Midivox Quickstart
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1. acoustic bass by saving the combination to a USER MEMORY you can change all of the sounds for the treble chords and bass instantly with the press of a couple of buttons or later as you will learn with one press of a footswitch TO SAVE COMBINATIONS OF SOUNDS YOU MUST BE IN THE PROGRAM MODE Step 1 Decide what the Active SECTIONS are going to be Unless you are a more advanced user you will probably not want to change the active sections to begin with Step 2 Select which sounds you want to use for each active section e g pan flute for TRBL1 guitar for CHRD2 and acoustic bass for BASS To select a sound for a particular SECTION the spy light for that section must be lighted e g If you are selecting a piano sound for TRBL1 you must first check to see that the spy light for TRBL1 is on If it is not press the TRBL1 button to put the light on Now select your sound using the GROUP BANK and NUMBER buttons on the accordion grill Next you may select a sound for another section in the same manner HINT If you are using the Arranger feature of your sound module you will only have to select a sound for the TRBL1 SECTION Remember that when using the Arranger feature of your Sound Module you will not be playing the basses Chord information will be used but only for the purposes of note information No actual sound will be heard from the chords when the chord buttons are pressed Hence it doesn t matter which sounds are selected for b2. are Active Press the FUNCT button on the accordion grill once The display will show SECt At the same time the spy lights for the various SECTIONS will light up if those particular SECTIONS are Active The FACTORY DEFAULT for the Active SECTIONS is TRBL1 CHRD1 BASS UTILITY In other words your MIDIVOX Ill is set up to transmit treble on MIDI channel 1 chords on MIDI channel 2 and BASS on MIDI channel 3 right out of the box The very first time your press the FUNCT button once the display will show SECt and the spy lights will be on for TRBL1 CHRD1 BASS and UTILITY If you want to use arranger functions on your Sound Module it will not be necessary to change the Active SECTIONS If you do not want to use arranger functions on your Sound Module when you are in this mode press the CHRD1 button once to turn off the spy light and then press the CHRD2 3 MIDIVOX Ill QUICK START GUIDE button to turn on the spy light for the CHRD2 SECTION Your MIDIVOX III is now transmitting chord information on MIDI channel 5 Press the NUL button to exit from the FUNCT Mode NOTE THAT THE FUNCT BUTTON PERFORMS A LARGE NUMBER OF FUNCTIONS MOSTLY RELATED TO CONFIGURING THE SWELL PEDAL AND THE FOOTSWITCH PEDALBOARD For the time being do not change these settings Do not go any further than the first level Do not press the FUNCT button more than once If you do accidentally press the FUNCT button more than once you can return
3. it to the SECt setting by pressing the button a number of times until the display returns to SECt Remember you can always exit from the FUNCT mode by pressing the NUL Button SWELL PEDAL amp FOOTSWITCHES As mentioned briefly above it is possible to change the functioning of the SWELL PEDAL and FOOTSWITCHES As with the MIDI channel assignments there are certain FACTORY DEFAULTS for the SWELL PEDAL and FOOTSWITCHES IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU LEAVE THE SWELL PEDAL AND THE FOOTSWITCHES SET TO THE FACTORY DEFAULT SETTINGS UNTIL YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING WHEN YOU MAKE CHANGES The FACTORY DEFAULT settings are as follows SWELL PEDAL set to affect the volume on TRBL1 TRBL2 CHRD1 CHRD2 BASS UTILITY FOOTSWITCH 1 Treble Cancel if pressed it stops TRBL 1 and TRBL2 from transmitting MIDI information until it is pressed again for a second time FOOTSWITCH 2 When pressed it will cause whatever sound is playing on either TRBL1 or TRBL2 to be sustained until the footswitch is released FOOTSWITCH 3 Program Up FOOTSWITCH 4 Program Down For most accordionists in most situations the above FACTORY DEFAULT settings will be the most useful settings USING YOUR MIDIVOX Ill TO SELECT SOUNDS ON YOUR SOUND MODULE Check the user manual for your Sound Module If when you select sounds on your Sound Module the Module shows the different sound patches as A11 A12 B78 B88 then your module is using
