Patches?.............................................................................................................................................9
5. LAY Mode........................................................................................................................................................ 10
Parameter groups.......................................................................................................................................................................10
Setting Splitpoint with the keyboard.........................................................................................................................................11
LFO-1 Waveform in submenu?..................................................................................................................................................11
Changing values directly on the MKS-80..................................................................................................................................11
Side function for UPPER & LOWER Buttons.............................................................................................................................11
6.RANDOMIZER................................................................................................................................................... 12
7. REFS and MIDI BY ASS MODE....................................................................................................................... 14
Midi Bypass Mode.......................................................................................................................................................................14
8.CHORD MEMORY.............................................................................................................................................. 15
Triggernotes.................................................................................................................................................................................15
Chord Setup.................................................................................................................................................................................15
Learning modes 'Toggle' and 'Hold'..........................................................................................................................................15
9.CC to SysEx translator..................................................................................................................................... 16
10.Updating Firmware....................................................................................................................................... 17
11.Imprint........................................................................................................................................................... 18
Synth Programmer for MKS-80 – Operation manual V 1.16 – 03/ 019
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General features of the Synth Programmer______________________________________________________________4

General features of the Synth Programmer

The Stereoping Programmer offers 45 control dials, 4 endless encoders and a 16 2 characters OLED display to

for convenient and intuitive sound shaping of your Roland MKS-80. At the moment you turn a knob, the

programmer sends the suitable command into your synthesizer which immediately changes it's sound.

•Highly specialized hardware midicontroller for Roland MKS-80

•Convertable from 19“ rackmount to desktop usage – and back

•45 dials, 4 encoders, 2 16 character oled display

•Firmwareupdate over SysE -Dump

•Current draw 100 mA

•Weight 2.650g

•Size without rackmount brackets, incl. knobs and rubber feet ca. 430 130 85 mm

Special features of the Edition 80

•Visual design suitable to the MKS-80

•Coloured knob caps like on the MPG80 - e.g. blue ones for PATCH parameters

•Splitpoint can be set by incoming midinote

•'Midi CC' to 'SysE '-translator to automate your MKS-80 with ordinary CC-messages

•Patch-Randomizer

•6 voice Chord Memory with 6 saveable Chord-Slots

Technical handling

The Synth Programmer was built to be used in a comfortable music studio environement. You can operate it

under free skies of course. But please keep in mind, it uses electricity for proper operation and therefore is quite

sensitive to water, drinks or other fluids. E cessive heat or e position to sunlight is also not advised.

Your programmer has got a neat OLED display. The OLED technology is quite young. As none really can

guarantee how long it will keep it's perfect function after displaying the same content for hours or even days, we

integrated a screensaver to mutiply the lifetime of the display. If the programmer is not touched for longer than

23 minutes it will fall into screensaver mode and switch the OLED display off – the LEDs in the buttons above the

display will start to blink slowly. The programmer awakes immediately if a knob is moved or notes are being sent

through it.

Some 'No-need-to-worry' information: the datasheet of the display claims 50.000 hours until it has lost 50 % of it's

brightness. If you would use your programmer 5 hours on each day of the year this will take over 7 years – even with

deactivated screensaver.

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Connections and integration into your setup ____________________________________________________________5

1. Connections and integration into your setup

Power supply

You can use any ordinary 9 Volt DC powersupply to operate your controller. The connector should have lus on

it's center pin and Ground - sometime labeled as 'Minus' - on the outside. The Synth Programmer has a

protection diode for not doing any harm if the polarity of the power supply is wrong, it just won't work. The

current of the PSU should at least offer about 200 mA (=0.2 A). If it supplies more current (e.g. 500mA) this is fine

and won't cause problems.

lease do NEVER use a powersupply which has an 'AC'-Output. AC means alternate current. AC-PSUs have

the letter combination AC/AC or a sinewave symbol besides the word 'output'.

Midi connections

The Stereoping Programmer has 3 Midi jacks which should be cabled like that:

•MIDI 1 - OUT -> MIDI IN of your MKS-80

•MIDI 1 - IN -> MIDI OUT of the MKS-80

•MIDI 2 - IN -> MIDI OUT of your Midi interface/sequencers/keyboards

Both jacks of Midi 1 connect the Programmer with your synth in a loop. This seems unconventional but it is

necessary: the Synth Programmer must hold the same patch data in it's memory as your MKS-80. This data

e change runs through MIDI 1 IN / OUT.

A Synthesizer would not make any sense if it could not receive midinotes, modulation wheel changes etc. These

are coming into the programmer over the MIDI 2 IN jack from your keyboard/DAW/sequencer. They will be

merged with your parameter changes and sent together to the synthesizer.

