GEM genesys ensemble User manual

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Contents
1. POWER AND START-UP ........................................................... 1
Power and Standby ...................................................................... 1
First time Start-Up ....................................................................... 2
2. CONTRO PANE ..................................................................... 3
The Arrow Keys ........................................................................... 3
The Dia and INC /DEC buttons ...................................................... 3
Transpose ................................................................................... 4
Octave ........................................................................................ 5
Vo ume S iders ............................................................................. 6
S ider Mode Indicator .................................................................... 7
3. EXP ORING THE GENESYS ENSEMB E .................................... 8
4. SE ECTING SOUNDS ............................................................. 11
What is a Sound Preset ............................................................... 12
Sing e Sound ............................................................................. 13
5. KEYBOARD MODE .................................................................. 16
Piano Sty e ................................................................................ 17
Manua Bass .............................................................................. 18
Pro Sp it ................................................................................... 18
Changing the Sp it Point .............................................................. 19
6. USING THE STY ES AND STY ES CONTRO S ......................... 20
The Sty e Section ....................................................................... 20
Sty e Contro s ............................................................................ 21
Variations ................................................................................. 21
Fi s and Breaks ......................................................................... 22
Intros and Endings ..................................................................... 23
Ending ...................................................................................... 24
Syncro and Restart ..................................................................... 24
7. SING E TOUCH P AY, STY E PRESETS & MUSIC IBRARY .............. 26
Sing e Touch P ay, (S.T. P ay) and Sty e Presets .............................. 26
Music Library ............................................................................. 27
8. STY E TOO S ........................................................................ 29
Arr. On/Off ................................................................................ 29
Arr.Mem. (Arranger Memory) ....................................................... 29
Fade I/O (Fade In/ Fade Out) ....................................................... 30
Bass inv. (Bass Inversion) ........................................................... 30
Tempo Lock ............................................................................... 30
Sty e Lock ................................................................................. 31
Edit .......................................................................................... 31
Main Screen .............................................................................. 31
One Finger ................................................................................ 32
Fingered 1 ................................................................................ 32

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Fingered 2. ............................................................................... 32
Norma ..................................................................................... 32
Extended .................................................................................. 32
Dynamic Arranger ...................................................................... 33
Autobacking .............................................................................. 34
Mixer Lock ................................................................................ 35
Key Memory .............................................................................. 36
9. MEMORIES ............................................................................ 37
Memory Banks ........................................................................... 38
Using Memories with Sty e Lock ................................................... 41
10. SOUND CONTRO S .............................................................. 42
Sustain ..................................................................................... 42
FX Off ....................................................................................... 42
Touch ....................................................................................... 42
S ow/Fast .................................................................................. 43
So o ......................................................................................... 43
Harmony ................................................................................... 43
11. SONG P AYER ..................................................................... 45
Midi Fi es and GEM songs ............................................................ 50
Enab ing and Disab ing Song Traks ............................................... 55
P ayng a Midif e from a f oppy disk ............................................... 56
Mu titasking function in the fi e p ayer ........................................... 58
Load whi e p aying- function ........................................................ 60
Standard midifi es p aying optimization. ........................................ 61
DB List ..................................................................................... 62
View fi ters ................................................................................ 63
Se ect and p ay songs from database ist ....................................... 64
Search function .......................................................................... 65
F7 Edit Functions ....................................................................... 67
Add .......................................................................................... 67
De ete ...................................................................................... 67
Move up .................................................................................... 67
Move down ................................................................................ 67
Modify ...................................................................................... 67
DB Scan ................................................................................... 67
12. VOCA GENIUS ................................................................... 68
Effects ...................................................................................... 70
Harmony ................................................................................... 73
Changing the Harmony Settings ................................................... 74
Voca Genius Modes .................................................................... 76
Vocoder Mode ............................................................................ 76
Using a midifi e with the Harmony Tracks ..................................... 79
Unison Mode ............................................................................. 80
Voice Set .................................................................................. 81