4. the GROUP BANK NUMBER system which the MIDIVOX III DEFAULTS to You are ready to select sounds For Example selecting A24 on your MIDIVOX III will result in whatever sound is in A24 on your Sound Module being selected You may now proceed to the next section on saving sound combinations On the other hand if your Sound Module is General MIDI GM compatible things are slightly more complicated General MIDI was developed relatively recently as an industry wide standard for operating MIDI devices GM uses the same program change information to select a particular sound regardless of what your make or model of Sound Module is To make your MIDIVOX III GM compatible you must perform the following function once 1 Press the FUNCT button a number of times until the display reads LOAD 2 Once you see LOAD in the display press the UP or DWN buttons on the accordion grill to change the display until LOADP appears in the display MIDIVOX Ill QUICK START GUIDE 3 Press the STORE button on the accordion grill 4 Press the NUL button on the accordion grill Your MIDIVOX Ill is now GM compatible See the chart at the end of this guide to determine which BANK and NUMBER settings to use in order to select the desired sounds SAVING SOUND COMBINATIONS TO USER MEMORIES For performance purposes you may save combinations of sounds to USER MEMORIES for quick recall a combination might be treble pan flute chord guitar and bass
5. the display will show the last USER MEMORY selected From here you use the GROUP BANK and NUMBER buttons to select the USER MEMORY you wish to make use of to play your song Once you are in the USER MODE and you have selected the desired USER MEMORY location you may move to an adjacent USER MEMORY location by pressing the UP or DWN buttons on the accordion grill For example if you have already selected USER MEMORY location A34 when you press the UP button the MIDIVOX III will change to USER MEMORY location A35 Conversely if you have already selected USER MEMORY location A34 and you press the DWN button the MIDIVOX III will change to USER MEMROY location A33 You may also use FOOTSWITCH 3 and FOOTSWITCH 4 to perform the same function as the UP and DWN buttons FOOTSWITCH 3 has the same function as the UP button FOOTSWITCH 4 has the same function as the DWN button The FOOTSWITCHES allow you to change USER MEMORY locations without taking your right hand away from the treble keyboard HINT You may wish to use several different sound combinations during the course of playing one song By doing a bit of planning you can store all of the combinations you are intending to use on that song in adjacent USER MEMORY locations You can then change from one desired sound combination to another by simply pressing either FOOTSWITCH 8 to go up one location or FOOTSWITCH 4 to go down one location each time you wish to change sounds To exit the U
6. MIDIVOX Ill QUICK START GUIDE MIDIVOX III QUICK START GUIDE NO MIDI EXPERIENCE NECESSARY To make use of the MIDI electronics when playing your MIDIVOX III you must have a Multi timbral Sound Module or Sound Expander and some sort of Amplifier to process and amplify the sounds produced by the Sound Module or Expander YOUR MIDIVOX Ill ACCORDION When you unpack your accordion you should have The Excelsior Accordion with MIDIVOX II system installed Two Shoulder Straps One Accessory Pouch One MIDIVOX III Power Supply With Power Cable One Expression Pedal Alternatively known as a Swell Pedal One Pedalboard Containing 4 Footswitches One Connecting Cable To Connect The Accordion To The Power Supply One MIDI Cable One Audio Patch Cord One Cleaning Cloth SPS OONOORWN o1T0801 CONNECTING YOUR MIDIVOX III TO YOUR SOUND MODULE AND AMPLIFER DO NOT TURN ON THE POWER FOR ANY OF THE DEVICES UNTIL ALL CONNECTIONS HAVE BEEN MADE 1 Connect the Footswitch Pedalboard to the Footswitch Input on the Power Supply 2 Connect the Swell Pedal to the Swell Pedal Input on the Power Supply 3 Using the supplied Audio Patch Cord connect the MIC OUT Output on the Power Supply to the Audio Input on your Amplifer 4 Using the supplied MIDI Cable connect the MIDI OUT on the Power Supply to the MIDI IN on your Sound Module 5 Using the supplied Power Cable connect the Power Supply to an electrical power outlet 6 To connect y
7. SER MODE press the USER button again and the spy light will go out You are once again in the PROGRAM MODE HINT If you are using the Arranger function on your Sound Module and it doesn t seem to be recognizing the left hand chords properly i e the Sound Module is producing sound but not the desired chord consult ONE BUTTON FUNCTION 4 10 Tenth Parameter on page 13 of the USER GUIDE This function assists the Arranger in your Sound Module to better choose the correct chord Keep in mind that many Sound Modules also have Smart Arranger functions as well so if the Sound Module is not recognizing the chords properly you might also want to check the USER MANUAL for your Sound Module to see if it has some sort of Smart Arranger or Intelligent Arranger THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE INTENDED TO PROVIDE ONLY AN OVERVIEW OF VERY BASIC FUNCTIONS OF YOUR MIDIVOX Ill FOR AN IN DEPTH EXPLANATION OF OTHER FUNCTIONS NOT COVERED HERE CONSULT YOUR USER GUIDE MIDIVOX III GENERAL MIDI FACTORY PRESETS Purr Sida oncusran O REED ORGAN FULL ORGAN HARP H M A23 A24 A25 A26 A27 A28 A31 A32 A33 A34 A35 A36 A37 A38 A41 A42 A43 A44 A45 A46 A47 48 A
