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Salutations forum members or visitors I'm going to show how you can edit a PCM tone to your liking. I've been using the G1 for quiet a while now mostly from the seven standard modes yes you've heard it right seven modes. The modes I'm refering to are performance , tone(+solosynth +PCM +Costum PCM +Samples) and Step sequence mode I count them like that as separate modules within the synth. To get more familiar with the G1 I started out by creating my own performance mode patches arranging mixing Solo synth and PCM tones adding reverb and or effects. I wasn't fond of the balance and solved that by assigning ADSR, resonance , tremolo to the knobs so I could make the sounds a bit nicely. This way I could select to a few tones which to be edited directly and which not. Nice and all but still no satisfaction then I discovered tone editing for the PCM tones usually I would edit them in performance mode with knob assignment but that has its limitation and becomes garbled you wont get out what you exactly want. First a tiddly bit of where to. The Solosynth preset starts from P:000 up to P:100 The PCM instrument preset starts at P:100 up to P:400 The Drumkits start from P:400 to P:419. Now the Solosynth User tones are stored at U:000 up to U:100 The storage for the PCM instruments tones we are going to make are stored on U:100 its where the G1 points to first free location where we will save our PCM patch. [selecting a patch to edit] For this example I will use tone P:233 Distortion guitar, Press tone and use the scroll wheel to select this tone or press the Preset/user button and dial in 233 will also bring the desired tone. P:233 is a nice patch but a bit stale the knobs K1 to K4 adjust Cuttoff, Attack , Release and reverb on this patch. What I do is finding a nice balanced sound to start every time I would select this patch by adjusting the knobs the display shows which value's the knobs assign to have when you turn them to you're appropriate value. Mine is Attack -64, Release +30, Cutoff -40. Write those value's down or remember them. Now press the edit button if you're not familiar with the synth its the button under the performance button. You'll will see a menu now on the display, You're now in E:PCM melody. If you're not in that menu select the tone mode again select the tone P:233 and press edit. [Navigating with the cursor control buttons] On the right of the synth are the Exit, Enter and cursor buttons. Exit will bring you back to the tone selection mode. But we don't want that, Press the right cursor to see the selection available for this patch it start with Atk.time on page 1/5 and ends with Cho.sends on page 5/5. Now as you can see the first three features are present Atk.time for Attack; Rls.time for Release and Cuttof. Use the cursor down button to scroll to the respected feature and enter for each one you're desired value. [saving the new patch] Now that the value's are in I save what I have at this point. Press the write button the G1 now has selected a new Tone to be saved and pointed to a free slot for this now you can save the Tone as Distortion guitar or give it you're own cool name I gave my ACR distguitar. Press the cursor down button to select for renaming use the scroll wheel for each character and press right cursor for the next one. You can navigate back and forth while editing your own name when you finished press Enter select Yes. Now your new patch is saved you can find it by going to Tone Mode and selecting User Tone with the preset/user button. [Adding effects] To edit it more you can repeat the process what I did was giving the new guitar patch a vibrato when I hold and press a key down the tone will gradually vibrate at the end. By going back to edit mode on the new user tone patch navigate down to change each setting in; Vib.type [sIN] Vib.depth [-30] Vib.Rate [+30] Vib.delay [+30] Oct.shift [0] TouchSense [-20] DSP [on] - DSP edit type 33:DstRef Volume [110] - this one is nice cause now you directly control a fixed value for volume but you can change it in mixer. Rev.Send [000]-reverb Cho.Send [127]-chorus. Press Write then Enter save it yes, Now you have a new PCM tone to add in performance mode or as solo creating you're own custom tones like this gives another dimensions to your patches. Its even possible to give totally new effects to them by changing the vibrato value's vib.depth and vib.rate to -64 or create a new dsp effect. Mind you the last one will effect also the other Tone in performance mode when DSP is selected on all Tone will have the same DSP effect keep that in mind when you're doing arrangements. I'm guessing the same is possible to do on the P1 no I'm sure of it. If I left something out or forgot a detail please comment on that share you're feedback . Enjoy.