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Additional voice assignment modes
Additional voice assignment modesAdditional voice assignment modes
Additional voice assignment modes
Europa includes four additional voice assignment modes that extend the LED behavior on the assign
assignassign
assign
buttons. See chapter 8 (voice assign modes) for more detail.
Manual mode
Manual modeManual mode
Manual mode
Europa’s
MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL mode operates differently from the Roland code in several ways.
When first entering manual mode with the Roland code, the current state of the knobs and sliders are
read and sent to the voice board(s), however, the switches (such as waveform, polarity, etc…) are
changed to the Roland default settings. Europa also reads the current state of the knobs and sliders, but
uses the state of the switches as they are set in the patch edit when entering MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL mode.
Europa allows comparisons to be made between the MAN
MANMAN
MANUAL
UALUAL
UAL mode settings and either the patch or
patch edit by pressing the MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL button to toggle between them. This allows the user to jump
quickly between the edited patch and MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL mode to position the sliders/knobs to match the patch
edit. The Roland code requires the user to save the patch edit, remember which memory it is in, and
alternate between pressing that location's button and the manual button.
The Roland code maintains a separate memory for the switch settings in manual mode, and Europa does
not. With the Roland code, if the user switches from MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL mode to patch edit mode, moves sliders,
changes switch settings, and returns to MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL mode, the slider settings change but the switch
settings revert to where they were before leaving MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL mode. We found this to be counterintuitive
and unlike the way MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL mode works in several other synthesizers. With Europa, the switch
settings for MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL mode are kept in the patch edit. If the user leaves MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL mode, the switch
settings ARE ONLY MAINTAINED IF THE PATCH IS NOT EDITED BEFORE RETURNING TO
MANUAL MODE! This means it is possible to leave MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL mode, look for a patch memory location
to write to, return to MANUAL
MANUALMANUAL
MANUAL mode, and write the patch.
Patch edit compare
Patch edit comparePatch edit compare
Patch edit compare
Europa also includes a patch edit compare to allow comparison of the patch edit and any stored patch.
This allows toggling between a reference (stored) patch and the current patch edit to easily hear
differences. It is also useful in hunting for a place to store a given patch edit, as stored patches can be
recalled and heard without modifying/erasing the edited patch. The user interface for this feature
changes the way patch recalls work.
To toggle between the patch edit and a stored patch, simply press the A
AA
A-
--
-F
FF
F or 1
11
1-
--
-8
88
8 while in patch mode. If
the “patched change” indication (one of the NUMBER
NUMBERNUMBER
NUMBER lights is blinking) is present, press the blinking
NUMBER
NUMBERNUMBER
NUMBER light again and it will light solid, indicating the patch heard is the stored patch. Unlike the
Roland code, this will not recall the stored patch into the patch edit buffer, even after multiple recalls of
patches throughout any BANK
BANKBANK
BANK or NUMBER
NUMBERNUMBER
NUMBER! Press the solidly lit LED again and it will begin blinking,
indicating the sound heard is now the patch edit and not the stored patch.
To copy a stored patch into the edit buffer, select the patch desired. Ensure the NUMBER
NUMBERNUMBER
NUMBER light is not
blinking. If it is, press the corresponding NUMBER
NUMBERNUMBER
NUMBER again until the appropriate NUMBER
NUMBERNUMBER
NUMBER LED is
steady. Make a change to the patch. As before, the NUMBER
NUMBERNUMBER
NUMBER light will start blinking – indicating the
patch has changed. All stored patches will copy from the edit buffer only.