Section 12 — Sequencing/MIDI Applications TS-12 Musician’s Manual
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Using The TS-12 with a MIDI Guitar Controller
The TS-12 makes an ideal voice module to use with any MIDI Guitar Controller which is capable
of sending in MONO Mode. MONO Mode (MIDI Mode 4) allows a guitar controller to send the
notes played on each string on a different MIDI Channel. This has the advantage of letting each
string send pitch bends independently, which is the only way to truly recreate guitar technique
on a synthesizer.
Some earlier guitar synths do not support MONO mode. You will have to consult the manual of
your particular model to see if it does. If you have a guitar synth which only sends in POLY
Mode (i.e. sends all six strings on the same MIDI Channel) you should use the TS-12 in POLY
Mode (or OMNI Mode) and set the guitar controller to send on the MIDI Channel that is selected
for the Base Channel on the MIDI Page.
For MIDI Guitar Controllers which do support MONO Mode, the TS-12 provides two types of
MONO mode reception. The first is MONO A Mode, which is a simple and straightforward way
of using MONO mode without getting involved with tracks or other complications:
• Connect the MIDI Out of the guitar controller (or its MIDI converter) to the MIDI In of the TS-
12.
• Set your guitar controller to send in MONO Mode on Channels 1-6. (Some models have an
easy shortcut for getting into this state.)
• On the MIDI Control page, set the Base MIDI Channel to BASE-CHAN=01.
• Also on the MIDI Control page, set the MODE parameter to MODE=MONO A. This sets up
the TS-12 to respond monophonically to 12 consecutive MIDI channels starting from the Base
Channel (consult Section 3 — MIDI Control Page Parameters for a more complete description of
MONO Mode).
You can now select sounds or presets on the TS-12, either from the front panel or from MIDI
program changes, and the guitar controller will play those sounds exactly as if they were played
from the keyboard.
If you are a little more adventurous, and would like the flexibility to put a different sound
program on every string of the guitar, you can use MONO B mode, in which each track of the
current sequence receives monophonically on its own MIDI channel, and can receive program
changes independently. Where MONO A is like POLY mode with monophonic reception,
MONO B is just like MULTI mode, except that each track is monophonic.
• Press MIDI Control. Set the MIDI In mode to MODE= MONO B. The 12 tracks of the current
sequence will now each receive monophonically on its own MIDI channel
• Create a new sequence. You might want to name it “MONO-B IN”, or something similar, to
indicate that it is specially set up for this type of reception.
• Press Seq/Song Tracks 1-6. All the tracks except the first are still UNDEFINED. Select each of
the six tracks, defining them and putting the current program on them. You can leave
Seq/Song Tracks 7-12 undefined.
• Press Track MIDI twice to go to the MIDI CHANNEL sub-page. Here you select the MIDI
channels for the different tracks:
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