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perrin

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Page E-13 in the manual explains how to change a hex layer in real time using the sliders. And in a completely different section of the manual, page E-32 describes how to edit or create and save your own hex layer.

 

First simply push the hex layer button in the part of the control panel that selects tones-solo synth, hex layers, drawbar organ, PCM-pick any of the user tones now that you are in hex mode, and by moving the various sliders you can vary the volume levels of each of the separate tones that make up the hex layer-the factory hex layer tones have many variations. By doing this you are only temporarily changing the the hex layer tone-that is in "real time".

 

To edit, create and save your own hex layer with whatever individual tones you want, look at page E-32 in the manual and study that. Basically you select any factory hex tone while you are in hex mode-after you have pushed the hex layer button-then press the edit button and change whatever you want-the manual lists in detail what can be edited and there is a huge variety of settings that can be changed. Then finally and as Mike Martin always reminds us, hit the "write" button which will bring up a screen on the LCD showing a "user" save destination the XW-P1 will automatically select for you. You can change this user memory location using the + and - buttons. You can also name that new edited hex layer using the up and down arrow buttons. Then hit "enter" which will store whatever edits or changes you made to the hex layer "tone".

 

And although the manual doesn't clarify this too well, this "write" procedure is the same when you edit any tone-PCM, organ, solo synth or hex layer or in performance mode. You always must push the "edit" button to make changes, then push "write", and finally "enter". The "write" button alone does not save your changed tone. You have to push enter also or the tone changes disappear when you change to a different tone. And remember that the XW-P1 has many different "modes" which can be used in combination with each other. Performance mode, tone mode and sequencer mode all function differentyl and to edit any of these you have to be in that "mode"-you can't edit a sequence while in tone mode, you can't edit a "performance" unless you are in "performance" mode. I try to post as an "old school" guy that back when-a musician would need 2 or 3 entirely separate devices to do what the XW-P1 does in one box, as does software. This makes the XW a very "deep" instrument in that respect. Many of us older guys had to take awhile to learn to operate just a "sequencer", then a drum machine" then a "synthesizer", and a Hammond B-3 and electric piano or similar. Plus keyboards with "auto-accompaniment" functions and a van to carry it all! The XW wraps all these in one box. Hope this helps you understand at least this part of the XW.

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