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FB-0

1

FM

digital

tone

module.

responds to its Local

Start Stop

commands only

when there

is

no

MIDI clock data at its MIDI

input.

Camber

Chimes

and

Impossible .Glissandos

Using

The

RX17

And

The

fB,01

By

Martin

Willett

I once needed to replicate the sound of cam-

ber chimes (the percussion instrument made up

of many hanging rods, often played in a rapid

glissando, ascending or descending in pitch),

but

found

that

when

either

miking

the

real

thing or trying to run a finger up the keyboard, I

could never be precise enough.

Here's a

way

to obtain a nice, bright

glis-

sando chime sound and be able to keep control

over its exact length and tempo, using

the

RX17

and the

FB-0

1:

First, in

"dual"

configuration mode

on

the

FB-01,

set voice

#1

as

3/20

(Glocken) and

voice

#2

as

6/36

(Glockn2); set

the

octave at

+ 1 for

both

instruments, and set the pan and

detune

as

desired.

Set

MIDI receive

on

the

FB-01,

and MIDI

transmit

on

the

RX17 to

the

same channel, and

bring down

the

audio output from

the

RX17

(we'll just be using

the

FB-01

audio). Now,

write a

pattern

in

Step

Write mode

by

simply

hitting the instrument buttons in order of pitch,

ascending or descending

as

desired.

(Remem-

ber, you'll have to

hit

each instrument key twice

in

Step

Write

mode;

once

to

designate

the

instrument, and once to play it.)

The

May 1987

issue of After Touch lists the factory preset MIDI

key number assignments.

If

you are using these

key numbers, you'll have

to

toggle

between

"upper"

and "lower"

a

few

times.

Now

that

you have a steady pattern, you can

use

it

as

is,

or

use

it with

an

accelerando

pattern

(or even increase the tempo manually

on

the

fly)

for a more realistic sound.

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AFTERTOUCH/Vol. 4

No.2

This

technique,

used

with

various

FB-01

voices-especially in

the

keyboard bank-gives

you

the

ability

to

perform

"impossible"

glissandos at breathtaking speed. And, if your

basement or garage studio lacks crickets of its

own, call up voices 7/31 (Huffsyn) and 7/48

(SinceWav) and up the

tempo-instant

insects!

At

any rate, I've found it handy to retain one

or two of these ascending or descending

glis-

sando patterns in

the

RX17's memory.

Setting

Up

Brass Sounds

With

the

DX7

and

fB,01

By Michael Le

I

own

a DX7

and

an

FB-01,

and

I have

recently discovered a perfect

way

of stacking up

a couple

of

brass patches from these two

instru-

ments to emulate the rich harmonic texture

of

a

brass ensemble.

First, I

use

a patch called Lead

Brass

from side

A

of

DX7

ROM

cartridge 4 (Orchestral

&

Percussive Group). Next, I combine this patch

with two additional brass patches from the

FB-

01:

I call up the "single"

configuration

on

the

FB-01

and call up these patches with the

follow-

ing settings:

Instrument

#

1:

Voice Bank 5,

#12:

HardBr4

Notes: 4

MIDI channel: 1

Out

level: 105

Octave:

+2

LFO:

on

Detune:

0

Instrument

#2:

Voice Bank 5,

.#10:

HardBr2

Notes: 4

MIDI channel: 1

Out

level: 97

Octave: 0

LFO:

on

Detune:

0

After I've entered

the

system settings above, I

am able

to

play three different kinds of brass

instruments simultaneously from

my

DX7

key-

board, and

can

always use the volume slider

on

the

DX7 to control its volume and set the bal-

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