8. ass and chords in this configuration To save the sound combination to a USER MEMORY do the following 1 Press the STORE button 2 If this is the first time you have pressed the STORE button for this purpose the display will show UA11 There are 128 USER MEMORY locations labelled UA11 UA12 UB87 UB88 3 If you wish to store your sound combination in this UA11 location press STORE again At this point the display will show SURE To confirm that you want to store in this location press STORE for a third time If after pressing STORE for the first time the display is showing a USER MEMORY location you do not want to save to select the USER MEMORY location you want and then follow the instructions in the previous sentence To abort the operation press the NUL button at any time 4 You can create another sound combination and store it in the next memory location e g UA12 Once vou have programmed vour sound combinations in the PROGRAM MODE vou are readv to proceed to the USER MODE THE USER MODE The USER MODE is the mode that you will probably be playing in during practice or live MIDIVOX Ill QUICK START GUIDE performance The advantage to the USER MODE is that the sound of all ACTIVE SECTIONS can be radically altered with the press of a couple of buttons or one press of the footswitch as you will learn later To enter the USER MODE press the USER button on the accordion grill The spy light will come on and
9. explanation of this feature shall be offered in this Quick Start Guide Hence your MIDIVOX III is capable of transmitting on six MIDI channels simultaneously Let s refer to the different channel transmitting parts as TRBL1 TRBL2 CHRD1 CHRD2 BASS and UTILITY Let s also refer to each one of these individual parts as a SECTION I E TRBLI is a SECTION TRBL2 is a SECTION etc While it is possible to assign any one of the sixteen MIDI channels to any one of the SECTIONS when the MIDIVOX Ill powered up for the first time it is set to certain FACTORY DEFAULT settings for the MIDI channels The FACTORY DEFAULT settings are TRBL1 MIDI Channel 1 TRBL2 MIDI Channel 4 CHRD1 MIDI Channel 2 CHRD2 MIDI Channel 5 BASS MIDI Channel 3 UTILITY MIDI Channel 16 These FACTORY DEFAULT settings are Industry Standard As mentioned in Basic MIDI Facts above it may well be the case that your Sound Module is already configured or may easily be configured to receive MIDI information from a MIDI accordion on these channels IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU DO NOT CHANGE THESE MIDI CHANNEL FACTORY DEFAULTS UNTIL YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING Many Sound Modules have several pre configured MIDI SETS Channel configuration combinations suitable for use with different instruments Usually there will be a couple of MIDI SETS or configurations which your Sound Module manufacturer will tell you are suitable for use with your accordion U
10. nel 10 Many Multi timbral Sound Modules DEFUALT or are very easily capable of being set to default to connect with a MIDI accordion right out of the box 5 A Multi timbral Sound Module or Sound Expander is a sound producing device which is capable of receiving and processing MIDI information on more than one channel at a time and producing a number of different sounds simultaneously MIDI AND YOUR MIDIVOX III The MIDIVOX Ill operates in two modes When you first power up the MIDIVOX Ill it is automatically in what is referred to in the Owner s Guide as the PLAY MODE As no accordionist would actually undertake a live performance in the PLAY MODE from now on let s refer to the PLAY MODE as the PROGRAM MODE It is in the PROGRAM MODE that you will choose sound combinations and save them to memory The second operating mode for the MIDIVOX III is the USER MODE We will discuss how to make use of these MODES later Your MIDIVOX Ill is capable of transmitting information on a number of MIDI channels simultaneously The right hand treble keyboard is capable of transmitting on two channels at one time The chord section of the left hand keyboard is capable of transmitting on two channels The bass section of the left hand keyboard is capable of transmitting on one channel The MIDIVOX Ill is also capable of transmitting program change information on a Utility MIDI channel The Utility channel function is for advanced users so no further
