TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer
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receiving unit is playing. While playing the TS-12 Keyboard, adjust the program number until
the external instrument is playing the sound you want.
From now on, whenever you select that sequence, or when it plays as a step in a song, this
track will send out this program change on its selected MIDI channel.
Note: When sequencing, you should always select the sounds for remote MIDI devices from the TS-12
as described above, and not from the remote MIDI device itself. This assures that the track has
the proper program number for that instrument in each sequence.
Recording MIDI Tracks
Once everything is set up, you can proceed with recording MIDI tracks exactly as you would for
tracks with local or both status. Tracks that are sent out MIDI are treated the same as internal
tracks in terms of recording, overdubbing, punching in, editing, etc. Follow the same steps
outlined earlier in this section for recording the first track and then for additional tracks.
For each successive track you record, the procedure will follow the same lines:
1) Define the MIDI configuration of the track on the Track MIDI page
2) Record the track
3) Either keep or reject the new track from the Audition page
MIDI tracks can be selected and stacked from the Tracks pages, and can be muted or soloed from
the Mix/Pan page, the same as any other tracks. Performance/Track parameters such as Mix,
Key Zone and Transpose all apply to MIDI tracks just as with local tracks.
Most often you will be recording sequences and songs which contain some MIDI tracks and some
local tracks. When this is the case, be sure that you assign local status (as opposed to both local
and MIDI) to the tracks that you want to play only on the TS-12. This will avoid accidentally
sending unintended MIDI data to an external instrument.
Additional Sequencer Functions
Recording Controllers into Sequencer Tracks
When recording sequencer tracks, the TS-12 will record all changes to controllers such as the
pitch and mod wheels, pressure, foot pedal, patch selects, sustain, sostenuto, effect, foot switch,
etc.
There are other, less obvious, controllers that will be recorded into the track if they are changed
while the track is being recorded — The Pan, Attack, Release, Brightness, Timbre, XCTRL, and
Rate Track parameters. When the sequencer is in Record or Overdub mode, if you go to any of
these Track Parameter pages and change the value for the current track, the changes will be
recorded. When you play back the track, you will notice that the screen is updated with the new
value.
Tip: You can use the Controllers On/Off and the Velocity range parameters (found in the Track
Parameters section on the front panel) as filters on sequence playback. For instance, you could
audition the track with the Pitch Bend removed (if PBEND is set to OFF).
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