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Settings and workflow____________________________________________________________________________________6

2. Settings and workflow

Settings on the MKS-80

For the MKS to work properly with the Programmer two things have to be set:

•The switch labeled 'MIDI FUNCTION' of the MKS-80 must be pushed into position III, otherwize it refuses

to listen to SysE commands

•The MKS-80 and Synth Programmer have to be set on the same midichannel

Synchronisation

Directly after powerup the Programmer is 'empty', it should be feeded with the parameter data of the currently

selected MKS-80 patch. As long as Programmer and Synthesizer are not synced Compare and Randomizer

remain locked. In addition the Programmer's display shows questionmarks instead of the original values for

parameters.

Syncing could not be easier: select any patch directly on the

MKS-80. The MKS-80 sends the complete Patch & Tone-Data

through it's MIDI OUT, the Programmer reads it and updates it

memory. You will see a response message on the

Programmer's display as shown to the right also supplying

information about the KEYMODE and which Tones are used

inside the Patch. Programmer and Synthesizer are in sync now

and we can start.

The same thing happens when selecting another Tone inside a

Patch. The MKS-80 automatically sends the data of the just

selected Tone to the Programmer which prompts the

recognized data with a positive response message on display.

Saving

Saving Patches and Tones must be accomplished on the

MKS-80 itself, the Programmer does not offer any possibility to save your sound creation.

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3. Overview

Let's take a quick look on the user interface first. Details to the different modes and buttons are following behind

– if necessary at all.

The 45 turn dials are – you guess it already – for direct changing of the MKS-80 's parameters.

The 4 endless encoders are for finetuning values on features tweaked best in fine steps and with a display. There

are 4 lines, each starting on an encoder and ending in a corner of the display. This should help finding the right

encoder of the parameter you want to change.

The 7 buttons change main modes and select UPPER or LOWER parameters. The 4 buttons above the display

sometimes have a secondary function:

Function keys

In modes like COMPARE, CHORD SETUP & RANDOMIZER the 4 buttons above the display act as function keys to

e ecute different menu functions. A button acting as function key has it's LED shining and a command printed in

capitals in the 1st line of the display.

Example: press RANDOM to enter RANDOMIZER. The LEDs of the buttons PEEK and RANDOM will light up. In the 1st line

of the display you will read the commands DO and EXIT. Pressing RANDOM again will execute XIT, causing the

Programmer to exit Randomizer again. Pressing PEEK (=“DO“) would create a random Patch and let the Programmer

send it over to the MKS-80.

PLAY Mode

After powerup or if no other mode is selected you are directly in LAY MODE. This is the main mode you will

spend most time in: here you change the parameters of the MKS-80 with the knobs. Details to PLAY Mode follow

in Chapter 5. Play Mode

Button 'PREFS'

Press REFS to enter the Programmer's menu with the preferences. Any changes you make here will

automatically be saved on e iting. The settings are also preserved after powering the Programmer down of

course. Holding the PREFS button for longer than 2 secs. activates MIDI BY ASS MODE. Details on all PREFS

parameters and the MIDI BYPASS MODE will follow in Chapter 7. PREFS and MIDI BYPASS MODE

Button 'COMP'

Use COM ARE to switch between your original patch of the MKS-80 and your edited patch. As long as compare is

active and you hear the original patch, the turn dials are locked.

Line 2 of the display shows 'Original Patch' to make clear you actually are listening to the original patch as it was

coming out of the MKS-80's memory. Line 1 displays the command 'KEEP?' and button No. 4. above the display is

bright. If you desire to keep this original patch just press this function key. Your edited patch will be replaced by

the original patch and the Programmer jumps back into PLAY mode. Or you simply press COMPARE again to

revert to your edited patch.

Button 'CHORD'

This enables/disables CHORD MEMORY. Holding the button for 2 seconds jumps into the CHORD SETUP menu.

All infos and details about this in Chapter 9. Chord Memory.

Buttons 'UPPER' and 'LOWER'

Most KEY ASSIGN MODEs use two sets of parameters to build the Patch, UPPER and LOWER parameters. These

buttons select where your pot fiddling will be sent to. More on the Upper/Lower/Tone/Patch mess in Chapter 4.

Patches and Tones - Upper and Lower.

Button 'RANDOM'

Press RANDOM to enter the RANDOMIZER. If you are addicted to chaos the Programmer offers the right tool

here. Press RANDOM again to leave this mode and get back to PLAY mode. All about the Randomizer in Chapter

6. Randomizer.

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Button 'PEEK'

Press EEK to toggle EEK mode on and off. While PEEK is active any knob fiddling brings the parameter to

display without changing the value or sending anything to the MKS-80. Quite helpful to e amine parameters

without changing the Tone/Patch..

Hint: If you just need to PEEK one or two parameters and want to avoid clicking ON/OFF, ON/OFF, ON/OFF there is a

shortcut: keep PEEK pressed. If you hold the PEEK button longer than ½ a second on activating, it will be immediately

disabled again as soon as you lift it again. This saves half of the 'Klicks'. As long as PEEK is down you can peek as many

parameters as you like of course.

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4. atches and Tones – Upper and Lower

Before diving into PLAY mode let's first take a look on the MKS-80's architecture of Upper and Lower Patches and

Tones.