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13. RECORDING STUDIO ........................................................... 82
How to Record a Song ................................................................ 83
Examining your Song .................................................................. 85
Adding another track to your song ................................................ 90
How to Record A Mu ti-Track SONG ............................................... 92
Other Features .......................................................................... 94
Naming your Songs .................................................................... 96
Saving your Songs ..................................................................... 97
How to record a Wave (Hard Disk Recording) ................................. 97
Other Ways To Use The WAVE Recorder ......................................... 99
Voca Remover .......................................................................... 100
How to convert a CD track to a WAVE fi e ..................................... 101
Removing The Voca From a WAVE Fi e ......................................... 102
Recording your own voice with a processed fi e ............................. 103
Understanding Voca Remover ..................................................... 104
14. MAKE CD ........................................................................... 105
Creating an Audio CD ............................................................... 106
Creating a Data CD (CD-ROM) .................................................... 109
15. VIDEO & KARAOKE ........................................................... 111
Se ecting the image to disp ay .................................................... 112
Score Mode .............................................................................. 113
Lyrics Mode .............................................................................. 114
Chords on Lyrics ....................................................................... 114
16. DISK ................................................................................. 115
Loading from Disk ..................................................................... 115
Loading songs and sounds .......................................................... 120
How Genesys Sounds Are Organized ............................................ 121
Save to Disk ............................................................................. 125
Other Disk Operation ................................................................. 129
Properties ................................................................................ 130
Disk Uti ities ............................................................................. 130
HD Uti ities ............................................................................... 131
Format H. Disk . ....................................................................... 131
H. Disk Check Recovery. ............................................................. 131
H.Disk S eep Time ..................................................................... 131
H.Disk Protection ...................................................................... 131
FD Uti ities ............................................................................... 132
Format F oppy - 1.62 Mb ............................................................ 132
Format F oppy 1.44 Mb .............................................................. 132
Format F oppy 0.720 Mb ............................................................ 132
Change F oppy Labe ................................................................. 132
Refresh F oppy .......................................................................... 132
CD Uti ities ............................................................................... 133

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CD Eject .................................................................................. 133
Fast Erase CD-RW ..................................................................... 133
Erase CD-RW ............................................................................ 133
17. SYSTEM ............................................................................. 134
System Contro s ....................................................................... 135
Keyboard Sensitivity .................................................................. 136
Footswitch Po arity .................................................................... 136
Tuning & Sca e .......................................................................... 137
PC Keyboard/Computer .............................................................. 138
Disp ay Contro s ........................................................................ 139
Chord Language ........................................................................ 139
Disp ay Mode ............................................................................ 139
Last Se . Memory ...................................................................... 139
Battery & Re ease ..................................................................... 140
System Info ............................................................................. 140
Reset User Resources ................................................................ 141
18. MIDI ................................................................................. 142
Preset Midi channe s .................................................................. 142
Midi channe s ........................................................................... 143
Configuration ............................................................................ 144
Interna Keyboard ..................................................................... 145
Midi In ..................................................................................... 145
Interna Sounds ........................................................................ 145
Midi Out ................................................................................... 145
Midi Fi ters ............................................................................... 145
Genera Set .............................................................................. 146
Midi C ock ................................................................................ 146
C ock Send ............................................................................... 146
Midi Merge ............................................................................... 146
Midi In Transpose ...................................................................... 147
Midi In Fix Ve ocity .................................................................... 147
System Exc usive ...................................................................... 147
SysExc Device ID ...................................................................... 147
SMF save format ....................................................................... 147
Genera Midi ............................................................................. 147
Bank Se ect .............................................................................. 147
Common/ Arrg. ......................................................................... 148
Common Channe ...................................................................... 148
Chord Ch. 1 and 2 ..................................................................... 149
Loca Off .................................................................................. 149
19. UPGRADING AND INITIA IZING ..................................... 150
How to rep ace or upgrade the system ......................................... 151
In case of prob ems ................................................................... 152

Power and start-up Page 1
The first thing you might notice about the Genesys En-
semble is that it has two power switches.
Power and start-up
Power and Standby
The STAND Y button allows a small amount of power to be
retained which allows the instrument to be re-started more
quickly when needed.
If you use a computer you will be familiar with the differ-
ence between shut down and sleep or Standby. You
can think of the STAND Y switch as sleep and the main
power switch as shut down. For normal daily use, you
need only use the STAND Y button to turn the unit on or
off. If you are planning to leave the instrument unused for
a longer period, (say, two or three days), then it is better
to shut it down using the main power switch.
To turn the instrument off using the STAND Y button, you
need to keep it pressed for about two seconds. This is a
simple precaution to reduce the risk of turning the unit off
accidentally if the button is knocked.
The main power switch, is located in the left
side of the keyboard and this is used to com-
pletely shut-off all power to the instrument.
The second switch is on the lower left side of
the rail which runs beneath the keyboard. This
is called the STAND Y button. The main power
switch this is used to completely shut-off all
power to the instrument.

