Siel Cruise User manual

DESCR IPT ION
With this keyboard
SIEl means to give the pro-
fessional pianist and the amateur player a monophonic
and polyphonic synthesizer extremely simple to opera-
te. The POLYPHONIC section is composed of ten
instruments which are divided into four tone-colour
preset families: BRASS, STRINGS, REED, PIANO.
They can be played separately or in harmony.
The MONOPHONIC section is composed of ten
preset tone-colours too, but pressing the FREE it is
possible to free the harmonic waves from preset and
control them by the special controls, thus obtaining
the typical sound of the synthesizer.
The
tw o sections may be used separately or in
harmony.
It is perfectly possible to divide the keyboard in-
to two parts, with the mono section on the right and
the poly on the le
ft (or vice-versa).
Let us now examine the characteristics of the
instrument one by one.
SELEC
TORS
The two pushbu tton s are needed to insert the
corresponding POLY and MONO sections.
MASTERS
In this section we find the general volumes of
the
two synthesizers.
On their left there is the SPLIT that gives the
possibility of dividing the keyboard into
two parts of
two octaves each; the mono section will be found on
the part chosen by pressing the tab RIGHT IDestra)
-LEFT (Sinistral PRIORITY, while the poly will be
found on the remaining half.
The special keyboard footswltch enables to
lengthen to the left the section situated on the right.
As soon as the fo
otswitc h is released, the initial
situation is automatically resumed.
A seriesof leds placed on theleft of theselector
unit and corresponding the division point of the key-
board will immediately make the situation visible.
POL
YPHONIC SECT ION
In this section, as soon asone of the four family
selector buttons (POLY PRESETS) is depressed, the
green leds
that show that the family is switched on
and the controls which may be used in order to alter
the sound light up.
Such
contr ols are:
BRASS A
TIAC K : controls the attack speed of
the BRASS.
BRASS CUT OFF ;controls the brilliance of the
BRASS.
STRINGS/REED : controls the attack speed of
ATIACK the STRINGS and REED.
STRINGS/PIANO ;controls the length of the
DECAY STRINGS and PIANO decay.
ANIMATORAMOUN
T: cont rols the depth of the ani-
mation effect.
ANIMATOR ON/O F
F: inserts the animation effect in
the voices in which it is not al-
ready inserted automatically.
RESONANCE : modifies the tone-colour of
the BRASS section so as to
obtain the typical effects of
the poly synthesizer.
CRESCENDO : produces the crescendo in
the dynamics of the BRASS
section.
PERCUSSION : creates the " pizzicat
o" effect
of the STRINGS.
Another important characteristic of the CRUI-
SEpoly section is
that the family inserted can be auto-
matically cut out as soon as a new one is switched on.
This enables also to harmonize different families.
In fact , if we play at the same time BRASS and
STRINGS (which we have switched on by pressing si-
multaneously the relative pushbuttonsl, wh en we
want to switch over to the Strings effect only, we just
depress the relative preset tab thus
cutt ing out the
BRASS family.
M ONOPHONIC SECTION
The main control on this section is F
REE -
PRESET.
When this switch is on preset, we get the faith-
ful imitation of ten musical instruments (BASSOTU-
BA, TROMBONE, TRUMPET, FLUTE, PICCOLO, SA·
XOPHONE, CLARINET, VIOLIN, DOUBLE BASS,
GUITAR).
To do this just operate the control relative to
the chosen instrument: this will cause the lighting of
the leds showing the controls
that may be used to alter
the characteristics of the sound.
Everybody knows that there are different ways
to play, for instance, a Trombone,which can have a
more or less sustained sound and a different colour-
tone according to the musical excerpt whi ch is being
played; well with your CRUISE it is possible to obtain
all this simply by operating the controls shown by the
lit-up leds.
The controls are:
ATTACK TIME : c
ontro ls the attack speed of
the sound.