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Section 8 — Understanding Programs

In this section, we will show you how to edit a TS-10 Program. For detailed descriptions of the

many parameters, refer to the following section.

What is a Program?

A program (or sound as we sometimes refer to it) is made up of six voices and one effect. The

status of the two Patch Select buttons determines which of those six voices will play at any given

time. The diagram below illustrates the make-up of a TS-10 program:

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Patch Select variations

TS-10 Program Structure

Dest.

Bus

FX 2

DRY

FX 1

Dynamic Effects

Program

Main

Output

• Each program has a dynamic

effects set-up.

• Many of the effects programs

contain two effects, such as

CHORUS + REVERB.

• Real-time controllers, such as

pressure or mod wheel, can

be used to modulate aspects

of the effect (delay time,

chorus depth, etc.)

• Each of the six voices can be

sent independently to one of

three Main Output busses -

FX1, FX2 and DRY - or to the

Aux Output for separate

external processing.

• The stereo signals from FX1,

FX2 and the DRY buss are

combined and fed to the

Main stereo output.Voices

assigned to the Aux Buss go

straight to the Aux Outputs.

The Patch Selects control

which voices will be muted

and which wil play.

•

Voice 2 Voice 3 Voice 4 Voice 5 Voice 6Voice 1

AUX

Aux.

Output

Understanding Voices and Polyphony

When referring to the number of voices in a program, we are not talking about polyphony (as in

“you can only play so many notes”). Instead, we are referring to the number of voices that will

sound on each key as you play the program. The TS-10 is unique in that it lets you choose the

number of voices (from one to six) per key for each program.

The TS-10 has a total of 32 voices which are dynamically assigned to the different sounds that

you play (31 voices when Sampled Sounds are loaded into Dynamic RAM). How many voices a

sound uses on each key depends on the program. Many sounds use only one voice — in the case

of these sounds, you can play 32 notes before “voice stealing” occurs. On programs that use two

voices, you can play 16 notes before any voices are stolen. Three voices, 10 notes, and so on. Up

to six voices can be active in one program.

The TS-10 is “smart” about voice allocation — there are a number of things you can do to increase

the apparent polyphony of a sound and to minimize the effects of voice stealing. For example:

• As soon as a voice is finished playing (either because it reached the end of the wave or because

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