What is a Tone?

A Tone is the collection of 48 parameters for Oscillators, Filter, LFO and Envelopes – responsible for the timbre or

'sound'. You can not play a Tone separatly, there is no 'Tone Mode' on the MKS-80. A Tone is always part of a

Patch.

The MKS-80's 'Tone' button is just for reaching the parameters associated with the Tone (and not the Patch).

Which Tone(s) is (are) played is always determined by the Patch. The MKS-80 offers 8 banks each with 8 Tones.

What is a Patch?

A Patch is a collection of 30 parameters built up of 2 identical sets of 15 UPPER parameters and 15 for LOWER.

One of these 15 Parameters holds the Tone number. The remaining 14 parameters determine HOW this Tone

will be played: monophonic or polyphonic, Pitchbend depth, Split- or Layer, glidetime, balance between Upper

and Lower Tone etc.

UPPER und LOWER share the first 3 patch parameters KEY MODE SELECT, SPLITPOINT and BALANCE. If one of

these is changed in UPPER, LOWER will hold the same value and vice versa.

Patch parameters of the Programmer have blue knob caps (as on the original Roland MPG-80). The MKS-80 can

save 8 8 Patches.

Upper and Lower?

UPPER or LOWER is synonym for a sound component, holding 15 Patch-parameters and 48 Tone-parameters.

The Programmer's UPPER and LOWER buttons have the same function as the UPPER/LOWER buttons on the

MKS-80: they determine where your parameter changes will be sent to: UPPER or LOWER. The 'suitable' button

on the MKS-80 will automatically light up as you change parameters in combination with UPPER / LOWER as the

MKS-80 automatically recognizes if incoming commands are targeting UPPER or LOWER. If you tweak one of the

blue Patch knobs, the MKS-80's PATCH-button will light up. Tweaking Tone knobs lets the MKS-80's Tone button

light up.

There is one exception: Key Assign Mode WHOLE

If KEY ASSIGN MODE is set to WHOLE, the LOWER parameters will be ignored by the MKS-80, allowing to play the

UPPER tone with 8 voices. Playing a WHOLE patch automatically lights up the Programers and MKS-80's UPPER

and LOWER buttons all together. BALANCE has no effect at all in WHOLE mode.

One Tone used in several Patches?

Now there is one confusing issue: a patch can select any Tone from the pool of 64 Tones. A Tone logically can be

used by several different Patches. If you change such a Tone and save it, all the Patches making use of it will

sound different. This is a problem even the Programmer can not solve.

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5. LAY Mode

This is the active mode right after powerup. As long as the

Programmer is not in sync yet, it just displays questionmarks for

the original values of the program.

Remember: to get Programmer and MKS-80 in sync just select a

Patch on the MKS-80.

On turning a knob the display shows 4 informations:

•Upper left is the parameter group like 'LFO-1', 'VCF',

'VCO-1' ...

•Upper right the parameter name like e.g. 'Tune'

•Lower left you find the original value of the parameter

displayed in brackets

•Lower right you see the current value of the parameter

you are currently changing

You can finetune the value of the currently active parameter with encoder 3. (Why encoder 3? Because the line

printed on the faceplate leads from encoder 3 to the lower right corner of the display)

Parameter groups

A complete Patch (including the associated Tones) of the Roland MKS-80 has got 126 parameters. The

Programmer just offers 45 pots. Hmmm, where is the rest? First, the amount of paras can be halfed as they are

identical for Lower and Upper which can be switched by dedicated buttons. The remaining 13 are grouped and

accessible through subpages. They will be selected and changed with the encoders.

Following is a list of the parameter groups, in brackets you find

the parameters:

•LFO-1 (Waveform)

•PWM (PWM Mode Select)

•KEY FOLLOW (VCO Select)

•VCF (Env Select)

•KEY MODE (Splitpoint)

•ASSIGN (Hold)

•BENDER (VCO-1 Bend, VCO- Bend)

•VCO-1 (Modulation)

•VCO-2 (Modulation)

•ENV-1 (Reset)

•ENV-2 (Reset)

•AFTERTOUCH (Mode)

Each time you move a pot, the upper left display position shows the associated parameter group. For e ample

you turn the knob for 'VCO-2 Tune', the upper left of the display shows 'VCO2'. If the para group is printed in

CAPITALS, there is at least one sub parameter. The para group „Xmod“ therefore does not offer a sub parameter.

You reach sub parameters by moving encoder 1 or 4 one tick. Being in the sub group the enconders do the

following:

•encoder 1 allows changing the para group (e.g. from VCO-2 to ENV-1 to ENV-2 etc.)

•encoder 2 changes the parameter for BENDER. The formatting „1/2“ makes clear you are on parameter 1

of 2. All other groups just offer 1 para.

•Encoder 3 changes value as usual

•Encoder 4 has no function at all

As soon as you turn a pot the Programmer jumps out of the sub menu.

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