ENSONIQ TS-10 Specifications download pdf (Page 132)

Section 8 — Understanding Programs TS-10 Musician’s Manual

• XCTRL — External Controller

Like the TIMBR modulator, the External Controller (XCTRL) modulator can be assigned to

modulate any voice or effect modulation destination. Whenever you are playing a sound or

preset, you can press the Brightness/Timbre button three times to get to the XCTRL sub-page,

and use the Data Entry Slider to change the level of the XCTRL modulator.

In addition to using the Track XCTRL parameter, an external controller such as a Breath

Controller, Data Entry Slider, etc., that is received via MIDI from another synthesizer or MIDI

controller, will modulate any voice or effect parameter that has XCTRL assigned as a

modulator. On the MIDI Control Page, you select the MIDI Controller number of the external

controller that will be recognized by the TS-10.

You don’t have to be playing the TS-10 from an external instrument for this to work. For

example, if you have a keyboard with a Breath Controller:

1) Connect its MIDI Out to the TS-10 MIDI In

2) Make sure both instruments have controllers enabled (MIDI Control page)

3) Select Breath Controller as the external controller that will be received by the TS-10

(XCTRL=02, also on the MIDI Control Page)

4) assign XCTRL as a Modulator for LFO level, Filter Cutoff frequency, or some other manual

level within a voice

5) play the sound from the TS-10 keyboard, while blowing into the Breath Controller

connected to the sending instrument. The modulation will have the same effect as if you were

playing from the sending instrument.

• PRESS — Pressure (After-touch)

Pressure, also called after-touch, is a modulator which varies a manual level within a voice

depending on how hard you press down on a key or keys. After you have struck a key, and

while the note is sustaining, continuing to press down harder on the key brings in pressure.

The TS-10 keyboard generates pressure, and by using this modulator you can add a

tremendous amount of expression to your sounds without ever taking your hands off the

keyboard.

Pressure comes in two varieties — Poly-Key™ pressure (or Polyphonic pressure), which affects

each note individually, and Channel pressure (or Mono pressure) which affects all notes that

are playing when you exert pressure on any key. Either type of pressure is available on the

TS-10, and both types are received via MIDI.

There is a Pressure parameter on a sub-page of the Performance Options Page (press

Performance Options twice) which determines which of the two types of pressure will be

used by the program. This control can also be set to NONE, in which case the program will

not respond to pressure internally, nor will it send or receive it via MIDI (see Section 5 —

Preset/Track Parameters for more details).

Note that not all sounds are necessarily programmed to respond to pressure. If pressure

seems to have no effect when you play certain sounds, it is likely that pressure is not assigned

as a modulator anywhere within the sound.

The effect of pressure as a modulator is positive-going only, though assigning a negative

modulation depth will cause increased pressure to reduce manual levels.

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