Showing posts with label Zyklus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zyklus. Show all posts

Saturday, April 25, 2009

ZYKLUS - MIDI PERFORMANCE SYSTEM - 1987


The Problem

You're a keyboards player in a gigging band and you'd love to be able to play the world's most spectacular synthesiser solos, but your technique isn't quite up to it.

You're a keyboards player who can (and already is) playing the world's most spectacular synthesiser solos, but you still find you could use a dozen extra hands.

You write music, but you constantly find it's hard work turning ideas into complete
songs.

You work in a studio with several pieces of MIDI equipment, but you don't have the
immediate, flexible control tool needed to really get the most out of it.

You find sequencers are often frustrating to work with — slow, unfriendly, inflexible,
sterile.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Zyklus' MIDI Performance System - 1988



The
Zyklus' MIDI Performance System allows you to record sequences: 99 polyphonic single-channel sequences, to be exact.

These can be organised into groups of 12 sequences which are known as Configurations, of which the MPS allows you to store 24 in its internal memory.

Once you've recorded a few sequences and organised them into a Configuration, you can "play" them from a MIDI keyboard and from dedicated front-panel Control buttons.

These actions can in turn be recorded into one of 12 Performances.
The important point to bear in mind is that the MPS's sequences are totally independent of one another.

You can treat the MPS as a 12-track sequencer, but that's only one of countless options available to you, and it's really missing the point.

If all you want is a multitrack sequencer you'd be better off investing in the "real thing", and saving a considerable amount of money in the process.



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