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The first time you switch on the Genesys Ensemble, a num-
ber of different things may happen.
Exactly what happens will depend on how much time has
passed since the unit was last turned on.
The Genesys Ensemble contains an internal re-chargeable
battery which is used to retain the contents of its memory
while the unit is switched off. If the unit is left switched off
for more than about 2 days, the battery will discharge com-
pletely and the contents of the memory will be lost.Each
time you switch the instrument on, it checks to see if the
battery is charged and if the contents of the memory are
still available. If not, a message will be displayed and the
instrument will proceed to reset itself by loading a fresh
copy of the operating system from the internal hard disk.
This operating system will then remain in the instruments
memory as long as the internal battery is sufficiently
charged. To completely charge the internal battery, the unit
should be left on for around 16 hours. After this the battery
should remain charged for normal daily use.
First time start-up

The Control Panel Page 3
Before you start to use the Genesys Ensemble, you should
familiarize yourself with some of the main controls and fea-
tures which will be used in each example.
hen you want to change the value
of any item displayed in the screen,
you simply select the item using the
arrow keys and then turn the dial
to the left or right to decrease or
increase the value displayed. Some-
times the dial will be too sensitive,
making it difficult to select the ex-
act value you want. In this case,
the INC and DEC buttons can be
used to increase or decrease the
displayed number by a value of 1
each time.
These four buttons are used to
move around the display screen. In
most of the screens you will see an
item which is highlighted by a black
box. e refer to this box as the
CURSOR. hen you want to move
the CURSOR to a different place in
the screen, you will use the arrow
keys to move it left, right, up or
down. In the examples that follow
we will use instructions such as
press the right arrow key to move
the cursor to the right In this case,
press the arrow key which points
to the right and you will see the
The Dial and INC / DEC buttons.
INC
DEC
ENTER ESCAPE
PANIC
TEMP
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DATA
The Arrow Keys.
The Control Panel

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Turning the dial clockwise will increase this value while turn-
ing the dial counter-clockwise will decrease it. For more
accurate tempo control, try pressing the INC or DEC but-
tons. You will see that the tempo changes by a value of 1
with each press of the button.
For example, in the home screen, the speed or tempo of
the style section is displayed at the very top.
For example, you can play a song in the key of C but, if you
press the right TRANSPOSE button twice the pitch of the
entire instrument will be raised by two half-steps (or
semitones). Youll see that the display tells you the Master
Transpose value is now 2.
TRANSP SE
These buttons are used to shift the overall pitch of the
instrument. The left button is used to lower the pitch while
the right button is used to raise the pitch. The transpose
buttons have the effect of changing the key that you are
playing in.

The Control Panel Page 5
Although you are still playing in the key of C, a listener will
hear the song in the key of D, (C plus two half-steps = D).
If the song you were playing was in the key of F, the lis-
tener will now hear it in the key of G, (F plus two half-steps =
G).
The transpose buttons provide an effective way to change
the key of the piece without the need to re-learn it in an-
other key. This can be particularly useful if youre playing
along with another musician or a singer who is more com-
fortable performing the piece in a different key.
The OCTAVE buttons allow you to increase or decrease the
pitch of a sound by one octave. Normally, the OCTAVE but-
tons will only affect the main sound that youre playing on
the keyboard in FULL mode or the right-hand sound in
ACCOMP. SPLIT mode.
The OCTAVE buttons may also be used to shift the pitch of
any other part by selecting it from the appropriate PARTS
view. This will be covered in greater detail in the CREATING
& EDITING section of this manual.
CTAVE