11. our Sound Module to your Amplifer consult the Instruction Manuals for those two devices TURNING ON THE POWER When powering up your accordion sound module and amplifier it is a good idea to make certain that the volume control on your amplifier is turned as low as possible This will eliminate the possibility of any unwanted loud noises as a result of controls on the Accordion or Sound Module being set to too high a level Power up the Amplifier first followed by the Sound Module and finally the Accordion When the Accordion s Power Supply has been turned on the light in the power switch and the front spy light should both be on The display should show PA11 If these conditions are not present turn the power supply off and consult the MIDIVOX III Owners Guide BASIC MIDI FACTS 1 MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface The MIDI protocol allows different MIDI devices keyboards sound modules drum machines accordions etc to talk to each other even though they may have been made by different manufacturers 3 MIDI information is transmitted on MIDI channels There are 16 MIDI channels 4 There are certain industry standards with respect to MIDI channel transmission which most manufacturers adhere to For example drum machines and the rhythm portion of 1 MIDIVOX III QUICK START GUIDE Multi timbral Sound Modules or Sound Expanders DEFAULT to are usually set up to receive on MIDI chan
12. sually the Sound Module can be set up so that it will DEFAULT to automatically load whichever MIDI SET or configuration you desire In this way the Sound Module will be ready to play every time you turn it on There are two configurations which you most often see Configuration 1 TREBLE 1 MIDI Channel 1 TREBLE 2 MIDI Channel 4 CHORDS MIDI Channel 5 BASS MIDI Channel 3 Configuration 2 MIDIVOX Ill QUICK START GUIDE TREBLE MIDI Channel 1 TREBLE MIDI Channel 4 CHORDS MIDI Channel 2 BASS MIDI Channel 3 You will note that the only difference between the two configurations is that in the first configuration the Chords are being received on MIDI Channel 5 whereas in the second configuration the Chords are being received on MIDI Channel 2 Compare the two configurations to the FACTORY DEFAULTS for your MIDIVOX III Note the similarities Many Sound Modules also act as Arrangers i e if you play one chord the Arranger portion of the Sound Module will play rhythm a bass line and a multi instrument background arrangement based upon that one chord for as long as you hold the chord or depending upon the sound module until another chord is played IT IS AN INDUSTRY STANDARD FOR ARRANGERS TO RECEIVE MIDI INFORMATION ON CHANNEL 2 Therefore if you have a Sound Module which is capable of this sort of Arranger function and if you choose to use it this way you should choose a default setting for the module which allows it
13. to receive information from the chord section on Channel 2 The purpose of the second configuration is to allow the accordionist to actually play the left hand without triggering the Arranger functions If you are intending to actually play the left hand and you do not wish to use the arranger functions you should choose a default setting for the module which allows it to receive information from the chord section on Channel 5 ACTIVE SECTIONS You may choose which of the MIDIVOX Ill SECTIONS are active an Active SECTION transmits MIDI information on it s assigned channel an Inactive SECTION does not transmit MIDI information For example you could have Active SECTIONS TRBL1 CHRD1 BASS In this case if your MIDIVOX III is using the FACTORY DEFAULTS it will be transmitting information for the treble on MIDI channel 1 chords on MIDI channel 2 and bass on MIDI channel 3 This set up would be useful if you are intending to use the Arranger function on your Sound Module If you choose to have Active SECTIONS TRBL1 CHRD2 BASS then the MIDIVOX III will be transmitting information for the treble on MIDI channel 1 chords on MIDI channel 5 and bass on MIDI channel 3 This set up would be useful if you are intending to play the left hand and do not want to trigger the Arranger function on your Sound Module THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION ASSUMES THE MIDIVOX III IS INTHE PROGRAM MODE CHOOSING THE ACTIVE SECTIONS To choose which sections
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