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V LUME SLIDERS
The ten sliders on the left side of the instrument allow you
to independently control the volume level for each part of
the instrument.
The first two sliders are MAIN and STYLES/SEQ.
MAIN is the overall volume of the entire instrument.
STYLES/SEQ controls the relative volume of the style and
song section. This allows you to easily balance the accom-
paniment volume with the volume of any other sounds be-
ing used to play along.
The other eight sliders allow you to adjust the volume for
all the other parts of the instrument. Each slider has a
name which is printed above.
The sliders provide volume control for the following parts
of the instrument:
CD: Controls the volume of CDs played with the SONG PLAYER
Mp3: Controls the volume of Mp3 files played with the
SONG PLAYER.
HD AUDI : Controls the volume of AVE files played with
the SONG PLAYER.
DRUMS: Controls the volume of the drum track in the style
accompaniment
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The Control Panel Page 7
hile the sliders normally perform as indicated above, there
are certain situations in which their functions will be differ-
ent. hen this happens the Slider Mode Indicator will
change. To the right of the eight sliders are two small red
lights, one above and one below.
Normally, the upper light will be on. This indicates that the
sliders are functioning according to the names printed above
the sliders, (as described previously).
In certain special modes, (such as the various PARTS views
which will be covered further on in this manual), you will
see the lower light come on.
hen this happens, you are referred to the names printed
below the sliders, A  H. These labels correspond to the
eight screen positions which are printed beside the buttons
on the left side of the screen.
At this point, each of the 8 positions in the screen will dis-
play a sound whose volume can be adjusted with the cor-
responding slider.
BASS: Controls the volume of the bass track in the style
accompaniment
ACC MP: Controls the volume of all other tracks in the
style accompaniment.
L WER: Controls the volume of all sounds on the left or
lower side of the split.
UPPER: Controls the volume of the main sound, (in FULL
mode), or all sounds on the right or upper side of the split.
Slider Mode Indicator

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The Genesys Ensemble is divided into three main sections.
On the right side, in the section marked PRESET FA ILIES
you will find all of the factory preset sounds which are di-
vided into families for easy access. You may also load your
own new sounds into this area.
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STYLE CONTROLS
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MALLET
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256 PRESETS / OVER 1000SINGLE SOUNDS / SAMPLES / DRAWBAR ORGAN
GENERAL
Exploring the Genesys Ensemble
In the center of the main panel you will find the SONG
PLAYER/RECORDING STUDIO section. This section is used
for playing any type of song: idifile, WAV, CD and p3.
This section is also used for creating your own songs and styles.
On the left side you will find the STYLE FA ILIES which
contain all of the factory preset styles. You may also load
your own new styles into this area.

Exploring the Genesys Ensemble Page 9
The LCD screen in the center of the main panel will keep
you informed about the current settings of these three sec-
tions. When you switch the instrument on you will see the
main display screen. This screen is divided into three parts.
NO ARRANGER ARRANGER
In the background you can see an image of a keyboard.This
image will change to let you know when the keyboard is
split. To see this in action, try switching between FULL, and
BASS SPLIT in the KEYBOARD ODE section.
The bottom part of the screen tells you which sound is
currently selected. You can see the name of the current
sound and also the name of the family in which it is lo-
cated. There is also a PARTS button which will allow you to
inspect this sound setting in greater detail.

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Notice how the image changes to reflect the difference be-
tween split and full keyboard.
This main screen should be considered as home. If you
ever find yourself looking at a different screen and wish to
get back to this home screen, keep pressing ESCAPE un-
til you return to this screen.
The top part of the screen tells you the name of the cur-
rently selected style or song. The name shown here is ex-
actly what you will hear when you press START/STOP. If a
style or idifile is selected, you will also see a PARTS but-
ton which will allow you to inspect the settings of this style
or song in greater detail.

Selecting Presets Page 11
The sounds in the Genesys Ensemble are arranged into
what we call PRESET FAMILIES There are 16 families in all
representing different categories of instrument Each fam-
ily contains 16 SOUND PRESETS
Selecting Presets
Now press a different family button and choose one of the
16 presets from this family
Each family button remembers the last preset that was
selected If you now return to the PIANO family by press-
ing the PIANO button, you will instantly hear the sound
that was previously selected here In this way, you can
choose your favorite sound in each family so that, in the
future, it can be recalled by pressing only one button
Selecting a SOUND PRESET is simple First press one of the
PRESET FAMILIES buttons, (for example Piano) The screen
will now show you the 16 presets available in this family To
select any of these presets, simply press the small button
beside its position in the screen Lets select Stereo Grand
You can now play this sound across the full range of the
keyboard
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